Documents & Manuscripts
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Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. Fifth edition.
by Lavater, Johann Caspar
Newburyport [Massachusetts]: George Jerry Osborne, Guttemberg’s Head, 1793. 16mo, pp. 109, [1, ads]. Final blank discarded. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by double gilt rules. Last few leaves rather browned, some foxing elsewhere, one or two marginal tears. Somewhat rubbed and scratched, a few stains, rear flyleaves removed. Ownership inscription of William Hammatt to p. 3, ‘Martin’s Grammar’ written in ink on rear board. A rare American edition of this...
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A$480.75
SCHOOL OF ILLUMINATION. REPRODUCTIONS FROM MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. PART VI FRENCH MID 14TH TO 16TH CENTURIES
by Illuminated Manuscripts, British Museum
British Museum Publications. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Ex-Library; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Order of the Trustees at the British Museum, London 1939. Coover dates 1939 but Title Page dates 1930. 14pp explanatory text. Collated complete with 15 plate pages including one in color. Pages are one or more plates. Manuscripts. Library markings. Ties intact. .
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A$74.97
Massachusetts bank stock certificates
[Boston, 1807. Oblong 12mo (approx. 4" x 7"); contemporary red roan-backed marbled boards; rubbed, the spine with a 2" gouge, but the binding is firm and the contents quite clean. Contains approximately 100 pro-forma leaves accomplished in manuscript, being signed receipts for stock certificates received by any number of prominent Boston men. In 1807 Massachusetts passed an "Act Establishing a State Bank." The first American state bank was founded in 1787; by 1820 there were 266 banks and 66 branches,...
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A$7,485.21
A catalogue of illuminated and other manuscripts togther with some works on paleography
by [QUARITCH, BERNARD, LTD.]
London, 1931. 4to, pp. [8], 157; color frontis, 36 plates (1 folding) often with illus. on both recto and verso; very good in orig. printed paper-covered boards. 161 important mss. plus a group of facsimile mss. and works on paleography - 530 items all together.
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A$132.09
Two bi-folia from a decorated manuscript Missal C13th
by [MS], [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]
1250. No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two bi-folia from a decorated manuscript Missal in Latin on parchment [probably French border with Low Countries, mid-thirteenth century] 4 leaves (2 bifolia) text not contiguous but leaves probably from same gathering, single column, 18 lines of professional early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue with elaborate scrolling penwork in contrasting colour extending up and down border with leaf-like...
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A$3,365.25
Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Il Seraglio / Le Nozze di Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro / 'Figaros Hochzeit'.
by [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
1970. Two volumes. London, Ernst Eulenburg, Ltd., London W1, No date (circa 1970). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Volume I (Serail): XIII, 304 pages. Illustrated on frontispiece with a portrait engraving of Mozart by J.G. Mansfeld. Volume II: (Figaro) XXXI, 726 pages. Original Hardcover bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear / Beide Baende in sehr gutem, eigentlich aussergewoehnlich guten Zustand. [Eulenburg Miniature Scores]. Volume...
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A$157.08
Berliner Wanderverein Album
by Kunert, Alfred
1896-1900. Hardcover. Good. Extraordinary manuscript with irresistible original Folk Art illustrations. Folio, 34 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 39 pages with content. At least 15 of these pages with substantial illustrations. The album is a collection of what amount to birthday cards that were created for members of a hiking or outing club based in Berlin. These aren't cards as people today would visualize them; rather, they are long sheets of paper (or card stock) onto which were drawn, with colored...
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A$3,828.75
A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP, short animated film for UNESCO, 1959, with related letters on development, 2 copies of script
by Jiri Trnka, with editing by Gerald Kean
[JIRI TRNKA, PUPPETEER, SCRIPT FOR U. N. FILM 'A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP', WITH GROUP OF PAPERS; ANIMATED FILM PROJECT 1959] A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP, short animated film for UNESCO, 1959, with related letters on development, 2 copies of script, (A) attached to November 1959 letter TO Tor Gjesdal, Director, Mass Communications, UNESCO [see below for details], 5-pages of original ribbon continuity script-in-progress on carbon weight paper for scenes 12-94 with words for respective scenes, first page for scenes...
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A$612.60
![CHINESE WAR JUNK OR COMMANDER'S VESSEL IN FRONT OF THE DANISH SETTLEMENT, DRAWN AFTER NATURE IN THE CANTON RIVER [translation of manuscript caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/250/038/853038250.0.b.jpg)
CHINESE WAR JUNK OR COMMANDER'S VESSEL IN FRONT OF THE DANISH SETTLEMENT, DRAWN AFTER NATURE IN THE CANTON RIVER [translation of manuscript caption title]
by Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb
[China, ca. 1805].. Watercolor on paper, 9 x 14¼ inches. Original manuscript caption attached to verso. Small chip (less than one inch) in upper right corner, else near fine. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. An extremely important and visually appealing watercolor depicting trading practices on the Canton River in China, early 19th century. The work was done during the Krusenstern expedition, Russia's first major scientific voyage in...
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A$42,116.25
An Essence of the Dusk (Translated from the Original Manuscript by F. W. Bain).
by No Author
Parker, 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 88 pages. No dust jacket. White and grey cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and rough cut edges to text block. Visible foxing throughout as well. Boards have major rubbing and sunning with visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavy sunning to spine. Splitting to both joints.
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A$8.21
The Golden Age : Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc de Berry
by Thomas, Marcel
London UK: Chatto & Windus, 1979. Illustrated throughout with 40 color plates and B&W art reproductions. Covers clean, colors bright, minor edge and handling wear. Pages [119] clean, unmarked, binding tight, very slight lean to spine, light top block dust spotting. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws...
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A$18.38
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON, GOVERNOR OF NOTTINGHAM CASTLE AND TOWN
by Hutchinson, Lucy
London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. Written by His Widow Lucy. Edited from the Original Manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson. To Which is Prefixed the Life of Mrs. Hutchinson, Written by Herself. Also an Account of the Siege of Lathom House, Defended by the Countess of Derby against Sir Thomas Fairfax. Frontispiece portrait. Reprint, a volume in Bohn's Standard Library. Sir John Hutchinson (1615-64) was one of the Puritan leaders, and a prominent Roundhead in the English Civil...
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A$38.29
LAURENTIUS RUSIUS, Hippiatria sive Marescalcia (Book on the Health of Horses), in the Italian translation of ANTONIO DE BARLETTA, Liber de signis bonitatis et malitie equorum et de ipsorum infirmitatibus causis et curis (Book on the Signs of Health and Illness of Horses and on the Causes and Cures of their Diseases)
BOOK DESCRIPTION: the best known and most widely read medieval work on veterinary science for horses. In Italian, manuscript on paper, Italy (Pavia?), c. 1530-1560. Dimensions: 360 x 250 mm.,52 folios on paper, complete, written in an Italic script (cancelleresca italica) in brown ink, red rubrics, decorated 5-line initial on f. 1 styled as a tree trunk and 2- to 3-line red pen initials at the beginning of each chapter. CONTEMPORARY VELLUM BINDING, title written on the spine, enclosed in a modern half...
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A$122,520.00
RADIO-CONTROLLED TORPEDO ARCHIVE, US coastal U-boat defense, letters, patent, diagrams
by Arthur Enoch Ericson, inventory redio-controlled torpedo, Samuel Owen Edmonds, G. A. Whipple
[RADIO-CONTROLLED TORPEDO, WWI ERA; DEFENSE AGAINST U-BOATS, COASTAL DEFENSE; INVENTION AND PATENT DEVELOPMENTS] ARTHUR ENOCH ERICSON (spelling of last name used by him, though sometimes written by others as Erikson or Erickson), inventor, aspects of the radio torpedo for which he was awarded patents and attracted the interest of American, British, Canadian, Italian, French, and Russian military from the early years of the 20th century until after World War II…one letter from his patent attorney Samuel...
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A$1,837.80
VERNACULAR 1879 MAINE LETTER HANDWRITTEN 4 PAGES WITH SMALL DRAWING OF FISHERMAN AND AMUSING ILLUSTRATION OF “CLEAR STREAM” WITH TWO FISHERMAN BEING ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES
by Maine brother and sister, 1879 handwritten letter
[VERNACULAR 1879 MAINE LETTER HANDWRITTEN 4 PAGES WITH SMALL DRAWING OF FISHERMAN AND AMUSING ILLUSTRATION OF "CLEAR STREAM" WITH TWO FISHERMAN BEING ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES] HANDWRITTEN LETTER dated August 8, 1879, 4 pages with illustration titled "Clear Stream" on page 4, 5" x 8" one sheet as folded, in part with text uncorrected, "Dear absent Brother and Sister, i now take my pen in hand to send you a few lines…We air [are] all well…i have been a clamin [clamming] 2 times…I have down to the Sea...
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A$421.16
Poems
by Eliot, T. S
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Good. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (190 x 127 mm); 63 pp. Ribbed tan paper boards stamped in brown on front cover. Top edges stained brown, fore edges roughly trimmed, bottom edges uncut. Spine panel missing, no dust jacket; hinge cracked but binding solid and pages clean. Bookseller ticket pasted inside back cover. [Gallup A4b]. This is the first collection of Eliot poems published in his native country, the US. Although the poems occur...
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A$689.18
S IS FOR SIGHTLESS
by United Nations, UNESCO, Gerald Kean editor annotations
[1949ca S IS FOR SIGHTLESS ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPT ANNOTATED / BLINDNESS UNESCO UN / LOUIS BRAILLE] S IS FOR SIGHTLESS, original ribbon typescript 34 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", note at bottom of last page "(1) UNESCO/MCT/9 World Braille" dating the script at Sept.1949 (see Notes below), mostly English, but parts in French, heavily edited in pencil by two individuals (see below), passages crossed out, and slips of paper for changes and additions stapled to pages in respective places, two different handwritings...
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A$421.16
Farmer's Boy. Bloomfield.
by Robert Bloomfield
Speckled calf binding with black title plate and gilt banding on the spine.
Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was the most successful poem of the "Romantic" period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with... Read more about this item
Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was the most successful poem of the "Romantic" period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with... Read more about this item
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A$190.38
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A$597.29
1853 MISS PRINCE ACADEMY OF DANCE LONDON letter from New York City
by Elizabeth Charles (?)
[1853 MISS PRINCE'S ACADEMY OF DANCING, LONDON, LETTER FROM NEW YORK FREIND] 1853 LETTER TO "MISS PRINCE" IN LONDON FROM "YOUR FRIEND, ELIZABETH S. CHARLES" [?, name unclear from handwriting], dated New York, Oct. 29th / 53 [1853], one sheet of paper folded to 4" x 6-1/2" with two horizontal folds for mailing in small envelope addressed to "Miss Prince, 48 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London" in lower left corner "Mr. Gaston Pearson", 3-1/2 pages/about 225 words, Miss Prince's friend in New York...
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A$191.44
THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS TRAHERNE FAITHFULLY REPRINTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TOGETHER WITH POEMS OF FELICITY REPRINTED FROM THE BURNEY MANUSCRIPT AND POEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
by Thomas Traherne
1965 reprint. VG+. Minimal wear. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
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A$61.18
Catalogue 2: The Editions Originales of the World-Famous French Classics of the XVIth to the XVIIIth Centuries; Association Books from Erasmus to Boswell, Very Choice Elzevirs, Exquisite Mosaic Armorial and Embroidered Bindings, Authors' Original Manuscripts Etc.
by Michelmore, G., & Co
London: G. Michelmore & Co, 1921. First edition. Soft cover (yapped). Good (base of spine chipped, short tears to yapp edges). 191p (251 items) + several pls. of bindings, a few in color and/or folding. Bookseller catalogue, with occasional pencil checkmarks. One large folding color plate shows an elaborate embroidered 18th-century Italian binding made for a cardinal. Two color plates show mosaic bindings by Padeloup. Laid in: June 1921 postcard offering one-third off the catalogue prices.
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A$26.04
Penhallow's Indian Wars a Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed in Boston in 1726 with Notes of Earlier Editors and Editions from Original Manuscript
by Wheelock, Edward (ed)
Boston, 1924 xvi, 133, 44 pp of notes following Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Brown paper boards with cloth spine and gold-stamped titles along spine are clean and undamaged. Brown paper wrapper has considerable edgewear.. Edition of 250. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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A$49.01
Application for membership of Arthur I. Fiske, descendant of Dr. Joseph Fiske, junior of Lexington, Massachusetts
by Sons of the American Revolution
[Boston?]: Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, n.d., 1920. Proforma folio bifoliate document filled out presumably by Arthur Irving Fiske, born in Lexington, 1874. Here, he fills in the names of his Lexington and Watertown forebears, and details in 24 lines on the document and another 46 lines on a separate sheet of paper, the Revolutionary career of Dr. Joseph Fiske (1752-1837), a member of Captain Parker's company of Minutemen, a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, a second...
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A$132.09
Scriptum super libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Liber I (Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book one); in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper
by ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT OF A THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY BY THOMAS AQUINAS. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Central Italy, c. 1450-1500. Dimensions 225 x 237 mm., 134 folios, copied by two scribes in small gothic book hands, red and blue initials throughout. BINDING: reversed calf over pasteboards (eighteenth-century?). TEXT: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church, composed his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard while teaching in Paris in the 1250s. It was...
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A$49,008.00
