18th Century Manuscripts

c1780s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON VARIOUS ASTRONOMY TOPICS HANDWRITTEN IN A FINE CALLIGRAPHIC HAND

c1790s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN INVENTORY OF HERALDIC TITLES RELATING TO CHARLES FRANCOIS MASSON, BARON OF LONGERY

CIRCA LATE 18TH CENTURY PRECIS ON MENSTRATION AND MICROBES FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS

CIRCA LATE 1700s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COPY: A LETTER WRITTEN BY OUR BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST AND FOUND UNDER A GREAT STONE SIXTY FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS CRUSIFIXION

CIRCA LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY BEAUTIFULLY HANDWRITTEN RECIPE FOR GLUE SPECIFICALLY TO REPAIR PORCELAIN

EARLY 18TH CENTURY HANDWRITTEN REPORT DETAILING THE VARIOUS ASSEMBLIES OF THE FRENCH CATHOLIC REGULARS (REGULIERS) DURING THE 17th CENTURY BEGINNING SOON AFTER THE DEATH OF CLEMENT VIII

EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST HAND TEXT OF MEXICAN HISTORY 1794 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK

FROM THE FILE OF FAMED BIBLIOPHILE SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS: 1753 HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO ANTOINE LE CAMUS, DOCTOR OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, PARIS REGARDING HIS LATEST WRITINGS & LA MEDECINE DE L'ESPRIT

c. 1750 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL ITALIAN MILITARY MANUSCRIPT BOOK: OFFICER TRAINEE'S VADE MECUM

c. 1750 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL ITALIAN MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT: EPITOME PATOLOGIE

c. 1740s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT, ORIGINAL LIMP VELLUM HANDWRITTEN OFFICER'S VADE MECUM IN A FINE CALLIGRAPHIC HAND FRENCH MILITARY THEORY AND PRACTICE: TRAITE DE FORTIFICATION

c. 1730 - 1750s ORIGINAL 500+ PP MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF ANCIENT MONASTIC [?] ALCHEMY, CHEMISTRY, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL LORE

ARCHIVE OF TWO (2) HANDWRITTEN HOLOGRAPH LETTERS GIVING OPPOSING TESTIMONIES REGARDING THE SAME INCIDENT FROM THE SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS COLLECTION

La Géographie Sacrée et Les Monuments de L'histoire Sainte

1793 - YEAR II - FRENCH REVOLUTION DOCUMENT CALLING UP CITIZEN TRAVERSIGNY TO DUTY IN THE NATIONAL GUARD

1759 SUPER, ORIGINAL COLONIAL ERA HAND WRITTEN LYRIC COMPOSITION 'THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC' THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S VICTORY OVER FRANCE AND MAY VERY WELL HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1786 ORIGINAL NAIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A VERY ACTIVE FARMER, TIMBERMAN AND JURY MAN ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND SOUND

1788 An Essay Towards A System of Mineralogy, Translated From The Original Swedish, 2nd Edition, Printed for Charles Dilly WITH HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTES

1797 TWO [2] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS FROM LOVING PARENTS WHO HAVE JUST RELOCATED TO WEST VIRGINIA, TO THEIR DAUGHTER FROM WHOM THEY HAVE NOT HEARD FROM IN NUMEROUS YEARS

1795 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN STUDY NOTEBOOK OF GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY, SURVEYING AND MORE COMPLEX MATHEMATICS FROM A YOUNG MAN STUDYING AT AMERICA’S MOST RESPECTED UNIVERSITY

1759 RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY UNIQUE HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL AND SUBSEQUENT PUNISHMENT OF AN AMERICAN DRAFT DODGER, UNWILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE BRITISH IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

1751 ORIGINAL, SUPERB MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY AND NAVIGATIONAL WISDOM AT THE THEN APEX OF SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE DURING THE AGE OF SAIL

1788 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DUAL PURPOSE BOOK: CIPHERING AND COMPLEX MATHEMATICS WITH NAUTICAL AND NAVIGATIONAL EXERCISES AND OBSERVATIONS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ADVANCED SCHOLAR BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED

1750 SUPERB ORIGINAL FRENCH ROMAN CATHOLIC BOOK OF PIETY, PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS HANDWRITTEN IN A STUNNING CALLIGRAPHIC HAND

1796 - 1801 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF THE NOTED BRITISH 4th BATTALION ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY - OF WHICH PARTS WERE LATER PUBLISHED AS 'VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE'

1796 SUPER, ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ERA STAMPLESS LETTER BETWEEN HOROLOGISTS AT THE APEX OF TIME KEEPING HISTORY IN DECIMAL CALENDAR AND CLOCKS FRANCE

1792 ORIGINAL HUNTERDON NEW JERSEY FINANCIAL 'COLLECTION' NOTICE

1786 New York Girl’s Cyphering Book Documenting Early Republic Education & Practical Economics in the Pioneering New Amsterdam Bergen Family

1798 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF RELIGIOUS MANIFESTATION BEING A HANDWRITTEN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG GIRL'S VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HER TRIP TO HELL WITH JESUS

1784 ORIGINAL POST REVOLUTIONARY COMPLEX MATHEMATICS AND CYPHER BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED CITIZEN OF ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE

1763 Pennsylvania Plantation Rental Agreement Between a Shopkeeper and Millwright, Both Enslavers and Land Owners, With Significant Primary Source Genealogical Data for 18th-Century Philadelphia and Chester Counties

1750 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SEAMAN'S 420pp+ HANDWRITTEN VADE MECUM AND REFERENCE MANUAL FILLED WITH CHARTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES AND HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF DETAILED INFORMATION FOR CIRCUMNAVIGATING THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD

1783 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPT OF A PROSECUTORIAL INTERROGATION REGARDING THE THEFT OF MONEY

1765 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ADDRESS THE HIERARCHY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HANDWRITTEN BY THE SECRETARY OF HIS ROYAL MAJESTY LOUIS XV

1759 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT FRENCH CATHOLIC RELIC: THE TRAGEDY OF SAINT ALEXIS [SAINT ALEXIS TRAGEDIE or L'ILLUSTRE OLYMPIE]: Tragédie copiée par moy Jean Baratgin habitant du lieu de Bourisp le 24 May mil Sept Cent cinquante neuf 1759

1795 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER RELATING TO THE IMPRISONMENT AND RELEASE OF A 68 YEAR OLD MAN FROM THE INFAMOUS AND NOTORIOUS PRISON AND LUNATIC ASYLUM 'THE BICETRE'

1838 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF THE FRENCH BLOCKADE OF MEXICO'S PORTS, THE BOMBARDMENT OF SAN JUAN DE ULUA, THE CAPTURE OF THE MEXICAN NAVY AND THE RETURN FROM RETIREMENT OF GENERAL SANTA ANNA: 'THE PASTRY WAR'

1772 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED COLONEL, FUTURE BRIGADIER GENERAL OF THE FRENCH ARMY WHO WILL LOSE HIS HEAD TO THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL IN 1793

1749 SUPERB GOTHIC GERMAN LETTER OF MANUMISSION LIBERATING GEORG WILHELM SCHENK FROM THE SERVITUDE OF HIS MASTER JOHANN HEINRICH BRODER

1771 BAS QUEBEC DOCUMENT: Inventaire de la Commonauté des biens qui etat entre pour Genevieve Brisson and Joseph Mailliot