Manuscript ledger (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Limp sheep (?); 115 x 180 mm; approx. pp. 100, handwritten in tidy script, in black ink. Front cover detached, and faintly scratched with "Assessment Book / Town of Goshen / 1861 / J. W. Webbs," which is only visible when the light catches it. Names listed alphabetically, with columns for the number of Acres, Real, Pers, Total, and (though nothing ever appears in it) Military. Hundreds of names are listed, amongst them: Bank of Orange County, Bradley, Carpenter, Denton, Edsall, Francisco, Green, Hemingway, Jones, Knapp, Ludlum, McCoy, Newman, Owen. An interesting item from the Civil War period, worthy of further study.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Manuscript Ledger. c. 65 pages with handwritten notes on proceedings, dating from 1854 to 1922. Meetings of the "legal voters of School district No. 4 in the towns of Mansfield and Otto' (later referred to as East Otto in the notes, as it became thus) were held at the schoolhouse in the district. Various committee people elected and issues voted upon, with the financial reportage - for the purchase of a stove, repairs to the library; Phineas Gregory named as the chairman of the first session; a large need was for winter fuel, the appropriations made and suppliers arranged for wood for 'scholars' needs; elections of trustees and named terms for librarian and district clerk. In 1862, Ellicottville is also mentioned as part of the district; in 1863, monies and lands were set aside for a new schoolhouse. The entries continue until 1922 and are accomplished in many different hands using ink for the most part, pencil in the latter years and with good legibility in the main. Approx. 6 1/4" x 7 1/2" size; bound in polished paper covered boards, leather spine; edge, tips wear and rubbing to the covers, spine covering about gone, top board detached; in good condition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Ledger belonging to Levi Oberholzer, manufacturer of cough medicines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Reverse calf, oblong 4to (about 9.25-by-7.75 inches); spine stamped: RECEIPTS; contains hundreds of manuscript entries acknowledging payment for materials and ingredients for remedies, many with attached revenue stamps, plus numerous bank checks payable to Oberholzer's order. Offers a wealth of handwriting specimens and signatures, pretty engraved checks, and more, from Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, as well as smaller cities and towns in the northeastern United States. A nice example of the commerce of the period, specific to health, medicine, and pharmacy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Business ledger of Dr. Worthington Pinney, a dentist practicing in Newark, New Jersey, in the 1880-90s. He was President of the New Jersey State Dental Society in 1886. Cloth-covered boards, gilt-lettered black leather label on spine, paper label on cover; pp. 641, 414 of which contain tidy handwritten records of dentist's patients. Just a little soiled and scuffed; text block bright, tight, clean. Records indicate the patient's name, the date and work done, and the costs charged and received. Poor Mr. Miller, for example, shows thirty procedures from 1882 to 1890, accruing nearly $200 in fees for extractions and gold fillings. Though the entries themselves are neat and methodical, they are not arranged in any discernible order, leaving one to wonder how the book-keeper managed to find the patient's record and keep it current. Dentistry ledgers dating from the 19th century such as this one are surprisingly scarce on the market. To find one so easily readable is downright rare. …