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Item #10017 [Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an...

[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

Item #6664 [Collection of Seventeen Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the...

[AZERBAIJAN - BAKU]

[Collection of Seventeen Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the Construction on Cape Bailov/Bayil in Baku]

Price: $1,750.00

Item #8091 [Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat,...

[CAMBODIA]

[Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian Temples and Khmer Sculptures, Taken by or Related to the Direction des Arts Cambodgiens Headed by George Groslier]

Ca. 1910s-1920s.

Price: $2,500.00

Item #6823 [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of...

[CHINA - BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY]

[Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of present-day Wuhan), along the Line of the Unfinished Peking-Hankou (Jinghan) Railway, with the Eye-Witness Account on the Railway Construction, Notes on the Meetings with the Railway Company Officials, Chinese Workers, Inhabitants of Nearby Villages, Local Places of Interest etc., Titled:] V – de Pekin à Hankao.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #10018 [Historically Important Collection of Thirty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs...

[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

Item #6820 [PRESENTATION COPY, RARE COMPLETE SET OF ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS’ WRAPPERS] Puteshestvie...

[CHINA] KOVALEVSKY (or KOVALEVSKI), Yegor (Egor) Petrovich (1809-1868)

[PRESENTATION COPY, RARE COMPLETE SET OF ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS’ WRAPPERS] Puteshestvie v Kitai [i.e. Travel to China]

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Korolyov and Co., 1853.

Price: $5,250.00

Item #6667 [FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu...

[CHINA] [Lange, Lorenz]

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

Price: $5,250.00

[EAST SIBERIA] [Stepanov], A.P.

Yeniseyskaya Guberniya [i.e. Yeniseysk Governorate]

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Conrad Wingeber, 1835.

Price: $5,500.00

Item #8095 [Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the...

[HIMALAYA - KANGCHENJUNGA] HOERLIN, Herman (1903-1983), SCHNEIDER, Erwin (1906-1987); KURZ, Marcel (1887-1967); WIELAND, Uli (1902-1934); [DYHRENFURTH, Günter] (1886-1975)

[Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga]

Ca. 1930.

Price: $3,250.00

[INDIA & SRI LANKA] BOURNE & SHEPHERD; BURKE, John (ca. 1843-1900); NICHOLAS & CO.; SCOWEN & CO.; SKEEN & CO.; PONT, V.&E., AND OTHERS

[Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon]

Ca. 1880s-1890s.

Price: $3,500.00

Item #10019 [Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India,...

[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

Item #8222 [Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the...

[INDIA - BIG GAME HUNTING]

[Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India]

Ca. 1921-1926.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #10040 [Album with 148 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by a Director of the...

[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

Item #6849 Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i...

[INNER CHINA - GREAT GAME] [Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881.

Price: $4,500.00

Item #6829 [Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian...

[JAPAN - NAGASAKI] KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (1770-1846) & TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tilenau (1769-1857)

[Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian Circumnavigation, Titled:] Sudno Printsa Chingodzina, na Kotorom Rossiysky Poslannik Poyekhal s Korablya na Bereg. Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuerst in Nangasaki ans Land fuhr [The Boat of Prince Tschingodzin on Which the Russian Ambassador Travelled Ashore from the Ship]

[Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813].

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8931 [Large Original, Very Finely Hand-Painted “Black Ship Scroll,” with Twenty-Two...

[JAPAN - PERRY EXPEDITION – BLACK SHIP SCROLL]

[Large Original, Very Finely Hand-Painted “Black Ship Scroll,” with Twenty-Two Watercolour Scenes and Portraits, Illustrating the Negotiations in Yokohama during Commodore Matthew Perry’s Naval Expedition to Japan and the Signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa in February-March 1854].

Price: $37,500.00

Item #6822 [Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore,...

[JAPAN, CHINA & PACIFIC]

[Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and Samoans, etc., Titled]: Around the World, 1900.

Price: $3,500.00

[JAPAN]

[Album of 125 Original Gelatin-Silver Photographs of Central Japan Including Nikko, Mount Nasu, Mount Asama, Kyoto, Kamakura etc., Showing Architecture, Landscapes, Temples and Local People etc.[With] Six Original Japanese Prints and two Original Watercolours]

1911.

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8958 [Collection of Two Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolours after the Aquatints from “A...

[JAVA]

[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.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #6816 [Original Copper Engraving from the Famous "Atlas k Puteshestviiu Vokrug Sveta...

[KAMCHATKA] 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].

Price: $3,750.00

Item #8959 [A Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolour View of Luis de Camões Grotto After the Aquatint...

[MACAO]

[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.

Price: $750.00

Item #10023 [Album with 87 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the New Mongolian State...

[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

Item #10013 [Collection of Twenty-Four Gelatin Silver Contact Sheets with 272 Original Photos,...

[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

Item #10025 [Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal,...

[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