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Collection of Eighteen Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Real Photo Postcards Taken and Collected during the Czechoslovak Legion’s Revolt against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Russian Far East in the 1910s-1920s, Showing the Legion’s Defense of the Krasnoyarsk Bridge, Soldiers Posing at the Site of a Train Collision in Yekaterinburg, Czech Militaries and Hussites Celebrating the Overthrow of the Soviet Power, Soldiers Awaiting the Evacuation from Vladivostok, etc.; also, with a Photo of the Destroyed Ononsky Bridge in Manchuria in 1918. Ca. 1917-1929.
$ 125.00
Two Original Photograph Views of Vladivostok. Ca. 1899.
$ 2250.00
Rodevich, Vsevolod Mikhailovich (1878-1942). Ocherk Uriankhaiskogo Kraya (Mongolskogo Basseina Reki Eniseya)/ Materialy dlya Opisaniya Russkikh Rek i Istorii Uluchsheniya ikh Sudokhodnykh Uslovii. Vyp. XXIV. Izdaniye Upravleniya Vnutrennikh Vodnykh Putey i Shosseynykh Dorog (po Otdely Vodyanykh Soobscheniy). [Description of the Uriankhai Region (Mongolian Basin of the Yenisei River)/ Materials for the Description of the Russian Rivers and the History of Enhancing the Navigation Along Them. Vol. XXIV. Issued by the Administration of the Internal Waterways and Highways]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of the Ministry of Transport (Kushnerev & Co.), 1910.
$ 2750.00
Schrenck, Leopold von (1826-1894). Ocherk Fizisheskoi Geografii Severo-Iaponskogo Moria. Prilozhenie k XVI-mu tomu Zapisok Imp. Akademii Nauk. No. 3 [A Sketch of Physical Geography of Northern Sea of Japan. Supplement to Vol. XVI of the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. No. 3]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1869.
$ 7500.00
[Semivsky/Semivskii, Nikolai Vasilyevich, 1767-1816] (Vice-Governor of the Irkutsk Province), [Losev, Ivan Antonovich] (artist). Noveyshie, Lyubopytnye i Dostovernye Povestvovaniya o Vostochnoi Sibiri, iz Chego Mnogoe Donyne ne Bylo Vsem Izvestno [The Newest, Curious and Reliable Narrations about Eastern Siberia Mostly Unknown to the Public Before]. Saint Petersburg: Military Typography of His Imperial Majesty’s General Staff, 1817.
Mesiatsoslov s Rospisju Chinovnykh Osob v Gosudarstve, na Leto ot Rozhdestva Christova 1802 [Calendar for the Year 1802 after the Birth of Christ, with an Annotated List of all State Officials]. Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, [1801].
$ 2750.00
Moore-Bennett, Helen Fletcher (née Latimer) (1891 – ca. 1960s); Moore-Bennett, Arthur John (1877-1950). Historically Significant Scrapbook with ca. 170 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards, Various Manuscript and Printed Ephemera (Business or Calling Cards, Store and Suppliers’ Receipts, Hotel Invoices, Telegrams, Autograph Letters Signed, Original Envelopes, Telegrams and Newspaper Clippings), Taken and Collected during a Ten-Year-Long Cruise on Yacht “Medea” from Shanghai to Hong Kong, Singapore, Around the Malay Peninsula and thence to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Goa, Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Cyprus, &c. Ca. 1931-1940 (the period of the voyage), but some photos and documents cover the period from 1913 to 1965.
$ 950.00
Album of 113 Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Solomon Islands (US Soldiers, the Wrecks of a Japanese Submarine and Yamazuki Maru, Japanese Troop Transport), Guam after the Battle of Guam (Inarajan (St. Joseph’s Church), Umatac (Umatac School, Outdoor Library, San Dionisio Church), Portraits of Chamorro People), and Portraits of Melanesians (Likely Ni-Vanuatu) in Traditional Dress, etc. Ca. 1940s.
$ 4500.00
Skeen & Co. (fl. ca. 1860s-1920s); The Colombo Apothecaries Co. LTD. (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Scowen, Charles Thomas (1852-1948) & Others. Album with 77 Original Albumen Photos of Sri Lanka, Showing Colombo, Kandy, Portraits of Market Sellers, Tea Pluckers, Buddhist Monks, a “Kandian Chief,” a Female Musician, a Snake Charmer, &c., Titled: Der ferne Osten. Ca. 1890s.
$ 950.00
Cleather, William H., Captain‚ 1st Ceylon Regiment (1783-1820). Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales, Describing his Early Service in the Military Regiment in British Ceylon, with notes on His Travel to Ceylon on Board HMS Thalia, Colombo Garrison and Officers, Local Society, Day Schedule et al. 1805-6.
$ 425.00
Short, Edward Morrison de Courcy (b. 1857). Two Finely Executed Pencil Drawings of Colombo, Ceylon. 1887.
$ 950.00
Skeen & Co (ca. 1860s-1920s) & others. Album of 12 Albumen Studio Photographs of Colombo, Showing Its Harbour and Breakwater, Chatham Street, Mount Lavinia, Kelani River Pontoon Bridge, a Hindu Temple, a Religious Procession, etc. Ca. 1890s.
$ 950.00
Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c. 1913-1914.
$ 2750.00
[O’Vary, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’Vary, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958). Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931. Ca. 1929-1931.
$ 4500.00
Schmidt, Yakov Ivanovich (Isaak Jakob) (1779-1847). Tibetsko-Russky Slovar c Prisovokuplyeniyem Alfavitnogo Spiska [Tibetan-Russian Dictionary with Addition of the Alphabetic List [of Russian Words]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1843.
$ 525.00
Brown Sepia Watercolour View of the Coast of Timor with Natives Boats, and a Mountainous Shore in the Distance. Ca. 1820s.
$ 1750.00
[Rare Early Drawings of Soviet Turkmenistan] Collection of Twenty-One Pencil Drawings of Ashgabat and Merv in Soviet Turkmenistan. September 1928.
$ 2500.00
Historically Significant Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur Photographs, Documenting Construction of Cast Iron Metallurgical Factories on the Vishera River and Its Tributaries (Kama River Basin, Eastern Urals), belonging to the French-Owned Volga-Vishera Mining and Metallurgical Joint-Stock Company or Société Minière et Métallurgique Volga-Vichéra, Titled: Vizhaika – Kutim, Vels – Chuvalsk. Reka Vishera i Zavody Obschestva “Volga-Vishera.” Vyaika – Koutime. Velce – Tchouvalsk. La Vichéra et les Usines de la Société «Volga-Vishera». Ca. 1890s – early 1900s.
$ 650.00
Collection of Fourteen Real Photo Postcards and One Gelatin Silver Photo of the Old Town of Bukhara in the Early Soviet Era. Ca. 1930s.
$ 3250.00
[Great Game: Khanate of Kokand] Nazarov, F.M. Zapiski o nekotorykh narodakh i zemliakh srednei chasti Azii Filippa Nazarova, otdel’nogo Sibirskogo korpusa perevodchika, posylannogo v Kokant v 1813 i 1814 godakh [i.e. Notes on People and Lands in the Central Part of Asia by Filipp Nazarov, a Translator of the Special Siberian Corps Who was sent to Kokand in 1813 and 1814]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1821.
$ 525.00
Three Original Watercolours Showing a Vietnamese Carrier, a Palanquin and a Porter. Ca. 1919.
