19th Century Manuscripts

1801 French White Wine Contract for Trade at La Rochelle Seaport

ORIGINAL 1862 - 1865 IMPORTANT CIVIL WAR JOURNAL DETAILING THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE 34TH MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY REGIMENT VOLUNTEER TO THE STEPS OF APPOMATTOX AND THE SURRENDER OF LEE

LATE 1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LEDGER BOOK OF A GENERAL STORE IN TUCKERSMITH, ONTARIO KEEPING DETAILED AND METICULOUS NOTES ON PRICES, PAYMENTS AND BALANCES OVER THE COURSE OF ALMOST 20 YEARS

ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT COPY OF THE 1845 RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF PHARMACY, KEPT BY ONE OF ITS MOST NOTED AND TALENTED MEMBERS, A GERMAN IMMIGRANT WHO MADE GOOD IN AMERICA

LATE 19th CENTURY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH CHARTS, TABLES, FORMULAE, AND NOTES RELATING TO THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FOR A SPECTACULAR RANGE OF AREAS AND TOPICS

LATE 1880s, EARLY 1890s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF OVER 400 ILLUSTRATIONS, CUT OUTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, ALL PERTAINING TO THE AUTHOR’S DEEP AND WILDLY PASSIONATE ‘MARRIAGE’ TO ALL ‘THINGS PERTAINING TO THE OCEAN’

LATE 1700s/EARLY 1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN BOOK OF MATHEMATICS RELATED TO NAVIGATIONAL AND SAILING SCIENCE, BY THE MASTER OF A SHIP GOING BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA

LATE 1700s/EARLY 1800s 500+ TOME OF VAST SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION ON THE NATURAL, PHYSICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES

ORIGINAL 1852 LONDON DIARY - THE DIARY/JOURNAL OF GEORGE BEAUFOY RN, OWNER OF BEAUFOY VINEGAR FACTORY AND VICTORIAN ERA TYCOON OF ONE OF ENGLAND'S MOST IMPORTANT COMMODITIES

Sensational 1895-1903 Original Handwritten Diary Collection Rich with Detail about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Years At Groton School from the Perspective of His Closest Friend

Original Handwritten 1874 Diary Detailing Life in a Small Frontier Town in the American West

c1825 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF MATHEMATICAL RULES, CASES, EXAMPLES, AND DIAGRAMS RELATING TO THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY AND TRIGONOMETRY IN LAND SURVEYING

c1820s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF PAINT RECIPES AND FORMULA HANDWRITTEN BY A NEW BURY ENGLAND MAN

c1830 ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LEDGERS DETAILING THE ECONOMY AND COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS OF LORD TORPHICHEN

c1790 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH COVENANT OF FAITH AND STATEMENT OF MISSION

c1800s ARCHIVE OF SEVENTY-FIVE+ [75] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, NOTES AND GENEALOGICAL AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS OF A BUSY SHIPPENSBURG PENNSYLVANIA ESTATE ATTORNEY

c1800s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NAPOLEON ERA LETTER FROM THE GENERAL OF THE RHINE ARMY TO THE COMMISSARY OF WAR OF LE HAVRE

c1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LIST DETAILING OVER 30 ENGAGEMENT AND BATTLES DURING ACTIVE SERVICE FOR NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

c1810 Manuscript Document on Surrogate Appointment Signed Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Newfoundland 

c1830 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER OF INTRODUCTION OF NEPHEW DR. CUMING KIDD

c1833 LARGE ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT ESSAYS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS AND CRITICAL DEBATE OFFERING A RARE LOOK AT THE PRE CIVIL WAR STATE OF PHILOSOPHY, EDUCATION AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE APEX OF AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

c1840s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA OF THE AMERICAN WIFE OF THE FRENCH VICE CONSUL

c1850 - 1870s ORIGINAL CHARMING VICTORIAN ERA HANDWRITTEN MEMORY BOOK OF WORLD TRAVEL AND A GRAND TOUR - AN UNUSUAL PAIRING OF FLORA AND FAUNA AND CLASSIC POETRY OF AN UNCOMMON TRIP FROM TYRE TO TORONTO

c1850 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT APOTHECARY'S BOOK OF PERSONAL, HOUSEHOLD AND FARM CURES, SALVES, RECIPES AND REMEDIES

c1850s HANDWRITTEN ALS BY EARLY METEOROLOGIST AND CLIMATOLOGIST WORKING FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE TO FAMED MAPMAKER

c1850s - 1880s ECLECTIC HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATION, GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, RECIPES, REMEDIES AND CURES, POEMS, PSALMS, SERMONS AND SONGS IN THIS MID 19TH C. TREASURE OF AMERICANA

c1850s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF FOURTEEN [14] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS REGARDING VERY EARLY MORGAN HORSE BLOODLINES AND SENSATION PHILIP ALLEN 'THE BLACK HAWK'

c1858 - 1859 ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTERS FROM MANY PREACHERS TO FUTURE CIVIL WAR ARMY CHAPLAIN AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION [ASSU]

c1860s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY A UNION SOLDIER TO HIS FATHER REVEALING HIS MOST RECENT CIVIL WARS ENCOUNTERS AND EXPERIENCES

c1860s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT MOURNING NOTE BY THE YOUNG CHILD COUSIN OF C.G. 'CHINESE' GORDON AND DOOMED FUTURE CREWMEMBER OF THE HMS CAPTAIN

c1860s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FARRIER JOURNAL AND CASTRATION LOG OF PESHAWAR BASED BRITISH ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY FARRIER WHO WOULD ONE DAY SERVE IN CANADA'S NORTH WEST REBELLION AND FOUND THE BLACK'S PHOTOGRAPHY CHAIN

c1866 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED NEW YORK DOCTOR COMPLAINING OF BEING SWINDLED DURING THE ITALIAN AUSTRIAN CONFLICT

c1870s - 1880s CHARMING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK HANDWRITTEN IN A BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC HAND DETAILING 'YE MARKS ON CHINA'

c1870s ARCHIVE OF EIGHTEEN [18] MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TYPIFYING LIFE IN THE GREAT MIDWEST

c1870s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE MAN'S TIME HUNTING, FISHING AND TRAPPING ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR

C1880s PAIR of FASCINATING, ELEGANT VICTORIAN-ERA MANUSCRIPT COOKBOOKS HANDWRITTEN by a SOON-TO-BE BRIDE from a NOTED EDINBURGH FAMILY STARTED before HER WEDDING to SIR JOHN PROSSER, WRITER to the SIGNET and a FUTURE CROWN AGENT for SCOTLAND

c1885 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LANGUAGE TABLET FILLED WITH COMPLETED LESSONS - ESSAYS, LETTERS AND STORIES

c1890s ORIGINAL,UNIQUE, MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] HANDWRITTEN BY THE NOTED NORWEGIAN POET

c1896 ORIGINAL TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT STUDY OF ADVANCED HIGHLY TECHNICAL COMPLEX MATHEMATICS BY A PRODIGY WHO WOULD DIE WITHIN THE YEAR AT THE AGE OF 23

c1895 'ETRETAT: HAMLET OF THE SETTING SUN - A NORMAN VILLAGE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS' WITH 11 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS BY BACON