Baltimore: Automobile Register Company, 1907. xxvi,288pp., plus four folding maps. Original leatherette wrappers, gilt lettered. Light rubbing and wear. A couple of closed tears to interior leaves; a longer tear to each of the first two folding maps. Light tanning. An unrecorded and very early guidebook for touring motorists, published... More
Pittsburgh: 1836-1841. [48]pp. Large folio. Contemporary half reverse-calf and blue paper boards. Wear to corners and spine ends, boards soiled. Leaves reinforced at gutter margin with tape, some light soiling. In a clear and legible hand. This ledger records the register and pay information for approximately thirty-five men who worked... More
[South Carolina: 1862]. [1]p. Old folds, light wear and soiling. “Provision return for Captain F.M. Hills I Company, forty-fifth regiment of Penna. Vol. for six days. Commencing on the fifteenth day of July 1862, and ending on twentieth day of July 1862.” The document goes on to note that the... More
!["College Days" at Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, Penna. The Life of a Co-Ed [manuscript title]. Ethel...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB146_01.JPG?v=1546607721)
Lewisburg & New Jersey: 1929-1933. 365pp. 12mo. Original cloth, gilt with a metal clasp; closing clasp lacking. Light wear and soiling, text dampstained around the edges. Diary of Ethel Hutchins, kept during her college years at Bucknell University. Originally from the Englewood area of New Jersey, Ethel begins her diary... More
Philadelphia: 1883. Vol. I, Nos. 1-13. Each issue 8pp. Large folio. Loose issues stitched together at an early date. Light wear and soiling to outer leaves, heaviest to first leaf. Daily newspaper published by the Old Guard State Fencibles of Philadelphia during the Fair of the Infantry Battalion held at... More
![Partial Ledger Recording Barrels of Oil Extracted from a Pennsylvania Oil Field in the 1890s]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB613.JPG?v=1565781919)
[N.p., but likely Pennsylvania]: 1889-1892. [28]pp. Folio. Original black half sheep and marbled boards. Spine and corners heavily worn, boards worn. Several leaves cut away, with later French funeral notices pasted in on stubs. Ledger recording transactions for several companies and individuals extracting oil in Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1892... More