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$ 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.
$ 525.00
Original Unsigned Ink Drawing Titled in Pencil on Verso:] ".., bei Lantschou..," Ca. 1905.
$ 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.
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
$ 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 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.
[Kitchin, Eleanor Harriet] (1888-1969). Interesting Private Archive of Nineteen Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and ca. Thirty Manuscript, Typewritten and Printed Documents and Ephemera (Letters, Notes, Mandarin Chinese Reading Worksheets, Invitations, Business Cards, Greeting Cards, Newspaper Clippings, a Program of a Charity Enterntainment in Shanghai, &c.), Made and Collected by an American Female Teacher and Administrator in the Y.W.C.A. Establishments in China in the 1920s. Ca. 1922-1925.
$ 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.
$ 3500.00
Stepanov, A.P. Yeniseyskaya Guberniya [i.e. Yeniseysk Governorate]. St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Conrad Wingeber, 1835.
$ 950.00
Makarenko, Alexei Alexeevich (1860-1942). Sibirskii Narodnii Kalendar v Etnograficheskom Otnoshenii. Vostochnaia Sibir. Eniseiskaia Gubernia [Siberian Folk Calendar in Ethnographical Prospective. Eastern Siberia. Yenisei Province]. Published as vol. 36 of "Zapiski Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obschestva po Otdeleniiu Etnografii" (The Proceedings of the Ethnographical Department of Russian Geographical Society /ed. By A.S. Ermolov). Saint Petersburg: State Typography, 1913.
$ 3250.00
Cosens, Robert, Lieutenant-Colonel (1866-1943). Album of 192 Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs Compiled by Robert Cosens, a British Military Officer, Documenting His Service in Gibraltar, India, Egypt, and Burma, with Group Portraits of Regiments and Officers; Photos of British Barracks, Camps, Reviews, a Wedding of a British Officer in Madras; and Views of Gibraltar, Alexandria, Port Said, Cairo, Malta, etc. Ca. 1890s-1930s.
$ 1750.00
Zangaki Brothers (ca. 1880s-1890s); Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860s-1900); Mauri, Achille (active ca. 1840s-1890s). Album of Thirty Studio Photographs of Egypt (Alexandria, Cairo), Myanmar (Mandalay), and Morocco (Tangier); also with the Photos of Gibraltar and Italy (Naples, Pompeii). Ca. 1888-1896
$ 3950.00
Historically Significant Album with 128 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and 17 Printed Postcards Taken during a Voyage to German New Guinea, German Samoa and Fiji, Showing Settlements and Papuan People of the Bismark Archipelago, Ceremony of Hoisting German Imperial Flag in Samoa, the First Governor of German Samoa Wilhelm Solf, Paramount Chief of German Samoa Mata’afa Josefo, Wreck of SMS “Adler” in Apia Harbour, Native Samoans, German Colonial Residents, Samoan, Papuana dn Fijian Warriors, Views of Banda Islands, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 1500.00
Interesting Collection of Two Folders with over 150 Original Film Negatives, Taken by a French Traveller in Tahiti in the 1930s, Showing Native Women in Traditional Costumes, Dancers, Fishermen, Families, Villages, Beaches, Mountains and Forests, the Compiler and His Friends, a City Embankment with a Naval Ship (Likely, in Papeete), “Saint Lazare” Church, Coastal Views, Sailing Voyage on a Schooner, &c. Ca. 1930s.
$ 325.00
Oldham, R[ichard] D[ixon] (1858-1936). A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of the Geological Survey. Stratigraphical and Structural Geology. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1893.
$ 2500.00
Interesting Album with 58 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by Soviet Tourists during Hiking Trips in Georgia and North Osetia, Showing Terek River, Dariali Gorge, Gergeti Glacier, Mount Kazbek, Krestovy/Jvary Pass, Batumi Seafront and Botanical Garden, Mamison Pass on the Ossetian Military Road, Tseydon/Tsey River, Tourist Base in Tsey, “Devil’s Bridge” over the Ardon River, Upper Reaches of the Rioni River, Ossetian Villages and People, Tourists Hiking, Resting, Posing next to Sites, &c., the Album is Titled: I my… po Kavkazu. 1936 [And we are… in the Caucasus. 1936]. Ca. 1936-1938.
$ 12500.00
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Sakhareba [i.e. The Gospels]. Istanbul, 1819.
