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$ 1250.00
Martin, Josiah (1843-1916); Valentine, George Dobson (1852-1890); & others. Album of 17 Albumen Studio Photographs of New Zealand, showing Arthur River, Auckland, Wellington, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Lake Rotorua, Rotorua Sanatorium and Malfroy Geysers, Waiotapu (Rainbow Hill, Sulphur Terrace, White Terrace before 1886 eruption), Mt. Tarawera, Whakarewarewa, Ohinemutu (Tametekapua meeting house), etc. Ca. 1880s.
$ 7500.00
Humphrys, George, Esq. (ca. 1802-1873); Kebbell, John (1810-1879); Briggs, Mary Jane (1811-1893); Broughton, Bryan Sneyd Herbert (ca. 1838-1862), & Others. Historically Significant Archive of ca. 150 Documents, Including Over 80 Original Autograph Letters Signed (with Thirteen Original Envelopes), 50 Period Copies or Drafts of Original Letters, ca. 20 Financial Documents and a Deed of Land Purchase, Regarding the Pastoral Runs in the Onahau Bay (Queen Charlotte Sound) and Pelorus Sound in the Marlborough Province of New Zealand’s South Island. Wellington, Onahau Bay, Nelson, Picton, Christchurch, Suffolk House (Cheltenham, England), Liverpool & others, ca. 1860-1872.
$ 2950.00
Chepigovsky, I. Kratkaya osetinskaya grammatika [i.e. Brief Ossetian Grammar]. Vladikavkaz: Tipografiya-Skoropechatnya Z. I. Shuvalova, 1880.
$ 950.00
Novaya Zelandiya i Okeania, ili Ostrova Yuzhnogo Moria [i.e. New Zealand and Oceania, or the Islands of the South Sea]. St. Petersburg: Obschestvennaya pol’za, 1874.
$ 2250.00
Historically Significant Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Troops’ Movements and Maneuvres in the Western Provinces of British India – mostly, in Punjab and Sind (Modern-Day Pakistan), Showing Military Camps, Officers and Soldiers, a Military Train of the North Western Railway, Sialkot (British Cantonment, Clock Tower, Holy Trinity Cathedral, St. James Catholic Church, 0-Mile Monument), Kotri Bridge, Kamoke Railway Station, &c. Ca. 1920s.
$ 3500.00
[Connor, John Richard, Colonel, Royal Pakistan Engineers, CBE] (1908-1970). Historically Significant Private Archive of Three Albums with ca. 870 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Seven Large Loose Photos and Seven Documents, From the Estate of the First Commandant of the Royal Pakistan Engineers, With Interesting Images of the Royal Pakistan Engineer Centres and Traning Facilities in Sialkot and Risalpur, Scenes from Visits and Inspecitons by Government Officials and Military Commanders, Numerous Portraits of Members of Pakistan Engineers’ Athletic Teams, Scenes from Athletic Competitions, “Olympic Games Trials, 1956,” “Empire and Commonwealth Games 1958,” Views of Attock, Tota Khan, Chakdara, Kund, Torbela, Kaghan Valley &c.; The Documents Include Two “Grants” for Connors’ awards of the Order of the British Empire (signed by King George VI and later Queen Elizabeth II), and Two Farewell Addresses from the Training Centre of the Royal Pakistan Engineers in Risalpur. Ca. 1940s – 1960s.
$ 525.00
Unsigned Watercolour View of the Rohtas Fort, Punjab, Pakistan, Titled on Verso: Fort of Rhotas, Punjab. Ca. 1870.
$ 2250.00
Holmes, Randolph Bezzant (1888-1973). Collection of Twenty-One Loose Gelatin Silver Photos of the Operations of British Indian Army during the Waziristan Campaign of 1919-1920, and Showing British Camp in Sorarogha, Military Engineering Works and Roads in Barari Tangi, Hazara Cliff, Zawa Kili Tangi, Hurley’s Corner, Marobi, Piazha Algal River, Bangilawa Tower, Portraits of British Military Commanders, Local Chiefs, Scenes with British Troops Firing Cannons, Taking Part in a Review, &c. Ca. 1919-early 1920s.
$ 650.00
Collection of 24 Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the 117th Engineer Combat Battalion during the Bougainville Campaign (November 1943 to September 1944), etc. July 1943 - September 1944.
$ 1500.00
Barber, George W. Album of 179 Photographs Showing the Philippines after World War II, Including Reconstruction Efforts by Weihe, Frick and Kruse (Group Portraits of Architects and Engineers, Construction Sites, Employees Working at Desks), Clark Air Base, Destruction of Manila (Manila Post Office, Legislative Building, etc.), Portraits of Filipinos, Street Scenes and Rural Life (a Parade, Oxen-Drawn Carts), etc. Ca. 1948.
$ 3500.00
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Ayton, Charles Dudley (1873-1950); Ayton, Ethel Lydia (1883-1970, née Reich). Interesting Extensive Private Archive of ca. 45 Original Manuscripts (Including a 98-Page Diary), Typewritten Official Documents, Invitations, Newspaper Clippings and Printed Ephemera, from the Estate of a Spanish-American War Veteran (Later Resident of California) Who Lived and Worked in Manila in the 1910s – Early 1920s. Ca. 1911-1925, 1939, 1950.
$ 2250.00
Historically Significant Album with ca. 88 Photos, And Two Real Postcards of Mostly Philippines, Complied by an American Senior Chief Petty Officer In Service on US Navy Radio Station in Las Baños Showing The Panoramas of The Station, Views From The Top of Recently Constructed Radio Towers, And The Towers Itself, Coconut Rafts in Pagsanjan, Filipino Ferry, Fishing in the Filipino River, Santa Cruz Bridge, Manila, Candle Vendors in Antipolo, Market Scenes, Flooded Streets in Manila, Group Photos of Moro Children, The Excursion of the Nurses From St.Paul’s Hospital to Los Baños (1913), Riza St. in Los Baños, U.S. Ambulance & Signal Corp Camping in Los Baños Laguna, Isuan Factory Hotel, Los Baños Dock, Town Park in Cavite, Water Tower, Photos of 2 American Sailors, Their Wifes and Their Home in Philippines, Local Farmers with their Cattle and Riding Horseback, Taal Basilica, The Ricefields and Views of Philippine Scenery and Towns; Also Showing 7 Views of Radio Station on Tatoosh Island, WA. ca. 1913-1920s.
$ 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
Album with 130 Original Photos of the 1939-1940 Soviet Oil Exploration Expedition to Nordvik Bay, Showing the Expedition Base Camp (General View, Bathhouse, etc.), Construction Works (Rotor No 2), Team Members (Including the Compiler and his Wife), Equipment (Boiler Room, Rotor Drilling Rig, Oil Drilling Rigs, etc.), and Infrastructure (Meteorological Station, Tankette, etc.); also, with the Photos of a Local Fire, Funeral of Deceased Explorers, Rallies, and Native Yakuts; titled: Alʹbom dlya malyuvannya [Album for Drawing]. Ca. 1939-1940.
$ 950.00
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Suzuki, Yōnosuke [ed.by], Yosaku, Narita [text and translation]. Karafuto oyobi Kita Enkai-shū = 樺太及北沿海州. Tōkyō: Tōa Dōbunkai, Meiji 38 [1905].
$ 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
Fischer, Johann Eberhard (1697-1771). Sibirskaya Istoriya s samogo Otkrytiya Sibiri to Zavoyevaniya sei Zemli Rossiiskim Oruzhiem, Sochinyonnaya na Nemetskom Yazyke i v Sobranii Akademicheskom Chitannaya Chlenom Sanktpeterburgskoi Akademii Hauk i Professorom Drevnostey i Istorii, tak zhe Chlenom Istoricheskogo Gettingskogo Sobraniya Iogannom Ebergardom Fischerom [Siberian History from the Discovery of Siberia to the Conquest of this Land by Russian Arms, Written in German and Read in the Academy’s Session by a Member of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Professor of History and Antiquities, a Member of Göttingen School of History, Johann Eberhard Fischer]. Saint Petersburg: Imp. Academy of Sciences, 1774.
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].
$ 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.
$ 3250.00
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Nine Folders with over 700 Original Film Negatives and an Album with 96 Well-Annotated Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by a French Resident of Indochina in the 1930s; With Interesting Images of Angkor Wat Temple Complex, the Royal Palace of Cambodia, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Chau Doc and Nearby Villages, Battambang, Buddhist Temples and Sculptures, Scenes of Public Celebrations, Military Parades, Street Processions, Portraits of Native Farmers, Musicians, Dancers, Elephant Drivers, Buddhist Monks, Tribesmen, Families and Children, &c. Ca. 1930s.
$ 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.
