Documents & Manuscripts

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Documents & Manuscripts Books & Ephemera

Handwritten Letters from Stephen Crane to Elbert Hubbard and Related Ephemera

Handwritten Letters from Stephen Crane to Elbert Hubbard and Related Ephemera

by [CRANE, Stephen]; [HUBBARD, Elbert]; [ROYCROFT] [SIGNED]

This is a unique collection of paper ephemera regarding an 1895 celebratory dinner honoring Stephen Crane, whose The Red Badge of Courage was at the time a modest success in its second printing. The event was hosted by Elbert Hubbard, the influential publisher, editor, and founder of the Roycroft arts and crafts community. These items belonged to Edith Maclure Love, a friend of both Stephen Crane and Elbert Hubbard. The following items are included in this sale: -Two handwritten letters from Stephen... Read more about this item
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€9,363.00
Anthroposophy (Unique Collection of Rudolf Steiner Writings and Goetheanum Publications: 40 Typescripts and printed works

Anthroposophy (Unique Collection of Rudolf Steiner Writings and Goetheanum Publications: 40 Typescripts and printed works

by Steiner, Rudolf; Adolf Arenson; Rudolf Frieling; Constanze v. Borck

Dornach: Steiner, 1980. Softcover. Important collection of books and lectures with texts by Rudolf Steiner and others relating to Steiner's "Anthroposophy philosophy." His philosophy argues that the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world can be accessed through direct experience and inner development. It aims to develop perceptive imagination, intuition and inspiration through cultivating a form of being independent of sensory experience. Steiner's anthroposophical... Read more about this item
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€2,574.83
WHY THERE ARE WHITES TO CONSOLE, A PORTRAIT OF JANET

WHY THERE ARE WHITES TO CONSOLE, A PORTRAIT OF JANET

by Stein, Gertrude

N.P.: Aloe Editions, 1973. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. (4) pages. Limited to 100 copies (Wilson A74). This copy not numbered or lettered. Printed from the original manuscript.
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€75.84
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM V.E. PIOLLET TO JOHN HASTINGS, CONCERNING THE UNSUCCESSFUL "EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS" IN THE 1846 ELECTION TO DEFEAT THEIR PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSMAN DAVID WILMOT, AUTHOR OF THE CONTROVERSIAL "WILMOT PROVISO" BANNING SLAVERY FROM THE MEXICAN CESSION

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM V.E. PIOLLET TO JOHN HASTINGS, CONCERNING THE UNSUCCESSFUL "EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS" IN THE 1846 ELECTION TO DEFEAT THEIR PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSMAN DAVID WILMOT, AUTHOR OF THE CONTROVERSIAL "WILMOT PROVISO" BANNING SLAVERY FROM THE MEXICAN CESSION

by [Wilmot, David]

Towanda, PA, 1846. Single leaf, entirely in ink manuscript. The recto filled with Piollet's letter; folded for mailing, with address to "John Hastings Esq. | Brooksville | Jefferson County | Pa." Remnant of red seal on blank portion of verso. Light wear. Very Good. Victor E. Piollet [1812 - 1890] was a Democrat, and friend and supporter of David Wilmot, an antislavery Democratic Congressman from Piollet's district. Wilmot had signaled Northern Democrats' disaffection with their southern colleagues by... Read more about this item
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€795.86
Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship; Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R.I., One of the Prisoners

Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship; Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R.I., One of the Prisoners

by DRING, Thomas

Providence: H. H. Brown, 1829. Minor foxing and browning throughout, front board detached, else a very good copy. 12mo. 167 pages. Folding frontis. Cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine and tips. Name autographed on fly. FIRST EDITION. Folding frontispiece with a view of the ship's exterior and accompanying diagrams of two decks. This former ship-of-the-line was converted into a warehouse and finally a prison-ship anchored on the East River. Dring was captured and held for several months of... Read more about this item
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€421.34
Aubrey's Brief Lives; Edited from the Original Manuscripts and with an Introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick

Aubrey's Brief Lives; Edited from the Original Manuscripts and with an Introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick

by Dick, Oliver Lawson – Editor

Penguin Books, London, 1962. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. acknowledgements, foreword by editor, The Life and Times of John Aubrey, an index. A small potted biographies of 17th-century English luminaries. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (13), 2-388 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is faded/sunned. Edges and internal pages are... Read more about this item
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€5.55
West Point Quartermaster Request, dated June 17, 1784

West Point Quartermaster Request, dated June 17, 1784

by [West Point]

An original manuscript Quartermaster request for the payment of troops stationed at West Point Garrison, addressed to Colonel (P)ickson. Wages are requested for the months of April through June "for extra service as "Artifissers" (sic): the names of the individual troops and the number of days' service are listed. The names are Charles Bellamy, Joseph Whitney, William Pratt, John Pratt, and Samuel Nichols. This request was made the year following the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American... Read more about this item
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€444.74
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813), Memoirs of Mathematics, manuscript translated to Italian from the originals. Written in Italian hand

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813), Memoirs of Mathematics, manuscript translated to Italian from the originals. Written in Italian hand

by Lagrange, Joseph-Louis

1775. 4to. 270 mx 205 mm., (11 x 8 inches). 243 leaves, with some blanks between essays. Text includes numerous equations and hand drawn diagrams in the margins. 19th century vellum backed marbled paper boards, vellum tips, manuscript title on spine. A note in pencil, written in Italian, reads in part, "Purchased in the Compo di Fiori May 10, 1933." Born in Turin, Italy in 1736, Lagrange was locally educated and by the age of 17 had recognized his skills in the natural sciences and applied himself to... Read more about this item
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€11,241.22
Pen - Original Poem by a Teenager

Pen - Original Poem by a Teenager

by A.G. Wilcox

[West Virginia?], 1914. Very good to fine; some light toning and dust soiling, creased where previously folded.. A charming original manuscript poem in blue ink titled "Pen", signed by A.G. Wilcox: "Pen is a thing that they write with Pen is a thing that will brake[sic] Pen is a thing to keep in the house..." Concludes with "Pen is a thing that they write loveletter [sic] with. Pen is a sharp thing" Wilcox was born in 1895, and would have been around 19 around the time this was written. He lived in... Read more about this item
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€140.44
MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF THOUSANDS OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDES, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS AUDIO RECORDINGS, COMPILED BY JACOB HARRIS, AN AMERICAN WHO SERVED AS A SENIOR POLICE ADVISOR IN VIETNAM AND THAILAND DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF THOUSANDS OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDES, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS AUDIO RECORDINGS, COMPILED BY JACOB HARRIS, AN AMERICAN WHO SERVED AS A SENIOR POLICE ADVISOR IN VIETNAM AND THAILAND DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

by HARRIS, JACOB

Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere in Asia as well as the United States, Europe, and the Middle East ca. 1964-1974: Compiled by Jacob Harris, an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War, 1964 - 1974., 1964 - 1974. First edition. A large and remarkable archive of images from Vietnam and Thailand, covering the decade from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the beginning of the buildup of American forces in Vietnam to a year before the evacuation of the... Read more about this item
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€14,044.50
The Log Of A Forty-Niner

The Log Of A Forty-Niner

by Russ, Carolyn Hale

Boston MA: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1923. Numbered. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Green hardback with brown leather-like spine and corners. Black print on orange paste-on on spine; black print on beige paste-on on front. Top layer on spine is coming loose along the back side - should be easily glued. Bumping and fraying to edges/corners of board. Scuffing to boards; darkening to edges of baords. Boards in Good or better condition. Pages tight but book will lay open (pages detached along inside... Read more about this item
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€70.22
Album

Album

by L'Huintre, Celeste

1848. Quarter Calf. . Very Good. A remarkable student notebook, with manuscript maps, calligraphy and other artwork. Oblong folio, 31 by 48 cm. 33 pages with content, much of it visual. Much of the artwork is mounted onto the leaves, while textual material, written with a calligraphic hand and decorated with filigree vignettes, is generally done directly onto the book's leaves. The four maps include one of Africa, the Americas (the Western hemisphere), Australia, including Oceania and Eastern... Read more about this item
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€2,808.90
[Manuscript] Varied Versions

[Manuscript] Varied Versions

Paper pastedown on boards. String ties. . Near Fine. Clever light verse and charming watercolored vignettes, with the verse and artwork cross-fertilizing and resulting in an entirely novel homemade book, unlike any such effort we have ever beheld. N.d., mid-20th century. (A send-up of an Edith Sitwell poem first appearing in 1953 suggests the manuscript dates to the late fifties or sixties. Our sense, based on the poem, was that Sitwell was still alive at the time. The eccentric poet passed away... Read more about this item
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€435.38
My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir

My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir

by Chaplin, Lita Grey, with Morton Cooper

(n.p.): Bernard Geis Associates. Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket has a fewsmall nicks and some associated dog-earring at the top of the spine, some modest surface wear, a tiny closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel and another, even tinier chip at the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) A sensational-bordering-on-lurid memoir by Charlie Chaplin's second wife -- a child bride, basically, who "he had... Read more about this item
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€32.77
The Explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson

The Explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson

by Adams, Arthur T. ed

Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1961. Hard Cover. fine/near fine. Octavo. 9 1'2" x 6". 258pp, Ixxxiv pp. Nice edition of writings from French explorer from 17th Century. A fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. "From the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum
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€28.09
Scriptum super libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Liber I (Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book one); in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper

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... Read more about this item
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€29,961.60
Account Book of Francis Jackson, Treasurer The Vigilance Committee of Boston

Account Book of Francis Jackson, Treasurer The Vigilance Committee of Boston

by Jackson, Francis

The book is an exact facsimile of the original manuscript. The book is in very good condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) are tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request in order to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase. .
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€14.97
Scrap Book Vol. I

Scrap Book Vol. I

by Moggridge, M. Weston

England, 1845. Leather spine, marbled paper on limp card for boards. Very Good. Charming naive watercolors illustrating well-known poems and excerpts from Shakespeare. 8vo. 19 by 16.5 cm. Unpaginated, 90 pages of verse and 46 watercolored illustrations. Most of the watercolors are on rectos, a few on versos, and a few instances of both. While only two of the watercolors is full page, most dominate their page, regardless of size, arresting the eye, whether place above, below, in the middle, or to... Read more about this item
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€2,106.68
The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes, with his Friends (4 volumes only) Printed from the original manuscripts, in which are introduced memoirs of his Life, by John Almon.

The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes, with his Friends (4 volumes only) Printed from the original manuscripts, in which are introduced memoirs of his Life, by John Almon.

by WILKES, John; ALMON, John (editor); WATSON, Caroline (engraver)

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, by T. Gillet, 1805. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 4 (of 5) volumes: I, III, IV & V. 12mos, pp. xx, [272] + portrait frontis (stipple engraved by Caroline Watson) and fold-out facsimile letter; iv, 300 + facsimile letter; [iv], 344 + fold-out facsimile letter; iv, 286, [lacks 2 pages of adverts]. Later half calf over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt-ruled, red and black morocco labels lettered in gilt, compartments diced. Edges speckled red. All vols.: rubbed,... Read more about this item
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€100.36
A Bibliography of Norfolk History

A Bibliography of Norfolk History

by Darroch, Elizabeth & Taylor, Barry – Editors

University of East Anglia, Britian, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Contributors to the Ketton-Cremer Memorial Fund, preface by M. V. B. Riviere, introduction by editors, list of abbreviations, and index of authors and editors. Green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. The title says it all. Softening of the back strip edges with a crease that runs the full length to the same area. Fading to the back strip and to the book edges. Age toning... Read more about this item
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€12.21
THE TREATISE OF THE POOL: Al-Maqala al-Hawdiyya

THE TREATISE OF THE POOL: Al-Maqala al-Hawdiyya

by Obadyah B. Abraham b. Moses Maimonides; Paul Fenton ed.; Georges Vajda preface

Octagon Press, 1981. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. xvi, 146, 28 pp. 3 B/W photo plates of the Bodleian's original manuscript. 12mo, beige paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. Leaves tanned as usual, clean and sharp otherwise DJ spine a bit sunned, tips worn. Hebrew text with English introduction and commentary, Vajda's preface in French. Scarce in trade.
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€154.49
Methodist Ladies' College Centenary Gala Concert

Methodist Ladies' College Centenary Gala Concert

by Not Stated

Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne, 1982. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. not paginated. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photography. Illustrated covers being the reproduction of the original manuscript of the M.L.C celebration cantata by George Dreyfus. A little rubbing and creasing to the book corners. Rubbing to the other book edges, particularly along the spine region. Light rubbing to the book... Read more about this item
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€5.55
Ten works translated from the original manuscripts by Francis William Bain, with presentation inscriptions from Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Edith Beatty, wife of Alfred Chester Beatty.

Ten works translated from the original manuscripts by Francis William Bain, with presentation inscriptions from Sydney Carlyle Cockerell to Edith Beatty, wife of Alfred Chester Beatty.

by BAIN (Francis William)

London: James Parker and Co.; Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1899. 10 vols., small 4to (230 x 150 mm), orig. boards, a little worn and soiled, vol. 6 with a waterstain to covers and spine. 1. A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story Translated from the Original MS. by F. W. Bain. 1899. No presentation inscription but with Cockerell's calling card inscribed in pencil "With all good wishes for Christmas", also loosely inserted is a A.L.s from Bain to Cockerell. 2. The Descent of the Sun: A Cycle... Read more about this item
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€349.05
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. His Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde, together with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto Rico. Edited, from the original manuscripts, by W. D. Cooley.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. His Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde, together with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto Rico. Edited, from the original manuscripts, by W. D. Cooley.

by Maynarde, Thomas; W. D. Cooley

London: Hakluyt Society, 1849. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 12, viii, 65 pages of text including a subscriber's list. Original blue stamped hardcover binding with gilt spine lettering and front cover gilt stamp of the ship "Victoria." Minimal sunning to spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper. First Series, No. 4. Several pages uncut and unopened. Almost near fine condition, with no defects of... Read more about this item
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€468.15
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.|THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.|THE

by Franklin, Benjamin

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, top edge stained red. 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, top edge stained red. (x), 351+(1) pages. Printed from the original manuscript at the Henry E. Huntington Library. Lacking the slipcase, else a near fine copy. Edited by Leonard W. Labaree, et. al. The whole autobiography shows a man of geniality, even gaiety; of affection and generosity; a friend of ne'er-do-wells who was very glad to leave off... Read more about this item
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€21.53