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$ 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.
$ 525.00
Pritchett, B.J. Original Watercolour Showing the Harbour of Coquimbo, Chile. January 1851.
$ 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.
$ 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.
$ 750.00
[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.
$ 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.
$ 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.
$ 525.00
Original Unsigned Ink Drawing Titled in Pencil on Verso:] ".., bei Lantschou..," Ca. 1905.
$ 2500.00
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Extensive Collection of 14 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and 87 Phototypes of Imperial China and Its People, Showing the Sites of Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Yichang Gorge, Yangtze River Rapids, Portraits of Prince Gong, Chinese Statesman Li Hongchang, “Jui-Lin, Governor General,” “Chinese Coal Miners,” Peasants, Beggars, Boatsmen, Musicians, Buddhist Priests, a Painter, a Barber at Work, a Cotton Spinner, a Weaver, “Tientsin men,” Families, Children, People Looking inside a Magic Lantern, a “Mendicant Priest,” a “Manchu Soldier,” a Firewood Carrier in Sichuan, &c. Ca. 1890s-1900s.
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.
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.
$ 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.
$ 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
$ 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.
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.
$ 1750.00
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.
$ 1250.00
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.
$ 750.00
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.
$ 750.00
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
$ 650.00
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.
$ 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.
$ 475.00
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].
