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$ 2500.00
Poliakov, Ivan Semenovich (1845-1887). Pisma i Otcheti o Puteshestvii v Dolinu Reki Obi, Ispolnennom po Porucheniu Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk [Letters and Reports of the Travel to the Basin of the River Ob, Executed on Assignment of the Imperial Academy of Sciences]. Supplement #2 to Volume XXX of the "Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences." Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1877.
$ 2500.00
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[Foulkes, Charles Howard], Major-General Royal Engineers (1875-1969). Album with Four Pencil Drawings and Forty-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including Thirty-Four Images Taken while on Service in Sierra Leone and during the Hut Tax War of 1898-1899; With a Lithographed Plan of the Cape Coast Castle, Compiled by Foulkes for the War Office. Ca. 1898-1899.
$ 3500.00
Moore-Bennett, Helen Fletcher (née Latimer) (1891 – ca. 1960s); Moore-Bennett, Arthur John (1877-1950). Historically Significant Scrapbook with ca. 170 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards, Various Manuscript and Printed Ephemera (Business or Calling Cards, Store and Suppliers’ Receipts, Hotel Invoices, Telegrams, Autograph Letters Signed, Original Envelopes, Telegrams and Newspaper Clippings), Taken and Collected during a Ten-Year-Long Cruise on Yacht “Medea” from Shanghai to Hong Kong, Singapore, Around the Malay Peninsula and thence to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Goa, Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Cyprus, &c. Ca. 1931-1940 (the period of the voyage), but some photos and documents cover the period from 1913 to 1965.
$ 1250.00
Album of 113 Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Solomon Islands (US Soldiers, the Wrecks of a Japanese Submarine and Yamazuki Maru, Japanese Troop Transport), Guam after the Battle of Guam (Inarajan (St. Joseph’s Church), Umatac (Umatac School, Outdoor Library, San Dionisio Church), Portraits of Chamorro People), and Portraits of Melanesians (Likely Ni-Vanuatu) in Traditional Dress, etc. Ca. 1940s.
$ 950.00
Templer, Charles Bertram, Major (1860-1931). Album of Six Original Watercolours of South Africa, with two Watercolour Views taken at the coast of Normandy, France. Ca. 1923.
$ 1250.00
Pollard, F.E. Collection of Thirty Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Gold Mines and Refining Plants of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields around Johannesburg. Ca. 1900.
$ 525.00
Paget, H[enry] M[arriott]. Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled: "The Transvaal Crisis: Despatching Gold from the National Bank of Johannesburg to catch the Cape Mail." 7 Oct. 1899.
$ 650.00
Interesting Collection of Twelve Albumen Photographs Documenting an Early Cruise by Steamship from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Lima, Peru with Stops in Peru Along the way. Ca. 1890.
$ 1250.00
Cleather, William H., Captain‚ 1st Ceylon Regiment (1783-1820). Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales, Describing his Early Service in the Military Regiment in British Ceylon, with notes on His Travel to Ceylon on Board HMS Thalia, Colombo Garrison and Officers, Local Society, Day Schedule et al. 1805-6.
$ 5250.00
Skeen & Co. (fl. ca. 1860s-1920s); The Colombo Apothecaries Co. LTD. (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Scowen, Charles Thomas (1852-1948) & Others. Album with 77 Original Albumen Photos of Sri Lanka, Showing Colombo, Kandy, Portraits of Market Sellers, Tea Pluckers, Buddhist Monks, a “Kandian Chief,” a Female Musician, a Snake Charmer, &c., Titled: Der ferne Osten. Ca. 1890s.
$ 1250.00
Skeen & Co (ca. 1860s-1920s) & others. Album of 12 Albumen Studio Photographs of Colombo, Showing Its Harbour and Breakwater, Chatham Street, Mount Lavinia, Kelani River Pontoon Bridge, a Hindu Temple, a Religious Procession, etc. Ca. 1890s.
$ 550.00
Short, Edward Morrison de Courcy (b. 1857). Two Finely Executed Pencil Drawings of Colombo, Ceylon. 1887.
$ 1250.00
Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c. 1913-1914.
$ 975.00
Two Unsigned Watercolour Views: Mindelo, St. Vincent - Washington's Head, St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands). Ca. 1840.
$ 4500.00
Arrington, James Rogers Jr. (1916-2009). Historically Significant Collection of Two Albums with ca. 450 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by James Arrington, a Young Chemistry Engineer of the “Standard Oil Company of Venezuela” during his Work in Caripito and Quiriquire Oil Field, and Showing Caripito Refinery and Industrial Facilities, the Laboratory, Company’s Camp and Living Quarters, Oil Tankers and Company's "Caripiteno" Steamer on the San Juan River, Caripito and Guanoco Villages, Maturin and Pedernales Towns, “Remains of Wildcat Well at El Lirial,” Guacharo Cave and Ruins of a Spanish Mission, Oil Refinery in Aruba, American Employees and Their Families, Venezuelan Workers, Families, Young Women, the Compiler and His Friends, Fiancee, &c. Ca. 1938 – early 1940s.
$ 750.00
Album with Twenty-four Original Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the 1919 Voyage of S.S. Boveric Through the Strait of Magellan Starting in the South Atlantic and Ending in Iquique, Chile. September - October 1919.
$ 3250.00
[O’Vary, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’Vary, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958). Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931. Ca. 1929-1931.
$ 625.00
Drummond, Augusta (1842-1908). Two Original Watercolour Views of the Jungfrau and Monte Rosa Mountains in the Swiss Alps. June 1882 - May 1884.
$ 950.00
Greene, Captain Dominick Sarsfield (1826-1892), Royal Artillery and Aide-de-Camp. Original Mounted Watercolour Signed "DSG" and Titled in ink and Pencil on Mount: "Peak of Tenerife / Height 12,500 ft. Above the sea / Jutland 11 miles from Orotava / Early Morning." Ca. 1857.
$ 850.00
Rice, Roger C.Album of 11 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the Territory of Hawaii in 1915, Including ‘Iolani Palace, Ali‘iolani Hale, Kawaiaha‘o Church, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Hawaii State Library, Waikiki Beach, Nu‘uanu Pali, Moanalua Gardens, a “Typical Native Home,” and “the University Club”. Ca. 1915.
$ 950.00
Album with 243 Photographs Taken and Collected by an American Tourist during Her Early Car Trips from Wisconsin to San Antonio, Texas, in October 1933 and May 1935; Showing S. A. Missions (Mission San Francisco de Espada, Mission of the Immaculate Conception, etc.), Churches (National Shrine of the Little Flower, Our Lady of the Lake Church, etc.), Local Landmarks (Governor’s Palace, Sunken Garden, Fort Sam Houston), etc.; also with the Photos of Mexico (Saltillo, Monterey, Matamoros), Illinois (Rochelle, Springfield, Elkville), Oklahoma (Miami), Missouri (St. Louis, Florissant, Devils Elbow), Arkansas (Forest City, Little Rock, Devall’s Bluff), and Other Texas Cities (Hearne, Edinberg, San Juan, etc.). 1933-1935.
$ 850.00
Lee, V.H. Attractive Original Signed Watercolour Titled: "Conception Mission, San Antonio, Texas." San Antonio, Texas, 1945?
$ 950.00
A Historically Interesting Original Letter by an Early Texas Resident, Reporting a Horse Theft by Shawnees in the Frontier Town of Preston, Grayson County, TX, and Asking Col. Arthur Upshaw, an Indian Agent and Former Superintendent of Indian Removal, to Help Recover the Lost Property “Without Trouble and Difficulties.” Preston, Grayson County (Texas): Ca. 1846-1850.
