Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

c1940 ANNOTATED COPY OF 'ORACLES OF NOSTRADAMUS' WITH HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED NOTES BY FAMED OCCULTIST AND SPIRITUALIST AND DISCIPLE OF THE ENIGMATIC PRINCE RAKOCKZY, COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN

c1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK DETAILING EXTENSIVE NOTES TAKEN ON THE GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY AND THE PALISADES, COMPLETE WITH EXTENSIVE DRAWINGS, DIAGRAMS, FIGURES AND DOZENS OF PHOTOGRAPHS

c1940s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF A FASCINATING AND ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY TAKEN BY FOUR PROPER ENGLISHMEN AND THEIR ETHIOPIAN SERVANTS THROUGH EAST AFRICA BY LAND, SEA AND AIR

c1946 ORIGINAL RETROSPECTIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING A NOTED AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD AND THEN HIS PART IN THE BATTLE FOR VIMY RIDGE

c1947 PHOTOGRAPHIC AND TYPESCRIPT JOURNAL OF A MARINE FROM TENNESSEE - SUPER RELIC OF WWII BY A CHARMING NEAR POETIC SURVIVOR OF GUADALCANAL

c1950s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL, SKETCHBOOK AND PERSONAL DIARY OF NOTED ARTIST, POET, AUTHOR AND SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST INCLUDING TWO [2] SELF PORTRAITS

c1950s ORIGINAL GROUP OF THREE [3] PORTFOLIOS DETAILING THE SUCCESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ONE OF ASIA'S MOST RENOWNED INFRASTRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FIRMS

c1950s ORIGINAL, CHARMING BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR OF SIR WILFRED GRENFELL AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

c1960s - 1970s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 3 PAGE MEMOIR HANDWRITTEN BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR WHO DOES A SHORT, SIGNIFICANT STINT HELPING BUILD HOWARD HUGHES' AVIATION DREAM THE SPRUCE GOOSE

c1960s - 1980s REFERENCE LIBRARIAN'S MASSIVE SCRAPBOOK HOMAGE AND TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY WRITERS: AGATHA CHRISTIE

c1960s LARGE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PAGES ALONGSIDE THE ORIGINAL RESEARCH THAT INSPIRED THEM BY ONE OF ENGLANDS MOST NOTED AND CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST, ANTHROPOLOGIST AND AUTHOR

c1970s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN BOOKS PROVIDING UNIQUE CULTURAL INSIGHT TO THE PEOPLE'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION

c1970s ORIGINAL CHINESE MANUSCRIPT HOMEWORK BOOK SHOWING ONE STUDENT'S EFFORTS TO LEARN ENGLISH GIVING INSIGHT INTO MAO'S EDUCATIONAL AGENDA

c1990s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OUTLINE BY NOTED AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORIAN AND CURATOR

c1990s ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT BIOGRAPHY AND ANALYSIS OF HORROR AUTHOR SHIRLEY JACKSON BY CRITIC, NOVELIST AND EXPERT OF THE HORROR GENRE S.T. JOSHI

c2000s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 'HOW-TO' HANDWRITTEN BY A SELF CONFESSED SNEAK THIEF, CAT BURGLAR AND PROFESSIONAL BREAK AND ENTER CRIMINAL

DOSSIER SOLANGE: exemplaire no. 2

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

Early 1900s Original Scrapbook Compiled by a Young Man Who Would Become One of Americas Leading Theologians

EARLY 1900s PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF IDEAS, QUOTES AND STORIES HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED AUTHOR, PLAYWRIGHT AND ESSAYIST

EARLY 20TH CENTURY RELIC OF A TOWN AND FAMILY BEING A SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, LETTERS, AND DRAWINGS PERTAINING TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GILBERT FAMILY IN CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

Enlightening Documentation of Pediatric Medicine in Early 1900s USA

Exceptional 1943-1945 Original Handwritten Autograph Book Compiled by a Canadian World War II Soldier in the Italian Campaign As the Allies Advanced North

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

FASCINATING AND INTRICATELY DETAILED ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG INFANTRYMAN, ENDURING INTENSE TRAINING AND WORKING HIS WAY UP THE RANKS IN THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT AT THE VERY END OF WORLD WAR ONE

Handwritten 1941 Diary of a Wife and Mother in Pre-WWII California

Handwritten Depression-Era Vermont Diary by Ethel LeBer

HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT HISTORICAL RETELLING OF THE 'INVASION BARBARES'- THE INVASION OF THE BARBARIANS IN A BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC HAND

HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT STUDY OF FLORENTINE HISTORY AND ITALIAN ART IN 2 STUNNING LEATHER VOLUMES 1907-1908

1936-40 Manuscript Diary of a Rutland, Vermont Grandmother Who is the Wife of the Town’s Creamery Owner

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

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 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

LATE 1800s TO EARLY 1930s SCRAPBOOK HONORING FAMED COMPOSERS AND TALENTED MUSICIANS: EDWARD MCDOWELL, WILLIAM MASON, JOSEF HOFFMAN AND TERESA CARRENO

LATE 1980s, EARLY 1990s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS ALONGSIDE A HISTORY OF THE BUILDINGS AND LANDMARKS OF A NOTED AND STORIED BRITISH ISLE

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

Manuscript of a Chinese Refugee's Memoir of Life in Communist China

MASSIVE 1898 - 1907 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TEN YEAR DIARY OF IMPORTANT ATTORNEY AND CITIZEN OF SCRANTON PA

MID & LATE 1800s ORIGINAL GROUP OF SIX [6] DIARIES OF SISTERS COMING OF AGE IN TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN AMERICA, ONE THE BACKDROP OF THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE OTHER AN ERA OF DEPRESSION AND DISEASE

MULTIPLE TRIP TRAVEL DIARY INCLUDING THE 1933 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR, NIAGARA FALLS AND NEW ENGLAND