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$ 6750.00
Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhailovich (1839-1888). Mongoliya i Strana Tangutov: Trekhletneye Puteshestvie v Vostochnoi Nagornoi Azii [Mongolia, The Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, Being a Narrative of Three Years’ Travel in Eastern High Asia, by N. Przhevalsky of the Russian Staff Corps, Member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society/ Edition of the Russian Geographical Society. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1875.
$ 4500.00
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Hart, Vincent (1881-1939), Engineer-in-Chief of the Construction. Extensive Archive of ca. 150 Original Gelatin Photographs (88 Mounted in the Album, ca. 60 Loose Ones, and Two Loose Real Photo Postcards), Documenting the Construction of the Mettur Dam on the Kaveri River in the Madras Presidency of British India; With: a Rare Indian Government Imprint, Two Typewritten Letters Signed and over a Dozen Related Newspaper Clippings. Ca. 1930-1934.
$ 4500.00
[Baegert, Johann Jakob] (1717-1772). Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebet hat. [News from the American Peninsula California..,] Mannheim: Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773.
$ 3750.00
[Abercrombie, James Smither] (1891-1975), and others. Album with ca. 320 Original Gelatin Photographs, Documenting Oil Exploration and Drilling by the “James S. Abercrombie Company” in Columbia in 1925-1927, and Texas and Louisiana in 1929. Ca. 1925-1927, 1929.
$ 4500.00
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869), Maison Bonfils (1867-1909), and others. Album with Twenty-One Original Albumen Photos of the Ancient Temples of Egypt (Djoser Pyramid in Saqqara, Temples in Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Abu Simbel, Philae Island), Nile’s First Cataract, Tombs of the Califs and Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, the Bacchus Temple in Baalbec, Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the Valley of Josaphat, and others, Titled: Documents Archéologiques sur la Egypte. Nubie. Syrie. P. Verdier de Latour, 1875. Ca. 1870s.
$ 3250.00
Collection of 78 Large Loose Original Gelatin Photographs, Documenting the Construction of the Moffat Tunnel under the James Peak of the Continental Divide, on the Route of the Denver and Salt Lake Railway. Ca. 1924-1926.
Historically Important Original Letter by a Potential Miner and a Serviceman From Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory, Addressed to One of His Siblings in Angelica, Allegany County, New York, Reacting to the News of Gold Discovery Near Fraser River, Contrasting the Salaries of Fort Steilacoom Carpenters With Pioneer Prospectors in British Columbia, and Highlighting the Massive Migration to Fraser Canyon: “Nearly All of the Citizens in This Part of the County Are Going to the Mines.” Fort Steilacoom (Steilacoom City, Washington Territory): 27 April 1858.
$ 1250.00
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Katrak, Sorab Kavasji Hormuzdyar (1892-1972). Through Amanullah’s Afghanistan: A Book of Travel. Karachi: D.N. Patel at the “Sind Observer” & Mercantile Steam Press Ltd., 1929.
$ 5250.00
Album with 106 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting an Early Travel up the Congo and Ubangi Rivers to Fort Crampel in French Congo (now Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic) and Showing Boma, Matadi, Bangui, Ibenga Village, Ubangi, Nana and Chari Rivers, Fort Crampel, French Fortifications, a Hotchkiss Gun, Bush Camps during the Suppression of Local Tribes, Village Scenes, Portraits of Bondjo (Ekonda), M’Bres, M’Gaos and Ouham People, Members of Native Militia, a Doctor Pulling a Teeth, a Local Chief, &c. Ca. 1900s-1910s.
Historically Interesting Album with 40 Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photos of French Guinea, Showing Conakry, Samou River Rapids and Waterfalls, the “Baptism” of a Morane Plane of Conakry “Aero-club,” Children’s Costume Party in Conakry in March 1935, Susu Women and Girls, Kolente River Bridge Under Construction, etc. Ca. 1935.
[McDowell/MacDowall, D.?] Album with 153 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Trip to Eastern Kenya, Showing Mombasa, Nairobi, Uganda Railway, Elmenteita and Navaisha Stations, Nyuki and Tigrish Rivers, Lakes Baringo and Nakuru, Njemps (Ilchamus), Masaai, Kikuyu, Wandorobo (Dorobo) People and Their Villages, Camps and Armed Forces of British Punitive Expeditions, Mt. Longonot, River Voi, Taveta Village, Zanzibar, &c. Ca. 1900-1901.
$ 3500.00
Nelson, Charles “Red” (1900-1982); Bragaw, Robert (1889-1969, fl. ca. 1920s-1930s); Steward, H.W.; Rossman, Earl; Johnson, George L. & others. Album with over 210 Original Gelatin Photographs of Alaska, Showing Central Alaska (Mt. Denali, Mt. Susitna, Knik Arm, Tanana and Susitna Rivers, Cache Creek, Curry – Now a Ghost Town, Mining and Survey Camps), Anchorage Environs, Kenai Peninsula (Lake Kenai, Resurrection River, Bald Mountain, Tustumena glacier, Nuka Bay glacier), Prince William Sound, the Inside Passage, Latouche Village, Portraits of Yupic People, Scenes of Dog Mushing, Hunting, Fishing, and Gold Panning, Alaskan Wildlife, Russel Merril’s Plane, &c. Ca. 1920s.
Ennis, R.C.? Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand Point (Popof Island) and Unga Village on Unga Island (a Ghost Town Since 1969), Taken and Collected by an American Resident During WW2. Ca. 1940-1944.
$ 2750.00
Admiral M.P. Lazarev. Steel Engraved Portrait. London, ca. 1840s.
Tembreull, Christine Erma (1895-1961), attributed to. Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938 and Showing Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Letnikof Cove, Haines Barracks, Famous Skagway Tour Guide Martin Itjen, Indigenous People, Filipino Steerage Passengers, American Military men from Haines Barracks, Cruiseship Passengers and Captain, & c. 1938.
$ 1750.00
Dodge, William S. A Historically Important, One of the Earliest Manuscript Liquor Licenses Signed by the First Mayor of Sitka and Alaska Pioneer, William S. Dodge, Just a Year After the US Purchased Alaska from Russia and Only a Few Months before the Act of Congress of 27 July 1868 Prohibited the Sale and Import of Alcohol to the Inhabitants of the Territory. Sitka, 07 March 1868.
$ 1750.00
Album with 39 Early Original Gelatin Photographs of Fairbanks, Showing St. Matthew’s Church and Hospital, the Launch of the “Koyukuk” River Steamer, City Streets, Interior of a Building Decorated for the “Floral Ball,” Firefighters and their Horse-Driven Cart, “Fireman Cook” with Pet Bears, Pioneer J. [Schuster?], “Sale Cup” of the Fairbanks Gun Club, &c. Ca. 1900s – 1920
$ 1250.00
[“Wadhams & Co”] (1865-1905). Collection of Three Manuscript and Two Typewritten Official Autograph Letters Signed to the Offices of the “Wadhams & Co.” in Portland and San Francisco, Regarding the Shipments of Deer, Hair Seal and Wolf Skins from Howkan and Loring (Alaska) and by Transit from Port Townsend (Washington). Loring, 4 May 1889; Howcan [sic!], 5 March and 26 April, 1890; San Francisco, 30 April and June 13 1890.
$ 1750.00
Butler, Charles M. (ca. 1866 – after 1930); [Hopkins, William A.] (ca. 1862-1951). Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed to His Friend William Hopkins from Watsonville, CA, Talking about His Gold Mining on the Sunset Creek near Nome, the Success of the “Pioneer Mining Co.” on the Metson Bench and of Other Miners on the Ophir Creek, the Creation of a New Gold Mining Camp on the Iditarod River, and that “it is the hardest time I ever saw in Nome”. Nome, Alaska, 20 June 1909, 28 October 1909, 10 March 1910.
$ 1500.00
Lascy, Albert (ca. 1827-1917). Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor Albert Lascy, Giving a Detailed Account of His Gold Exploration near Karluk, Uyak and Uganik Bays on the Northern Kodiak Island. 1893.
$ 22500.00
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Collection of Two Original Manuscript Journals of Meteorological Observations with Additional Notes, Kept in St. Paul’s Harbour, Kodiak in 1838-1846 and the Kuigpak Russian Orthodox Mission (Iqugmiut/Russian Mission) on the Lower Yukon River in 1848-1854.
$ 6500.00
Vancouver, George (1757-1798). Izvlecheniye iz puteshestviya g-na Vankuvera. Yego povestvovaniye o poselivshikhsya na severovostochnom beregu Kinayskoy guby v tak nazyvayemom na Rossiyskoy karte pristanische (North Foreland) nekotorogo chisla Russkikh v otnoshenii ikh obraza zhizni k tamoshnim zhitelyam Kinaitsam [Extract from the Voyage of Mr. Vancouver. His Narration about Some Russians, who have Settled on the Northeastern Shore of the Kenai Bay in the “Pristanische,” marked so on the Russian Map (North Foreland), and about the Relation between their Way of Life to the Indigenous Inhabitants of Kenai].In: Litsei: Periodicheskoye Izdaniye [Litseum: A Periodical]. Saint Petersburg: [Imperial Typ.], 1806.
$ 3750.00
Original Podorozhnaya Gramota or Transit Pass, Given to one Gavriil Platan [Platov?], a Newly Appointed Missionary for the Russian American Colonies, and Authorising Him To Get Two Horses at Each Station on the Way from Saint Petersburg to Okhotsk. Saint Petersburg, 3 March 1845
$ 1500.00
Smith, W[illiam] D. [Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the “Shumagin Packing Company” in the Chignik Bay (Alaska Peninsula), Addressed to His Agents in San Francisco and Discussing Financial Operations and Shipping of Supplies and Canned Salmon. 1889.
