Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

c. 1750 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL ITALIAN MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT: EPITOME PATOLOGIE

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

c. 1800 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TREATISE AND NOTES ON HERALDRY, COATS OF ARM AND EUROPEAN ROYAL HOUSES INCLUDES A RECIPE AND PROCESS FOR JAPANESE VARNISH AND LACQUER

c1780s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF COMPLEX GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICS HANDWRITTEN IN FRENCH BY AN ADVANCED STUDENT WITH 100 PAGES OF HUNDREDS OF EQUATIONS, GRAPHS AND FORMULAE

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

c1790 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH COVENANT OF FAITH AND STATEMENT OF MISSION

c1807 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A NEAR OBSESSIVE MAN RECORDING THE STATE OF ENGLAND AND A CENSUS OF HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HOUSING IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND

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

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

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

1854 Composition Book by a Direct Descendent of Iowa Pioneer Hardin Nowlin, a Wise 16-Year-Old Who Was Ahead-of-His-Time and Died at Age 17

1929-1933 Heartrending Journal of a Pennsylvania Woman Suffering the Impacts of a Failed Marriage During The Great Depression

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

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 - 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

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

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

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

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

C1900s ORIGINAL GROUP of 15 HANDWRITTEN SPANISH-LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPTS of "THE PROCLAMATION of LIBERTY and the UNPARDONABLE SIN" by a REBEL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGIAN and PREACHER

C1900s SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMAGE and DETAILED COMPILATION of ESSAYS, REVIEWS, PLAYBILLS, EXTRACTS and NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the 18TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHT and ACTOR DAVID GARRICK

c1904 THREE (3) ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN FIELD BOOKS OF THE EXTENSIVE, DETAILED AND PLANNED WORK REQUIRED TO REBUILD THE TOWN OF ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON AFTER IT HAD BURNT TO THE GROUND A YEAR EARLIER

c1905 SUPERB, EXHAUSTIVE, ORIGINAL FOUR [4] VOLUME SET OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS FILLED WITH SHIP'S LORE, SAILOR'S LINGO AND ALL MANNER OF SAILING WISDOM GARNERED FROM OVER 400 YEARS OF BRITISH NAVY EXPERIENCE

c1910 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY POLICE WORK BEING A HANDWRITTEN MUG SHOT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH MURDERERS, ARMED ROBBERS, KIDNAPPERS AND ESCAPED FELONS AND MUCH MORE

c1910 - 1920s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AND HAND DRAWN GERMAN ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK, CONTAINING DETAILED INFORMATION ON A HUGE AMOUNT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TOPICS AND REPLETE WITH DOZENS OF EXPERTLY HAND DRAWN DIAGRAMS, FIGURES, AND CHARTS

c1915 - 1919 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT STUDY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN OCCULT PRACTICES, AMULETS, FOLK REMEDIES AND CURES

c1915 ORIGINAL GROUP OF DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE MILITARY SERVICE OF A LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 5TH BATTALION OF THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 2ND BRIGADE A.K.A "TUXFORD'S DANDIES", WHO WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, AND SPENT OVER A YEAR AT...

c1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT REPORT ON THE NOTORIOUS 1914 BATTLE OF LE CATEAU HANDWRITTEN BY A BRITISH LIEUTENANT COLONEL ON ROYAL EMBOSSED LETTERSHEETS

c1915 ORIGINAL WWI BRITISH ROYAL NAVY DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED VOLUNTEER RESERVE SIGNALMAN

c1915 SUPER SCRAPBOOK AND RELIC OF EARLY 2OTH CENTURY WAR MACHINES: ONE MAN'S HOMAGE TO THE MARRIAGE OF COMBUSTIBLE ENGINES AND WORLD WAR I MACHINE WARFARE INCLUDING A 4 MONTH DIARY OF A FAMOUS MOTORCYCLE RACER AND DESPATCH RIDER

c1917 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I NOTEBOOK DETAILING THE NEVER ENDING WORK OF A SHIP'S ENGINEER

c1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF ANATOMY NOTES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN STUDYING AT THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT OXFORD OHIO

c1927 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES OF A TRIP TO HOLLAND THAT WOULD LATER BE PUBLISHED: THE FLAVOR OF HOLLAND BY AN ACCOMPLISHED CHILDREN'S AUTHOR, BIOGRAPHER AND TRAVEL WRITER

c1930-40s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 'JUNGVOLK DIARY' FILLED WITH HITLER'S NAZI VERSION OF PRE-HISTORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE ARYAN RACE

c1930s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED MANUSCRIPT SPEECHES OF RENOWNED QUAKER PHYSICIAN AND CHILDREN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

c1930s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL EXHAUSTIVE HANDWRITTEN BOOK ON THE STUDIES OF AN AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGY STUDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, LEARNING FROM SOME OF THE GREATEST MEDICAL MINDS OF THE 20th CENTURY

c1930s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN YOUNG GIRL'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOOK OF POETRY, ESSAYS, STORIES AND A LITTLE ARITHMETIC