Album of Over 130 Albumen Cartes-de-Visite Photographs and Over 45 Pieces of Travel Ephemera from a Grand Tour of Europe, Showing Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice, Ravenna, Siena, Perugia, Bologna), Britain (London, Oxford, York, Stratford-on-Avon, Country Estates), France (Paris, Strasbourg), Austria (Vienna, Gratz), and Germany (Nuremberg, Passau); the Album is Titled: From Rome Dec 15th, 1869 to Edinburgh May 27th, 1870. Ca. 1869-1870.
Historically Important Album with Thirty-Four Original Photographs of Batumi, Taken by a Russian Soldier or his Female Companion in 1905, Showing the Turkish Bazaar with Fruit Sellers, Street Vendors, and Russian Officers on Patrol; Shoemakers Polishing Clients’ Footwear; Local Workers Smoking and Posing for the Camera; and Views of Decked Ships, the Riverfront, the Commercial Harbor, Gardens, Beaches, and Surrounding Areas (including Buknari and Cape Verde); also, with the Photos of Surami and Pyatigorsk; titled: Album. Ca. 1905.
Album with Thirty-Four Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Famous Georgian Resort Borjomi and Its Environs, Including the Romanov Palace in Likani, Borjomi Cargo Railway Station, Saw Mill, Sanatorium of Dr. Hambachidze, Tabatskuri Lake, and Others. Ca. 1900s.
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.
Chatskin, S. პირველინი პოლუსზე. მოთხრობა როალდ ამუნდსენისა და რობერტ სკოტის შესახებ [i.e. First to the Pole. The story about Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott] / edited by T.Vardosanidze Tbilisi: Gosizdat, 1936.
British Military Memorandum Book with Manuscript Records of 18 Manoeuvres Performed during Field Days or Reviews in Gibraltar, with two Records from Devonport and Cork (Ireland); Referencing the 64th, 23rd, 43rd and 37th Regiments of Foot, Titled in Manuscript: Memorandum Book of Captain Le Blanc’s Company. Belfast, 24th March 1819. Ca. 1824-1827.
Large Photograph Panorama of the Western Face of the Rock of Gibraltar with the Inner Harbour, the Settlement Ascending the Slopes of the Rock, and the Moorish Castle Above. Ca. 1870.
Estcourt, James Bucknall Bucknall (1803-1855). Attractive Collection of Thirteen Early Watercolour and Pencil Drawings of Gibraltar, Showing Gibraltar Harbour from the South Mall, O’Hara’s Tower, Interiors of St. George’s Hall and Ragged Staff Guard House, Cabrita Point, Spanish Towns and Sites on the Shores of the Bay of Gibraltar (San Rogue, Castellar de la Frontera, Algeciras, Guadarranque River, Sierra Carbonera), Soldiers of the 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry Regiment during Exercise, &c. Ca. 1820s.
Smith, Admiral Sir William Sidney (1764 - 1840). Archive of Five Autograph Letters Signed and Documents relating to the Career and Life of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith. The Letters and Documents are all in French and written in the Period from 1818 to 1838 when Admiral Smith was a Resident in Paris. Paris & Other: 1818-1838.
Puig, Jose Esplugas (fl. ca. 1880s-1900s), Rocafully y Monfort, Rafael (1825 – ca. 1902), & others. Interesting Collection of Thirteen Original Albumen Studio Photos, Showing Gibraltar, Cadiz, El Puerto de Santa Maria, a Portrait of a Young Torero; With: Nine Period Photogravures with Views of Barcelona, Vigo and Montserrat Monastery. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
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.
Humorous Erotic Manuscript Patent Given to “M. Pantelm” to Travel through the Cupid Island with Extensive Description of his Rights in the Domain of Legs and other Seductive Parts. [France], 1843.
Fratelli Alinari (fl. ca. 1850s-1890s) and others. Interesting Collection of Five Early Original Albumen Studio Photos, Showing Thessaloniki (Arch of Galerius, Street in the Kalamaria District with a Minaret, General View Taken from the Heptapyrgion Fortress) and Ruins of the Temples of Athena and Apollo in Selinunte (Sicily). Ca. 1880s-1890s.
Fawkes, H.C. Photo Album with Forty-nine Original Photographs from a Voyage to Palermo and Naples, with Four Original Watercolours made during the Trip, and Numerous Ephemera, Including Dinner Menus, Advertising Leaflets, and Twenty-five Colour and Black and White Printed Postcards. 1905.
Coutinho, Domingos António de Sousa, 1st Conde and Marquis de Funchal (1760-1833). Manuscript Report by a Notable Portuguese Diplomat, Reporting on Napoleon's 1800 Campaign in Italy, including the Battle of Marengo. Livorno: 6 July 1800.
Brogi, Giacomo (1822-1881); Fratelli Alinari (fl. ca. 1854-1920s); Bolletti Fotografi (fl. ca. 1870s?). Album of 46 Albumen Photographs and Five Watercolour Paintings Showing Italy, Including Perugia (Piazza IV Novembre, Appian Way, Etruscan Arch), Pisa (Piazza dei Miracoli), Pompeii (Ruins of Pompeii), Venice (St. Mark’s Square, Bridge of Sighs), Naples, Amalfi, Vietri, etc. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
Nos Universitas Prelatorum Baronum, Magnatum, et Nobilium Comitatus Barsiensis, Damus pro Memoria… [A Historically Interesting Original Manuscript Document Signed by Hungarian Nobles, Containing a Certified Judicial Record of a Retrial (novum judicium) Between Two Hungarian Noblewomen, Anna Petrikovics and Krisztina Szádeczky]. Kingdom of Hungary, Aranyos-Maróth (Zlaté Moravce), 1799.
A small archive of Valgie Bluzmans, a Latvian Immigrant to Be, at The Time of Him Being Held at DP Camp in Germany, Getting Ready to Make a Trip to United States.