0
Our Shop Item Type
Browse by region
Browse by Item Type
New Acquisitions
See all items
Latest catalogue Contact
ADDRESS
332 Balboa Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone (415) 668-4723 | Fax (415) 668-4723
info@globusrarebooks.com
HOURS
Tue-Sun 11 am – 5 pm
Mon CLOSED
Search results:
525 Results
SORT BY
RECENT ITEMS
  • New→Old
PRICE
  • Min→Max
  • Max→Min
TITLE
  • A→Z
  • Z→A
YEAR
  • Min→Max
  • Max→Min
$ 2500.00
Collection of Sixty-Nine Early Original Albumen Stereoview Photographs of Egypt, Showing the Alexandria Waterworks and Kom Ad Dikah Neighbourhood, Almost Certainly Taken by European Associates of the Waterworks and Their Servants, Views of Cairo, and Ancient Egyptian Temples and Sites along the Nile. 1863-4.
Read more
Gentz, Wilhelm and Ismael, Mueller, Leopold and Welsch, Charles. Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles Welsch, Used as Prototypes for Illustrations in Georg Ebers’ Encyclopaedic Work “Aegypten in Bild und Wort (Stuttgart & Leipzig 1879-80);” [Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque] [With]: Complete Sets of both the First German and the First English Editions of the Book. Ca. 1870s.
Read more
Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm (ca. 1830 - d. 1869); Maison Bonfils (1867-1909) [Attributed to]. Historically Significant Album with Twenty-Three Original Albumen Photos of Egypt, Showing the Early, Pre-Restoration Views of Ancient Landmarks in Cairo (Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Mosque of Mahmud Pasha, Tombs of Caliphs & Mamluks, Funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay), Luxor (Temple of Khonsu, Grand colonnade of Amenophis), and Nubia (Temple of Al-Maharraqa Temples at Wadi es-Sabua, Abu Simbel Temple, Kiosk of Qertassi, Trajan’s Kiosk). Ca. 1860s.
Read more
Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken by a Passenger of the SS “City of Cairo”, Showing Nubian and Sudanese Cities and Villages along the White Nile, from Ibrim to Kosti, Including Khartoum, Omdurman, Wad-Alzaky, Ad Douiem and Others; Several Views of the Blue Nile, and a Three-Part Panorama of Port Said. 1924-6.
Read more
Greene, Captain Dominick Sarsfield (1826-1892), Royal Artillery and Aide-de-Camp. Original Mounted Watercolour Titled in Pencil on Verso: "Port Said." Ca. 1857.
Read more
Watercolour View of the Great Pyramids of Giza with the Nile in the Foreground. Ca. 1900.
Read more
Album with Thirty Original Watercolours Showing English Costumes of the Regency Era. [England]: ca. 1820.
Read more
Album of Twenty-Two Watercolours of the English Lake District and Western Scotland. Ca. 1870s.
Read more
$ 275.00
[Vidocq, Eugène François] (1775-1857). A Page from a Private Diary with the Latest News on the Case of the Famous Private Detective Eugene Vidocq: Vidoeq in Jail. French Ministry of War Found Their Associates Leaking Important Documents to a Russian Agent. 6 February 1838.
Read more
$ 175.00
Waddington, George (1793-1869). Autograph Letter Signed “George Waddington” Declining to Participate in a Public Meeting. London: 13 May 1864.
Read more
Trapman, Adrian Sidney Gilbert Reginald (1910-1937). Collection of Three Albums with ca. 307 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken and Collected by a British Vice-Consul in Addis Ababa Shortly Before and During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Showing Addis Ababa and Jimma, Emperor Haile Selassie I, German and Italian Ambassadors in Ethiopia, Members of the British Legation, Italian Military Planes and Airfield at Mekelle, Bombing of Ethiopian Troops and Villages, Burning and Looting of Addis Ababa in May 1936, Refugee Camp at the British Legation, etc.; With: a Menu of “A Dinner at the Lansdowne Club on Friday, April 30th 1937, for Those who were in Abyssinia During the Autumn, Winter and Spring of 1935 and 1936,” Signed by Trapman and over a Dozen Other Participants. Ca. 1934-1937.
Read more
Collection of Two Unsigned Watercolour Street Views of Bristol, Titled on Verso: St. John’s Gate, Bristol; St. Augustine's’ Gate, Bristol. Ca. 1870.
Read more
Holdsworth, Ellen A. A Panoramic Watercolour of the Tower of London from St. Olaves Wharf Signed and Dated: "E.A. Holdsworth 1898."
Read more
Mackay, J., Royal Engineers. Large Signed Watercolour Panorama of Gibraltar, Titled: Gibraltar.
Read more
Dolgorukov, Vladimir Andreevich, prince (1810-1891). Autograph Letter Signed “Prince Vladimir Dolgorouki,” written when he was the General Governor of Moscow. Moscow, 18/30 December 1873.
Read more
Official Indenture of a Land Transfer: Conveyance of One Sixth part of a Customary Estate called Skirreth held of the Mansion of Ingleton (Lancashire); between William Gillison Bell the Younger Esq. Of the City of Saint Petersburg in Russia merchant, and Thomas Graven Esq. Saint Petersburg, 2 June 1816.
Read more
Holm, P.A.. Skildringer og Sagn fra Færøerne. [Description and Legends of the Faeroe Islands]. Copenhagen: K. Schonbergs, 1860
Read more
$ 525.00
Gordon, George Huntley, Major. Original Watercolour View of Florence, Titled: San Miniato and Porta St. Nicholo – Florence. March 1896.
Read more
$ 425.00
Jomard, Edme François (1777-1862). Autograph Letter Signed 'Jomard' to Louis Leon Jacob, French Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, Regarding the Recently Published Report of Francois Leprieur’s Voyage in the Interior of French Guiana. Paris: 23 October 1834.
Read more
$ 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.
Read more
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.
Read more
Original Large Five Part Gelatin Silver Photograph Panorama of Tbilisi, Georgia. Ca. 1890.
Read more
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.
Read more
Sakhareba [i.e. The Gospels]. Istanbul, 1819.
Read more
Album with 196 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Ghana (Accra, Aburi) and Eritrea (Asmara, Massawa, Cheren) Taken by a U.S. Air Force Serviceman in the Last Years of WWII, with Interesting Photos Including a “Witch Doctor Scaring away Evil Spirits After a Death of a Native,” G. I.’s Sharing Cigarettes with the Crowd of Locals, Native Women Shopping in their Traditional Attire, Soldiers “Getting Shoes Shined” by the Local Children & Holding Burst Shells on the Cheren Battlefield, etc.; also with the Photos of Military Installations, the Church of Our Lady of Rosary, the Asmara Cinema, Red Cross & Grand Hotels, etc. Ca. 1940s.
Read more