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Photograph, 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches (larger mount, 6 ¾ x 8 5/8 inches), picturing four well-dressed card players at a parlor table, three women and an older man, one of the women playing a card, as the others wait a turn. Mary Stuart Williams Welch (1862-1940), a Connecticut resident was perhaps wintering in Thomasville. Very good.

PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT (illustrator). Illuminated Manuscript Leaf in Arabic. [No place:, no date, ca. early 1800s]. Original full-page water color drawing on manuscript page (ie. manuscript above and below and along fore-edge of painting and on verso of leaf). Single leaf in Arabic on paper (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 290 x 215 mm.). Image area ( 11 x 7 inches; 280 x 180 mm). With three rows of Arabic on recto, above the image and four rows of Arabic below the image. Manuscript along fore-edge of recto and on verso of the leaf as well. Image ruled in black, gilt and blue. A polychromatic image heightened in gilt. Two small pieces of tape along top edge, not affecting painting. Matted, framed and glazed. Over all a very nice, beautiful painting. Painting depicts a few scenes of leisure, with men drinking and dancing. Two men sit near a tent with a horse. HBS 65730. $450.

Folio (21.5 cm wide x 31.5 cm high). 242 pages of an alphabetized Ledger of which 48 pages are full of manuscript-entries and numerous other pages have been used to tip-in letters which Roberts received from clients. With numerous further letters, postcards loosely inserted. Original Hardcover. Binding in rough but still firm condition with stronger signs of external wear. Fantastic example of a Day-to-Day Order-Book of an irish Traditional Boat Builder, active in the war-years of 1939 and 1940. Captain R.E. Roberts Boat-building Business, being a direct relative of R.R.Roberts ("The Sirius"), is a great example of traditional succession in irish craftsmanship. The Day-book gives us insight into the wishes of clients, pricing, quotes and reason of orders and how on the one hand irish Traditional Boat-Building was revered abroad and also greatly supported and sought after by the local irish population. Roberts' Boat-Building-company also had contracts from overseas and the correspondence reflects the hard times and imminent outbreak of war, which plays a role in the worries of Robert's clients and must have had an enormous impact on his company. Client W.R.ffrench Mullen speaks in a letter from April 15th, 1939 of the fear of not being able to come and meet his boatbuilder: "I am (unless Europe boils up before in the next forty-eight hours) coming over on about a fortnights leave, leaving London Saturday next." In another letter from May 2nd, 1939, ffrench Mullen hopes "the boat is progressing well" and that the company of D.O'Brien Corkery & Co. can deliver it in their lorry to Kenmare. Roberts notes about this client in his day-book an important message to one of his builders: "My client says he knows nothing about sailing - would you suggest that the area of Sails be in the Small Side for Safety - the boat is for use on the Kenmare River". Roberts notes about another client, Mrs. Howell of Fountaintown, who ordered a 11ft boat for children on Sunday 4-9-38 for Easter 1939 - Quoted 22 per ft = £12 / Roberts notes about "Miss Hill from Monkstown (daughter of Lt.Hill Architect) ordered 7-1-39 Centre Board Boat, Spirit Sail (brown), oars, rudder, Name on transome "YOLDASH", varnished top sides painted underneath - agreed price £16 - To be ready for Easter Holidays - Took Boat away 7-4-39 - pleased". / More details on other orders below. Further interesting orders of Boats, correspondence and details in manuscript-drafts about his clients by Roberts include: 1. Correspondence from P.O'Keefe, Ardnagreine, Bantry, County Cork to Captain R.E. Roberts, "Simla", Passage West, County Cork - [P.O'Keefe was Managing Director of G.W.Biggs & Co. Ltd. - Corn Millers, Merchants and Manufacturers in Bantry, County Cork] The O'Keefe correspondence includes three letters (two MLS (Manuscript Letter signed) and one typed letter) between the 25th of January, 1939 and the 31st of March, 1939. Roberts notes his draft-answer on one of the letters regarding an inquiry by O'Keefe for Roberts' 8-foot Dinghy. The drafts in the Day-book are of particular interest because Roberts gets into detail in his answering letter from January 30th, 1939: "I note you are thinking of getting a punt specially built - to fit upside down on Cabin with moveable thurant to allow for Skylight - I appreciate your difficulty regarding obtaining height of boom until Mast is stepped - would it not be possible to get this from the mark of deck on Mast from the wedges or Canvas Collar to gooseneck. Since seeing you I have got three orders for centre board Sailing Boats - two for this harbour & one for Sneem ." 2. Postcard - Order from J.Kelleher, Ringabella, Carrigaline: "Have measured the boat mentioned to you about a week ago & find it is 10 ft. long. The same will do now I expect to get a good serviceable boat. Please let me know when ready. I would like to get it soon but if you can't procure the best of timber at once, I will wait until then - J.Kelleher" (c.1939). 3. Letter from M. O'Connor - Rossdohan, Tahilla, Killarney, County Kerry - Monday 10th, 1938: "Dear Sir, Pardon my delay in writing - I saw Mrs. Prettymans punt she is very nice, but is too fine for me. I want a strong built smooth sided seaworthy boat, best timber, galvanises fastening. If this do[sic] not convey sufficient knowledge you can suggest a boat you think would suit and state price roughly." The list goes on and on and includes interesting orders from other clients. The Day-Book includes notes on proposed repairs on Wolfe's Yacht "Marion" (purchased from W.Johnson in Kinsale) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oppikofer / 1894 - 1915 circa / (Texas) [Surveyor's manuscript notebooks: Trinity River Survey, below Dallas to Magnolia, locks & dams, sketch maps, cross sections, railroad bridges] (Safe 3, 107488) 12mo. Six volumes. Contemporary sheep bound surveyor's notebooks (one stamped inside front cover: Clarke & Courts, Blank Book Manufacturers, Galveston). Bindings rubbed, with scuffing to leather. The 1894-95 volume with broken hinges. Internally clean. Texas Surveyor's Manuscript Notebooks with Sketches Six volumes of field notebooks with surveyor's sketch maps, cross sections, bridges, for a Trinity River Survey some ten miles below Dallas. The survey was apparently related to ongoing efforts to improve Trinity River navigation in the 1890s, specifically to open up a harbor connection for transporting cotton. Trinity River Canalization Projects The Trinity River Navigation Company was established in 1891 to promote the cause of navigation on the Trinity. The company constructed a temporary dam thirteen miles south of Dallas at McCommas Bluff. The company's efforts helped achieve the River and Harbor Act of June 13, 1902 which appropriated $125,000 for the construction of locks and dams and for the removal of obstructions to navigation. WWII interrupted the work, The debate over a proposed channelization of the river continued until 1973, when a bond proposal that would turn the Trinity into a barge canal connecting Dallas with the Gulf of Mexico was defeated by voters in the counties along the river. Yet after 1921, not one dollar of federal funds was spent on any project solely designed to canalize the Trinity. Millions were spent on the river, but these projects were designed primarily for flood control with navigation of secondary importance. Even today, navigation of the Trinity is still discussed, but over 150 years after the first steamboat made the trip upstream to Dallas, the Trinity is very much the same river today as it was then - Mitchell. The notebooks almost certainly relate to the above efforts, either funded by a private company or contracted by the government. They include sketches and details of some of the fourteen bridges that crossed Trinity between Dallas and Magnolia, as well as the series of locks and dams. F. Oppikofer. Trinity River Survey. F. Oppikofer, Asst. Eng. Commerce and Obstructions to Navigation. Nov: Dec: 1894 & Jan. 1895 Number and description of Shoals, Trinity River from Dallas to Magnolia. Nov. to Dec. 1894 and Jan. 1895 Trinity River Cross Sections, Soundings & Bridges. Wilmer bridge near Dallas. Trinity Navigation Company. W. C. Neel, surveyor. Lock & Dam No. 7, Trinity River, Texas. Daily Log Book. Lock & Dam No. 2, Trinity River, Texas. Daily Log Book No. 4. Trinity River Survey, General Index, Dallas, Sta. 1081. 1912-16. Journal Lock & Dam Survey 24-34 1915. Book.

Two vols. Oblong folio. 1st. 13.25 x 10.25 in.; 12.25 x 10 in. [80; 80 pp (unpaginated)], both with thick black paper stock, with 359 tipped-in photos, ranging in size from 1.75 x 2 in. up to 8 x 10 in, many of them clearly marked in pencil, and/or ink on versos, some with signatures in lower white margin a images, nearly all on glossy photo stock (a couple hand-coloured, many with minor creasing, some damage to corners, a couple with tears along the upper fore-edge), still nearly all of the images are still quite clear and distinct; 4 leaf typescript on onion paper, 24.5 x 36 in. blueprint folded for radio receiving station; 6 different course certifications for Peterson in handling oil field and natural gas pumping equipment. First album is contemporary ribbed cloth post-binder, tied at gutter margin with black silk cord (some bumping, wear, bumping to corners, fraying); second padded leather album, rounded corners gilt lettering front cover, slots in leaves for postcards (minor bumping head & foot of spine, edgewear); still VG- set. These remarkable photo albums furnish an indispensable visual record of the history of American aviation just after World War I at Kelly Field, TX, and Chanute Field, IL. Almond Orwald Peterson (1901-1977), son of Norwegian immigrants, was born in Twin Valley, MN, moved with his family later to Billings and Scranton, ND, enlisted in the Army after High School, trained as a radio operator, and airplane mechanic, worked as a mechanic after his service in North Dakota, and then Texas, and finally worked in the oil fields surrounding Denver City, TX. Kelly Field in Texas was one of the Army Air Service's primary fields for training and deploying pilots during World War I. After the massive demobilization at the end of the War, the Kelly Field and Chanute Field in Illinois served as essential training grounds for Army pilots to exhibit their skills, holding air races, balloon races, and training technicians. All technical schools were joined with the mechanics school at Chanute Field in 1922, and were re-designated the Air Corps Technical School by 1924. These excellent photographs not only include detailed shots of the barracks, the radio towers, the equipment rooms, servicemen, and more, but also encompass a vast array of the aircraft which flew in and out of these fields, along with many aerial shots. There are photos of German Fokker triplanes, French Spads, Curtiss DH-4s, many of the Barling Bomber, the Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1, an experimental long-range three-wing strategic bomber which proved massively unwieldy because it was too underpowered with its six engines, a colour-tinted image of the USS Los Angeles Zeppelin, and several other lighter-than-air balloons, and airships as well. In addition, there are many photographs of plane crashes showing the high attrition and danger of flying during the 1920s, often in World War I surplus aircraft, and even a few images of funerals and caskets for lost comrades.

[title continued]: from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to the Earl of ****. The fourth edition.Engraved frontispiece. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), 96-pages. Contemporary calf; rubbed, backstrip chipped, upper cover detached. Numerous contemporary inscriptions and doodles, on endpapers and recto of frontispiece one reading "A. Brocklehurst his Book the Gift of Ann Brocklehurst his Sister 1767" partially offset on last leaf of text. Some browning.

Calligraphic titlepage in a handpainted watarcolour frame; 5 sheets dedication ''A LA REYNA DEL CIELO MARIA SSA. EN SU SOLEDAD DOLOROSA SA MADRE DEL AMOR HERMOSO, y delicias de la celestial Syon, aunque max grande de penas y amanguras de la gracia, que en el dura, pero o lorioso campe de la soledad .''; 1 blank sheet; 2 sheets ''TABLA DE LAS SANTAS ANACORETAS CONTENIDAS EN ESTE SEGUNDO TOMO DEL DESIERTO DELICIOSO''; 2 sheets 'PROTESTA . . .' etc.; 334* sheets Description of the Saints. - Vellum binding of the period over 4 raised bands with manuscript title at spine and possibly younger frangments of ribbon clasps; 4to.(ca. 24 x 19 x 6 cm; ca. 1,47 kg.). *** [FRÜHLINGSVERKAUF-Endspurt, noch bis Montag den 25.05.2026 / Ultimate SPRING-SALE, only until Monday May 25th 2026: um über 45% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 45%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 850,-] --- AUTHENTIC EXTENSIVE AND WELL READABLE SPANISH MID-17th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT ON THE LIVES AND WORK OF 90 FEMALE SAINTS FROM THE FIRST CENTURY UNTIL SHORT BEFORE THE PERIOD OF THE MANUSCRIPTS CREATION, MANY CONTAINING DATES FROM THEIR LIVES AND NAMES OF RELATED PERSONS; apparently collected from different sources. - */**) Sheets 192-197 with 'VIDA de Reyna solitaria' and the beginning of 'VIDA de la famosa Ramera Margarita Antioquena despues Sa. PELAGIA Penitente Solitaria' are lose, the end of 'Sa PELAGIA' is missing; sheets 197-203 are missing, sheets 204-207 (begins in the middle of 'VIDA De STA. WITBURGA Virgen solitario') are loose again. --- BINDING SOMEWHAT USED AND SPOTTY, first and last blank sheets only fragmentarily present; A VERY GOOD AND UNIQUE PIECE. - CONTINUATION OF THE SAINT'S LIST: 'VIDA De Sa. YDA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la gloriosa penitente MARIA Sobrina del Santo Ermitario ABRAHAN'; 'VIDA De Sa. OTILIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Santa Virgen Solitaria EUFROSINA'; 'VIDAS De las Virgines Solitarias HERUNDO REDENTA ROMULA'; 'VIDA De Sa. MONEGUNDE Inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. ITA Inclusa'; 'VIDA de la Venerable CELSA Inclusa Madre de S. Grato Obispo Cabilonense'; 'VIDA De MARIA TARSENSE de Tamera penitente solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. BENEDICTA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la insigne Vorgen Solitaria MARINA'; 'VIDA De Sa. SYRIA Virgen Soloitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. PAPULA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. UDEGEBA Virgen inclusa Maestra de las Virgenes Otilio Walpurga'; 'VIDA De Sa. LANDRADA Virgens Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. AUREA Virgen inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. AUREA Virgen, Solitaria inclusa en el Monasterio de S. Millan de Suso'; 'VIDA De Sa. POTAMIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Santa Abadessa SARA'; 'VIDA De las Santas Hermanas Solitarias Virgenesy Martyres'; 'VIDA De la gloriosa Pentitente Solitaria Sa. THEODORA ALEXandrina'; 'VIDA De Sa. CESARIA Virgen Anacoreta'; 'VIDA De la insigne pecadora y penitente Solitaria CLARA AGOLANCIA'; 'VIDA De Sa. COLUMBA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. POMPOSA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA De la Venerable Solitaria CATHARINA Romana llamada Hermosa'; 'VIDA De Sa CASLDA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable PORFIRIA Penitente Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una penitente Solitaria Anonima'; 'VIDA De la Santa Virgen y Martyr Solitaria FLABIA DOMITILA'; 'VIDA De las Venerables Penitentes inclusas COMATE Y NICOSA'; 'VIDA De Sa. EUGENIA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA Sa. ULFIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA Des Sa. AURELIA Virgen inlusa'; 'VIDA de Reyna solitaria'; 'VIDA de la famosa Ramera Margarita Antioquena despues Sa. PELAGIA Penitente Solitaria'*; 'VIDA De STA. WITBURGA Virgen solitario'**'; 'VIDA De Sa. EUFRASIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. DOROTHEA Alexandrina Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. MELANIA Matrona Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA de las Santas MARANA CIRA Solitarias'; 'VIDA De Sa. DOMNINA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable FABIOLA Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. SYNCLETICA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable Virgen COLETA Isigne Solitaria y Reformadora'; 'VIDA de las Venerables Virgines Solitarias AMATA THAOR y otra Anonima'; 'VIDA De Sa. ENGRACIA Anacoreta Virgen y Martyr'; 'VIDA De Sa. ANTHUSA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una Virgen Sa. Jezosolimitana Solitaria'; 'VIDA NOTICIA De una Anacoreta incognita'; 'VIDA ADMIRABLE VIDA De MALCO y su Concautiva Solitarios'; 'VIDA De TABITA Virgen del Monasterio Tabenesiota y Anacoreta'; 'VIDA De dos Solitarias incognitas'; 'VIDA De Sa. PAULA Romana Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. MACTHILDE inclusa'; 'VIDA De Sa. SARA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De SILVIA RUFINA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. ISABEL Madre de S. Juan Bautista Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. HERENA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. GEORGIA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. GUDULA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. ALFREDA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable ANASTASIA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable DAMIANA inclusa'; 'VIDA de la Venerable GALA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable IVETA Leodiense Solitaria'; 'VIDA De MARIA Muger de Eucharisto Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable NEPHALIA GNOSA Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. PETEONA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable Virgen PIAMUN Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable REYNOFLA Solitaria'; 'VIDA de ROMANA Virgen Solitaria'; 'VIDA De Sa. REGULA Virgen y Martyr Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Venerable SOPHRONIA Jaxentina ilustre Solitaria'; 'VIDA de la Madre de San Herveo Solitaria'; 'VIDA de una insigne Anacoreta incognita'; 'VIDA de las hermanas de Amonio Anacoretas'.

Four pages, folio, fold marks,sl. aged, text clear and complete. Title: " A General Statement of Barracks to be erected of those which have been executed, what remains for consideration, with a State of the number of Regiments of Cavalry and Troops during the last Peace, and a Distribution of Barracks for the same. First page: Listing under categories "A. Cavalry Barracks in the first Distribution" and "B. Barracks ordered subsequent thereto" [places (towns) and numbers of troops] e.g. Sheffield 186 and Manchester 372]. Second page: Listing of "Barracks that have been erected or are building" and "Barracks ordered but postponed" with numbers of Cavalry and Infantry. Third page: "Numbers of Regiments of Cavalry stationed in Great Britain at the last Peace upon which the original Distribution was made" AND "Distribution of the 15 Regiments of Cavalry in the Barracks" (columns Regiments; No. of Troops; Places [.] Remarks including "to be Erected". See partial Image (limited by scanner).

Having moved from Salem to Belfast in 1807, Read quickly realized the need for a school, for the needs of the community and his children, launching his effort to build something from the ground up; instrumental in its establishment, Read served on the schools Board of Trustees until his death. Old fold lines to most, some other light storage wear and soiling, but a very good lot. (1) READ. Retained autograph copies of 1808 letters to Joseph Story (1779-1845; Salem judge and state legislator, U.S, Supreme Court justice, author of important American legal works) and Thomas Whittier, a state legislator for then Belfast region, seeking help on a petition for a charter and grant of land to establish "a contemplated Academy in Belfast," local citizens having already raised "upwards of $4000" for the project. The letter to Story: 4to, 2-pages, approximately 250 words, signed by Read; Story was named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1812, serving until his death. The letter to Whittier, on an integral leaf: 4to 1-page, approximately 175 words, in Read's hand, but unsigned. (2) READ. Extracts from Secretary's Records [caption title]. 4-page manuscript, printing selections from records relating to the construction of the academy, 1808-1814. (3) READ. An Inventory of the Property belonging to the Trustees of Belfast Academy Jany. 1st 1809 [caption title to a manuscript "Waste-Book" recording the school's inventory and accounting for building the school and other operating expenses, 1808-1810]. Small 4to (25 cm). (17) pp. Plain drab wrappers. (4) (READ) Trustees meeting, fund raising, and accounting reports, land grants, requests to local officials and state legislators, promises to send children to the school, etc., relating to the building and operating of the Belfast Academy, 1808-1832. 22 manuscript documents, 31 pages total, approximately 2500 words. 4to and folio, almost all in the hand of Nathan Read, several signed by him. Accompanied by seven small receipts, 1808, 1810, 1826, and 1828 (4). For the file of 32 documents,

This volume is vellum-bound, the paper watermarked for C. HARRIS 1846, the stationer's label for FREDERICK WALLER, 49 Fleet Street, London, the front free end-paper with Gosse's name written as in plate 4 of FREEMAN & WERTHEIMER Bibliography, the front board with label 'INFUSORIA.4.', the rear board with 'Journal' in script. A pencil note in Richard Freeman's hand, signed by him, reads : 'Given to me on my sixtieth birthday. 1 April 1975.' *The major portion of the Infusoria comprises detailed descriptions of some 75 species of Rotifer, each entry dated, with reference to a figure, the location found [many from Hampstead Heath, Berger's Lily Pond, the fountains of Trafalgar Square, Kensington Palace]. Part 2 is primarily a list of approx. 31 species, most of which are ascribed GOSSE, some with the postscript 'n.sp.' [new species?]. SEE - FREEMAN and WERTHEIMER Bibliography, 1980, #169-172 (1886-1889) - 'The rotifers had early attracted Gosse's attention and he had published seventeen papers on them, the first in 1850. He had also accumulated a large amount of unpublished descriptions and drawings.' F & W also refer to Gosse's original manuscripts : 'One of Gosse's notebooks on rotifers which was used in his articles in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society and then in this book, is in the Zoological Library of the British Museum (Natural History); another, entitled 'Drawings of Rotifera; by Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. Sept. 1886' is in the University of Toronto (see Nos. 399-401). A large bound folio volume entitled 'The original drawings of the Rotifera (Clifton, 1886)' at the Royal Society (MS 132) contains mostly original drawings by Hudson, some copies by him of Gosse's drawings, and some original ones by Gosse himself.' The rarity of this volume speaks for itself ! The ALS from Fred Dystan - 'Dear Gosse I am glad you are better, which I suppose I may assume from your writing. I think it is great humbug that you won't let me name my own beast. I use the word in a Pickwickian sense but I see no impropriety in your working on a beast I had already named. However I must leave it with you, as I cannot undertake to publish it myself.'. There is, in addition, a second letter from this correspondent, 7 sides, dated Oct.7th.1856, dealing with details of the Rotiferae.

Condition: Good +. / (illustrator). On offer are a group of three [3] original, detailed manuscript diaries handwritten by the City Engineer of what was known as the Chicago of New England. The diaries were written in 1876, 1878 and 1880. In 1876, George Kimball was the City Engineer of the city of Somerville, MA. Just north of Boston, Somerville was the scene of significant events in the Revolutionary War. Now, it was going through a rapid industrialization that would see its population mushroom from 15,000 to 90,000. The meatpacking industry was so large that Somerville was dubbed 'The Chicago of New England'. Brick-making was the second largest industry. All of this growth put significant strains on the city's infrastructure and Kimball played a very important role in seeing projects advance. He works tirelessly and his diary reflects the many meetings he attended or participated in: At stable at 7. Then to Cutter St. CB City Hall at 8AM Located drinking fountain at Davis Sq at 9am at bridge with [ ] giving grades for wall for 10-11 then to Packer St 3d at the work on drinking fountain Union Sq Dinner at City Hall PM Bd of Health at 4:15 Heywood Hartness called At City Hall to meet Cmtee on Bridges at 8 PM no quorum [Aug 21] A stable at 7:15 Dane St sewer City Hall at 7:45 Vine St. Sewer at Dane & Vine 8-9 to City Hall to Summit St to Bow St met with LL Towes and Dr. White and talked about nuisance on Towes land. City Hall Vine St. 11:30 Dane St noon Dinner At City Hall in PM cal. no. Bricks on W Lane sewer At 5PM visited Mr. Towes land on Prospect St with Dr. White to Newton to see Aunt [ ] Supper At 7:30 met Dr. White & Mr. Towes at Dr. Whites house. We agreed to put off the case until Monday provided he would fire up immediately [Sept 20] At [ ] St sewer Linden St catch basin visited Allen St. With [ ] Bennett at 9:30 to locate CB City Hall Central St sewer Dinner City Hall in PM At Central St sewer at 3 Meeting of Mayor and Aldermen in evening also Sewer Cmtee [Nov 12] He makes reference to dropping by the FRR offices [Sept 16, 1876]. FRR or the Fitchburg Railroad ran right through the city - it's main line is now part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. Other businesses are mentioned as well such as Marine Britannic, A Parker's Stone Factory and others. There are rarely any references to personal matters. He notes: . Home in evening worked on closet [Dec 6] Went to City Hall in AM waiting in lot saw Father, Mother and Daniel Dinner our case was reached about 3:30 Mother came [Dec 11] The 4 1/2 months recorded in his diary gives and excellent picture of the work he is doing in 1876 and people he is interacting with as they work to build the infrastructure of this fast-growing city. In 1879, the pace continues unabated: To City hall at 1 P.M. State House also called on Ald. Gallinan. [ ] on 3 P.M. train on L.R.R. Arranging matters with Assistants, etc. [Jan 2, 1879] In early January, he journey to 'the West'. He noted stops in Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago before reaching his destination in Galesburg, IL. In Galesburg, he visited several churches including the "African Church". His entry for Han 13th, is quite brief: At Galesburg. Having good time. [Jan 13, 1879] Returning home, he is immediately immersed in the demands of his job: At work on Health Report all day. Meeting of Board of Health. Leave Committee at 7 P.M. Board of Ald at 7:30. Feb 3, 1879] At City Hall at 8. Writing Annual Report. . [Feb 5, 1879] At stable at 7. George St. Sewer at 7:30. City Hall at 8 A.M. To Semple's Nursery with Mayor. Called on Dennis O'Connel left word that contract had been awarded for Park Ave. And Chandler St. sewer E Cambridge. City Hall home to Bell School looking over drainage Ald. Dodge and Mr. Page. . Dinner At City Hall at 2. To cutters land Bdg and Arlington fixing grade of street City Hall at 4:30 Home all evening. [Apr 29, 1879] 1880 saw no change in his pace: City Hall at 8:15. Making a Lithograph and finishing the Rules and Regulations. Dinn. Manuscript.

Condition: Good. On offer is a super, original group of two [2] 1961 diaries and journals of a noted aircraft carrier's Mediterranean shakedown cruise handwritten by Jim Dickinson, RDSN, [a radar man] aboard the storied USS Shangri - La. Commissioned in 1944, the Attack Carrier Shangri-La participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II, earning two battle stars. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s, and redesignated as an attack carrier (CVA). She operated in both the Pacific and Atlantic/Mediterranean for several years, and late in her career was redesignated as an anti-submarine carrier (CVS). She earned three battle stars for service in the Vietnam War. Between 1961 and 1970, Shangri-La alternated between deployments to the Mediterranean and operations in the western Atlantic, out of Mayport. She sailed east for her first tour of duty with the 6th Fleet on 2 February 1961, and this is the handwritten account of her first, we believe, Mediterranean tour. The 6 by 3.5 inch diaries are each approximately 146 pages, the first book being full, second perhaps half are a real below deck 'swabbie' account, much on drunken nights, fights and police chases, a lot of shakedown blues, lousy chow, heads that don't work and the like, and a modicum of writing about actual duties by a personable US Navy Serviceman. Overall G. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Manuscript.

Accompanied by a cabinet portrait photo of Eichberg (6 x 4 inches on a slightly larger card, Baldwin Coolidge, Boston), signed by him verso, a photogravure portrait of Eichberg (9 ¾ x 7 ½ platemark on a much larger sheet; Benjamin Kimball Photo), and an autograph note from Eichberg on his Boston Conservatory of Music letterhead, signed by him July 2, 1888, to an autograph collector forwarding the Doctor of Alcantara piece. Eichberg helped found and was the first director of the Boston Conservatory and was then longtime superintendent of music in the Boston public schools. All very good. For the four pieces,

Scale 8 inches to the mile. Pen and ink with watercolour on silk, 58 x 39 cm rolled. Very good.

Folio ledger, containing approx. 190pp., including index, of more than 1500 family names describing the heraldic bearings of each, with numerous inserts tipped and pasted in, several original drawings of bearings and crests; all in a worn but sound ruled ledger bound in canvas with leather edges.

1 page. 6-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches. 1 page. 6-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches. Split at fold, chip on lower right with loss.

Also 4 small snapshots taken around 1962 ( I assume they are of Ralph Mounce & his wife(?) but there is no indentification given other than printed date Ralph Mounce may be a nephew of William Mounce, son of his brother Captain George Mounce. Please email us if you are interested in a detailed description A large lot (50+) of handwritten receipts & notes on various scraps of paper; as well as deeds & essays, accounts all handwritten and very legible.

Mounted albumen photograph on contemporary card mount. Manuscript caption beneath the image. Large albumen photograph by George Barnard. Barnard had worked as a photographer documenting the Civil War from about 1861, initially working for Mathew Brady and Edward Anthony, and then, from December 1863, for the Topographical Branch of the Department of Engineers, Army of the Cumberland, based in Nashville. Under the direction of Captain of Engineers Orlando M. Poe, Barnard ran the army's photographic operations. Bernard continued to work for the Union army until June 1865, recording a number of well-known locations, and taking part in Sherman's campaign, behind the front lines, taking photographs in his capacity as an official army photographer. In 1866, Barnard would publish his monumental Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. "[It] is a remarkable work of great symbolic, historic, and artistic power. It is a result of a complex interweaving of Barnard's personal vision, nineteenth-century pictorial conventions, and larger ideas about war and the American landscape. The album was the most ambitious project of Barnard's career, and has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of photography" (Davis p.170). Indeed, the work has been called the first great landscape photobook. The above image would appear as an illustration within Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, though the present image was printed from the original glass plate negative prior to the publication of Barnard's book. This earlier printing displays a slightly greater plate area and without the images of clouds superimposed into the sky. Keith F. Davis. George N. Barnard Photographer of Sherman's Campaign (Kansas City, 1990).

Condition: Good+. On offer is a super, original manuscript relic of early 20th Century and World War I era United States Naval history of particular significance to those researchers and historians who delight in seeing the rise of a common sailor to the lofty heights of commander. The author enlisted as a seaman in 1901 and worked his way up to rank of Commander and Captain, without attending Naval Academy, a self made man, who, would also during his illustrious Navy career be discharged and reenlist the next day without ever getting off the ship! Students of naval history know that it is a rare ascension of any man who serves below decks to become the god-like presence of a ship's captain and such is the case of William Arthur Fulkerson, [there is no indication of ownership in the book proper it came directly from an archive of his papers] whose naval career begins thusly: "Enlisted March 20th, 1901, at Chicago, Illinois and was sent to the Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island; was transferred from Training Station to the Training Ship Essex, Aug 22nd, 1901. Transferred from the U. S. S. Essex on April 5th, 1902 at Norfolk, Virginia, and reported on board the U. S. S. Minneapolis at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 22nd, 1902. Transferred from the U. S. S. Minneapolis to the U. S. S. Columbia, July 19th, 1902, at New York." This 80+ page log book meticulously details every ship, every port, with arrival and departure time, every day they anchored; how long they remained in port; and the day and time of departure. He served on the U.S.S. Essex; U.S.S. Minneapolis; U.S.S. Dolphin; U.S.S. Columbia; U.S.S. Lancaster; U.S.S. Wabash; Ordered to temporary duty in 1913 in North Dakota; Ordered to Receiving Ship Norfolk, Virginia; U.S.S. Franklin; U.S.S. Richmond; U.S.S. Maine; U.S.S. Iowa; U.S.S. Indiana; U.S.S. Hannibal; and on Sept. 16th, 1916, he reported for duty at the Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. August 15, 1917 - Appointed Ensign U.S.N. February 1, 1918. Appointed Lieutenant Commander. August 15, 1918 Appointed Lieutenant. "November 9, 1918, detached duty Navy Yard at Portsmouth NH, and reported to Commander Naval Station, New London, Conn in connection with the Anti Submarine Squadron, Nov. 11, 1918. On November 16, 1919 Fulkerson was to Command/Captain the U.S.S. Eagle Boat #12. [This was changed to PE-1, or 2, 3, 4, in 1920.] While most of the writings are factual there are many narrative entries of auspicious events such as: While on the U.S.S. Dolphin, October 22, 1901, "Took Crown Prince of Siam to West Point and Return." "January 11, 1903. While in port at La Guaira, Venezuela, we got Minister Bowen and took him to the U.S." "In 1905, at Oyster Bay, Long Island we received Japanese Envoys." Etc. The 7 1/2 x 9 inches ledger style book is overall G+. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Manuscript.

Most of the letters are addressed to Olive Berry, the wife of Spicer Berry, a prominent businessman in Corning. Tying the threads together are ten letters to Olive from a niece, sister to one of the soldiers, keeping her abreast of all the family's activities. A poignant view of the effects of war on a northern family. All folded for mailing, but very good. For the archive of 31 items, (1) Barnaby, Nathan. Two autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1862 and 1863, one on patriotic letterhead, describing war experiences in the Virginia theater. 7 pages, approximately 400 words; accompanied by two mailing envelopes. Barnaby was Olive Berry's nephew. (2) Barnaby, Fannie. Ten autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1862 - 1865, all full of family news including mentions of Nathan Barnaby's experiences from enlistment through an account of his mortal wound at the Battle of Franklin in December, 1864, and of other family members active in the war and settling the west. 38 pages, approximately 5000 words; accompanied by seven mailing envelopes. Barnaby was Olive Berry's niece. (3) Berry, Richard W. Two autograph letters to Olive Berry, 1863 and 1864, describing war experiences in the western theater, the second written from Vicksburg. 5 pages, approximately 500 words; accompanied by two mailing envelopes. Berry was Olive Berry's son. (4) (Berry, Richard W.) Shiloh, Apr. 7th & 8th 1862 [caption title]. [In the field?, 1862]. Manuscript poem describing the battle, 17 stanzas of six lines each, written on five sheets of octavo line paper, signed "R.W.B." 'No cheer is heard at battle's close, / But all is still - a deathlike spell / Of silence - broods oer friends and foes." Folded (some beaks at folds); somewhat soiled). (5) Breese, Niles D. Four autograph letters to sister Hattie Breese, February - July, 1864, describing war experiences in the eastern theater, one written from New Bern, North Carolina. 14 pages, approximately 1250 words; accompanied by a mailing envelope and Breese's "will" appointing a friend to accept money on his behalf. The Breese's were Spicer Berry's sister's children. (6) A partly printed document, completed in manuscript 7 July 1865, and signed by Clara Barton (in a secretarial hand) informing Hattie Breese of her brother's death while a prisoner-of-war at Salisbury Prison Camp in North Carolina; with a three page autograph letter to Hattie Breese from an official offering details of Niles Breese's demise. (7) Breese, N.H. Two autograph letters to Niles Breese from his mother, March, 1864, offering concern for his well-being. 8 pages, approximately 1500 words; with photographs of Niles, Hattie, and the Breese family, a genealogical chart recording births, deaths, and marriages in the family, and a piece of Hattie's handiwork, "for her wedding clothes." (8) Letters from Charles Gillett to Lucy Berry, Olive's daughter, January 1865, and from George Meade to Olive Berry, June 1862, each with news of war experiences, either personal of other family members; accompanied by a mailing envelope and a carte-de-visite of Gillett in his uniform as a Union sergeant.