Beschreibung:

Manuscript Notebooks, Two Examples, 1790s & 1824. Including: the oblong octavo format receipt book on laid paper, Peter Grahl of Philadelphia, PA circa 1795-1798, approximately sixty inscribed pages, recording the resolution of account payments for soap, candles, apples, flour, tea, coffee, sugar, bacon, tobacco, snuff, whiskey, shad fish, mackerel, gin, cloves, oil, cider, cayenne pepper, wine, brandy, rum, butter, potato, rent payments, and the purchase of a bay horse, each transaction signed by the account holder, many for large sums, hundreds and thousands of dollars in many cases, Grahl was either a merchant or broker of the goods mentioned in the accounts; inscribed pages followed by approximately fifty blank leaves; with a short index in Grahl's hand at the other end of the book, followed by notes on the accounts against Grahl's estate dated 1814, bound in full contemporary sheepskin, 7 1/2 x 6 in. [Together with] an octavo-format notebook on wove paper, Marseilles, July 1824, containing proforma invoices for sales at Rio de Janeiro with tables and remarks for the use of American merchants and commanders of vessels trading there written by Thomas Bedwell Jr. and presented to Captain Philemon Putnam (1789-1867) by Robert Tod; consisting of invoices for coffee, sugar, tobacco, cotton, ox horns, flour, bread, soap, cod fish, spermaceti candles, tallow candles, cordage, bees wax, olive oil, canvas, Catalonia wine, Spanish brandy, pork, beef, tar, pitch, rosin, several pages of tables for calculating duties on different goods, followed by a brief explanation of how a vessel entering the port at Rio should document their cargoes; approximately fifty-six inscribed pages followed by about the same number blank; bound in a charming green parchment binding over thin boards with a four-loop interlocking fore-edge closure secured by the insertion of a pen or pencil and a gusseted pocket inside the back cover, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (2)