![Item #2407 [MANUSCRIPT] [TEMPERANCE] Account Book. Ann Jones](/pictures/thumb/2407.jpg?v=1611359343)
Aberdare, Wales: 1860-1876. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Hand written account book primarily recording the Church and Temperance societies transactions - dues, wine, candles, and maintenance. Unusual reference to the US Civil war - a pasted article onto the verso of the cover reporting on the Seven Days Battle, June 25 to July..... More
![Item #2567 [MANUSCRIPT] [HIGH SCHOOL] [DIVORCE] Gladstone Reed's Journal; March 11, 1910 -...](/pictures/thumb/2567.jpg?v=1623793095)
Cardboard covers. Unpaginated (135 pages). 20 x 12.5 cm. "Friday, March 11, 09 - No letters, Borrowed a paper at noon. There was nothing about the divorce." This is the first three sentences Gladstone Reed wrote in his journal at the age of 16 while he attended boarding school (we..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Strate University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 185 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, sugar in France was still a luxury commodity imported in small quantities and consumed only by the very rich. By the time of the revolution, sugar was so popular..... More
London: Casell, Petter, Galpin & Co., c. 1881. Hardcover. vii, 184 pp. Author of British Popular Customs, and English Folk-lore, Thiselton-Dyer notes in the Preface the importance of studying "Folk-Lore" as no easy task, "as school boards and railways are fast sweeping away every vestige of the old beliefs and..... More
New York: Artisan, 2018. Paperback original. 214 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Forward by René Redzepi. Nineteen thoughtful and engaging essays and stories make the case that we should think about cuisine as a collective human effort. "An awful lot of attention is paid to the differences and distinctions between..... More
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014. Hardcover. 358 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Wine & Society: the social and cultural context of a drink is the first book to examine the cultural forces which have shaped both how wine is made and the way in which it is consumed. Investigates the social context of..... More
London: 1829. Loose_leaf. 27.5 x 36 cm. Etching designed and published by George Cruikshank, November 1, 1829. Featuring The Grim Reaper anxiously awaiting his victims, a handful of pitiful customers - including a mother providing a nip to her baby and a coffin with our all time favorite - Old..... More
London: Darton, Harvey, & Co., 1816. Hardcover. 265 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. An in-depth look at the friction between state governments and the gypsy population. Hoyland, a (lapsed?) Quaker, was particularly concerned with the problem of educating gypsy children. Some speculate that Hoyland fell in love with a "black-eyed..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. JAY. First Edition. Hardcover. 321 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Together with a discussion of French Wines and a Table of Vintages by a distinguished AMATEUR (a collaborator who prefers to remain anonymous). Paris in the 1920's for the distinguished traveler who loved..... More
![Item #2152 [JAPAN] [RELIGION] Glimpses. Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission](/pictures/thumb/2152.jpg?v=1587672326)
Kumamoto, Japan: Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission, 1934. Sewn binding. 31 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorative translucent booklet regarding the Janice James School, built at the foot of Mt. Tatsuda in Kumamoto City on land purchased in 1921. Describing the history of mission work in Japan..... More