Search Results: Authors starting with T from Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.

California. Good+. 1897. On offer is a charming and unusual pre turn of the Century manuscript diary handwritten by a young, 12 year old, boy named is Harlow T Kays. Harlow it appears to live in a tent, one that is equipped with a kitchen in we think California. He lived/worked at a Dairy Creamery and went to a creamery dance making for a unique perspective of a late 19th Century boy. He writes about his daily activities, whitewashing, playing, sweeping the tent and stuffing up holes in the kitchen. He enjoyed reading Tanglewood Tales. He also talks about a bunk house and not making it to school because of chores. He says that it rained so much so they did not milk that day. He mentions working in the orchard, playing football, and one day he did not go to school because there were not enough scholars. There are about 100 written pages, the book full save for one and a half blank pages. It measures 8 ¼" x 6 ¼". Overall G+.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More

ENGLAND. Good. 1939. Original Wraps. On offer is a sensational schoolboy's record of a momentous period of history September 11th 1939 through April 10, 1940. Handwritten in a nature study record book our young author, J. T. McNicol, begins his diary relating his strengths and accomplishments to date: interpreter, cyclist, handyman, cook, camper, National Service in Civil Defence, entertainer, musician, missioner, plumber, ambulance, artist, reader and Public Health man. Each day si a detailed record of Mr. McNicol's daily doings from home, school and extra curricular activities. This is fascinating diary given it begins in almost lock-step with the war and we see from the young man's writings how life changes during the war from blacking out the windows of the house, listening to the radio for news and of course personal comments such as "Dad makes himself generally objectionable". Mr. McNicol is an avid musician and he shows a marked interest in the music of… Read More

NORTH MANLIUS NEW YORK [SYRACUSE] NY. Good. 1886. Manuscript. On offer is the handwritten manuscript diary of Nettie Taffner, her husband George and their children Pearl [14], Robbie and Eva and her folks [Pa is 50]. In some ways a simple retelling of Nettie's day to day routine but much more than that Nettie provides a wealth of genealogical information and local history of her North Manlius, New York [very near Syracuse] detailing births, deaths, marriages, illnesses, caregivers and much, much more. Dozens and dozens of friends, events and contacts including: Charlie Noth killed by the cars at Bolivar, Ed Kent, Anna O'Brien, Luther Brown's Baptist social, Jake Snyder, Hobart Case and his magic lantern, Ed Costello, Mandu Lade, Mrs Alvord, Mrs. Krafft, Mr. Hubbs, Julia Sanborn, Fremont School, Will Nota, Chancey Button, Dr. Curtis. Nettie also mentions places including: Cicero, Hartsville, Kirkville, Sylvan Beach, Hartville, Green Lake +++. Of particular interest and very… Read More

FLORENCE, NAPLES, DRESDEN, BERLIN, NORWAY,. Good+. 1886. On offer is a super original 1886 manuscript travel diary handwritten by Mr. B.B. Le Tall an Englishman and an important railway engineer and surveyor [we list separately his travels to the Levant and a Railroad engineering journal of his work in Australia] writes a superbly detailed and comprehensive book of his travels to Italy, Switzerland, Tyrol, Dolomites, Riviera, Norway, Berlin, Dresden +++. Over 300 pages Mr. Le Tall writes an unparalleled journal beginning June 1886 as he travels through Europe to study the flora and fauna of the Alps [research finds that Le Tall was a botanist and was published in later years and given the copious notes and details, this book is assuredly the foundation for his later published writings]. He returns to England and then sets off again and the reader will find that the intrepid traveler sets off again and again writing of his adventures, studies and observations through the Winter of 1889.… Read More

BAO DING CHINA PRC. Very Good. 1975. On offer is an exceptional, historically significant manuscript relic of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution being a diary handwritten by Xi Tao Fang started during his enlistment in the People's Liberation Army from 1975 to 1978. Xi Tao records and details his life in the military camp, impressions of the army and the strong encouragement by others: from his recruitment officer to the guards that he should "learn from Comrade Lei Feng" a person characterized and praised by Mao as selfless and modest who was devoted to the Communist Party. The slogan was often used in nationwide propaganda. The People's Liberation Army decided to grant him a probationary membership to the Communist Party. After three years, he agreed to become discharged and return to the place where he grew up, named Bao Ding, and was assigned to work at the local petroleum plant. He comments on the positive impacts of the years in the army-strenuous requirements,… Read More

BEDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM. Good. 1900. On offer is a very interesting and unusual volume - a handwritten book of cordial, wine cocktail and beer recipes from circa 1900 from a very old, established Chemist firm in the UK. The BBC Good Food Guide calls cordials 'capturing the taste of summer' but whether it's capturing a taste or securing a winter's supply, this book has it. The book is about 7 inches by 4 1/2 inched and contains 190 pages. It is about 50% complete. The recipes are generally quite legible and understandable. Taylor, Brawn & Flood Co. Ltd were Chemists in Bedford, UK, about 60 miles north of London. The firm was established in 1780 and continued until 1984. This handwritten recipe book dates likely from the inter-war years - there is a letter enclosed, dated May 20m 1943. They manufactured many different types of compounds and chemicals, including soft drinks and cordials. It is quite likely that this recipe book was used in the manufacture of their… Read More

HIALEAH FLORIDA MIAMI-DADE COUNTY FL USA. Good. 1929. On offer is an interesting, original 1929 manuscript diary handwritten by Evelyn M. Taylor of Hialeah Florida as stated in embossed gilt stamp then "Worthy Matron, 1929. Hialeah Chapter No. 153, O. E. S." denoting her achievement to the highest position in her chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Our Worthy Matron who was born about 1900 and was married to Henry Taylor uses a five year diary as a page-a-day book and does a super job as a diarist with less than a dozen days without entries and even a casual reader cannot fail to note that Evelyn's life revolves around the OES and her family. Here are some snippets: 1929 "January 1st - 3rd, My officers were appointed and our instillation is to be on my Birthday for which I am very proud. Anna to preside during instillation…. Sister Angie Jameson Mauk acting as Marshall. Sister Dora Reynolds as Chaplain and Sister Mabel Ramey as organist. I thank them… Read More

Britain. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1800. Non-Book. On offer are two autograph letters signed: 1) Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 4to. Dated "Stanford Rivers, Monday morning, [no year]." A friendly letter, making a visiting arrangement. 2) Autograph letter signed. Three pages, 4to. Dated "Amen Corner" [February, 1835] [with one page of draft response from the recipient on fourth page. ] Concerning the steeling of a legal matter. Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor. In 1825 he settled at Stanford Rivers, about two miles from Ongar, in a rambling old-fashioned farmhouse. Taylor was interested in mechanical devices and inventions, and he had workshop that he fitted up at Stanford Rivers. Early in life he invented a beer-tap (patented 20 November 1824) which came into wide use, and he designed a machine for engraving on copper (pat. 12248, 21 August 1848). Originally trained as an artist, Isaac Taylor at… Read More

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND and DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 1816. On offer is an fascinating original letter sent from Thomas Taylor, a well known privateer in Baltimore during the Spanish American wars of independence in Spanish America. The letter was sent to a Mr. Steven Badlam, Esq., of Dorchester, Massachusetts, dated “July 12, 1816” and signed “your humble servant.” It is a short account of three ships that had sunk north of Cape Ann in Massachusetts, containing treasure thought to be his, but instead taken by seemingly one of his men in his own ship. The letter states, in broken and misspelled English, that the “after sunk the vessels the Prize Master Man” has gone and “run away with the prize from me. They were taking by one of my crusers...a schooner of six guns.” Taylor is requesting any information about the man so that he can recapture the prize. This letter is a fascinating relic of a time, and a profession, long forgotten, but one that had a profound impact… Read More

DUMFRIES ONTARIO GALT GUELP BRANTFORD UPPER CANADA. Good+. 1847. On offer is a super pre-Confederation manuscript relic of south western Upper Canada economy, finance, business and enterprise being an 1847 through to 1921 farm ledger handwritten by Thomas Taylor Turnbull a farmer in Dumfries, Ontario, Canada. The Ledger spans a long time period with entries beginning in 1847 and ending in 1921. The fep is hand stamped 'Lesslie Brothers Toronto' and within the circle of the stamp in tiny precise handwriting the book is dated '1847 Thomas Taylor Turnbull Dumfries'. Turnbull records his expenditures, purchases, repairs, all the names of his workers, who owes him and who he owes. The ledger is much more than a simple record of his farm business, it reveals his lifestyle, dozens of names, employees work records, names of people he pays for products and services, and how he measures his monetary work life in shillings, cords and bushels, what he grew, where he sold his goods, his… Read More

BRIDPORT, DORSET, SOUTHWEST ENGLAND, UK. Good+. 1940. On offer is an exceptional document of World War 2 history. This is a diary and log book of a teacher at a school in Dorset, in Southwest England. Beginning in July 1940, the book details what the author endures while the terror and destruction of the German Blitzkrieg and attempts to continue on with life and with the teaching of the children at the St. Mary’s Primary School in the town of Bridport. The diary recounts the letters sent and received, the concerned parents who visited their children, the outings to doctor, dentists, and more for the students all alongside entries that speak of emergency preparations, Air Raids and people killed and wounded in the Blitzkrieg. The war keeps the author’s life in significant disarray, and the entries reflect the many ways in which the children and their parents coped with War. The book is also filled with reports of the actions of the children, eg. lying, hitting each other, the… Read More

New York NY: ADAMS PRESS PRINT. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. On offer is a very good edition of the book "HIGHER MAGIC - Magic for the Artist", by Oscar S. Teale an architect, friend of Houdini, President of Society of American Magicians. Published by Adams Press Print, 240 Broadway, New York, New York 1920, [1920]. Rarely available this copy is signed and inscribed on the first fly leaf by Oscar S Teale to William E. Locke, Aug 4 1920. Teale has also handwritten "Serial No. 83". The chapters in this book pertain to bizarre magic (including séance work). All items are concerned with visual, physical manifestations. Publisher's original card wrapped covers in brick red cloth, gilt title and lettering to spine, gilt lettering and gilt design to front [drawn by the author which represents Hermes as the Patron God of the Arts and Crafts Mysterious - as stated in the book]. All page edges gilt, wine colored end papers. Approx. 8.25 x 5.25 in. Contains 492 pages… Read More

BOMBAY INDIA, BRITISH EAST INDIA, LEEDS, ENGLAND. Good. 1860. On offer are three [3] letters from a noted but oft forgotten astronomer, engineer, photographic pioneer and scientist from Leeds, England, Washington Teasdale. The letters are from the years 1860, 1864, and 1865 and cover a time in which Teasdale had taken up a post in India working on the development of the first railways linking Bombay with other cities, a major engineering project initiated by Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson of the East India Railway in British India. The first letter, written in March of 1860 is addressed to “My dear Sister.” After apologizing for not writing the last week (“you cannot possibly imagine how difficult it is to write sometimes in this country and my omissions are always quite a distressing time”) he goes into a terrifying incident that happened recently “...how my Gents escaped total destruction is quite a miracle for the flames appeared to have been 50 to 60 feet… Read More

LIEPZIG, 1718. On offer is a super relic of Christian Doctrine being a 1718 original 4 page manuscript letter handwritten by author and theologian Romanus Teller [1703-1750] pastor at Leipzig, and afterwards became professor of theology in the University. He was father of the very famous theologian Wilhelm Abraham Teller. This 8 x 6.5 inch Latin letter, signed by Teller, is written to another well known Lutheran Theologian, Johann Christian Biel and the title suggest Teller is offering a formal clarification on points of Doctrine. General light soiling from age but overall G+.. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Latin.

TENNESSEE NEW CALEDONIA GUADALCANAL SOUTH PACIFIC. Very Good+. 1947. On offer is a sensational relic of World War II being a photographic diary with accompanying typescript journal commentary by an unidentified soldier from Tennessee. The Marine did a brilliant job putting together a handmade diary illustrated with two groups of photographs [the kind you might have gotten in the PX during the War]. Our sense is that the author has either returned to the area or hasn't yet left the arena of the War but soon after the War our author begins this charming retelling of experiences both good and terrible in the South Pacific. He uses twenty-five photographs and then details and stories relating to the people he was with or the scenes depicted in the photos. It is heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time. The soldier does not tell us his name but he makes references to being from Tennessee. He writes of taking a ship to New Caledonia and of people he worked with and situations he… Read More

MONTREAL CANADA NEW YORK NY USA. Very Good. 1933. Cloth. On offer is an archive of three [3] composition notebooks and a letter, documenting two men, John Terreault and Ray Johnson [who appears to be the inspired writer of the two], who canoe from Montreal to New York and back in 1933. 111 pages, with all pages full with writing. Included is a letter from Ray Johnson to Helen (Cotes). The letter is 8 pages full and is written after the canoe trip. Ray met Helen in Little Falls, NY during the canoe trip back from New York. They continued to correspond and eventually got married and moved to Pickle Lake Canada while Ray worked in the Pickle Creek Gold Mine for awhile. They eventually moved to Carthage, NY and then to Manlius, NY. These books are a charming relic of the Depression era and a bit of Americana of a time never to be repeated. VG.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; MONTREAL, CANADIANA, TRAVEL, CANOE, PORTAGE, OVERLAND, ADVENTURE, PRE WORLD WAR II, DEPRESSION ERA,… Read More

NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT CT. Good+. 1837. Leather. On offer is an 1837 Manuscript Friendship Book Autograph Album owned by Edmund Terry of Yale College as evidenced by the handwritten inscription "Belonging to Edmund Terry Yale-College. July 3rd 1837." on the fep. Approximately 120 pages with sentiments and signatures on over 90 pages including: Jos. Darling Hull, New Haven; Wm. Russell, Stratford Conn.; George B. Morse "of the unprecedented class of 37. Remember Judge Dagget"; Geo. Duffield Jr.; Geo. T. Spencer Deep River Conn.; Wm. Maxwell Evarts Boston (1818-1901) U.S. lawyer & statesman, went to England during the Civil War in an effort to halt, if possible the building and equipping of Confederate navy vessels...U.S. Senator from New York, Attorney General in Andrew Johnson's cabinet, President Hayes' Secretary of State (DAB); W.S. Scarborough Brooklyn Conn.; Walter G. Hatch New York; A.B. Robeson Walpole N.H.; James D. Whelpley New Haven; George Wm. Cooke… Read More

London England, 1890. On offer is a charming, original manuscript letter undated though assuredly circa 1890s handwritten and boldly signed by Norwegian artist, Frits Thaulow. Sent from the Princes Hotel in London to a Mr. Edwin Davies [as mentioned in the body of the letter] Mr. Thaulow confirms his desire to meet and review the gentleman's collection. Collectors and historians of the artist will recognize that autograph and manuscript items in his hand are extraordinarily rare [at this writing we can find nothing else online]. BIO NOTES: Frits Thaulow (20 October 1847 - 5 November 1906) was a Norwegian impressionist painter. Frits Thaulow was a leading Norwegian landscape painter in the naturalistic 1880's and was from around 1889 also a familiar and admired figure in the European art world. Johan Frederik Thaulow was born in Christiania, the son of the wealthy chemist, Harald Thaulow (1815-1881) and Nicoline ("Nina") Louise Munch (1821-1894). Thaulow was educated at the Academy of… Read More

Bourges, France. Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Ephemera. On offer is a printed pastoral letter about the education of young children, written by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Bourges, Jean-Joseph Marchal. The letter is titled lEducation des Petits Enfants et Mandement Pour le SaintTemps de Careme de l'An de Grace 1887 (The Education of Small Children and the Mandata for theholy season of Lent in the Year of Grace 1887). Pastoral letters are open letters written to clergy and often to all members of the church (as this one was) in a particular jurisdiction. Such letters were frequently sent out at particular times of the year, coinciding with ecclesiastical seasons, such as Lent or Christmas. In this particular case, it was sent out as part of the preparations for Lent. As the title suggest, this Letter concerned the education of children. Two excerpts from the letter follow: L'enfant meme quand il a ete regenere par la baptisme ne se developee pas et ne devient points un homme… Read More

France. Good+. 1671. Manuscript. Referred to as "Folio 36" this ancient document details all the names owing seigniorial dues owed to the Baronnie of Digione in 1671. It is stamped in Dijon and both have a notation requiring copies to Antoine also known as "Canault au Choumoy".; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, FRANCE, SEIGNIORIAL, DIJON, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, DIARIES, JOURNALS, LOGS, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG; Signed by Autograph .