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$ 525.00
Original Watercolour, Titled: Pachacamac Ruins. The remains of Inca Cities – Lima, Peru. Car from Callao. March 4. Ca. 1910s.
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Collection of 38 Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Mining in South America (Santo Domingo Mine, Peru; Concordia Tin Mine, Bolivia), La Paz, Santiago, Cusco, A Jungle River Tour, etc. Ca. 1908.
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$ 6500.00
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Boynton, Judd Emery (1912-1983). Historically Significant, Extensive Collection of ca. 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Berkeley Mountaineer and Photographer, Judd Emery Boynton during His Trips in South America in the 1930s, and Showing La Paz, Tiwanaku Pre-Columbian Archaeological Site, Bolivian Andes (Mt. Huayna Potosi, Charquini Glacier), “Bolivian Recruits for the War in the Chaco,” Cordillera Real Mountains, Andean Plateau, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuaman Citadel and Other Inca Ruins, Rio Pampas, the Cities of Abancay, Ayacucho and Mejorada, Track and Steam Engine of “Ferrocarril Central Andino,” Lima, Quito, Guayaquil, Panama Canal, Portraits of Native Farmers, a Woman from Otavalo, “Chief Huazcar,” “an Albino Indian Child, as White as Snow,” &c.; WITH: A Printed Advertising Leaflet of Boynton’s Documentary Movie, Titled: “Jungle Trek: A Tale of Glorious Adventure, A Motion Picture in Natural Color”. Ca. 1930s.
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$ 575.00
Coverley-Price, A. Victor (1901-1988). A Grisaille Watercolour Signed "V. Coverley-Price" Titled: Camp At 12,000 feet on the edge of the Puna in the Andes of Central Peru. Ca. 1925.
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$ 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.
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$ 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.
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Hawley, E. (ca. 1757-1850). Historically Significant Original Manuscript Letter by Eli Hawley, One of the Earliest Settlers of Lower Alton, Addressed to “Grand Sons and the Family” in Saint-Armand, Quebec, Describing the Most Popular Travel Route to Illinois, the Unprecedented Outbreak of Illnesses Including Cholera, Detailed Crop Yields and Market Prices, and a Rapid Urban Expansion with Brick Stores, Warehouses, and Mills. Lower Alton, Illinois: 31 January 1834.
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MEARS, E. (ca. 1807-1978); PATTRIDGE, S (ca. 1802-1866); PATTRIDGE, M. (ca. 1835-?). Historically Interesting Collection of Two Autograph Manuscript Letters by Minnesota Pioneers Eliyah C. Mears and Marion & Sylva Pattridge, Addressed to Ephriam Mills in Plains, Georgia, Discussing the Legal Disputes Over His Mortgaged Land, Unresolved Claims by Creditors, and Severe Economic Crisis in Minnesota; also with Mentions of California Gold Rush and Disheartened Emigrants Returning from Pike’s Peak. Pleasant Grove, Minnesota: 19 July 1859.
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Gilman, C. Historically Interesting Original Letter Signed by Nevada Pioneer C. Gilman from Ruby Valley and Addressed to Jno. M. Duncan & Hardware Co. in Austin, Urging Immediate Sale of Oats Before Barley Shipments from Salt Lake City Flood the Market. Ruby Valley, Nevada: 22 May 1866.
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$ 475.00
Panorama View of Portland, ORE. Showing Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Hood in the Distance. 1913.
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$ 525.00
Foster (Skeffington), Thomas Henry, 2nd Viscount Ferrard, 2nd Baron of Oriel (1772-1843). Autograph Letter Signed “Ths. Foster” to his mother Margaretta Amelia Foster, Baroness Oriel, with Observations on Lisbon and the Portuguese. Lisbon: 22 February ca. 1791.
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$ 950.00
[Badcock, Sir Lovell Benjamin, General, KH, KCB] (1786-1861). Collection of Three Autograph Letters, Written by, Addressed to or Mentioning Badcock, and Closely Related to the Events of the Portuguese Civil War in Which Badcock was a Military Reporter. 1832-1834.
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Boren, Estelle G. (later Mastroeni, Alacqua) (1920-2010). Album of Over 300 Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Trinidad (Port-au-Spain, North Manzanilla, Mayaro, Toco, Street Scenes, etc.), Puerto Rico (San Juan—Roosevelt Tower, Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Normandie Hotel, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Street Scenes; Carioca Rum Factory), etc. Ca. 1943-1955.
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Smith, Charlotte J. Collection of Thirteen Watercolours and Drawings Made on a Trip to the Rhine Castles, Tagus River in Spain, Moreton Hall in Cheshire, Ghent, and Italy. 1827-1829.
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$ 950.00
[Collection of Two Official Reports Dedicated to the Development of Agricultural and Stock Farming in Rhodesia and Compiled for the British South Africa Company; With Typewritten Copies of Seven Articles on Rhodesia and its Economy:] Rhodesia, Report by Professor Wallace, October 1908; Travels in Rhodesia by London M. Douglas, F.R.S.E; The Progress of Rhodesia. Ca. 1908-1911.
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Original Unsigned Dated Watercolour, Titled: “National Park from the Railway Station”, Sydney, N.S.W. Sept. 30, 1899.
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Schmidt, J.M.F., Professor. Special-Karte eines Theils des russischen Reichs vom Bug bis hinter Moskau, übersetzt und aus dem grossen russischen Atlas in 107 Blatt gezogen von J.M.F. Schmidt [Special Map of the Part of the Russian Empire from the Bug River to the Area Around Moscow]. Berlin: Simon Schropp & Comp, 1812.
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Historically Significant Extensive Collection of 202 Loose Phototypes Documenting the Construction of the Central Section of the Amur Railway (1910–1914), and Showing Convict Laborers Working in Harsh Conditions (Earthworks, Bridge Construction, Quarrying), Local Children from a Railway Orphanage Posing with their Teacher, Hired Workers Drinking Before Departure Home, etc.; also, with the Views of Newly Built Railway Stations (Taldan, Gonzha, Magdagachi, Tygda, Ushuman, Tu, Chernyavo, Gondatti, Ledyanaya, Alekseevsk), Early Work Equipment (Trucks, Ballast Trains, Hand-Operated Drilling Rigs, etc.), Emerging Towns & Villages (Alekseevsk, Gondattievo), and Penal Infrastructure (Barracks & Camps). Ca. 1910-1914.
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Leytsinger, Yakov Ivanovich (1855-1914). Collection of Six Original Photograph Views of Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky Monastery and Mezen City on the White Sea. Ca. 1890.
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$ 525.00
Levesque, Pierre-Charles (1736-1812). Histoire de Russie [History of Russia]: Atlas Volume. Paris, Hamburg & Brunswick: l’Imprimerie de Guilleminet,Pierre-Francois Fauche, An VIII [1800].
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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.
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[Album of Lithographs] Risoval’naya shkola na 20 listakh, izdannaya Obshchestvom pooshchreniya khudozhnikov [i.e. Drawing School on 20 Sheets, Published by the Society for the Encouragement of Artists]. St. Petersburg: Litografiya K. Polya, 1844.
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Official Passport Given to Prussian Photographer Friedrich Karl August Kühnemann for Travels to Russia, with the Translation into Russian and a Dozen Notes by Various Consular and Border Officers on Verso. Berlin: Königl. Preuss. Ministere des Innern, 10 February 1857.
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Two Original Photograph Views of Vladivostok. Ca. 1899.
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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.
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