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$ 7500.00
XU, Song = 徐松 (1781-1848). Xiyu shuidao ji: [wu juan] = 西域水道記: 五卷 [Records of the Waterways of the Western Regions (five volumes)]; WITH: Han shu Xi yu zhuan bu zhu: [er juan] = 漢書西域傳補注 : 二卷 [Supplementary Notes to the Book of Han: The Western Regions (two volumes)]; WITH: Xinjiang fu = 新疆賦 [Xinjiang Rhapsody]. Daoguang = 道光 3-9 [ca. 1823-1829].
$ 3500.00
Greenham & Evans (fl. ca. 1895-1900); King, Henry (1855-1923); Caire, Nicholas John (1837-1918); Sargeant, Albert & Others. Album with 77 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Studio Photographs of Australia and Tasmania, Showing Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Gippsland Lakes, Hobart, Strahan (Tasmania), Cape Raoul, Fren Tree Bower, Portraits of Aboriginal Australians, Gold Miners, Tree Loggers, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
$ 2750.00
Historically Significant Album with ca. 196 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Snapshot and Studio Photographs of British India, Showing Panchgani Hill Station (Exterior and Interior of a Church, “Chaplain’s Bungalow,” Students from “Panchgani Girls’ High School, 1905”), Varanasi (Ganges River and Ghats, “Cow Temple,” a Scene of “the Morning Sacrifice”), Mahabaleshwar, Mathura, Kalimpong, Vrindavan (Rangji Temple), Fatehpur Sikri (Salim Chisti Mausoleum, Akbar’s Pillar), Agra (Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Pearl Mosque, Akbar’s Tomb), Delhi (“Hindu Raj House,” St. James’ Church, Red Fort, Jama Masjid), Narkanda (“the Shrine on Narkanda Ridge,” “the Dak Bungalow”), Shimla Christ Church during Coronation of King George, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 2750.00
Krusenstern, Adam Johann von (1770-1846); Tilesius, Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tilenau (1769-1857); Ukhtomsky, Andrei Grigorievich (1771-1852). Original Copper Engraving from the Famous "Atlas k Puteshestviiu Vokrug Sveta Kapitana Krusensterna" (Atlas to the Circumnavigation of Captain Krusenstern), Titled: Tab. XXVIII. Grobnitsa Kapitana Klerka v Petropavlovske. Captain Clerkes Grabmal im Hafen St. Peter und Paul [Captain Clerkes’ Tomb in Petropavlovsk]. [Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813].
$ 1250.00
Butler, Charles M. (ca. 1866 – after 1930); [Hopkins, William A.] (ca. 1862-1951). Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed to His Friend William Hopkins from Watsonville, CA, Talking about His Gold Mining on the Sunset Creek near Nome, the Success of the “Pioneer Mining Co.” on the Metson Bench and of Other Miners on the Ophir Creek, the Creation of a New Gold Mining Camp on the Iditarod River, and that “it is the hardest time I ever saw in Nome”. Nome, Alaska, 20 June 1909, 28 October 1909, 10 March 1910.
$ 2750.00
Rust, Thomas Alfred (1841-1904) & Others. Album with 42 Original Albumen Studio Photographs of Northern India, Showing All Saints Cathedral in Allahabad (Prayagraj) During and Shortly after Its Construction, Local Clergy Including Bishop of Calcutta Rev. Edward Ralph Johnson, the First Bishop of the Diocese of Lucknow Rev. Arthur Clifford, Civil and Military Chaplains, Organists, Choir Members, Buildings of Bishop Johnson School for Girls and Colvin School for Boys, a Series of Portraits of Royal Artillery Servicemen in Allahabad and Roorkee, British Military Establishments in Chakrata and Kailana, a portrait of Commander-in-Chief of India Sir Frederick Roberts at Chakrata, &c. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
U Zolotykh vorot. Sbornik [i.e. Near the Golden Gate. Collection of Works by the San Francisco Literary and Art Circle. 1923 - 1957]. Oakland, 1957.
$ 950.00
Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890); Zangaki, Adelphoi (active 1870s–1890s). Album with Sixteen Original Albumen Studio Photograph Views of Port Said, Suez Canal, and Aden. Ca. 1870s.
$ 525.00
Large Original Photograph Panorama of Steamer Point in Aden. Ca. 1880.
$ 950.00
Katrak, Sorab Kavasji Hormuzdyar (1892-1972). Through Amanullah’s Afghanistan: A Book of Travel. Karachi: D.N. Patel at the “Sind Observer” & Mercantile Steam Press Ltd., 1929.
$ 1250.00
Album of Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional Dress of People and Leaders in the Kingdom of Caubul [Kabul] During the Durrani Dynasty (1747-1842) Perhaps used as the Original Archetype Illustrations for Montstuart Elphinstone's, 1815 Book:] “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun Nation, and a history of the Doorauni Monarchy.” Ca. 1815.
$ 525.00
Trotter, A[lexander] M[ason] (Scotland 1891-1946). Watercolour, Apparently Used as an Illustration in 'The Graphic,' Titled On Verso: "Death of Livingstone." London: 1917.
$ 750.00
Bates, Leo. Collection of Five Large Signed Mounted Black and White Monochrome Watercolours Showing Scenes of David Livingstone's Last Expedition Including his Meeting with Henry Stanley. Ca. 1920.
Raffenel, Anne (1809-58). Voyage dans l'Afrique occidentale comprenant l'exploration du Senegal, depuis Saint-Louis jusqu'a la Faleme, au-dela de Bakel; de la Faleme, depuis son embouchure jusqu'a Sansandig; des mines d'or de Kenieba, dans le Bambouk; des pays de Galam, Bondou et Woolli; et de la Gambie, depuis Baracounda jusqu'a l'Ocean; execute, en 1843 et 1844, par une commission composee de MM. Huard-Bessinieres, Jamin, Raffenel, Peyre-Ferry et Pottin-Patterson. [Travels in West Africa Including the Exploration of Senegal ..,]. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846.
$ 750.00
Manuscript Poetry Book of Frances Speke, an Aunt of the Famous African Explorer John Hanning Speke, Written Mostly in Jordans, Ilminster, the Ancestral Home of the Speke Family. Ca. 1822-1834.
$ 950.00
Schmidt, Conrad Friedrich (ca. 1876-1963). Two Drawings Depicting Life of African Americans in Alabama. Ca. 1930s.
$ 950.00
Photo Album With Hundred Seventeen Photos and a Diary of Mary Louise Fitzgerald, a Teacher of Arts & English, documenting her being a substitute teacher for Boston Public Schools in the year 1952-1953, spending few months teaching predominately African-American 7th grade in Charlestown High School, Boston, later being transformed to a number of other schools in Boston for a short period of time that year, before being assigned to a permanent position in Randolph Public School for the year 1954. Boston, MA. Ca.1953.
$ 2500.00
Nelson, Charles “Red” (1900-1982); Bragaw, Robert (1889-1969, fl. ca. 1920s-1930s); Steward, H.W.; Rossman, Earl; Johnson, George L. & others. Album with over 210 Original Gelatin Photographs of Alaska, Showing Central Alaska (Mt. Denali, Mt. Susitna, Knik Arm, Tanana and Susitna Rivers, Cache Creek, Curry – Now a Ghost Town, Mining and Survey Camps), Anchorage Environs, Kenai Peninsula (Lake Kenai, Resurrection River, Bald Mountain, Tustumena glacier, Nuka Bay glacier), Prince William Sound, the Inside Passage, Latouche Village, Portraits of Yupic People, Scenes of Dog Mushing, Hunting, Fishing, and Gold Panning, Alaskan Wildlife, Russel Merril’s Plane, &c. Ca. 1920s.
$ 2250.00
Baum, Howard E. (1911-1951); Heath, Thelma Jenny (1913-2014). Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Alaska Highway in 1946, Showing Road Signs (Border Crossings, Mile Markers, River Crossings), Service Stations, Rest Stops (Watson Creek, Trutch, Fairbanks, Fort St. John, etc.), Military Installations (US Army Rest Camp, RCAF Base), and Ephemera (Highway Travel Permits, Map, Regulations), etc. Ca. 1946.
$ 1250.00
Fridrikhs, Vasiliy Nikolayevich (1852-1898). Plavanie na Kreisere “Afrika” pod Flagom Kontr-Admirala Aslanbegova (1880-1882) [A Voyage on Cruiser “Africa” under the Flag of Rear Admiral Aslanbegov (1880-1882)] // From: Russky Vestnik. 1883. Vol. СLXIV. No. 3, pp. 321-347; No. 4, pp. 670-702. [Moscow: University Typ., 1883].
$ 1250.00
Collection of 34 Large Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, Showing Unalaska (Views of the City, Dutch Harbour, Captain’s Bay, Holy Ascension of Our Lord Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Naval Ships Docked at Port, etc.), Biorka Village on Sedanka Island (Russian Orthodox Church and Residences), Attu Island (Chichagof Harbour, Troops and Camps from the 1943 Battle of Attu), Juneau (Mendenall Lake and Glacier, Duck Creek, Auk Bay), Denali, Ketchikan, Admiralty Island (Tongass National Forest), Akutan Island, etc. Ca. 1938-1944.
$ 4500.00
Staehlin von Storcksburg, Jakob (1709-1785), Pierre-Ludwig Le Roy. An Account of the New Northern Archipelago, Lately Discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. London: C. Heydinger, 1774.
Ennis, R.C.? Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand Point (Popof Island) and Unga Village on Unga Island (a Ghost Town Since 1969), Taken and Collected by an American Resident During WW2. Ca. 1940-1944.
$ 1750.00
Admiral M.P. Lazarev. Steel Engraved Portrait. London, ca. 1840s.
$ 425.00
Lyttelton, Alfred (1857-1913). Autograph Letter Signed “A. Lyttelton” to “My Dear Sir” Regarding the Alaska Boundary Dispute. 21 January 1904.
Tembreull, Christine Erma (1895-1961), attributed to. Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938 and Showing Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Letnikof Cove, Haines Barracks, Famous Skagway Tour Guide Martin Itjen, Indigenous People, Filipino Steerage Passengers, American Military men from Haines Barracks, Cruiseship Passengers and Captain, & c. 1938.
$ 950.00
[“Wadhams & Co”] (1865-1905). Collection of Three Manuscript and Two Typewritten Official Autograph Letters Signed to the Offices of the “Wadhams & Co.” in Portland and San Francisco, Regarding the Shipments of Deer, Hair Seal and Wolf Skins from Howkan and Loring (Alaska) and by Transit from Port Townsend (Washington). Loring, 4 May 1889; Howcan [sic!], 5 March and 26 April, 1890; San Francisco, 30 April and June 13 1890.
Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich (1776-1831) & Duncan, Archibald. Opisanie Primechatelnykh Korablekrusheniy, v Raznye Vremena Sluchivshikhsya. Sochineniye Gospodina Dunkena. S Angliyskogo Perevyol i Dopolnil Primechaniyami i Poyasneniyami v Pol’zu Rossiyskikh Moreplavateley Flota Kapitan-Komandor Golovnin. Napechatano po Poveleniyu Gosudarstvennogo Admiralteyskogo Departamenta: v 3-h chastyakh [Description of the Most Interesting Shipwrecks Which have Taken Place at Various Times. A work by Mr. Duncan. Translated from English and Supplemented with Notes and Explanations for the Use of Russian Navigators by Fleet Captain-Commander Golovnin. Published by the order of the State Admiralty Department: in 3 parts]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1853.
George, T.H. Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by a Juneau Pioneer “T. H. George” and Addressed to “Friend Easton,” Talking about the Resumption of Mining Operations and the Construction of a New Mill in the Silver Bow District; also with Notes about an Early Local Mining Company “Hayward & Lane”. Juneau, Alaska: 26 February 1895.
$ 1750.00
Helsel Photo (fl. ca. 1940s); Ordway Photo (fl. ca. 1930s). Album of 123 Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Naval Air Base Kodiak (Planes on Tarmac and in Hangar, Control Room and USO Show Audience in Base Theatres, Building Exteriors, Portraits of Sailors), Kodiak (Local Businesses, the Harbour, etc.), and Landscapes of Surroundings. Ca. 1940s.
$ 1250.00
Lascy, Albert (ca. 1827-1917). Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor Albert Lascy, Giving a Detailed Account of His Gold Exploration near Karluk, Uyak and Uganik Bays on the Northern Kodiak Island. 1893.
$ 950.00
Smith, W[illiam] D. [Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the “Shumagin Packing Company” in the Chignik Bay (Alaska Peninsula), Addressed to His Agents in San Francisco and Discussing Financial Operations and Shipping of Supplies and Canned Salmon. 1889.
$ 1750.00
Vavilov, M.I. Poslednie Dni v Russkoi Amerike. Iz Zapisok Ochevidtsa. 1867-1868 [Last Days in Russian America. From the Notes by an Eye-Witness. 1867-1868] // From: Russkaya Starina. 1886. Vol. XLIX. Pp. 549-560; Vol. L. Pp. 593-598; Vol. LI. Pp. 605-614. [Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1886].
$ 1750.00
Barsukov, I.P. Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]. Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883.
$ 1500.00
Tarih-İ İskender Bin Filipos [i.e. A History of Alexander the Great, the Son of Philip]. Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838.
$ 1750.00
Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Bone, El Kantara, Katara Gorge, Roman Ruins in Timgad, Portraits of Native Algerians, Views of Smaller French Settlements and Country Houses, Algerian Villages etc. Ca. 1878.
$ 525.00
Collection of Three Attractive Original Watercolour Views Showing Cherchell and Mustapha Superieur in Algeria. 1892-3.
$ 1500.00
Neurdein Frères (active ca. 1860s-1890s). Historically Interesting Album with Forty Original Albumen Studio Photos of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Tebessa, Biskra, Staouelli, Laghouat, Chiffa, and Souk Ahras. Ca. 1860s-1890s.
$ 1250.00
Album of 94 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Central and Southern Algeria Showing French Military Activity in In Salah and Tamanrasset (Mess Hall, Radio Post, Infirmary, the “Captain’s House,” Pool Opening in El Barka, etc.), Views of In Salah (Post Office, General Views, etc.), French Airship “Dixmude,” the Citroën Mission (1922-1923), and Portraits of Indigenous Algerians (Tuareg Men and Women, Fantasia Performance, the “Orphéons” of In Salah and El Barka, etc.) Ca. 1920s.
$ 1500.00
Nuerdien Frères (fl. ca. 1860-1932). Album of 53 Albumen Studio and Amateur Photographs of Algeria, Including Algiers, Constantine, Bôme, etc. Ca. 1890s-1900s.
$ 525.00
Blanckley, Henry Stanyford (1752-1820). Original Certificate on the Printed Form of the British Chancery Office in Algiers, Appointing Lewis Tonna as Blanckley’s Secretary. Algiers: 9 October 1806.
$ 425.00
Charnay, Claude-Joseph Désiré (1828-1915). Autograph Letter Signed “Désiré Charnay” to “Mon cher ami” with the Latest News after his Arrival to Algiers for the Winter Season, the Letter is Decorated with a Printed Vignette Depicting Arab Camel Riders in a Desert. Algiers: 25 October 1891.
$ 425.00
Baudin, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Commander of the Warship “Vulcain”. Official Certificate Given to Michel Lastrén, 2nd maitre cannonier, who served on the Warship “Vulcain” in 1829-1830, and in particular during the French Invasion of Algiers; the Certificate is Signed “Baudin”. Toulon: , 1 December 1830.
$ 450.00
Zemlia Kolumba. Sborniki literatury i iskusstva [i.e. Columbus's Land. A Collection of Literature and Art]. Vol 1-2 [all published]. / edited by B. Miklashevsky. New York; San Francisco; Los Angeles, 1936.
$ 750.00
Louis Agassiz. Conversações scientificas sobre o amazonas : feitas na sala do externato do Collegio de Pedro II durante o mez de maio de 1866 [i.e.Scientific discussions about the Amazon: held in the lecture hall of the Pedro II College during the month of May 1866]. Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Imp. e Const. de J. Villeneuve, 1866.
$ 425.00
Martinelli, Vincenzio. Istoria del Governo d'Inghilterra e delle sue Colonie in India, e nell' America Settentrionale. [History of the Government of England and its Colonies in India and in North America]. Firenze: G. Cambiagi, 1776.
$ 550.00
Fraser, D. (Ca. 1846-?). Interesting Original Manuscript Letter to the Sharps Rifle Company in Connecticut, Detailing a Request for Ammunition Supplies and Shipping Arrangement. Virginia City, Nevada: 8 March 1877.
