America - Economy Business, accounting and account books of Celestia Mills Smith, née Sawtelle. 4 vols. New York, c. 1911-1920. 200 pag. each with stamps (c. 290 inscr.). 4°. Vintage red calf on 4 bands with coloured paper endpapers, blue speckled edges, gilt stamped titles ("Journal", "Income Ledger", "Ledger", "Cash"), gilt stamped cover fillets and monogram "C.M.S." on the front cover (partly minimally rubbed and scratched). In velvet-lined, lockable wooden slipcase (stained, leather with losses, only fragments of the front cover still present) with lock and 2 clasps (1 clasp incomplete, key enclosed). Celestia Mills Smith (1866-?) was the daughter of Elizabeth DeCost Burnett (1848-1900) and the landscape painter and travel writer Edmund Reuel Smith (1829-1911), who inherited a considerable fortune from his father, the merchant Reuel Smith (1789-1873), in 1873. In 1897 Celestia Mills married Edward Thomas Sawtelle in New York. - Documents expenses and capital gains, bonds and shares, investments in companies and the like, including, among others: Anglo-American Oil Co, American Smelting and Refinig Co, Atlantic Refining Co, Colonial Oil Co, Cuban-American Sugar Co, Delaware Lackawanna Western Railroad / Coal Co, Eureka Pipe Line Co, Ithaca Telephone Co, Missouri Pacific Railway Co, Maxwell Motor Co, New York Transit Co, Seaboard Airline Railroad, Standard Oil Co (Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska etc.), United States Steel Corporation etc. - 2 vols. with index at the beginning. - Generally well preserved. America - Economy - Business and account books of Celestia Mills Smith, née Sawtelle. 4 vols. Contemp. wine red calf on 4 raised bands with coloured paper endpapers, blue speckled edges, gilt stamped titles ('Journal', 'Income Ledger', 'Ledger', 'Cash'), gilt stamped cover fillets and monogram 'C.M.S.' on front cover (partly minimally rubbed and scratched). In leather coated, velvet-lined, lockable wooden slipcase (stained, leather with losses, only leather fragments on the front) with lock and 2 clasps (1 clasp incomplete, key enclosed). - Celestia Mills Smith (1866-?) was the daughter of Elizabeth DeCost Burnett (1848-1900) and the landscape painter and travel writer Edmund Reuel Smith (1829-1911), who inherited a considerable fortune from his father, the merchant Reuel Smith (1789-1873), in 1873. - Documents expenditure and investment income, bonds and stocks, investments in companies, etc., including, among others: as listed above. - 2 vols. with index at the beginning. - Overall well preserved.