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Manuscript inventory of the estate of James Angell

Manuscript inventory of the estate of James Angell

by Brown, Moses

[Providence, 1786. Folio sheet approx. 15" x 12", docketed on the verso; previous folds, with splits (no loss); overall toning; good. Brigadier General James Angell (1723-1785), descendant of one of the first settlers of Providence, died February 2, 1785. This inventory was taken by Moses Brown (1736-1838), executor of the will and both a friend and relative. The Angell's daughter, Abigail, married a Goddard, relatives of the Brown family. Among assets listed are Angell's Johnston farm lot, 160 acres of... Read more about this item
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£1,163.66
Forty-nine letters, notes, and receipts, primarily concerning legal matters in the textile business

Forty-nine letters, notes, and receipts, primarily concerning legal matters in the textile business

by Thayer, Preserved S

[Millville, Providence, et al., 1845. Forty-nine letters, notes, receipts and other manuscript documents from the records of Preserved S. Thayer, a businessman, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, and landlord in Millville, Mass. The documents primarily concern a business venture between Thayer; John Still of Philadelphia, who was to provide raw material in return for wool and satinetts; and Baker & Benson, who managed the mill in Providence R.I. where the material was to be processed. Poor quality... Read more about this item
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£372.37
One-page autograph letter signed

One-page autograph letter signed

by Leonard, James, Captain, U.S.N

New York: October 9, 1809. 4to, blank integral leaf attached; previous folds, very good. Leonard (?-1832) writes a favorable recommendation for a former shipmate. "This is to certify that I am personally acquainted with Dr. George C. Quackenbos of this city & that he has borne a commission as Surgeon in the Navy of the United States, & has acted under my orders in that Capacity during the year 1807, & that he served on board the Bomb Ketch Aetna." Signed "James Leonard, late Commanding Naval Officer at... Read more about this item
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£395.64
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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£25,904.00
William Chace and William Davis vs. Tarin and Nanterne. Suit for non-payment of monies due

William Chace and William Davis vs. Tarin and Nanterne. Suit for non-payment of monies due

by Chace, William, & William Davis

Nantes, (France): September 6, 1783. Eleven-page legal document (approx. 9" x 7½") of a judgment from a French court that involved Rhode Island traders. Providence mariners William Chace and William Davis traded in European goods and were also perhaps sea captains. These documents are entitled "Extract from the Registry of the Recorder of the Royal Seat and Council of Nantes, September 6, 1783. Nantes February 25, 1783. John Ballan senior judge. Appeared Sieur Tarin the younger merchant ... living as... Read more about this item
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£698.19
Collection of official US post office ledgers and ephemera 1825-1927

Collection of official US post office ledgers and ephemera 1825-1927

V.p.: v.d., as below. An interesting collection of early USPS ephemera and manuscript ledgers recording postal business. The collection includes three ledgers and 17 items of office ephemera, primarily from Pennsylvania and Maine, comprised of the following. Ledger, small 4to, pp. [62]. Quarter calf over paper covered boards. Records dated 1833-1838, mostly recording drafts from local postmasters in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire, received by the Postmaster General. Text mostly on... Read more about this item
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£698.19
[Circular letter:] Sir, I beg leave to request your particular attention to the act which passed on the 17th February, 1823, entitled, "an act to amend an act to reduce into one, the several acts for enforcing the payment of fines into the public treasury."

[Circular letter:] Sir, I beg leave to request your particular attention to the act which passed on the 17th February, 1823, entitled, "an act to amend an act to reduce into one, the several acts for enforcing the payment of fines into the public treasury."

by Heath, Jas. E., Auditor public accounts

[Richmond]: Auditor's Office, March 22, 1823. Folio bifolium (approx. 14" x 8¼"), address panel on verso of integral leaf to William Sterrett, Esq., Mason County; pp. [2-3] containing two proforma tables for listing fines and penalties; previous folds, very good. The new act herein announced "is intended to enforce a stricter accountability in those charged with the collection of fines ... I request, for the sake of uniformity, you will use the form hereto annexed [as printed on p. 2]. Also "annexed is... Read more about this item
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£232.73
Lectures on therapeutics

Lectures on therapeutics

by Brower, Daniel R

[Chicago, 1895. Manuscript lecture notes written in a folio ledger book, 12.5" x 8"; pp. 100; tan cloth boards with calf corners; some toning and rubbing to boards; very good with neat, penciled writing. A concise review of received medical wisdom of the time. The lectures commence Oct. 3, 1895 and end March 23, 1896, 42 lectures in all, including those on hydrotherapy, marine climate, aerotheraputics, industrial nephritis, constipation, infectious diseases, diphtheria, pharmaceutical preparations,... Read more about this item
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£418.92
Old science & medicine. A catalogue of MSS., books & autograph letters from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. [Catalogue] 869

Old science & medicine. A catalogue of MSS., books & autograph letters from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. [Catalogue] 869

by Maggs Bros

London: Maggs Bros., September, 1960. Small 4to, 148, [4]; inserted frontispiece and title page, 4 plates on 2 sheets, other illustrations in the text; very good and sound in original tan pictorial wrappers. With 926 items; includes subject and author index.
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£23.27
Two one-page autograph letters signed

Two one-page autograph letters signed

by Shillaber, Benjamin P

1872. Two letters (5" x 8"); light browning and foxing; otherwise very good. Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814-1890) was an American journalist and humorist. He was the original editor of The Carpet-Bag, a Boston humor magazine that attracted submissions from many prominent authors writing under pseudonyms. Shillaber was most well-known for his comedic character Mrs. Partington, a scatterbrained yet wise old woman who Shillaber featured in several publications. 1. Chelsea, May 21, 1872. Shillaber... Read more about this item
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£93.09
American diaries in manuscript, 1580-1954. A descriptive bibliography

American diaries in manuscript, 1580-1954. A descriptive bibliography

by MATTHEWS, WILLIAM

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 176; fine in original red cloth, spine gilt. Over 5,000 entries with an index.
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£18.62
Two-page holograph petition to the town of Tiverton concerning a deed

Two-page holograph petition to the town of Tiverton concerning a deed

by Sheldon, Benjamin

Tiverton: March 25, 1772. Approx. 7½" x 8", previous folds, some browning; all else very good and legible. Benjamin Sheldon of Tiverton sent this petition to the town meeting asking that his land rights be extended. "Whereas yor petit. having, together with his son, purchased a Dwelling house standing on the Bank of Commonage, next the North End of Nanquaket pond as also One Right & Three Quarters of a Right in the Commons & beeches lying along Shore from Sineflesh River so called till it comes to the... Read more about this item
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£186.18
One-page autograph letter signed by C. G. V. Brower to J. A. Hillard beneath an elaborate wood engraving of the Grand Union Hotel, regarding a lost insurance policy which is to be transferred to J. Gould

One-page autograph letter signed by C. G. V. Brower to J. A. Hillard beneath an elaborate wood engraving of the Grand Union Hotel, regarding a lost insurance policy which is to be transferred to J. Gould

by Grand Union Hotel, Fourth Ave., 41st and 42nd St

[New York], 1881. Approx. 11" x 8½", the engraving approx. 4" x 7¾"; previous folds and with a couple of very short splits; otherwise very good. The hotel stood across the street from the Grand Central Depot which is also pictured in the image.
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£139.64
Manuscript resolution not to admit officers appointed by John Temple, Esq. (1732-1798) by Rhode Island colonial officials

Manuscript resolution not to admit officers appointed by John Temple, Esq. (1732-1798) by Rhode Island colonial officials

N.p., n.d. [Rhode Island, 1760. Single sheet approx. 7½" x 6", 16 lines in ink; slightly browned, very good. John Temple, a British Imperial official, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1732, the son of Robert Temple, a colonial entrepreneur, and Mehitable Nelson. He grew up on the family "Ten Hills" estate near Boston; but spent much of his early adulthood in London, seeking a lucrative appointment through Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, and his brother George Grenville, later to be prime minister.... Read more about this item
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£256.00
Autograph document signed, being a statement of account between Stephen Ayrault and N. Marks

Autograph document signed, being a statement of account between Stephen Ayrault and N. Marks

by Ayrault, Stephen

Newport: March 10, 1749. Approx. 5¾" x 6¼", previous folds, modest stain; very good. Stephen Ayrault (1709-1794), a merchant of Newport, is purchasing over a six-month period, June 23, 1749 to January 11, 1750, one quire of "Cattridge paper," "post paper," "prayer books," "6 Shts. bills [of] lading," and "Lead," for £6.16.7½ ("errors excepted") from N. Marks. Docketed and signed by both on the verso. Each of the four lines of purchases with dates and prices affixed.
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£372.37
Autograph document signed

Autograph document signed

by Otis, Samuel A

Boston: Aug. 15, 1772. Approx. 10" x 12" containing 2 columns of purchases showing debts and credits from Joseph Shirtleff, from Nov. 1770 to Dec., 1772. From 2 sacks of flour and 15½ pounds of chocolate to a dozen candlesticks, a barrel for rum, and three thousand 10-penny nails. Also the return of an undersized kettle. Nearly 50 items in all, with prices, and with payments made against the purchases with cash. Otis (1740-1814), son of James Otis and father of Harrison Gray Otis, graduated from... Read more about this item
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£744.74
Bluntschli, Lieber and Laboulaye

Bluntschli, Lieber and Laboulaye

by [Gilman, Daniel Colt ?]

Baltimore: privately printed for a few friends, 1884. Square 18mo, pp. 42, [2]; removed from binding, uncut and unopened, minor soiling to cover page, text clean and sound. A recounting of how the libraries and manuscripts of Bluntschli, Lieber and Laboulaye were brought together at John Hopkins University. Together the three men are credited with developing one of the first codes of international law and war. Attributed to Gilman in OCLC.
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£41.89
A catalogue of illuminated and other manuscripts togther with some works on paleography

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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£69.82
Meditations of an autograph collector

Meditations of an autograph collector

by Joline, Adrian H

New York: Harper & Bros, 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. 316; frontispiece and 16 plates; hinges cracked else a very good copy in original cloth,
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£18.62
Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American manuscripts. A guide

Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American manuscripts. A guide

by WARREN, J. BENEDICT

Washington: Library of Congress, 1974. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 187; illustrated endpapers; spine a bit faded; very good in original red cloth, spine and upper cover gilt. Review copy with slips laid in.
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£46.55
The illuminated manuscript

The illuminated manuscript

by Backhouse, Janet

Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. First edition, 4to, pp. 80; 70 illustrations, 28 in color; fine in original black cloth, fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. While Merker rarely signed his books, this copy has his ownership signature at the top of the front free flyleaf: "Merker / finished 4 April 89."
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£93.09
Sobieski-Stuart Manuscript Abecebestiary

Sobieski-Stuart Manuscript Abecebestiary

by Eduard, Charles Sir, [Charles Edward Stuart]; [Charles Manning Allen]; [Sobieski Stuarts]

Scotland: n.p., 1842. Very good plus.. Stunning original manuscript abecedary, a serpentine and thistle-laden gift to credulous antiquary Sir Thomas Dick Lauder in the year of the artist's co-publication of the famous disputed VESTIARIUM SCOTICUM. The author of this virtuosic tribute, here styling himself Charles Eduard, born Charles Edward Manning Allen and widely known as Charles Edward Stuart, was one half of the notorious Sobieski Stuarts: brothers, poets, and Welsh-born claimants to the Stuart... Read more about this item
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£11,333.00
Manuscript petition to General Assembly in Newport against "Exorbatent interest"

Manuscript petition to General Assembly in Newport against "Exorbatent interest"

by Case, John

[Newport: second Monday of September A.D., 1766. (Folio sheet approx. 11½" x 7¼"), in ink; some staining, the right margin erose with a few dropped letters, small hole at the intersection of previous folds; good. The political unrest preceding the American Revolution is exemplified in this document which complains of the high rates of interest charged by the depreciation of old tenor in the Colony of Rhode Island. John Case petitioned the General Assembly of September 1766, then sitting at Newport,... Read more about this item
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£558.56
Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old World and in America

Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old World and in America

by Rau, Charles

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 112; 35 plates and a few illustrations in the text; bound with, as issued: Fletcher, Robert. On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets, Washington: G.P.O., 1882, pp. 32; 9 plates; bound with, as issued: Thomas, Cyrus. A Study of the Manuscript Troano ... Introduction by D. G. Brinton, Washington, G.P.O., 1882, pp. xxxvii, [1], 237, [1]; 9 plates (4 being chromolithographs), illustrations and tables in the text; together, 3... Read more about this item
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£116.37
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

by Boswell, James

USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition, in Very Good Condition, without dust jacket.The Yale Editions of the private papers of James Boswell. Published from the original manuscript. Introduction and notes by Frederick Pottle, Sterling Professor of Literature, Yale University. Preface by Christopher Morley. Include facsimiles of two of the original manuscripts. Endpapers have map... Read more about this item
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£11.43
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