Manuscripts and Archives
A Comprehensive Alpine Herbarium
Caviezel, Michael. Flora des Berninagebietes. Pontresina, Switzerland: M. Caviezel, ca. 1880. 151 leaves, 37cm. Cover bright, contents sound, but spin...
view details
$0
View details
$385
A letter from Tahitian missionary George Pritchard to his daughter (1841)
Pritchard, George (1796-1883). ALS to his daughter, Elizabeth ("Eliza") Sarah Pritchard, Surrey Chapel House, 17 November 1841. 2 p. A short let...
view details
$385
View details
$25,000
A richly detailed diary of Gold Rush California 1850-1852
Pangborn, David Knapp (1803-1874). Manuscript journal, 1850-1852, 1862-1864. 256 pp.; about 6½ x 8½ in. Bound in original calf journal with contrastin...
view details
$25,000
View details
$1,450
An 1850s album amicorum from St. Mary’s Academy and Notre Dame
Byerley, Josephine (1835 – 1896). Souvenir Album. South Bend, Indiana, 1852 – 1857. 7 x 8 in. At least 45 pages of holograph poetry, remembrances, and...
view details
$1,450
View details
$0
An Italian Manuscript on Physics, with Discussion of Benjamin Franklin
BARTALONI, Domenico (1726-1798). Physicae tam Generalis, quam Particularis. Tractatus decem hoc uno Comprehensio Volumine. A Dominico Bartaloni elabor...
view details
$0
View details
$17,750
An unrecorded early manuscript of the Irish political poem Tuireamh na hEireann
Ó Conaill, Seán. Tuireamh na hEireann. Manuscript copy, incomplete, 18th or early 19th century. 13 leaves, written on both sides comprising 26 pages o...
view details
$17,750
View details
$4,000
Arthur Conan Doyle defends his spiritualist beliefs
DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Lengthy ALS (4 pp.) to Reverend George Bainton, 3 July 1919, signed in full, with original envelope addressed in Doyl...
view details
$4,000
View details
$0
Carl Van Vechten and Henriette Metcalf: 40 Years of Friendship
Van Vechten, Carl (1880-1964). A small collection of material sent to Henriette McCrea Metcalf, comprising two signed books, one ALS, one TLS, and an...
view details
$0
View details
$24,500
Clarence John Blake and the Bell Telephone: An Archive
Blake, Clarence John (1843-1919). Archive, 1835-1914, including correspondence, notebooks, and biographical drafts; with material relating to Blake’...
view details
$24,500
View details
$475
Commonplace book from a Lowell Bookstore, 1839
[Franklin Bookstore, Lowell] Walter B. Foster and Charles S. Gregg. Excerpta Selectissima. "Franklin Bookstore April 1st 1839 Lowell Mass." Manuscript...
view details
$475
View details
$35,000
Correspondence of Oscar Slater, the Jewish prisoner championed by Arthur Conan Doyle
SLATER, Oscar [Oscar Leschziner] (1872-1948). A rich and substantial archive of 110 letters, telegrams and cards sent between 1927 and 1930 to Leslie ...
view details
$35,000
View details
$0
Francis Golffing: A Bennington College Archive, 1938-1997
Golffing, Francis (1910-2012). Personal papers of the Austrian-American poet, essayist, teacher, and translator, dating from 1938 to 1997. Includes hi...
view details
$0
View details