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$ 525.00
Collection of 22 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Costa Rica, Illustrating American Naval Sailors’ Shore Leave in the 1920s, and Showing Puntarenas (“Liberty Landing and Welcome Crowd,” Advertising Board of Film Showings), San Jose (“Admiral McLean and City Officials,” Costa Rican Police Officers with “American Patrol,” Bellavista Fortress, Iglesia de la Merced, “Native Ice Cream Vendor”), Pacific Railroad, etc. Ca. 1920s.
$ 750.00
Collection of 25 Gelatin Silver Photographs of El Salvador, Illustrating American Naval Sailors’ Shore Leave in the 1920s, and Showing La Union (“Liberty Landing,” Church), San Miguel (Train Station), San Salvador (Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Plaza Gerardo Barrios, “Orphans” Walking to School, Street Scenes), etc. Ca. 1920s.
$ 2250.00
[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.
$ 275.00
Hedin, Sven Anders 1865-1952. A Signed Photo Postcard of Hedin. Stockholm: Paul Heckscher, ca. 1910.
$ 250.00
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.
$ 4500.00
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.
$ 2250.00
[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).
$ 15000.00
Hofstein, D. Troyer [i.e. Mourning] Kyiv: Kooperativn farlag “Kultur-lige”, 1922.
$ 425.00
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.
$ 525.00
Pritchett, B.J. Original Watercolour Showing the Harbour of Coquimbo, Chile. January 1851.
$ 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.
$ 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.
$ 525.00
Original Unsigned Ink Drawing Titled in Pencil on Verso:] ".., bei Lantschou..," Ca. 1905.
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.
$ 525.00
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.
$ 6500.00
Historically Significant Original Manuscript Logbook, Recording the First Voyage of a New England East Indiaman “America” from New York to Macao and Back in June 1809 – June 1810, Including Notes on the Trade with the Natives of the “Bally Town” (Eastern Lombok, Indonesia) and Audience with the Local “King,” Navigation in the Western Pacific Ocean and Sighting of an “island I did not Find Laid Down in any Chart,” Observation of Two Large Comets in the Indian Ocean “the Blare of Which Lasted Nearly 5 Minutes,” Entries on Endured Storms, Encountered Vessels, a Fight on Board, a Crew Member Falling Overboard, &c. 24 June 1809 – 9 June 1810.
$ 1500.00
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.
$ 1500.00
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
$ 1500.00
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.
$ 2500.00
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.
$ 2250.00
Historically Significant, Attractive Lacquered Album with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photos, Taken by a U.S. Military Medical Officer during His Service in the Sternberg General Hospital in Manila Shortly Before WW2, Showing Hospital Grounds and Associates, Members of the Hospital Basketball Team, U.S. Military Facilities on Corregidor and El Fraile Islands in Manila Bay, Manila and Environs (Intramuros, San Agustin Church, City Cemetery, Nuestra Senora de Gracia Church in Makati), Baguio and Environs, Portraits of Native Filipino Women and Girls; Views of Shanghai Occupied by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese Naval Ships on the Yangtze River, Ruins of Zhabei District, Destroyed during the Battle of Shanghai, U.S. Troops on a “Hike” near Qinhuangdao, &c. Ca. late 1930s.
$ 2250.00
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.
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.
