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  • The Qualifications of a Gospel Minister for, and Duty in studying rightly to divide the Word of Truth; and the Duty of those who do partake of the Benefit of his Labours, towards him fully, plainly & impartialy [sic] represented in Two Sermons on 2 Tim: 2.15. Preached at the ordination of the Revd mr. Philip James at the Welch Tract on Pee Dee River in South Carolina April 4. 1743. With some Illustrations & Enlargements.
    [South Carolina: 1743]
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  • A Hortus Siccus of Wild English Plants Found Chiefly in Leicestershire & Warwickshire
    [circa 1831] octavo, 87 leaves of mounted botanical specimens, each identified both in Latin and English in ink, a three page manuscript index identifies each of the 203 plant specimens contained in the album, an ink presentation inscription on the inside front…
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  • The Life and Travels of Abel Turner, Minister of the Gospel. Written by himself. Written for his Wife, dated 1839.
    12mo, approximately 24 fascicles stitched together, 451 pages, not bound, some signatures loose, written in ink in a neat and legible hand.
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  • Manuscript Account Book Dunbarton, Merrimack County New Hampshire 1813 -1829
    folio, 218 pages, plus 27 page alphabetical name index, contemporary sheep, binding worn, boards detached, but present, entries kept in a clear meticulous hand, good condition.
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  • Account Book of Galloway & Company, Scottish Emigrant Merchants, Land Speculators and Pioneer Settlers of Rockingham County, North Carolina, 1790-1802
    folio, approximately 344 pp., plus 16 page name index, several pages either excised or partially torn out, bound in contemporary sheep. Binding very worn, backstrip missing, front board water damaged, text is in very good, legible condition, inscribed in a neat hand.…
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  • Collection of 17 Pocket Diaries and Assaying Notebooks of this Noted Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, Including Three Diaries of his First Wife Jennie R. Dwight 1884-1896
    Collection of 17 pocket diaries, various bindings and paginations, approximately 982 pages, plus blanks and inlaid materials, in very good clean legible condition.
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  • Manuscript Diary of Benjamin Dix, tanner, of Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, dated 1848-1855.
    Small quarto, 354 pages, bound in full sheep, red leather label on spine reading "Journal." The binding is worn and scuffed, edges, corners and tips of spine show wear, interior good, written in ink, in a hand that while legible, takes some…
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  • Manuscript Letter Copy Book of Charles McIntier, broker, of Boston, Suffolk County and Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, kept during the "Panic of 1837," and which deals with his various business ventures including his lumbering operations in Maine, as well as his ownership of Johan Nepomuk Malzel's mechanical panorama, the <i>Conflagration of Moscow, </i>dated 1837-1838
    folio, 106 pages, plus blanks, contains approximately 162 separate letters dated July 28, 1837 - September 19, 1838, original ¼ leather spine, and marbled boards, tips of spine worn, edges and corners of boards worn through, else in very good, legible condition.
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  • <p> Manuscript Archival Collection of Correspondence of Clergyman, Scholar, Insurance Counsel and Prison Reformer, Charlton T. Lewis (1834-1904), of West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, NY, and Morristown, New Jersey. Also includes correspondence from the family of his wife, Nancy Dunlap McKeen, of Brunswick, Maine, dated 1797-1915. </p>
    An archive of approximately 1,258 autograph letters, 4,423 pages, plus over 200 ephemeral items, related to the varied career of this polymath: author, editor, classicist, insurance attorney, prison reformer,  Charlton Thomas Lewis and his family. While dated between 1797 to 1915 the…
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  • Collection of Letters and Documents Detailing His Early Land Speculation and Settlement in Western Iowa 1855-1858
    Collection of 14 letters, mainly quarto, 51 pp., written to his parents and business associates The collection also contains a group of 38 additional letters, receipts and documents dating from the 1860's - 1870's, concerning Clapp's real estate investments sent to Clapp's…
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