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Log book of the Schooner Annie Amsden, from Portland [Maine] Toward Cuba by [manuscript ship's log; whaling]

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Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
Log book of the Schooner Annie Amsden, from Portland [Maine] Toward Cuba
Author
[manuscript ship's log; whaling]
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
1875-1878. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original pre-printed log book, neatly rebacked and cornered in leather, retaining portions of the original marbled boards; 15.75 x 9.5 inches; approximately 100 ff. of ruled paper, about three-quarters completed in a neat script in dark brown ink, likely by a few different hands. The log has a printed title leaf, published by M. Thalmessinger & Co., of New York, with an ad for John Rich & Co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in West India Goods and Ship Chandlery, Boston. Manuscript addition reads, "Schooner Annie Amsden from Portland toward Cuba, Capt. Matheson," tho it actually records a journey from Boston to St. Thomas in 1875; and a journey from Boston to Cienfuegos, Cuba, in 1876 (some of it while in harbor); plus entries from January to August 1878, from "the west ground" to Provincetown, which note whaling and fishing activity. There are also just a few notations regarding the Briga. D. A. Small, a whaling vessel out of Provincetown, dating about 1877. Changes in handwriting and recording style (sometimes using ledger's columns and fields, other times writing across them) suggest multiple hands, likelt that of Captain Duncan Alexander Matheson (b. 1829, Nova Scotia - d. 1913, Provincetown) and his son, Captain John Annaster Matheson (Provincetown, 1856 or 1857-`1941).
Whitman Picture Stationery for Children

Whitman Picture Stationery for Children

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Whitman Picture Stationery for Children
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1920. NA. Very Good. N.d., circa 1920. An envelope housing the stationery. Our set presently has five unused pieces of stationery, each of which is a folded sheet, with a color printed vignette on the top of the first of four pages for the child to write his note. We have only three envelopes though. We do not know how many pieces the set would have had originally. Our guess is a half dozen, or six. None of our pieces repeats one of the ten color illustrations on the outer envelope. We would guess that there were several different sets issued over a period of years, or simultaneously, or like a pack of baseball cards, the sets came with a random selection of maybe two dozen illustrations. As there is only a single OCLC First Search institutional holding, that at William and Mary, and that contains no details (and it has a slightly different title too, that being, Whitman Picture Stationery for Young Folk, more research is required than we have the time and resources to conduct. The outer envelope is 14.5 by 22 cm. The stationery is 13.5 by 10 cm, when the sheet is closed, or for each page. The mailing envelopes are 7.5 by 10 cm. While we are missing pieces, between the illustrations on the outer envelope and those on our actual stationery pieces, we have a copy that probably has close to all the illustrations issued with the stationery, or close to that number. The outer envelope has some foxing and other stains, obscured happily by the moire-like background design. Also one upper corner somewhat chewed. Our stationery and envelopes contained within are completely clean.

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