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$ 1250.00
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.
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$ 525.00
Pritchett, B.J. Original Watercolour Showing the Harbour of Coquimbo, Chile. January 1851.
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[Wetmore, William Shepard] (1801-1862). Four Autograph Signed Letters to William Wetmore from His Business Partners Regarding Market Conditions and Wetmore’s Business Affairs in South America and New York. Valparaiso, Cadiz and New York, 1832-1837.
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$ 525.00
Original Unsigned Ink Drawing Titled in Pencil on Verso:] ".., bei Lantschou..," Ca. 1905.
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$ 525.00
Filchner, Wilhelm (1877-1957). Original Signed (Illegibly) Ink Drawing Titled in Pencil: "Haupttor von Si-Ning-Fu" (Main Gate of Xining). Ca. 1905.
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$ 2750.00
Album with Forty-One Albumen Photos of China, Mostly of Hong Kong (Victoria Peak, Hotel and Tramway, the Public Garden, Praya Waterfront, City Hall, Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, “Leeung Ma Temple,” Queen’s Road, Racetrack, “Recreation Club,” “Water Police Station,” &c.); With Three Views of Canton (Guangzhou) and One Image of a Consul’s House in Formosa (Taiwan). Ca. 1890s.
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$ 2250.00
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Interesting Collection of Twelve Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Shanghai, Showing Longhua Temple Pagoda, Willow Patern Tea House and Nine Curve Bridge, Several Views of the Bund (Street View with the Original Building of the Shanghai Club, Bandstand in the Bund Public Garden, Various Parts of Bund Riverfront), &c. Ca. 1900s.
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Album with 74 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Printed Postcards, Showing USS “Dale” and other Warships of the US Asiatic Fleet, Chinese Troops, Camps, Artillery Guns and Scenes of Destruction during the Xinhai Revolution, China Inland Mission Boys School in Chefoo (Yantai), Scenes of Forceful Removal of a Queue of an Elderly Chinese Man, &c. Ca. 1910s.
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Thring, Alicia Anne (1783-1862). Twenty Watercolours of Chinese Subjects, the Majority Showing Chinese Costumes, Mounted on Seven Album Leaves. Clifton, Bristol: June 25th 1824.
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Collection of Twenty-one Large Albumen Photographs of Classic Period Sights in Greece with Eighteen Taken in Athens with an Emphasis on the Acropolis Including Photos of the Parthenon, Olympieion, Erechtheion, Theater and the Temple of Athena Nike. Ca. 1890.
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Historically Interesting Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by a Trailblazing Stockman of Bent County, Colorado, Offering a Prospective Buyer to Purchase his Ranch in West Las Animas for $35,000 and Urging Him To Consider the Acquisition with Haste “As Some Parties Are Negotiating for the Property.” West Las Animas, Colorado: 21 August 1878
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Barker, Leverett N. (1834-1930). Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in Oriskany Falls, New York, Talking About his New Shop, the Construction of a Railroad Planned to Reach Eddyville, and a Description of the Recent Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Eddyville [Iowa]: 25 January 1859.
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Album of 48 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of a Hunting Trip in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Including Campsites, Their Horses and Carriage, a Rural Post Office, and Hotel Colorado Titled: Off for the Rockies – Two Spike Club 1901
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$ 375.00
Cancellieri, Girolamo Francesco (1751-1826). Dissertazioni Epistolari Bibliografiche di Francesco Cancellieri sopra Cristoforo Colombo di Cvccaro nel Monferrato Discopritore dell' America e Giovanni Gersen ... Al ... Cavaliere Gianfrancesco Galeani Napione. [Bibliographical Dissertations and Correspondence by Francesco Cancellieri About Christopher Columbus]. Roma: Francesco Bovrlie, 1809.
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Bossoli, Carlo (1815-1884). [Hand Coloured Tinted Lithograph View of the Southern Crimean Shore with the Distant view of the Vorontsov Palace and Crimean Mountains in the Background]. [London]: Day & Son, [1856].
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$ 3500.00
Robertson, James (1813-1888); Beato, Felice (1832-1909), attributed to. Collection of Six Loose Salt Paper Prints, Showing Sevastopol and Environs During the Crimean War and in the Aftermath of the Capture of the Malakhov/Malakoff Redoubt on September 8, 1855. Ca. 1855-1856.
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Rohlfs, Friedrich Gerhard (1831-1896). Autograph Letter in German Signed "Gerhard Rohlfs" Dated at New York 29 Nov. 1875 and Addressed to most Likely his American Agent Regarding two Lectures Rohlfs is Planning in the United States."[With] A Carte de Visite Sized Albumen Photograph of Rohlfs ca. 1875 (9 x 5.5 cm) Signed in Black ink on Bottom of the Original Paper Mount. New York, 29 Nov. 1875.
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$ 650.00
Morland, John. Official Autograph Letter Signed to Miguel Tacón y Rosique, Captain General of Cuba in 1834-38, from U.S. Acting Consul in Havana John Morland, Asking for Release of Eugine Newman, an American Seaman of the U.S. Vessel “Cavalier” who was “confined in the Stocks at the Prison;” With: the Official Translation of the Letter into Spanish. Havana: Consulate of the United States of America, 7 August 1834.
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$ 425.00
Harvey, Robert (1848-1920). Original Watercolour View of the Morro Castle in Havana. 1905.
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West, Isaac E., Attorney at Law (1838-1900) & “Laughing Sam” (Hartman, Samuel S.). Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S. Hartman), and Mentioning the New Governor of the Dakota Territory William A. Howard, the First State’s Attorney of the Lawrence County A.J. Flanner, and Yankton’s Store Owner and Public Figure A.W. Lavender. Yankton, D[akota]. T[erritory]: 25 April 1878.
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