Elegant Grisaille Watercolour Showing Columbus Landing in America with the Explorer Encouraging his Party to go Forward, and a Group of Native Americans and a Spanish Ship in the Background. Early 19th century.
Hanway, Jonas, Sir, 1st baronet (1712-1786). Victualling Board Document Signed by Jonas Hanway, Joah Bates and John Slade, ordering a payment to William Wilkinson, owner of the Three Sisters Victualler, which had been chartered 27 December 1779 ‘to carry Provisions for the use of His Majesty’s Ships on the West Indies’. London: Victualling Office, 15 November 1780.
Chandler, Charles (ca. 1928-2001); Chandler, Edwin (ca. 1898-1973). Album with Thirty-Nine Original Photographs Collected by an 11-Year-Old Camper at YMCA Camp Fox on Catalina Island, Capturing Early Views, Daily Activities and Portraits of Campers Just Before WWII. Ca. 1938-1949.
Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton (1858-1927). [Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Buckland Regarding Waste Land Regulations Intended for Use during Johnston’s Service in Central Africa. Government House, Calcutta (printed letterhead), 14 February 1895.
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.
[Ezra, Alfred] (1872-1955). Album with 78 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Mostly Central Asia, Taken During an Overland Travel from India to England and Showing Srinagar (Khanqah-e-Moula Mosque, Hindu Raghunath Temple, Sher Garhi Palace), Kashgar (Afaq Khoja Mausoleum), Fort Verny (Almaty), Pamir Mountains, Scenes of the Party Crossing Mountains and Rivers, Portraits of Central Asian Tribesmen, a Chinese Elder, Criminals with Their Heads Locked in Pillories, Street and Market Scenes, &c. Ca. 1904.
Ehrmann, Theophil Friedrich (1762-1811). Beitraege zur Laender und Staadenkunde der Tartarei. Aus Russischen Berichten. Mit Einer Einleitung. Nebst Einer Neuberichtigten Charte von dem Kirgisenlande [Contributions to the Geographical Information about Tartary. From Russian reports. With a Corrected Map of the Lands of Kirghizes]. Weimar: F.G. Privil. Landes Industrie Comptoirs, 1804.
Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhailovich (1839-1888). Tretye Puteshestviye v Tsentralnoi Azii Iz Zaysana cherez Khami v Tibet i na Verknovya Zheltoy Reki [Third Travel in Central Asia from Zaysan through Hami to Tibet and the Upper Reaches of the Yellow River/ Edition of the Russian Geographical Society]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1883.
[Panov, Ivan Nikolayevch] & Others. Collection of Thirty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Soviet Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Showing Ashgabat before the 1948 Earthquake, the Ruins of Merv, Tashkent, Andijan, Bukhara, Przhevalsk, Koisara Resort on Lake Issyk-Kul, Portraits of Local Carpet Sellers, Families, Baloch People, &c. Ca. 1928-1930 (with several later imprints, possibly made in the 1950s).
Leblanc, Félix (active ca. 1865-1910s) & others. Album of 14 Albumen Studio Photographs of Chile, Showing Valparaíso, Santiago, the Magellan Strait, and the Andes. Ca. 1891-1893.
Taylor, William Rufus. Autograph Letter Signed by William Rufus Taylor to Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss (1811-1865) U.S. Navy Congratulating Gilliss' on his Successful Expedition i.e., the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere 1849-52 and thanking him for the "beautiful and interesting books" which were most likely copies of the results of the expedition which were published 1855-6. Newport R.I.: April 17th 1856.
Historically Interesting Private Album with 239 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Wealthy German Family in Beijing, Showing Western Children at a Fascist Youth Camp, Christmas Celebrations at a Local German School, Buildings with Fascist Flags, Chinese Nannies and Coolies, and Beijing Streets; also with the Photos of the Compiler’s Family with Other High-Profile Europeans, Miaofeng Mountain, and Tan Zhe Si. Ca. 1920s-1930s.
Collection of 79 Loose Original and Studio Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Beijing, Including the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Great Wall of China, Summer Palace (Marble Boat), Yonghe Temple, the Beijing Guozijian, Beijing City Fortifications, Miaoying Temple, Zhenjue Temple, Beihai Park (Nine-Dragon Wall), Peking Union Medical College, Street Scenes, and Portraits of Vendors, etc. Ca. 1946-1947.
Original Watercolour Showing a Chinese Junk at Sea, with a Native Fisherman Working with a Net in the Foreground, and two European Ships in the Background. Ca. 1820s.
Borzhimskii/Borzhimsky, Fedor Kondratievich (1883-1919?). Kratkoe Istoriko-Geograficheskoe i Statisticheskoe Opisanie Khulunbuirskoi Oblasti// Izvestiia Vostochno-Sibirskogo Otdela Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva. Tom XLIV. [A Brief Historical, Geographical and Statistical Description of the Hulunbuir Region// Proceedings of the Eastern-Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society]. Vol. XLIV. Pp. 1-38. Irkutsk: Typ. Tovarischestva Pechatnogo Dela, 1915.
Fritsche, Hermann (1839-1913). Astronomicheskie, Magnitnie i Gipsometricheskie Nabliudeniia, Proizvedennie v 59 Punktakh na Puti ot Pekina, cherez Mongoliiu, Nerchinskii Zavod, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Yekateriburg i Perm v S.-Petersburg [Astronomical, Magnetic and Hypsometric Observations Executed in 59 Points on the Way From Peking, through Mongolia, Nerchinsk, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Yekaterinburg and Perm to Saint Petersburg]. In: Zapiski Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obschestva po Obschei Geografii [Bulletins of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society on the Geography in General]. Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, Typ. of V. Bezobrazov & Co., 1875
Historically Interesting Album of Ca. Two Hundred Fifteen Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Five Real Photo Postcards, and Six Printed Postcards Taken and Collected During a 1934–1935 Trans-Pacific Voyage from Vancouver to the Orient, Showing Vietnam (Ethnic Locals, First Tea Factory of East-South Asia, and the Bank of Indochina in Saigon), China (Harbor Scenes and Shopfronts with Chinese Signs and British Flags in Hong Kong; Locals Hauling Baskets across the Great Wall and Major Landmarks of Beijing), Japan (Buddhist Temples and Shrines in Kyoto and Nikko), and South Korea (the Temple of Heaven in Seoul); also, with the Photos of Honolulu and Printed Postcards of New York. Ca. 1934-1935.
Album with ca. 296 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of China and the Philippines, Showing Qingdao, Mount Lao Valley, Hong Kong, Beijing, the Great Wall of China, Manila, Olongapo Naval Station, Ships and Military Exercise of the U.S. Naval Battle Force, Admiral Harris Laning, American Enlisted Sailors, Chinese Policemen, Passers-By, Families, Beggars, &c., Titled: James A. Smith Tsingtao. China. Ca. 1930s.
Historically Significant Album with ca. 330 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Sailor from U.S.S. “Huron” and U.S.S. “Black Hawk” during Their Service in China and the Philippines in the 1920s, Showing U.S. Naval Ships, Naval Exercise at Sea, U.S. Fleet in Chefoo/Yantai, Views of Chefoo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tsingtau/Qingdao, Villages and Native People in the Philippines, American Sailors at Service and Touring the Cities, &c. Ca. 1920s.