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Travel and personal journal

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Description: The journal has marbled covers with leather spine and corners. The author describes several trips in the journal, the first to Ireland in the company of Lady Geary and the other trips throughout England with her family.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1830-1838.
Call number: mssHM 55607
Provenance: Purchased through Maggs from Sotheby's, Lots 288 & 289, July 21-22, 1992.
Dimensions: 19 x 12 cm :
Associated people: Dering, Edward Chomeley, (1807-1896.); Geary, Henrietta Neville, (-1870.)
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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

Manuscripts

Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.

mssHM 82902

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[Collection of prospectuses for early 19th century English books]

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Contains covers and/or title pages, some with title vignettes, and specimen pages for 7 English publications dating from 1807 to 1831. The prospectuses/dummies are bound together in marbled-paper boards with red leather spine and corners. Publishers' whose work is represented include: John Sharpe, Piccadilly; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Sample illustrations are included with some of the specimen pages.

436029

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Series of leaflets of the Kelmscott Press

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Title from spine. Twelve single leaf publication announcements by the Kelmscott Press dated from 1893 to October 1, 1896. The leaflets announce current and forthcoming publications and many utilize the three distinct Kelmscott types: Golden, Troy and Chaucer. Bound together in a volume with blank interleaves. Dates supplied for some leaflets in pencil as well as occasional notes refering to the bibliographies A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private in Great Britain and Ireland / G.S. Tomkinson and The Kelmscott press and William Morris master-craftsman / H. Halliday Sparling. The leaflets are mounted and bound in a volume with 3/4 black leather, marbled paper boards and marbled end papers.

195323

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H. N. Rose travel journal

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The majority of H. N. Rose's journal covers his work as a cook on his journey from upstate New York to Texas. Rose left upstate New York on June 12, 1860 and traveled to Texas through Missouri and Indian Territory with his father, friends, and a herd of sheep. On July 2, 1862, Rose wrote that he was back in upstate Elmira, New York. Starting on page 335 is a travelogue based on the diary entitled "Camp Life in Western Texas," which reverts to Rose's expedition and informs others of necessary preparations. The spine of the journal reads "Private Journal" and "H.N. Rose Detroit."

mssHM 83110

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James St. Aubyn journal of a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy

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A nice example of a Grand Tour journal, written throughout in a clear sloping hand, commencing on June 22, 1819. In his journal, St. Aubyn describes his four-month journey through France, Switzerland, and Italy, and his return to England. In black ink, with later printed b/w illustrations loosely inserted. Original green boards, rebacked with green paper spine. Boards a little rubbed, but generally well-preserved.

mssHM 81168

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Charles Plummer journal

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This journal is an account by Charles Plummer documenting his travels and gold mining experiences California, which took place in 1850-1851. The majority of the volume concerns the trip, which lasted from 1850, May 2 to 1851, October 1. While Plummer was digging outside Stockton, there were several instances of theft and murder in the town and the surrounding mining claims. He describes digging for gold as "very poor business." Bound leather volume. Journal entries begin in 1842; most of the early entries are financial notes, such as bills paid.

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