Manuscript account book kept

by Newark carpenter and cabinetmaker Aaron Ogden, recording sales and work

$2,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Signed

Approx. 165pp. Small 4to. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, worn. Inscribed in ink on the upper cover Aaron Ogden's Book and similarly inscribed on the rear pastedown. Item #346865 The initial entries from the summer of 1804 are largely recording his costs of boarding, followed by an accounting cabinet making done for Caleb Bruen, a cabinetmaker and distiller in Newark. This included the building of picture frames,

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