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$ 2500.00
Original Japanese Wood Block Depicting a Scene in an Edo (Tokyo) Brothel, with an Example of the Print on Recent Paper, Titled: Edo Fuzoku Kuruwa-Sho-ga. Ca. Early Meiji (1860-1870s).
$ 1500.00
McGuire, Muriel Louise (1917-2003). Album of 208 Original and Studio Gelatin Silver Photographs of Japan Shortly After WWII, Showing Emperor Hirohito Visiting Chiba, Officer Billets (Shufu-no-Tomo, Shiba Park Hotel), 42nd General Hospital (St. Luke’s International Hospital), Atsugi Air Base, a “Fisherman’s Festival,” Street Scenes, Snapshots of Local Japanese, etc. Ca. 1946-1949.
$ 3250.00
Historically Significant Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Amateur and Studio Photographs, Taken and Collected by a Serviceman of the Yokohama Headquarters of the Eighth U.S. Army, Showing U.S. Military Camp and Headquarters in Yokohama, the Compiler and His Fellow Servicemen, Japanese People and Girls in Western Clothes, Streets and Sites of Yokohama and Tokyo, Scenes of Atomic Destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, &c.; With: An Original Blue Cloth "Air Police" Armband. Ca. 1945 – late 1940s.
$ 950.00
Way, Richard Quarterman (1819-1895); Mitsukuri, Genpo (1799-1863). [Japanese Woodblock Printed Book, Titled:] Chikyu Setsuryaku. [An Account of the World]. Tokyo: Rokokan Zoshi, ca. Meiji 4 [1871].
$ 950.00
Ichiryusai, Yoshitoyo. Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Showing an American Sailor Smoking a Pipe, a Servant and a Young Japanese Courtesan, Titled:] America jin Yuriya no Zu [i.e. American in a Brothel. Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s.
$ 1250.00
Nakayama, Takashi (Japanese, 1893-1978). Four Framed Signed Japanese Watercolours Showing a Farmer in Winter; (Probably Same) Farmer and his Wife; A Woman with a Child in Winter; And (Probably Same) Woman and a Child. Ca. 1920.
$ 950.00
Collection of Two Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolours after the Aquatints from “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (1810) by Thomas and William Daniell’s; Titled: Anjere Point, Strait of Sunda; Malays of Java. Ca. 1810s.
$ 175.00
Kinsbergen, Isidore van (1821-1905). Collection of Three Original Photos of the Borobudur and Prambanan Temples in Java, Including a Very Well Preserved First Photographic Image of the Borobudur Temple after its Restoration. 1872, 1896-7.
$ 2250.00
McCrackan, Rev. John Henry (1856-1906); [Rondthaler, Rev. Edward, Bishop] (1842-1931). Historically Significant Journal with 59 Original Albumen Snapshot Photographs, Nine Printed Postcards, and Over a Dozen Specimens of Dried Flowers and Plants, Illustrating a Travel of an American Episcopal Clergyman John McCrackan and a Moravian Pastor from North Carolina Edward Rondthaler around Palestine in April – May 1889.
$ 3250.00
Kostenkov, Kapiton Ivanovich (1792-1883). [ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHER’S WRAPPER PRESERVED:] Istoricheskiye i Statisticheskiye Svedenia o Kalmykakh, Kochuyushchikh v Astrakhanskoi Gubernii. S Kartoyu Kalmutskoy Stepi. Sostavil Glavny Popiechitel Kalmytskogo Naroda General-Mayor K. Kostenkov/ [Izdaniye Ministerstva Gosudarstvennykh Imushchestv] [Historical and Statistical Intelligence about Kalmyks, Roaming in the Astrakhan Province. With a Map of the Kalmyk Steppe. Compiled by the Chief Trustee of the Kalmyk People Mayor General K. Kostenkov/ Published by the Ministry of State Properties]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Nusvalt; title page and map – in the lith. of N. Glybov, 1870.
$ 2250.00
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich (1711-55). The History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent; Illustrated with maps and cuts. Published at Petersbourg in the Russian language, by order of Her Imperial Majesty, and Translated into English by James Grieve, M.D. Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764.
$ 12500.00
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich (1711-1755). Opisaniye Zemli Kamchatki, Sochinennoye Stepanom Krasheninnikovym, Akademii Nauk Professorom [Description of the Land Kamchatka, Written by Stepan Krasheninnikov, Professor of the Academy of Sciences]. Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1786.
$ 750.00
[Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich (1711-55)] Histoire de Kamtschatka, des Isles Kurilski, et des contrees voisines [The History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent]. Lyon: Benoit Duplain, 1767.
$ 1500.00
Nihon rikishi namae 日本力士名会 [i.e. Names of Japanese Sumo Wrestlers]. [Publisher unidentified]: Kaei 7 [1854].
$ 1750.00
Belfield, Georgie Sinclair (ca. 1860-1931), [Attributed to]. Album with Forty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, including about Six Real and Printed Photo Postcards, of Kenya, Taken and Collected by a Scottish Jeweler Based in Nairobi, and Showing a Safari Expedition with Hunters, Game, and Native Guides; Portraits of Local Tribespeople (Likely from the Kikuyu Community) in Traditional Attire and Dance Rituals; Scenes of the Compiler and His Companions Bathing and Socializing with Local Missionaries; Views of Native Huts, Government Road, the Manor Hotel in Mombasa, Military Ceremonies, Sporting Events, and Everyday Urban and Rural Life in Colonial Kenya. Titled: Photographs. Ca. 1910s.
Album of 67 Lively Gelatin Silver Photographs of Africa in the 1920s, Showing Mombasa (Kilindini Harbour, Golf Club), Gilgil, Mossamedes (ETC Quarters, Portrait of Cable Staff, “Customs House,” Republic Day Celebrations), Delagoa Bay, Zanzibar, Saint Helena (The Briars, Governor’s House), and Aden. Ca. 1920s.
Logan, F.R. (fl. ca. 1930s). Album of 40 Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs Showing Edward, Prince of Wales on a Early Automobile Safari through Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, etc. in 1930 Featuring a Convoy of Wolseley Cars. Ca. 1930.
Album of 66 Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of a Safari Trip in British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and Northern Tanzania), Showing Hunters and Game, Their Camps and Rest Houses, a Durant Rugby (Safari Vehicle), the Karamojan People, Native Guides and Porters, East African Scenery Titled: Kenya – Uganda – Belgian Congo – Sudan, October 1926 – February 1927. Ca. 1925-1927.
[Pazukhin, Boris Andreievich] (d. 1679) & [Pazukhin, Semen Ivanovich]. Nakaz Borisu Andreievichu i Semenu Ivanovichu Pazukhinym na Posolstvo v Bukharu, Baklh i Urgench, dlia Vykupa Russkikh Plennykh, s Prilozheniem k Nakazu Stateinogo Spiska o Sovershenii Pazukhinymi Posolstva. 1669-1673. Izdano pod Redaktsiei Chlena Arkheograficheskoi Kommissii Askalona Truvorova [Instruction to Boris Andreievich and Semen Ivanovich Pazukhin for their Embassy to Bukhara, Balkh and Urgench for the Ransom of Russian Captives, with the Addition of the Report of Pazukhins’ Embassy. 1669-1673. Published under the Supervision of a Member of the Archaeographic Commission Askalon Truvorov]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1894.
$ 525.00
Large Anonymous Four-Part Albumen Photograph Panorama of King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Ca. 1880s.
$ 6250.00
[Goetzman, Henry Jacob] (1864 – after 1904); Larss & Duclos (fl. ca. 1899-1904); Cantwell, George (fl. ca. 1898-1920); Hegg, Eric A. (1867-1947) & Others. Historically Significant Album with 87 Rare Original Gelatin Silver Studio and Amateur Photographs of Klondike and Yukon Territory Taken During and Shortly After the Klondike Gold Rush and Showing Dawson City, &c. Ca. 1898-1900s.
$ 25000.00
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[Historically Significant 16th-Century Manuscript in French Containing the Statutes of the Hospitallers of St. John, Compiled During the Order’s Final Years on Rhodes Before Its Relocation to Malta] Statutes of the Order of the Hospitallers of St. John (Stabilimenta Rhodiorum militum). [Northern France, Burgundy, or the Netherlands]: [early or mid-1500s].
$ 3500.00
Historically Significant Extensive Collection of Five Albums, and Loose Gelatin Silver Photos (altogether over 680 Images), Taken and Collected by U.S. Military Men During Their Service in the Korean War and Showing Military Actions, Seoul after its Capture by the UN Forces in September 1950, Service on the Border with North Korea during the Stalemate (Chuncheon, Kapyong Headquarters, Kumhwa), a Visit of South Korean President Syngman Rhee to the Positions in Kumhwa, American Military Bases and Field Camps, Everyday Life of American Soldiers, Operations and Activities of the U.S. Air Force in Korea and Japan, Hardships of Korean Civilians, Views of Seoul, Busan, South Korean Towns, Villages and Countryside, Portraits of Families, Peasants, Artisans, &c. Ca. 1950s.
$ 425.00
Oswell, William Cotton (1818-1893). Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Nat’‚ a lively letter about family arrangements‚ with a story about Lord Glenelg as Colonial Secretary. St. Leonards. Ca. 1850s.
$ 450.00
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.
$ 1500.00
Bonfils, Felix (1831-1885), Dumas, Tancrède (1830-1905); Berggren, Guillaume (1835-1920). Album with 39 Original Albumen Studio Photos, Including 26 Images of Baalbek and Beirut in Lebanon; the Rest of the Photos Shows Damascus, Jerusalem, and Istanbul. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
$ 1500.00
Historically Interesting Album with Eighty-Four Original Amateur Photographs Taken by French Soldiers during Their Service in Lebanon and Syria, and Showing Early Views of Iconic Landmarks in Baalbek (Temple of Jupiter, Hajar al-Hibla, Roman Ruins, Roman Temple of Bacchus) and Damascus (Grand Café Moderne, at-Taynabiyya mausoleum, the Umayyad Mosque, Bab Tauma); Baalbek Train Station Scenes with French Police Supervising the Area; Locals and Tourists in Traditional and European Dress Strolling through the Central Souq al-Hamidiyah in Damascus; Aerial Views, Street Scenes, and Residential Architecture. Ca. 1920s.
$ 425.00
Lyon, After, Captain George Francis (1795-1832). Original Unsigned Watercolour Showing a "Tuarick of Ghraat" and "Negresses of the Soudan," Combined from two Illustrations in Lyon's "A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa," Titled in Brown ink: Lyon's Travels in Africa. After 1821.
$ 950.00
Historically Important Collection of Seventy-Seven Rare Gelatin Silver Photos and Chromogenic Prints Taken and Collected by an American Serviceman and His Family at Wheelus Air Base in the 1960s, Documenting Local Facilities (Television Station, Barracks, Club, 7272nd Fighter Training Wing Memorial), Military Equipment (Aircraft and Vehicles), a Military Parade, Family Life (Riding Camels, Attending Rodeo, Celebrating New Year), and Pre-Damaged Tripoli, Including the Royal Palace, Bab Hawara Gate, Martyrs’ Square, and the Ruins of Leptis Magna. Ca. 1963-1966.
$ 750.00
[Kempson], [W.]. Four Unsigned Titled Hampstead Heath Watercolours. Ca. 1877.
$ 2250.00
Graham Photo Company. Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs, Showing Los Angeles (Figueroa Street, a Street in St. James Park, House of Harrison Gray Otis), Pasadena (Orange Grove Avenue, Raymond Hotel, Mansions of William C. Stuart and Charles Richardson), Arcadia (Baldwin’s Ranch), Altadena (House of Colonel George G. Green), Redlands (Brookside Avenue, House of Albert C. Burrage), Riverside (Magnolia Avenue), San Gabriel, a Portrait of Actress Helena Modjeska in her “Arden Forest” House near Silverado, a Scene at an Ostrich Farm, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 950.00
Bradley, Jas A. Historically Important Autograph Manuscript Letter by an Early Resident of Los Angeles, Discussing its "Cosmopolitan" Demographics (Mexicans, Spaniards, African Americans, Chinese, etc.), Recent Development from One-Story Adobes to Modern Commercial Blocks, the Southern Pacific Railroad Monopoly, the Flourishing Citrus and Grape Industry, Specific Viticulture Yields, and the Import of Exotic Flora (Eucalyptus, Pepper Trees, Acacias, Palms, etc.) from Australia and Other Tropical Countries. Los Angeles: 15 May 1881.
$ 525.00
A Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolour View of Luis de Camões Grotto After the Aquatint from “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (1810) by Thomas and William Daniell’s; Titled: Camoens Cave, Macao. Ca. 1810s.
$ 2250.00
Album with 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Diego Suarez/Antsiranana (Port and Roadstead, Cap Diego, Pointe du Corail, Ville Basse, Rue Colbert, Antsirane Neighbourhood), French military Camp d’Ambre and Forests of the Montagne Ambre, Betsileo, Hova, Sakalava, Antemoro People, Inhabitants of Comoros and Sainte-Marie Island/Nosy Boraha, Malagasy Tirailleurs, Scenes of Kabary, Views of Antananarivo and Toamasina, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 3500.00
Historically Significant Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Colonial Madagascar, Showing Antananarivo (Royal Palace, Andafiavaratra Palace, St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, Silver Palace, Andohalo/Jean Laborde Square, &c.), Portraits of Queen Ranavalona III, Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony, General Gallieni and His Staff, General Théophile Pennequin and Queen Binao of the Sakalava People, Numerous Settlements and Sites Across the Island (Antsahavola, Ambohimanga, Tsinjoarivo, Mandraka Falls, Analamazaotra, Maromby, Mahatsara, Fianarantsoa, Tamatave/Toamasina, Ile Sainte Marie/Nosy Boraha, Maroantsetra, Vohemar, Diego-Suarez/Antsiranana, Nossi-Be/Nosy Be, Antongombato, Majunga/Mahajanga, Fort-Dauphin/Taolagnaro, Farafangana, Mananjary, & Others), Scenes of French Weddings and Parties, Portraits of Indigenous Noblemen, Workers, Dancers, Musicians, Warriors, &c. Ca. 1895 – early 1900s.
$ 3250.00
Album of 84 Gelatin Silver Photographs of Madagascar, Showing Portraits of Rulers (Sakalava Queen Binao, Antankarana King Tsialana II; Anjouan Princes Abdallah and Halid), Portraits of Malagasy People (Sakalava, Betsileo, Tanala, Antankarana; Fianarantsoa, Diego-Suarez (now Antsiranana), Maintirano, Nosy Be, Sainte-Marie (Nosy Boraha)), Views of Villages (Ambositra, a Betsileo Village, a Tanala Village), etc. Ca. late 1890s-1900s.
$ 2250.00
[Le Roux, Pierre]. Historically Significant Collection of Two Albums with ca. 200 Original Well-Annotated Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Folders with ca. 140 Original Film Negatives, Taken by a Young French Military Man during His Service in Madagascar in the 1930s; With Interesting Images of Antananarivo, Ambatolampy, Toamasina, Fenerive, Foulpointe, a Sugar Cane Distillery in Mamandrahana, Environs of Antsirabe, French Military Compounds, Camps and Exercises, Portraits of the Compiler, French and African Servicemen, Malagasy Farmers, Shepherds, Families, the Compiler’s Cousin Thérèse Lamiot Who was a Local Head of the Catholic Society of Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, &c. Ca. 1930s.
$ 1750.00
Historically Important Album with Eighty-Four Original Photos of Colonial Madagascar, Taken by a French Tourist Involved in Vanilla Export and Showing Open-Air Markets of Carpets and Hats, Workers Moving Boxes of Vanilla from a Warehouse to a Truck, Missionary Rosalia Razarinia Ramatoa Departing the Village of L’Imerina, as well as Views of Tananarive, Tamatave, Diego Suarez, Vohemar, Saint-Marie, Mahajanga, Nosy Be, and Ambodiana; also, with the Photos of the Compiler’s Voyage to Madagascar via the Suez Canal. Ca. 1920s.
Ritchie, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819). Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he was Later also Connected to the Fate of Alexander Laing. Marseilles: 28 August 1818.
$ 650.00
Large Photograph Panorama of Valetta Harbour, Malta. Ca. 1870.
$ 425.00
Gambier, James, Sir, Admiral of the Fleet (1756-1833). Autograph Letter Signed “Gambier” to Vice Admiral Sir John Duckworth “off Ushant”, About the Admiralty’s Orders that “Lieutenant Brompton to be discharged from St. George, without waiting to be superceded with directions to join the Neptune immediately”. Caledonia in Hamoze, 21 September 1808.
$ 850.00
Widnell, Josiah (1807-1883); Widnell, Emily (née Stickney, 1819-1901). Historically Significant, Content-Rich Original Autograph Letter Signed by Newton Corner (MA) and Later Brooklyn Residents Josiah and Emily Widnell, to Their Family Member, Captain John K. Stickney, Who Had Left for California during the 1849 Gold Rush, With Interesting Notes about the Results of the 1850 U.S. Elections to the House of Representatives, Senate and Governor’s Seat in Massachusetts, Political Struggle between Whig, Free Soil and Democratic Parties, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and Mentioning Governor G.N. Briggs, Massachusetts Politicians Horace Mann, Daniel Webster, Stephen C. Phillips, & Others. Newton Corner near Boston, 20 November 1850.
$ 450.00
A Collection of the 33 Ordinances Enacted by the Governor of Mauritius with the Advice and Consent of the Council of Government Port Louis, 1876. 211 pp. [with] A Collection of Proclamations and Government Notices Published at Mauritius during the Year 1876, iv + 49 pp. [with] Index of Government Notices of 1876, xxxiii + Government Notices + 343 pp. Mauritius: G.H. Griffiths, Government Printer, 1876.
$ 1500.00
A Collection of the over 100 Bound-up Original Ordinances, issued by the Government of Mauritius during the years 1857 - 1867. [Port Louis] 1857-1867.
$ 525.00
Original Two-part Gelatin Silver Photograph Panorama of Port Louis, Mauritius. Ca. 1890.
$ 1250.00
Album of 91 Albumen Photographs Showing Algeria (Fort National, Algiers, Oran, Tizi Ouzou), Gibraltar, and Morocco (Tangiers), as well as France, England, and Portugal. Ca. 1880-1882.
$ 2250.00
Maison Bonfils (fl. ca. 1860s-1839); Zangaki Brothers (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s); Hakim, S. (fl. ca. 1880s-1890s). Album of 50 Albumen Studio Photographs Showing a Trip Around the Eastern Mediterranean, Including Jerusalem (Church of Mary Magdalene, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mosque of Omar, City Views), Bethlehem (Pilgrims Entering the City on Christmas), Baalbek (Temple of Bacchus), and Damascus (Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Maktab Anbar, City Views) and Views of Spain (Alhambra), the Canary Islands (Las Palmas and La Atalaya on Gran Canaria; Santa Cruz on Tenerife), Madeira (Funchal), and Egypt (Alexandria). Ca. 1887, 1893-94.
Album with Thirty-Seven Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of an Early Cruise from New York to the Mediterranean, Showing the Holy Land (Jerusalem, Tiberias, Nazareth), Egypt (Cairo, Giza), Algiere (Algiers), Greece (Athens), Portugal (Lisbon), Spain (Seville), Italy (Venice, Rome), Gibraltar, and Monte Carlo; titled: Photographs. 1926.
