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$ 1250.00
Butler, Charles M. (ca. 1866 – after 1930); [Hopkins, William A.] (ca. 1862-1951). Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed to His Friend William Hopkins from Watsonville, CA, Talking about His Gold Mining on the Sunset Creek near Nome, the Success of the “Pioneer Mining Co.” on the Metson Bench and of Other Miners on the Ophir Creek, the Creation of a New Gold Mining Camp on the Iditarod River, and that “it is the hardest time I ever saw in Nome”. Nome, Alaska, 20 June 1909, 28 October 1909, 10 March 1910.
$ 2250.00
Baum, Howard E. (1911-1951); Heath, Thelma Jenny (1913-2014). Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Alaska Highway in 1946, Showing Road Signs (Border Crossings, Mile Markers, River Crossings), Service Stations, Rest Stops (Watson Creek, Trutch, Fairbanks, Fort St. John, etc.), Military Installations (US Army Rest Camp, RCAF Base), and Ephemera (Highway Travel Permits, Map, Regulations), etc. Ca. 1946.
$ 1250.00
Collection of 34 Large Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, Showing Unalaska (Views of the City, Dutch Harbour, Captain’s Bay, Holy Ascension of Our Lord Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Naval Ships Docked at Port, etc.), Biorka Village on Sedanka Island (Russian Orthodox Church and Residences), Attu Island (Chichagof Harbour, Troops and Camps from the 1943 Battle of Attu), Juneau (Mendenall Lake and Glacier, Duck Creek, Auk Bay), Denali, Ketchikan, Admiralty Island (Tongass National Forest), Akutan Island, etc. Ca. 1938-1944.
$ 4500.00
Staehlin von Storcksburg, Jakob (1709-1785), Pierre-Ludwig Le Roy. An Account of the New Northern Archipelago, Lately Discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. London: C. Heydinger, 1774.
Ennis, R.C.? Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand Point (Popof Island) and Unga Village on Unga Island (a Ghost Town Since 1969), Taken and Collected by an American Resident During WW2. Ca. 1940-1944.
$ 1750.00
Admiral M.P. Lazarev. Steel Engraved Portrait. London, ca. 1840s.
$ 425.00
Lyttelton, Alfred (1857-1913). Autograph Letter Signed “A. Lyttelton” to “My Dear Sir” Regarding the Alaska Boundary Dispute. 21 January 1904.
Tembreull, Christine Erma (1895-1961), attributed to. Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938 and Showing Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Letnikof Cove, Haines Barracks, Famous Skagway Tour Guide Martin Itjen, Indigenous People, Filipino Steerage Passengers, American Military men from Haines Barracks, Cruiseship Passengers and Captain, & c. 1938.
$ 950.00
[“Wadhams & Co”] (1865-1905). Collection of Three Manuscript and Two Typewritten Official Autograph Letters Signed to the Offices of the “Wadhams & Co.” in Portland and San Francisco, Regarding the Shipments of Deer, Hair Seal and Wolf Skins from Howkan and Loring (Alaska) and by Transit from Port Townsend (Washington). Loring, 4 May 1889; Howcan [sic!], 5 March and 26 April, 1890; San Francisco, 30 April and June 13 1890.
Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich (1776-1831) & Duncan, Archibald. Opisanie Primechatelnykh Korablekrusheniy, v Raznye Vremena Sluchivshikhsya. Sochineniye Gospodina Dunkena. S Angliyskogo Perevyol i Dopolnil Primechaniyami i Poyasneniyami v Pol’zu Rossiyskikh Moreplavateley Flota Kapitan-Komandor Golovnin. Napechatano po Poveleniyu Gosudarstvennogo Admiralteyskogo Departamenta: v 3-h chastyakh [Description of the Most Interesting Shipwrecks Which have Taken Place at Various Times. A work by Mr. Duncan. Translated from English and Supplemented with Notes and Explanations for the Use of Russian Navigators by Fleet Captain-Commander Golovnin. Published by the order of the State Admiralty Department: in 3 parts]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1853.
George, T.H. Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by a Juneau Pioneer “T. H. George” and Addressed to “Friend Easton,” Talking about the Resumption of Mining Operations and the Construction of a New Mill in the Silver Bow District; also with Notes about an Early Local Mining Company “Hayward & Lane”. Juneau, Alaska: 26 February 1895.
$ 3250.00
Ames, Sullivan Dorr (1840-1880). [Historically Significant Original Manuscript Journal, Titled:] Watch, Quarter, Station & Fire Bills, Muster Rolls, Routine, General Orders, &c. U.S. Steamer “Resaca,” Third Class. WITH: [Period Manuscript, Titled]: Copy of a Letter Addressed to Us by the W[ard]. R[oom]. Mess USS “Jamestown,” [Dated:] Sitka, Nov. 15th, 1867. WITH: [Two Official Papers Appointing Sullivan D. Ames Lieutenant Commander (1866) and Commander (1874) of the U.S. Navy]. Journal: ca. 1866-1869.
$ 1750.00
Barsukov, I.P. Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]. Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883.
$ 275.00
Barrow, John, Sir, 1st Baronet (1764-1848). Official Letter on the form of the Admiralty Signed "John Barrow" to "Sir G. Hammond, Bt., KCB" with the Latest Instructions about the Naval Armament. Admiralty: 9 December 1834.
$ 750.00
Parry, Sir William Edward (1790-1855). A Collection of Two Autograph Letters Signed "W. Parry"; With Two Engraved Portraits of William Parry: Sir Captn. W.E. Parry, R.N. Letters: 1) Mattishall, 17 April 1835.
Islavin, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1818-1855); Vasiliev, Alexander (artist); Dericker, Georgy Vasilievich (1821? – 1847, engraver). Samoyedy v Domashnyem i Obshchestvennom Bytu [The Samoyeds in Their Domestic and Social Life]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Ministry of State Properties, 1847.
$ 3250.00
Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie raznikh puteshestvii po severnim moryam… [i.e. Lomonosov’s Project and Chichagov’s Expedition; with: A Brief Description of Various Voyages in the Northern Seas and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the East Indies/ Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry. St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1854.
$ 425.00
Conway, Sir William Martin (1856-1937). Autograph Letter Signed “M. Conway” to Mr. Colles (Most Likely Literary Agent William Morris Colles (1865-1926) Regarding two Books Conway has ready "First Italian Renaissance" and one far advanced, "History of Spitsbergen". London, 13 Dec. 1901.
$ 5250.00
[Stephens, George John Frederick] (1873-1966). Historically Significant Extensive Archive of an Early Klondike Gold Miner and Enthusiast Photographer, George Stephens; the Archive includes Over 220 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Twenty-Six Amateur Real Photo Postcards, Showing the Site, Premises and Operations on the No. 11 Mining Camp on Eureka Creek (where Stephens was a Partner), His Business Partner and Klondike Pioneer Charles Fraser Hill and Fellow Miners (Martin Pekoe, John Martin, Geo. A. Philbrook, Albert McDonald, Ove Knudsen, Jonas Smith, Gus Wikstrom, Edward Lund and Many Others); Other Mining Camps in the Klondike Goldfields and Surrounding Scenery, Klondike Mines Railway, Dawson City, the Town of Grand Forks (Demolished in 1921), Indian River Bridge, Fishing and Hunting Scenes, &c.; With Two Business Cards of Charles Hill, Period Newspaper Clippings and Ephemera. Ca. 1900s. – early 1920s.
$ 950.00
Collection of Twenty-Eight Rare Early Cyanotypes of the Yosemite National Park & Alaska. Ca. 1900s.
$ 525.00
Charcot, Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste (1867-1936). Autograph Letter Signed “J. Charcot” to M. Le Guillou Written shortly after Charcot became Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Neuilly-sur-Seine, 3 May 1934.
$ 1250.00
Album with 106 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the USCGC Eastwind’s Annual Summer Cruise to Greenland (Thule Air Force Base, Cape Etoh, Grondal, and Godthab) Showing American & Canadian Vessels (USS Glynn, USCGC Westwind, and Labrador), Prominent Arctic Explorer Donald Macmillan, a Helicopter Crash Landing on the Ice, “Frog Men” Preparing for Underwater Dynamiting, Local Eskimos Posing with the Captain Rhanke, etc.; Also with the Images of Sailors Meeting Danish Admiral on the Fourth of July, Having a Beer Party, and Celebrating the Initiation Ceremony in Costumes. Ca. 1950s.
