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$ 525.00
Bougainville, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de (1781-1846). Private Autograph Note Signed ‘de Bougainville’ to His Friend “cher Henry”. N.p., 3 August.
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[Faulkner, Farr. G.J.?] Album with 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars’ Military Service on the North West Frontier, Showing Group Portraits of the Regiment’s Officers, Military Marches and Reviews, Cantonments, Khyber Pass, Landi Kotal, Peshawar, Lahore, Attock, Aerial Views of the Himalayas, Nowshera, Jamrud and Attock Forts, Taj Mahal, Delhi, Gilgit Landing Ground, Takht-i-Bahi Ruins near Mardan, Destruction after the 1935 Quetta Earthquake, Robert Baden-Powell in Risalpur. Ca. 1920s-1930s.
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Unsigned Watercolour View of the Rohtas Fort, Punjab, Pakistan, Titled on Verso: Fort of Rhotas, Punjab. Ca. 1870.
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Holmes, Randolph Bezzant (1888-1973). Collection of Twenty-One Loose Gelatin Silver Photos of the Operations of British Indian Army during the Waziristan Campaign of 1919-1920, and Showing British Camp in Sorarogha, Military Engineering Works and Roads in Barari Tangi, Hazara Cliff, Zawa Kili Tangi, Hurley’s Corner, Marobi, Piazha Algal River, Bangilawa Tower, Portraits of British Military Commanders, Local Chiefs, Scenes with British Troops Firing Cannons, Taking Part in a Review, &c. Ca. 1919-early 1920s.
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$ 3250.00
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Album of ca. 810 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Panama, Showing Panama City (Street Scenes, Paseo de las Bovedas, University of Panama, San Francisco Church, Panama Viejo), Colón (Municipal Park, Mount Hope Cemetery), Chitre (St. John Baptist Cathedral), Portobelo (Ruins, Modern Portobelo, Church of San Felipe), Barro Colorado Island, Ethnographic Portraits of the Guna People, etc. Ca. 1943-1945.
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$ 1250.00
Conant, John H. (1825-1881) & Conant, William F. (1822-1897). Pair of Autograph Letters Signed by a Young American Merchant in Panama City to His Brother in Boston. Panama: 20 September 1857 & 30 March 1858.
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Collection of 24 Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the 117th Engineer Combat Battalion during the Bougainville Campaign (November 1943 to September 1944), etc. July 1943 - September 1944.
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$ 1500.00
Album with Thirty-Five Large Gelatin Silver Studio Photos of Paraguay, Presented and Signed by the American Ambassador George L. Kreeck to a Noted Writer Frances Parkinson Keyes during her Tour of South America; The Photos Include Views of Buildings and Sites in Asunción, Paraguay Military Regiments, Portraits of Graduates from the Asunción School of Aviation, Elementary Schoolchildren, Paraguayan President José Eligio Ayala, etc. Ca. 1929.
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Album of 37 Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Patagonia and the Strait of Magellan, Including Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, Rio Gallegos and Monte Sarmiento, Cockburn Channel, Beagle Channel, Lago del Toro, Mount Balmaceda, Sheep Farming, and Ethnographic Portraits of the Selk’nam (Ona) People, etc. Ca. 1920s.
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$ 1250.00
Very Attractive Original Manuscript Autograph Book of Members the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Titled in Calligraphy: Autographs of the Members and Officers of the Members and Officers of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Session 1843. Designed by J. A. Reigart for Mr. Isaac G. McKinley, State Printer. 1843.
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$ 650.00
Original Watercolour, Titled: Pachacamac Ruins. The remains of Inca Cities – Lima, Peru. Car from Callao. March 4. Ca. 1910s.
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$ 2750.00
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Historically Significant Album with 72 Rare Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Peru, Showing the Citadel of Sacsayhuaman (General View, Entrance to a Chamber, Entrance to an Old Silver Mine, a Secret Staircase, Opening to an Underground Tunnel), Cuzco (City Cathedral, Convent of Santo Domingo, a Stoned-up Viaduct, Inca Masonry Work, Spanish Buildings on Inca Foundations, Streets, Entrance Gates, &c.) and Lima (Metropolitan Cathedral, Hotel “Pension Royal”); Peruvian Passers-by, Children, Llama Herdsmen, a Priest from the Convent of Santo Domingo, and the Album’s Compiler. Ca. 1920s.
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$ 750.00
Coverley-Price, A. Victor (1901-1988). A Grisaille Watercolour Signed "V. Coverley-Price" Titled: Camp At 12,000 feet on the edge of the Puna in the Andes of Central Peru. Ca. 1925.
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$ 1250.00
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[Burton, Lucy]. Collection of Five Watercolours of Samoa, Showing Apia Harbour with the Wreck of S.M.S. Adler, a Volcanic Eruption on Savaii Island, and Native Villages with Traditional Thatched-Roof Houses. Ca. 1911.
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$ 950.00
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[Burton, Lucy]. Collection of Three Original Watercolours of Tonga, Showing the Wharf and Village of Nuku'alofa, and a Traditional House in the Vicinity of the Swallows Cave. Ca. 1911.
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$ 1250.00
[Badcock, Sir Lovell Benjamin, General, KH, KCB] (1786-1861). Collection of Three Autograph Letters, Written by, Addressed to or Mentioning Badcock, and Closely Related to the Events of the Portuguese Civil War in Which Badcock was a Military Reporter. 1832-1834.
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$ 650.00
Foster (Skeffington), Thomas Henry, 2nd Viscount Ferrard, 2nd Baron of Oriel (1772-1843). Autograph Letter Signed “Ths. Foster” to his mother Margaretta Amelia Foster, Baroness Oriel, with Observations on Lisbon and the Portuguese. Lisbon: 22 February ca. 1791.
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Smith, Charlotte J. Collection of Thirteen Watercolours and Drawings Made on a Trip to the Rhine Castles, Tagus River in Spain, Moreton Hall in Cheshire, Ghent, and Italy. 1827-1829.
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Original Unsigned Dated Watercolour, Titled: “National Park from the Railway Station”, Sydney, N.S.W. Sept. 30, 1899.
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$ 3250.00
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Historically Significant Scrapbook with ca. 120 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Printed Postcards, Maps, and Newspaper Clippings, Likely Taken and Collected by a Male Employee of the Amur River Shipping Company in Khabarovsk and Blagoveshchensk in the Late 1920s.
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Leytsinger, Yakov Ivanovich (1855-1914). Collection of Six Original Photograph Views of Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky Monastery and Mezen City on the White Sea. Ca. 1890.
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Collection of Eighteen Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Real Photo Postcards Taken and Collected during the Czechoslovak Legion’s Revolt against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Russian Far East in the 1910s-1920s, Showing the Legion’s Defense of the Krasnoyarsk Bridge, Soldiers Posing at the Site of a Train Collision in Yekaterinburg, Czech Militaries and Hussites Celebrating the Overthrow of the Soviet Power, Soldiers Awaiting the Evacuation from Vladivostok, etc.; also, with a Photo of the Destroyed Ononsky Bridge in Manchuria in 1918. Ca. 1917-1929.
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Album with Fifty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Pre-Revolutionary Tsarist Moscow, Showing the Now-Destroyed Sukharev Tower and Alexander II Monument, Tsar Bell & Canon, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Morozov Mansion, St. Clement’s Church, Kremlin Tower, etc.; Individual and Group Portraits of Monk Beggars, Grenadiers, Cossacks, Police Officers, and Troika Drivers, and Scenes from Easter Bazaar, Parade, etc.; also, with the Photos of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Sergiyev Posad and the Now-Destroyed Gethsemane Chernigov Skete. Ca. 1905.
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Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Mostly Podgorye (Novgorod Oblast, Russia), Showing the Now-Destroyed Resurrection Church, Local Landmarks, Compiler’s Friends & Native Villagers, Street Views, and Rural Scenes; also, with Photos of the Nearby Village of Toroshkovichi. Ca. 1913.
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Two Original Photograph Views of Vladivostok. Ca. 1899.
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