[RUSSIAN FAR EAST – THE BAIKAL-AMUR MAGISTRAL RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photos of the Construction of the Easternmost Section of the Baikal-Amur Magistral Railway, Showing Stations (Khungari, Mulli, Etc.), Bridges (Over Gayter and Khungari Rivers), Tunnels (Kuznetsovsky), Passing Loops (Sollu, Kuznetsovsky), Berths on the Amur River, Inmate Workers, Construction Processes, Etc.; Also, the Construction Head, F. Gvozdevsky, Hammering the Last Spike in the Rail Track in July 1945, the First Train Traversing the Sikhote Alin Pass, a Crowd Celebrating the Launch of the First Railway Ferry across the Amur River, Etc., Titled:] Stroitelstvo No. 500. NKVD SSSR. Godovoy Otchet za 1945 God. Fotoalbom [Construction No. 500. PCIA of the USSR. Annual Report for the Year 1945]. Price: $4,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[THAILAND, MYANMAR & VIETNAM] [LIPPENS, Paul] (1876-1915); KERCHOVE DE DENTERGHEM, Carl de (1878-1961) [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Documenting a Trip from Moulmein (Mawlamyine, Myanmar) to Bangkok and thence to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in February-March 1902, Titled:] Siam & Cochinchine. 1902. Price: $9,500.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[INDONESIA, MALAYSIA & SINGAPORE]. [LIPPENS, Paul] (1876-1915) [Album with 148 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by a Director of the “Galang Besar Rubber Plantations Ltd.” and Showing Rubber Plantations on the Malay Peninsula, Galang Island and in Northern Sumatra, European Planters and Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, Views of Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Tin Mines, Seremban, Singapore, Borobudur Temple, Javanese Volcano, the Port of Medan (Sumatra), &c.; the Album is Titled:] Malaisie. 1910. Price: $7,500.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[SRI LANKA] CLEATHER, William H., Captain‚ 1st Ceylon Regiment (1783-1820). [Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales, Describing his Early Service in the Military Regiment in British Ceylon, with notes on His Travel to Ceylon on Board HMS Thalia, Colombo Garrison and Officers, Local Society, Day Schedule et al]. Price: $1,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[NEPAL] GARDNER, Edward (1784-1861) [Resident in Kathmandu 1816-29] [Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of Moira (later 1st Marquis of Hastings) Reporting the Latest Intelligence Including Troop Strengths and Movements of the Gurkhas (Nepali Troops) in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16)]. Price: $1,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[MONGOLIA – BACTERIOLOGY & VACCINES] [Album with 87 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the New Mongolian State Sanitary-Bacteriological Institute in Ulanbataar, Showing its Laboratory, Clinic, Museum, the Anti-Plague Research Centre outside of Ulanbataar; also with Portraits of the Institute’s Head Abram Berlin, Russian and Mongolian Associates, Patients, Photos of Laboratory Animals and Procedures, Anti-Measles, Typhus and Plague Vaccines, &c]. Price: $3,500.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[SRI LANKA – RUBBER & TEA] [Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c.]. Price: $1,500.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[INDIA - 1911 DELHI DURBAR] [Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India, Showing Nainital (General Views, Hotel Metropole, Naina Devi Temple, “Trevillion & Clark” Shop on the Mall Rd., Cricket Game), Events of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, Kolkata, Kanpur, Jabalpur, Portraits of “a Bridegroom Robed for Wedding,” “a Holy Man – Fakir at Marble Rocks near Jubblepore,” Native People, British Residents, &c.]. Price: $2,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[CHINA - SHANGHAI] STEVENS, Paul. Lt. [Historically Important Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Documenting the Battle of Shanghai During the Second Sino-Japanese War and Showing Shanghai (The Partly Ruined Bund and Destroyed North Station, Café de Luxe, streets, houses, etc.), Chapei (The Office of the Mayor of Shanghai Yu Hung-Chun, a Racecourse, Naval Ships in the Wangpou Harbor, the Destroyed Buildings of the Bund and a Girls’ School), and Peiping (A Funeral Procession and Chinese Structures); With Three Pieces of Ephemera and Seventeen Newspaper and Magazine Clippings (Including “The Shanghai Times”) Featuring Articles on the Destruction of the City and Several Jokes about Life as a Marine; the Album is Titled:] Photographs. Shanghai. China 37-38. Stevens, Paul. Lt. The 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment of the US Marine Corps. Price: $1,750.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[ASSAM - OIL] [Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Associate of the “Assam Oil Company” and Showing the Company Settlement with Bungalows, Oil Reservoirs and Railway Tracks, Construction of Oil Derricks, Arriving Train (apparently, of the Assam Railway & Trading Co.), Company’s Associates, Native People of Assam, Working Elephants, &c.]. Price: $2,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
[NEPAL - HIMALAYAS] STONOR, Charles Robert (1912-1982) [Collection of Twenty-Four Gelatin Silver Contact Sheets with 272 Original Photos, Documenting the “Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition in search of the Yeti” in January-June, 1954 and Showing Namche Bazar, Those, Junbesi, Phortse, and Thame Villages, Local Sherpa People, Tengboche Monastery and Monks, a “Hermit and Cell above Dingboche,” a Man “Carving Sacred Inscriptions on Stone,” Expedition Members, Bhote Kosi and Dudh Kosi Valleys, Ama Dablam and Taboche Mountains, Barun Glacier and Pass, Hongu Glacier, Everest Range, “Footprints of the Abominable Snowman,” &c.; With: First Edition of Stonor’s Account of the Expedition, “The Sherpa and the Snowman” (London, 1955)]. Price: $5,250.00 Add to Cart Item Details Ask a Question
