New Castle [?]: April 26, 1955. Single leaf (24 x 20.5 cm.), one leaf (text on one side only, approximately 175 words). A light and touching correspondence from an absent husband (perhaps in the military or in some sort of work camp environment) to his absent wife; a nice glimpse of mid-19th century relations. “Wesley” reassures his wife, “Mary” “We get along firstrait I am first cook and Josh is.....

Germany: [circa 1890-1915]. Octavo, (20 x14.5 cm.), 141 pages. Thumb indexed by subject. 105 pages of handwritten recipes, eighty-two of which are in a fine German script, with twenty-three pages in English in a somewhat similar hand. One hundred eighty recipes in all. Sections include Soups, Gemuse, Sleischspeisen, Fische, Braten, Wildpret, Saucen, Compots und Salate, Cremes, Puddings, L[illegible], Meat, Desserts. Recorded in a publisher’s blank recipe collection book, thumb indexed.....

[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1985]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is forced on mushroom propagation, and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....

[Switzerland or Germany: circa 1835]. Folio notebook; loose gatherings in separate, ribbon-tied boards (38 x 25 cm.). Two hundred forty original drawings, with accompanying manuscript text, on individual trimmed leaves, each mounted thematically with others of its type, with brass pins to the inside of folio double leafs. Text is in German, with some plant names also in Latin. The lot housed in the original string-tied portfolio boards, heavy green.....

Brenham; Austin, Texas: Nov. 22nd, 1861; January 28th, 1862. Single page manuscript (26 x 20 cm.), handwritten text in brown ink recto only (though some faint pencil notes to verso). The invoice is a list of goods stored in Brenham Texas, in the early part of the Civil War, apparently for the safe keeping of the owner's inventory of spirits and other items related to his tavern or bar. The.....

1950. Original watercolor (17 x 22 cm.), labeled, signed, and dated by the artist in pencil. On watercolor paper which had been mounted on a thicker card stock, now de-laminated, but in remarkably fine condition. Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960) was one of Canada's outstanding amateur naturalists. He was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through his art, Henry chose to quietly document.....

New York: G.W. Pach, Photo. 1876. Printed souvenir card, (35.5 x 22.5 cm). A triptych of original photos, pasted on a gold-printed card, advertising N. Clark's Gallery, Restaurant and Confectionery, located at the corner of Broadway and thirteenth street. The photographer, G.W. Pach was the eldest and most active of the famous Pach family of portrait photographers. His office was just a block south of Clark's, in the building now.....

[Iowa: 1952-1958]. Collection of sixty two vintage black and white or color gelatin silver photographs (individually approx. 9 x 12.5 cm.), most mounted on eight loose photo pages with handwritten dates to rectos and some with captions on the versos. Age-toning to the color photographs with a few items with corner chips from mounts. Several loose photos, and several spaces on the pages where photos appear to have been removed.....

[Maine(?): circa 1930s or 40s]. Original black & white photograph (10.3 x 16 cm.). Silver gelatin photograph depicting a roadside picnic, with two men and two women sitting on the ground or on rocks, surrounded by an impressive amount of camp or picnic cookware, including a camp stove, thermoses, aluminum pots, lids, dishes, cups, etc. Their dress is a bit formal by today's standards. No automobile is visible. Small stain.....

Constantiople; Athens: circa 1880. Three photographs mounted on card (each 9.5 x 6.5 cm.), labeled in ink on the versos. Three photographs of street food vendors: from Athens, a “seller of a species of cake: halva”; and from Constantinople, “an egg seller” and a “seller of a kind of cream named yoghurt”. The images show each vendor in traditional garb, with the equipment of their trades, the egg vendor with.....

[no date; circa 1930]. Typed recipe on Hamburg-Amerika Linie stationery (20 x 15.75 cm.), one leaf, printed verso only. A single recipe, "Barley Water", typed on a sheet of stationery from the Hamburg-Amerika Linie, and identified as supplied by Lady Maude Warrender. Lady Maude Warrender was the daughter of the eight Earl of Shaftsbury. She was the first president of the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra, and sang at its first.....

Potsdam: Muller & Kiephenhauer Verlag, 1928. Quarto, 74 pages. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The first book by architect Rudolf Schwarz. Schwarz worked in the periphery of the Bauhaus and was a significant figure in the field in the twenties and early thirties. He had a great influence on his friend Mies Van der Rohe. The photographic illustrations are by Renger-Patzsch, and this remains the most elusive of the photographer's books.....

Kobe, Japan: T. Takagi, Photographic Studio & Art Gallery, circa 1914. 18 x 25.5 cm, unpaginated [22 leaves, plates interleaved with tissue]. Illustrated title page, brief introduction, and twenty hand-colored collotype plates depicting the process of cultivating Japanese rice, or, “Nippon’s ‘Staff of Life’”. Each photograph accompanied by short descriptive text. Known for his glass slides and many collotype books on themes of Japanese life, Teijiro Takagi bought his Kobe.....