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  • Manuscript “Estimate Book" for an unidentified New York City contractor, dated 1867-1873
    small quarto, 84 pages plus blanks, entries written on lined paper, in ink, bound in half black leather, marbled paper covered boards, worn at tips of spine, corners and edges of boards, boards scuffed, outside hinges of binding mostly open, but boards…
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  • Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872
    12mo, 68 manuscript pages, plus blanks, and 8 pages of notes, bound in contemporary embossed leather backed flexible stiff wraps, entries written in English, in pencil, in a clear and legible hand.
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  • Collection of Correspondence and Ephemera pertaining to Judge Adelbert Canedy Fanning, of Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 1902-1923
    Manuscript archive consisting of 507 letters, 693 pages, both manuscript and typed, (without retained mailing envelopes), dated 1902-1923, the bulk of correspondence being from 1916 to 1923. Correspondence includes 161 retained copies of letters (174 pp) written by Judge Fanning; plus 346…
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  • Collection of Incoming Letters to Miss L. Adelia Martin, of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, from family and friends, 1845-1857
    41 letters, 122 manuscript pp., (9 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 December 1845 to 18 February 1857; with 17 pieces of related ephemera (calling cards, used envelopes, receipts, will, poem, etc.); Of the 41 letters, 10 are undated; and at least 33…
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  • Correspondence of Albert A. Chaplis, a.k.a. Albert Bundza, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his fiancé Ingeborg Marie Backholm, of Boylston, Massachusetts, written while he was in military service at the Medical Depot, Fort Armstrong, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1935-1937
    Group of 255 letters, 1173 pp., (250 retained mailing envelopes), dated 1935-1937, hand-written, plus 54 pieces of ephemera, in good clean legible condition. Letters written by Albert A. Chaplis to his fiancé Ingeborg “Ingee”…
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  • Group of Love Letters to Flora Temple Lash, whom he married, with sketches and related ephemera
    20 letters, 59 pages, several letters illustrated with sketches, letters dated 1922-1941, the bulk from 1923-1924, with 9 pencil and pen sketches, 17 printed and manuscript ephemeral items, including: exhibition lists, catalogs and pricelists, Christmas cards designed and printed by the artist,…
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  • Correspondence of pioneering American financial columnist, Alexander Dana Noyes, written to his family while traveling in Europe, 1884-1885
    Octavo, 35 letters, 484 manuscript pages, dated 26 October 1884 to 10 January 1885, letters mounted on stubs within a leather bound album, boards lacking, spine badly chipped, lettering on spine reads “Letters”; text block split, some leaves loose, edges of some…
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  • “Inventory of the Goods &c of Andrew Bradford Late of Philada, decd Taken the 7th Day of March 1742/3”
    folio, 10 pages, on unwatermarked 18th century paper, likely of American manufacture, formerly folded in quarters, docketed twice on final leaf. There are significant condition issues, paper browned and brittle, separated along folds with considerable loss at intersection of center fold, tears…
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  • “Arnold v. Mundy” – Contemporary, 1819, Retained Copy of One of the First Legal Actions Leading to the First Major Articulation of the Public Trust Doctrine in America
    folio, twelve pages, sewn, gathering of six folio leaves, old folds, damp-stain running, through text, especially last few leaves.
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  • Correspondence of Arthur D. Lee, of Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York to Annette “Nettie” C. Isbell, (his fiancée, later wife), and other letters of the Isbell-Lee families, 1855-1891; with Manuscript Diary (1865- 1867) of Annette "Nettie" C. Isbell, also of Westmoreland.
    Collection of 124 letters, 477 manuscript pages (no retained mailing envelopes) correspondence dated 2 August 1855 - 29 January 1891, with the bulk being from 1867-1873. With: Manuscript diary of Nettie Isbell, dated 1865-1867, small quarto, 246 pages, bound in contemporary ¼…
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