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This page is provided by The Personal Navigator. Antique and curious books, diaries, maps. Author: Sam Coulbourn, 7 Mill Lane, Rockport, MA, 01966 USA. E-mail: persnav@shore.net. Tel. (978) 546-7138. Excuse this poor web publishing — nevertheless, we hope you’ll be able to find something exciting to buy! Picture at top of each page: Home of Hannah Jumper in Rockport, Massachusetts. On July 8, 1856 Hannah led a raid of angry women and preachers, attacking pubs in the small fishing town, smashing casks and emptying bottles. Their raid ended the serving of alcohol in Rockport until 2006. ©2008. All rights reserved. Revised Wednesday, August 20, 2008. |
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DIARIES, JOURNALS, PERSONAL RECORDS Also, see our listings on ABE… search for “Ephemera”
Caylor System Baseball Score Book, in Accordance with National League Requirements, No. 3--44 Games ca. 1925 Boston, MA: James W. Brine Company, 286 Devonshire Street. Very nice rare Boston baseball memento. James W. Brine Athletic Goods Baseball Score Book with instructions for scoring by O.P. Caylor's System. Scorecards filled in, dated 1928 to 1941. Teams Mishe Mokwa (summer camp?), Milton, Middlesex, Ayer, Groton, Concord, St. Mark's, Belmont, Belmont Hill, Dartmouth at Harvard (1939), West Concord. Advertising for James W. Brine Official League Baseballs (Guaranteed for 18 innings), sweaters, all kinds of highest quality athletic goods. . 92 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Maroon cloth on board, "Whitney Cook" written on cover and on title page. Inside front hinge repaired with binding tape. Inside rear hinge cracked. Cover shows wear, inside also. Fair. (7358) $120.00. Advertising/American Originals C.W. Rowe's Grocery Order Book, 1905. Cover: Fine selected family groceries. Please send book with order! 1905 ephemera Little booklet intended for grocery orders, but contains record of days various people boarded, etc. 8 x 16 cm. Paper pamphlet, excellent condition. (902) $6.00. Ephemera. Class-Book, the Improved Class-Book for Sunday School Teachers' Minutes, Abridged 1827 Philadelphia, PA: American Sunday School Union. Little booklet provides sample for Sunday school teachers as model for keeping track of scholars; also questions for teacher to self-examine himself. Entries in pencil for 1854 and 1870 include names of scholars. 4 pp. 10 x 15 cm. Leather cover, small chip missing from lower corner of title page, good. (6500) $18.00. American Originals/Religious Daniel Leary--Farmer's Diary, 1867 by Leary, Daniel 1867 Keene, NH: ephemera. Traditional diary with calendar for 1867, list of eclipses, sunrise, sunset, etc. Diary kept by minimally literate farmer records sale of pigs (4 1/2 Dolers, each); visits, work cutting hay. On July 25, 1867 Daniel's father gets sick, and then he has priest and doctor in; then he records three weeks of visits, sometimes 3 in a day, by doctor. Then in November he notes on a Sunday morning that his father went to work. Entries are sparse, but flavor of a rough life on a New Hampshire farm comes through. 7 x 11 cm. Leather diary with two folding pockets and fastener, good. (7707) $26.00. American Originals/Diary Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch (German Third Reich Worker's Book) for Franz Vokac 1941 Karlsbad, Germany German Government 38 pp. 10.6 x 14.5 cm. Nazi-era worker's book that belonged to Franz Vokac, showing his employment at various factories in Karlsbad. From 10/28/40 to 11/3/41. Very good condition. Cardboard booklet with cloth tape spine. Nazi seal on cover, and pages underprinted with Nazi seal. (0223) $38.00. Ephemera/German. General Store Ledger kept from 1850 to 1853, used again 1878-1884. Large ledger, only 57 of some 300 pages are filled out, most with daily records of sales of sugar, butter, lard, molasses, potatoes, tea, sundries, candles, tobacco, soap, raisins, cheese, flour, rice, vinegar, crackers, eggs, onions, codfish, lemons, Salaeratus, tomatoes, segars, apples, peaches, buckwheat, etc. Pasted inside front cover is a piece of paper listing steamboat fares from various ports in Ireland to Liverpool. E.g. "Dublin to Lpool 1,,00; Cork to Lpool, 2,,50." 57 pp. 19 x 32 cm. Nice calfskin leather covered journal with four ribs in spine, edges frayed, good. (6925) $55.00. American Originals Home Remedy Book -- a homely New Hampshire book of recipes for illnesses, toilet needs and more ca. 1858. New Hampshire: ephemera. Book of home recipes for Cologne, Hair Oil, Cheap Hair Oil, Ox Marrow Pomatum, Freckle Lotion, Hair Restoration, Turkish Rouge, Tooth Powder, Ice Cream, Oil Paste Blacking, Shaving Soap and Shaving Cream, Corn Salve, Liquid Cuticle, Crockery Cement, Hot Drops (Gum Myrrh, African Cayenne, Golden Seal, Cherry Spirits); Matches Sulphur, glue and Phosphorous); Worm Elixir, Seidlitz Powders (a “morning after” cure); also how to kill worms in horses and cure for chilblains; also Hot Bed (of horse manure two feet deep, trod with the foot, cover 6 inches with rich dry pulverised loom. [loam]). Book also contains a few pages of geometry lessons and clippings from a Manchester, NH newspaper relating to home remedies and grape cuttings. 17 pp. of handwritten recipes, several more pages of clippings, etc. 18 x 25 cm. Paper booklet with leather spine and marbled paper cover; includes page from 1878 calendar (August). Good. (2306) $41.00. American Originals/Medical. Inskrifningsbok (1902 års applaga) for Bard, Ernst Johan Leonard, Född 13 okt. 1882 [Swedish inscription book] 1905 Jönköping, Sweden: Personal papers. Inscription book in Swedish, containing military service record of Ernst Johan Leonard Bard of Jönköping, Sweden indicate he served in an artillery regiment in 1903-04. Inserted in book are several papers, including letter in Swedish, a sheet of information from Svenska Amerika Linien for passage aboard Motorfatyget "Gripsholm" from Göteborg to Halifax and New York; A letter from (?) the Ford motor dealer in Skillingaryd dated 08-19-1930 about Herr E.J. Bard's car registration; Flyttningsbetyg document (flyttar till Amerika) for E.J.L. Bard den 24 Mars 1906; and a Swedish Traffic Insurance Policy for Herr Bard, dated 1930. 56 pp. 10 x 17 cm. Book, paper on board cover, very good, with cloth pocket containing listed documents. (6804) $44.00. American Originals Mary Norton's Autograph Book, Maynard, Mass., 1879 Norton, Mary A. 1879 Maynard, MA: ephemera. Mary started this autograph book in 1879. It contains sentimental inscriptions from friends and relatives, mostly from Maynard, MA and Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Remember me till death shall close these eyelids…" from Katie Snee, Maynard. Includes small embroidery of a Bible with a cross, with flowers on it. 17 x 10 cm. Leather autograph book, spine leather torn off, some damp stain on first few pages, fair. (7688) $28.00. American Originals Marriage Service booklet tied with satin ribbon. By Towne, Salem D. 1904 Northampton, MA: Marriage Service, including hymn, scripture, actual vows, for wedding in Northampton, MA in 1904 between Herbert Broadhurst and Eleanore Hall. 15 x 20 cm. Paper booklet tied with ribbon, edges frayed, chipped, cover soiled. Fair. (2580) $15.00. Ephemera. Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of our Lord 1809; Contains handwritten page relating death of Peter Roe Dalton, in 1811. 1809 Boston, MA: John West & Co. and Manning & Loring. Between Almanac for August and September 1809 there is one-page record of grandson of Peter Roe Dalton, reporting attack of cramps and cholera on the old man, and death on Sunday, Sept. 8th, 1811. Dalton (b.1743, d. 1811) was a sea captain, later a merchant who supplied Continental troops in Boston during Revolutionary War, later a banker and first cashier in the local branch of the Bank of the United States. On p.123. List of Harvard University Professors is "Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory", John Quincy Adams. List of Churches, Ministers in Massachusetts. Record of Convention of Congregational Ministers in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. List of Massachusetts Militia Officers. Rates of Pilotage, Dockage and Wharfage. In United States Calendar, Thomas Jefferson, LL.D. is President; George Clinton is Vice President. Meriweather Lewis is Governor of Upper Louisiana; William C.C. Claiborne is Governor of Territory of Orleans; William Henry Harrison is Governor of Indiana. Also contains Rules for Reducing the Currencies of the different States. E.g.: "To reduce New-York into Massachusetts, from the given sum deduct one-fourth thereof." 216 pp. 9 x 15 cm. Paper on board with leather spine. Spine cracked. One-fourth of front free endpaper missing. In Almanac, months of April and May 1809 were marked up for use in 1811. Good. (6848) $72.00. American Originals/Reference Pearl's 1923 Diary by Adams, Pearl F. 1923 Merrimack(?), MA: ephemera. Pearl kept a standard cloth covered diary, recording events in her life as a homemaker and substitute school teacher. She used the train to move rapidly to Boston and home, often going to shows (cinema) in Boston. Company would come over often to listen to the radio with them. She writes of trip to Maine to pick berries, and trip to Moosehead Lake and Montreal and other parts of Quebec, then Fort Ticonderoga in summer. Trips to Gloucester and Salisbury beaches, also Salem Willows and Canobie Lake. Big Christmas party Dec. 21st. Pearl's birthday is Dec. 24th, and she spent it baking pies and a pudding, getting ready for Christmas. For Christmas they burned the candles to the socket and stayed up to after 12 o'clock. Entries for all of 1923 and up to Feb. 9th 1924. ~100 pp. 7 x 15 cm. Standard black cloth diary with almanac pages, tidal information, public holidays, antidotes for poisons, etc. Tab closure, tab broken. Good. (7634) $25.00. American Originals/Ephemera Phrenology: New Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology with over 100 engravings by O.S. and L.N. Fowler, Practical Phrenologists 1859. New York, NY: Fowler and Wells, Publishers. Self-Instructor book for A.P. Cutting, as marked by author, O.S. Fowler on April 5th, 1864. Chart contains markings which evaluate Mr. Cutting as to vital and mental temperament (full), conjugality (full), friendship (full), combativeness (very large), size of brain (22¾ inches) and many more. Detailed description of various traits detected by phrenology. Viz. Motherly, large head, un-motherly, small. Henry Clay, with large head, has inhabitiveness. A "rambler" has small head. A typical Indian chief is short on mirthfulness. . 176 pp. 13 x 19 cm. Brown cloth on board, with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Cover worn and faded, heel and toe of spine slightly frayed. Good. (2259) $40.00. American Originals/Educational/Phrenology Pierce's Account Book, store account of Edward Messinger by R.V. Pierce, M.D. 1883. Buffalo, NY: World's Dispensary Medical Association. Little book was widely distributed for use in keeping individual store accounts. Includes pencil accounts of purchases, with many ads for Dr. Pierce's medicine for chronic diseases of liver, blood and lungs. 48 pp. 8 x 14.5 cm. Paper booklet, with pencil entries for purchases throughout. Cover has owner's name on it three times. Fair. (5889) $12.00. American Originals/Advertising |
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American Originals… Here’s a chance to feel first hand our wonderful American experience, with some of the things that people wrote by hand, or collected and stuck in an album, elegantly inscribed in autograph books, scrawled in diaries, journals, in letters, on postcards, in the years when our fathers and mothers, and all the generations before them, were building this country. This is a very personal collection… young people, their eyes full of the future, penning elegant poetry to each other, but often including a grim stanza about death; a scrapbook of clippings carefully pasted into a book a century ago...a woman’s collection of her babies’ photos…postcards to and from young soldiers in World War I and World War II...a postcard to a young man about to go to jail. Also, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving and Valentine’s cards. You’ll see things from other countries in our collection, too. A letter from an officer in the Royal Navy beseeching his boss, the Admiral, about a matter relating to damage to his ship, in 1821...A scrapbook of postcards from Sweden. These pages are a part of our extensive collection of ephemera. To find more, search ABE.com using keyword “ephemera” or browse through our advertising, educational, history, religious and other catalogues. See our Site Map. Enjoy what you find here, and let us know if you have something you’d like to offer us! —The Personal Navigator |