c.1930s. Unique. The original designs are speculated to be prototype designs for funerary urns, cremation receptacles, illustrated by "Kuhnle." All of the illustrations are handcolored, despite part of the collection is original drawings and the other are hand touched chromolithographic prints. No tracings of a designer, company, or individual owner.....
Price: $2,500.00
New England: c. 18th century [1968-1980]. Unique. Loose sheets. The collection features 61 various grave rubbings from early New England graveyards collected by one man between 1968-1980. Some with handwritten pencil annotations including person, family name and location. Stone rubbing, in particular head or gravestone rubbing is historically adopted to.....
Price: $6,500.00
![Item #12132 [Isaac] Sanderson Family Account Book no.1, Salem Witch Trials descendent (MSS](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12132a.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727805372)
Whateley, MA: 1801-1830. Unique. Hardcover. Upon in-depth research, the Sanderson family ledger is a complex example of a successful business beginning with the migration of families from Essex and Middlesex countries after the late 17th century Salem/Danvers witch trials. Many families migrated West after the trials, due to loss of.....
Price: $6,500.00
nd [circa 1920s]. Hardcover. 4 cards demonstrating 18 positions. Quite simple yet elegant pen sketches. Touch of soiling, else bright; portfolio shows light shelf/edge wear, else clean. Brown suede leather portfolio with mounted paper flaps; yellow cardstock sheets. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
Brooklyn, NY: 1889 to 1897. Unique. Hardcover. Remarkable Original Handwritten Record of Brooklyn Firefighting at the end of the 19th c., for New York Hook & Ladder Co. #5, Pacific Street near 6th Ave. The three volumes cover the dates: 1) Aug 8, 1889-May 31, 1890, 394 pages; 2) May.....
Price: $2,750.00
np [Boston]: nd [circa late 1800]. Unique. Hardcover. Statements from the prior owner about the the history, treatment, and nature of the collection: Creation of the present album. It was clear the original album would have to be dismantled It was largely disband, the paper was brittle and chipped and.....
Price: $1,200.00
1946-2014. Collection of Sherlock Holmes enthusiast related and miscellaneous “Sherlockiana” materials, 1946-2014. The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia website describes “Sherlockiana” as: People interested in Sherlock Holmes and who enjoy sharing their interest with others are baptized sherlockians or holmesians. Their purpose is to keep green the memory of the detective.....
Price: $950.00
Leicester, MA: 1847. Unique. 'Hades in 1847' is a colloquy by Samuel Wheelock Fiske (1828-1864), later author of 'Mr. Dunne Brown's Experience in the Army,' member of the Connecticut 14th Vol Infy, KIA 1864. This letter is addressed and inscribed to Francis Andrew March (1825-1905), an American philologist and educator.....
Price: $250.00
[Durham, United Kingdom]: c.1760s. Unique. Reverend William Gilpin (1724– 804) was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque style of landscape painting. In 1768, Gilpin published his popular "Essay on Prints" where he defined the picturesque.....
Price: $450.00
Ittenheim, Bas-Rhine, France: Mss, c.1823-1824. Unique. Hardcover. François-Henri Haerter (or Franz Heinrich Härter in German), born in Strasbourg on August 1, 1797 and died in the same city on August 5, 1874, is a Lutheran pastor, founder of works, notably the Deaconesses of Strasbourg. He played a leading role in.....
Price: $1,250.00
![Item #13941 The Black Hole of Guyana: The Untold Story of the Jonestown Masacre [Typescript]....](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13941.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789137683)
Washington DC: Jonestown Research Project, 1985. Reprint. Photocopied from a hand-corrected early draft, in contemporary grey fold- er. Separated into two paperclipped packets: the text itself, and the sources / notes. Both are somewhat oddly printed, with a few pages printed on versos of incorrect rectos, though the text appears.....
Price: $165.00
Los Angeles, CA: 1976-2000s. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. The ephemera collection contains unique and scarce items created, owned, collected and gifted to Jenny Lens, with the bulk of the dates between 1975-1985. The collection includes newsclippings and (some) serials (magazines, fanzines, and newspapers) published between 1975-2004. The serials.....
Price: $650.00
Rio de Janiero, Brazil: mss, 1848, October 7th. Unique. Letter addressed to Chas. Dering, Sag Harbor, New York. suspected to be Charles T. Dering (1789-1859) of Sag Harbor, New York, was a prominent whale ship owner and whaling agent. The letter discusses the difficulties of importing coffee, "breadstuffs" i.e. flour.....
Price: $350.00
New York: 1917-1919. Unique MSS. Cloth. George J. McCormack (1887-1974) was an American astrologer who first became interested in astrology in 1906, becoming one of the leading figures in American astrology. He had, as well, a fulltime career in the engineering department of the New York Bell Telephone Company. "Gee-Jay,".....
Price: $5,500.00
Personal Journal, 1890s. Hardcover. Alfred Carter Needham was a well known Cape Ann, MA area artist and Yale graduate. Needham was a member of the Copley Society; Rockport Art Assoc.; Gloucester North Shore A.A. He exhibited at the PAFA. Born in 1872, this journal appears to cover his college years.....
Price: $1,250.00
England: nd [circa 1860s]. Unique. Hardcover. Unusual Victorian family scrapbook, c.1850-70 c. 100 photographic images, most original, some cut from magazines, mounted onto thick paper with hand-drawn illustrations and captions in pen and ink. A stunning nineteenth-century photograph album, heightened with exceptional coloured illustrations of birds, snakes, lizards, insects and.....
Price: $5,500.00