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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: During visit of U.S. Navy’s Great White Fleet to Rockport, MA in 1908, personnel boats load well-dressed Rockporters for visit to anchored battleships.   ©2008. All rights reserved. Revised Sunday, November 30, 2008.

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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

Polish Diary by Pollan, A.A. 1949 Boston, MA: ephemera. Handwritten diary, with daily entries, about weather, expenses, travel about the Boston area, friends-- all in Polish. 365 pp. + 10 x 17 cm. Leather diary, very good. (4685) $16.00. Diary/Ephemera

Providence, RI Dept. of Public Schools Student Attendance Register ca. 1921 Providence, RI: ephemera. 22 pp. 17 x 31 cm. Record of children in class: Heavily Italian class, including Rocco Cannata, John Ceceri, Bennie Esposito, Michele Forte, Charles Heinig, Guiseppe Montecalvo, Pasco Pecunioso, Amedeo Quaranta, Thomas Sancello, Alphonso Sarra, Antonio Savastano, Vincenzo Scartabelli, Domenic Tagliatela, etc. All born about 1914. Paper covered book with cloth tape spine. Fine handwriting. Very good. (2437) $26.00. Ephemera.
Prussian Soldier's  Militair-Paß: Pässler: Served in Prussian Infantry against Austria at Königgrätz (Sadowa) in 1866 and at Sedan in Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. [In German: Military Pass of Soldier] 1876 Dresden, Germany. Military Pass issued to Pässler, Geboren am 17 Juli 1844 zu ____ bei Hollburg. Sixth Infantry Regiment, 11th Company. Apparently took part in famous battle at Königgrätz in 1866; served in Frankreich 1870-71; Beaumont, Verdun, Sedan, Paris. Includes 4+ pages Bestimmungen für Mannschaften der Reserve und Landwehr. Handwritten record of participation in Prussian campaigns against Austria and France. 15 pp. 8.5 x 17 cm. Paper booklet with elaborate, elegant German calligraphy; lightly soiled, good. (6836) $45.00. American Originals/Ephemera.

Putnam's 1925 Winchester, NH Diary kept by F.H. Putnam (also 1929 Diary—two books) 1925 Winchester, NH: ephemera.   F.H. Putnam ushered in 1925 by listening to the radio after everyone else went home.  He stayed up till 3:30, pulling in Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, Kansas City,  Zion, IL and Ottawa, Ontario.  During the day he hauled two loads of wood and split the big birch log that he’d given up on the day before.  “Split a new wedge doing it, though. On Jan 2. Two loads of wood; spread 2 loads of manure. Sat. Jan. 3 Mended belt, filed saw… sawed 1 ½-2 cords. Put 1 beam sled together. Sun. Jan. 4   Carrie got church services from Springfield; I got service from Shady Side Presbyterian church on KDKA. Daffy freshened  (gave birth)... nice  heifer calf—Zoya.  Mon Jan 5. Got 3 loads of manure and spread. Carrie took sick in evening, District nurse came.. Doctor Labdell came up a little before 12. Baby was born at 12:26. Jan. 6. Harriet  Rilla Putnam was born, 8 lb 6 oz. Took me to 10 o’clock to get milking done, doing work in house   ‘between cows’”…..This diary gives you a fine picture of life with a young family on a New England farm in 1925. There are the cows, and the manure, and the planting to be done, and repairs... then the cows always need milking... then there's butter to churn, and gotten to market. And, by the way, a baby gets born!   And wood to cut, haul, load after load. F.H. has a 1916 Allen motorcar, which gives him problems, and of course he can't use it during the snow season-- for that he uses his sled. Entry for Christmas is colorful and interesting.   F.H. also kept a diary in 1929 and first part of 1930, but entries are sporadic. Very sparse entries, some about beekeeping, and many are clippings from newspaper about apple market, accompanied by bushels of each type of apples he sent to market.. ~400 pp. 7.5 x 15 cm. Cloth covered standard diaries with calendar, postage rates, population of principal cities, tides, etc. Very good. (7438) $42.00. American/Ephemera

Ruth's Post Card Travelogue, 1928 by Bradford, Ruth  Boston, MA: Ruth Bradford, 18 Cedarlane Way. Ruth is on the "grand tour" of Europe, and sends home this detailed, colorful report of her adventures, carefully described on the backs of 22 post cards. She watches the fireworks for Bastille Day at Biarritz and warns her friend Lucia to stay clear of Nice. She tells about the violent hailstorm as her group drives through the Pyrenees. Luncheon in Quimper, visit to the potteries.  22 cards 9 x 14 cm. Twenty-two photographic post cards with a detailed travel journal written on backs. Very good. (6337) $65.00. American Originals/Travel

Upstate New York Journal by Bill and Cora 1949 Near Easton, NY: ephemera. Daily entries for year 1949, first by Bill, noting carpentry work, planting peas, onions, strawberries, buying a truck, around Glens Falls, Cambridge, Easton, NY, then rest of the year by wife, Cora, noting all the canning, cooking, preserving. Attending weddings, funerals. Noting when neighbors died. Summer trips to Lake George, Bennington, VT. Killing chickens. Baking mince pies for Thanksgiving.  "We all went over to James to Xmas dinner at night. Turkey and all the trimmings." Simple life of rural Americans right after end of World War II. ~190 pp. 13 x 20 cm. Leatherette book with ring binding, two days per page, completely filled out. Very good. (6730) $36.00. American Originals

U.S. Cream Separator Note book ca. 1904 Bellows Falls, VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co. Little note book advertises the Improved U.S. Cream Separators, offering the 1904 Frame, a great improvement. The No. 9 Separator will handle up to 175 lbs. per hour, and the No. 5 will handle up to 600 lbs. Notebook has pencil entries listing items in Clough Farm barn sold to Elmer Stevens, including 2 dung forks, 12 tug chains, 3 milk cans, 1 potato digger, 1 iron kettle, 5 sap tubs, 4 stove knees, etc. 32 pp. 6.5 x 13.4 cm. Paper booklet, with pencil entries, very good. (6961) $21.00. American Originals/Farming/Advertising

Vacation Diary of John Miller, So. Royalton, VT for Camp Cheemauna 1931 So. Royalton, VT: ephemera. Vacation booklet partially filled out by boy attending camp near home; notes visit to Rock of Ages granite quarries, picnic, sports events. Includes health rules, rules for swimming at camp. 16 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Booklet for campers, partially filled in. Good. (4019) $10.00. Ephemera

Vermont Farm Family Diary and Record Book 1901-1934 Roxbury, VT: ephemera.  A young Vermont farm wife and her husband took turns making entries during first three months of 1901. On New Year's day, Frank is shingling the hog house, and Orv is taking the sows over to Warner's. There's lots of snow, and you can sense the cold weather. They write about the hundreds of pounds of butter they churn. The men go into the snowy woods to chop and haul out wood; the women clean house, cook, mend mittens, sew the girls' night dresses, and start a quilt. They seem to work every day-- no day off.  One day the salesman comes and Grandma buys a pair of glasses for $1.25 and Mabel buys a bottle of ink for 15 cents.  In March they start tapping the maple trees and working in the sugar house.  The rest of the diary has sporadic entries, including notations from tombstones of Patty Parsons and William Harrison Parsons.   10 x 17 cm. Soft leather cover, rubbed and scuffed, good. (7259) $25.00. American Originals.

 

 

LETTERS, POSTCARDS, INDIVIDUAL CORRESPOND-ENCE and SCRAPBOOKS
Advice to School Girls by Minnie, No. 3 1859 "Minnie", apparently Marion H. Ray, penned five paragraphs of "Advice":  She pities the refined city girls with the elegant dresses and silk aprons trimmed with wide flounces and sweet little pockets. "Now girls I advise you to take a few lessons of your kind mothers upon the cook stove and the sink, and learn the art of plain embroidery that you may help your mothers make your father's and brothers clothes." . 2 pp. 19 x 23 cm. One sheet of stationery, folded twice, with illegible notes scratched out and erased at bottom of second page. (7077) $18.00. American Originals/Women's

Battleship Alabama postcard--Elsie is praying for Mr. Davidson as he goes to jail. 1911 Brooks, IA ephemera 1 card 9 x 14 cm. Elsie's card (U.S. Battleship Alabama) to Davidson in Chicago: Dear Davidson: I am praying for you this afternoon as you go to jail. I was in Omaha last week and saw some of my friends. Did my suit-case get scratched up any? Meeting starts here today and we need your prayers. Postcard, very good. (3864) $12.00. Postcard/Ephemera.

Darkey's Prayer, Florida; "I'se gwine back to Alabam." Postcard. 1922 West Palm Beach, FL: ephemera Card shows black man  in swamp with two alligators about to eat him. He utters a prayer. On back is message from Sister Sade to Beriah Parton, Sharon, PA, telling him she plans to bring back two small alligators. 1 card  9 x 14 cm. Postcard, very good. (5118) $15.00. Postcard/Ephemera

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Text Box: Spectator; Daily entries 1711-1714, in Eight Volumes by Joseph Addison 1744 London, England: J. & R. Tonson in the Strand. Addison uses his marvelous education to provide daily doses of wisdom and humor to his readers over the years 1711 to 1714, in 635 entries. Originally published daily, this 1744 version includes all 635. Entries start with an apt quotation in Latin or Greek, followed by its translation into English, and then a refreshing discourse that is delightful after four centuries. It gives the modern reader an interesting and entertaining picture of what Englishmen were doing and thinking in the early 18th century. The daily diary of an Englishman reproduced in Vol. IV shows how Addison uses the mundane entries of a gentleman to teach readers a lesson. 2612 pp. 10 x 17.4 cm. Eight duodecimo volumes in calf with five-ribbed spines with gilt design. Boards are worn, and three of eight have detached front or back boards, or nearly so. (V.1 front board detached, pencil notes on front pastedown; V.2 front hinge cracked; V. 4 front hinge cracked, back cover nearly detached; V. 7 front board detached, back board cracked.) Text blocks on all are excellent. Thus overall, poor. (5277) $299.00 Printed matter. Text Box: Addison’s Spectator—Daily Life in England, 1711-14, 8 vols.

Joseph Addison, (1672-1719) graduate of Oxford, distinguished classical scholar, author, member of Parliament, published daily Spectator essays from 1711 to 1714.

Text Box: An English Gentleman’s Journal, 1712: MONDAY, eight o 'clock.--I put on my clothes and walked into the parlour. Nine o 'clock, ditto--Tied my knee-strings and washed my hands. Hours ten, eleven, and twelve.--Smoked three pipes of Virginia. Read the Supplement and Daily Courant. Things go ill in the North. Mr. Nisby's opinion thereupon. One o 'clock in the afternoon.--Chid Ralph for mislaying my tobacco-box. Two o 'clock.--Sat down to dinner. Mem: Too many plums and no sewet. From three to four.--Took my afternoon's nap. From four to six.--Walked into the fields. Wind S.S.E. From six to ten.--At the club, Mr. Nisby's opinion about the peace. Ten o 'clock.--Went to bed, slept sound. TUESDAY (being holiday), eight o 'clock.--Rose as usual. Nine o 'clock.--Washed hands and face, shaved, put on my double-soled shoes. Ten, eleven, twelve.--Took a walk to Islington. One.--Took a pot of Mother Cob's mild. Between two and three.--Returned: dined on a knuckle of teal and bacon. Mem.: Sprouts wanting. Three--Nap as usual. From four to six.-Coffee-house. Read the news. A dish of twist. Grand Vizier strangled. From six to ten.--At the club. Mr. Nisby's account of the great Turk. Ten--Dream of the Grand Vizier. Broken sleep. WEDNESDAY, eight o 'clock. --Tongue of my shoe-buckle broke. Hands, but not face. Nine.--Paid off the butcher's bill. Mem.: To be allowed for the last leg of mutton. Ten, eleven.--At the Coffee-house. More work in the North. Stranger in a black wig asked me how stocks went. From twelve to one.--Walked in the fields. Wind to the south. From one to two.--Smoked a pipe and a half. Two.--Dined as usual. Stomach good. Three.--Nap broke by the falling of a pewter dish. Mem.: Cookmaid in love, and grown careless. From four to six.--At the coffee-house. Advice from Smyma, that the Grand Vizier was first of all strangled arid afterwards beheaded. Six o 'clock in the evening.--Was half-an-hour in the club before anybody else came. Mr. Nisby of opinion, that the Grand Vizier was not strangled the sixth instant. Ten at night. --Went to bed. Slept without waking till nine next morning. THURSDAY, nine o 'clock. --Stayed within till two o'clock for Sir Timothy; who did not bring me my annuity according to his promise. Two in the afternoon .--Sat down to dinner. Loss of appetite. Small-beer sour. Beef overcorned. Three.--Could not take my nap. Four and five--Gave Ralph a box on the ear. Turned off my cookmaid. Sent a message to Sir Timothy. Mem.: did not go to the club to-night. Went to bed at nine o'clock. FRIDAY.--Passed the morning in meditation upon Sir Timothy, who was with me a quarter before twelve. Twelve o 'clock.--Bought a new head to my cane and tongue to my buckle. Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.