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285 Water-street, [New York City]: [J. M'Clelland], 1827.
Broadside, 19 ¾"h x 11 ⅜" wide at greatest extent, uncolored. Six lines of headline type surrounding two cuts, followed by two columns of text with a typographic divider. Minor-moderate soiling and staining, creasing along old folds, small losses at fold intersections affecting a few letters but not the sense, some losses along left edge well away from printed area.
The "Bobalition" broadside as a specific genre of American racism originated in Boston as a series of so called "bobalition" broadsides, which appeared in Boston between at least 1816 and appearing regularly at least up to 1837. The example offered here is the only known example of its kind to have originated in New York City. This example is an extremely rare 1827 "Bobalition" broadside featuring a crudely racist parody of New York City's first Emancipation Day celebration.
The "Bobaltition" broadside, in newly contrived pseudo-black dialect of mispronunciations and… Read More

N.P., 1903. Soft cover. Very Good. octavo, 39 page pamphlet, original printed wrappers, ex-library, handstamps on wrappers, else in very good condition. Unlisted on OCLC. For the construction of the union passenger station and terminal facilities in Augusta, Georgia.

octavo, 45 page pamphlet, retains front wrapper, rear wrap lacking, roughly disbound from pamphlet volume, pages loose, spine ragged, ex-library, handstamp on front wrapper, wrapper chipped along edges, else good

8 volumes, 262 mss pages, plus blanks, various small format bindings (stiff paper, cloth spine with stiff paper boards, leather), volumes measure between 2 ¾" x 5" and 4" x 7", bindings good, some scuffing, written in pencil & ink, in a legible hand, dated from 29 Aug 1868 to 12 Sept 1895. While the volumes are not numbered, we have given them numbers based on their chronological order as follows: v.1, 14 pp, 29 Aug 1868-1 Jan 1892; v.2, 37 pp, 19 Mar 1875 - 13 Apr 1889; v. 3, 6 pp, 16 Nov 1883 - 1 Feb 1884; v. 4, 13 pp, 17 Oct 1885 - 19 Oct 1892; v. 5, 8 pp, 1888 - 1893; v. 6, 37 pp, 21 Apr 1891 - 1892; v.7, 52 pp, 16 Jan 1893 - 6 Mar 1893; v. 8, 95 pp, 13 June 1892 - 12 Sept 1895.Of the 262 mss pages, 147 pages are diary entries, the rest memorandum and accounts. The two diary volumes (v. 7 & v. 8) contain sailing trips on the St. Lawrence River taken in the summers between 1892-1895, and a three month trip taken in 1893 to Florida, stopping at various places along the way. The memorandum and… Read More

58 volumes of diaries of Samuel W. Folsom, over 7,000 manuscript pages, dated 1867-1927, lacking years 1891, 1906, and 1921; 44 account books of Samuel W. Folsom, various paginations, 68, 72, or 120 pages per book (earlier volumes have less pages), with the majority of the entries dated 1880-1927, lacking volumes for 1883, 1926; 6 volumes of memorandum books/diaries, approx. 1500 pages, kept by Arthur H. Folsom, dealing with his Folsom Galleries, dated 1908, 1911-1913, 1915, 1919-1920; plus 95 letters, 134 pp. for the Folsom Galleries and Samuel W. Folsom, dated 1908-1921, and over 900 pieces of paper ephemera related to Folsom Galleries, dated 1904-1921.
Samuel W. Folsom (1844- 1929)
Samuel W. Folsom for many years was a trusted official and worker in some of Cleveland's largest business concerns. Folsom was a member of a pioneer family of Cleveland. He was born at the corner of Vermont and Hanover streets in Cleveland on 16 December 1844. His father, Gillman Folsom, Jr., was born at… Read More

22 volumes, small quartos. comprising approximately 7,947 manuscript pp. of diary entries plus approximately 341 manuscript pp. of memoranda, notes, cash accounts and bills payable; dated 1897- 1900, 1903-1905, 1907-1908, 1913, 1917, 1919-1920, 1922-1924, 1926-1931; one day entry per page format; most volumes are bound in either ½ or ¼ red, or black leather, with mainly pebbled cloth covered boards; two volumes lack spines, 1 volume has spine almost detached; another volume has spine badly chipped; the entries in all volumes written in ink, in a legible hand; most volumes stuffed with various ephemeral items, such as newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, thank you notes, some letters, printed programs and circulars, invitations, calling cards, even a couple of swatches of fabric, etc.
The collection is notable for the length of time that the diarist recorded the events of her life; the collection comprises nearly a daily record of twenty-two years of her life's experience. Lord wrote… Read More

3 volumes as follows:
Diary for 1917, 12mo, bound in red cloth, 30 manuscript pp. of diary entries, dated 1 January 1917 to 16 March 1917, and 2 September to 31 December 1917, plus an additional 8 manuscript pp. memorandum, 12 pp. cash accounts and 3 pages of addresses, plus an additional 10 manuscript pp. of memorandum at rear, which also includes some addresses. Diary format is 7 days per page, contains short entries, entries written in mostly ink, some pencil, in a legible hand.
Standard Daily Journal for 1919, 12mo, bound in blue cloth, 365 manuscript pp., entries dated 1 January 1919 to 31 December 1919; one day entry per page, appears to have an entry for every day, some are longer than others, entries written in ink, in a legible hand, memorandum and cash accounts sections blank.
Weekly Calendar for 1919, 12mo, bound in red cloth, 52 manuscript pp., 1 pp. telephone numbers, 2 mss pp. memorandum notes, 6 mss pp. of cash accounts, plus an additional 1 mss pp. of memorandum notes, 7 days entries… Read More

12mo, pocket diary, 134 manuscript pages bound in cloth, two days entries per page, text block separated from binding; wear to extremities, otherwise good, entries written in ink, in a legible hand; diary is not signed, but a note tucked in states the diary was written by Ehret Williams. And internal evidence and research on ancestry.com, all lead to Leonard Ehret Williams being our diary writer.
The diary recounts our shipwright's everyday activities at work, the ships he works on, the types of jobs he does, getting hurt on the job, the hard work, interactions with other men at work, fight with a Jewish coworker ( the "Jew" [sic] was dismissed), he also recounts his social life, his friends and their activities like going to shows, concerts, visiting Fairmount Park, walking around downtown Philadelphia, etc. He also gives an account of the amount of his paychecks, when he gets raises, and what he spends his money on such as everyday expenses like carfare, every day necessities, or purchasing bonds,… Read More

12mo, 122 typed pp., dated 22 August 1917 to 7 June 1918; bound in small six ring binder, limp pleather binding, measuring 4" x 6", typed, good condition. There is a title-page, a one-page preface, and a two-page epilogue at rear bringing the family story up to 1937. Title page reads: "For Clayton and Jeannie Arthur and Family / A copy of Grandmother Arthur's diary / in her own words, of the family traveling / Oregon in a covered wagon. / copied by Laura Arthur" This is a typescript copy, made for the family, by a family member, of the manuscript original, the whereabouts of which, is unknown.
A curious diary, wherein a family seeking to improve their lives decides to move west across Oregon on hearing of the opening of government lands on the coast. They travel across the state using a covered wagon, the mode of Oregon's original pioneers. The diary recounts the events and occurrences along the way.

Maud G. Jeffries Arthur (1885-1965)
Maud G. Jeffries, was born 8 November 1885, in… Read More

Folio, 44 manuscript pages, bound in later nineteenth century cloth, entries dated 18 November 1849 to 2 June 1850 (although not dated, the entries appear to continue till 15 June 1850); boards worn, damp-stained, some chipping to edges of text, minor spotting to a couple of leaves, one leaf loose, written in ink, in legible hand, written on large full pages.
While the diary is not signed, there is enough internal evidence to attribute authorship. A small piece of paper laid in identifies the keeper of the journal as named "John" and that he has a sister with the initials "J.C.C." Other evidence shows he was a law student at the New York State and National Law School during the course of the journal (1849-1850). The diarist mentions the names of some of his class-mates (Christie, Douglas, Putnam, and others). He also states that his Aunt and Uncle were Abram and Mary Ann Knickerbacker, their daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and his sister Mrs. R. A. Grout. Research online finds a "Catalogue and Circular… Read More

Newark: Printed at the Daily and Sentinel Office, 1836. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo,engraved folding map of the City of Newark, by Alexander Martin, 168, 34, 10 pp., ex-library, original brown cloth, boards detached but present, backstrip worn, portion missing, handstamps, map slightly torn, otherwise a complete copy. Scarce with the map. The second New Jersey city directory, preceded only the Newark directory for 1835.