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[DUPOUY, André, Capitaine]

[PACIFIC - NEW CALEDONIA] [Album with 479 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including 276 Photos Documenting His Life and Military Service in New Caledonia in ca. 1908-1911, and 203 photos Illustrating his Later Service and Family Life in France, Tonkin and Madagascar in ca. 1914-1923, Titled:] Album de photos faites en Calédonie de 1908 á 1911 par la Maison J’Y.

Ca. 1908-1911, 1914-1923.

Price: $7,500.00

[FIJI, TONGA, RAROTONGA, TAHITI, SAMOA & HAWAII]

[Album with 127 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards Taken and Collected During the South Pacific Cruise of U.S.S. “Buford” in Spring 1924, with Unusual Views and Portraits from Suva and Lavuka (Fiji), Neiafu Village (Vavau Island, Tonga), Niue (Island Country), Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Papeete (Tahiti), and Samoa; with Early Photos of the Laie Hawaii LDS Temple (Oahu) and Vivid Tourist Group Portraits at the Edge of the Kilauea Volcano (the Big Island)]

Ca. 1920s.

Price: $3,250.00

[HAWAII, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND] VANSANT, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”

[Attractive Keepsake Album with Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Studio Photos and Real Photo Postcards, and One Piece of Printed Ephemera, Compiled by a Sailor from U.S.S. “New Mexico” during the US Fleet Exercise at Hawaii and its Good-will Tour to South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand in April-October 1925; the Album is Titled:] U.S.S. New Mexico. In Remembrance of Maneuvres at Hawaii – Australia – New Zealand, 1925

Ca. 1925.

Price: $1,500.00

[HAWAII, SINGAPORE, PHILIPPINES] Dobell, Peter/Petr Vasil’evich; [Dzhunkovsky, A.S.]

Puteshestviia i Noveishiia Nabliudeniia v Kitae, Manille i Indo-Kitaiskom Arkhipelage Byvshego Rossiiskogo Generalnogo Konsula na Filippinskikh Ostrovakh, Kollezhskogo Sovetnika Petra Dobelia, Sostavil i s Angliiskogo Perevel, s Vysochaishego Soizvolenia A. Dzh. [i.e. Travels and Latest Observations in China, Manila and the Indo-China Archipelago by a Former Russian Consul General in the Philippine Islands, Collegiate Councillor Petr Dobell, Compiled and Translated from English, by the Highest Permission A. Dzh.]

St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1833.

Price: $12,500.00

[HAWAII]

[Album of Over 280 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken by an American Soldier During His Service in the US Army Hawaiian Division, with Interesting Photos of Schofield Barracks and Soldiers, Oahu Island and Hawaii Volcanos National Park].

Hawaii: Ca. 1920-1930s.

Price: $1,250.00

[HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON] Staniukovich, K.M.

Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the World: Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867.

Price: $2,750.00

[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

[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] [Golovnin, V.M.]

Zapiski Vasiliia Mikhailovicha Golovnina v Plenu u Yapontsev d 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh, i Zhizneopisanie Avtora [i.e. Notes of V.M. Golovnin [made] in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813, and the Biography of the Author]

Price: $7,500.00

[JAVA, NEW GUINEA, SAMOA etc.]

[Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos, Including Eighty-Five Views of Java, Ambon, Sulawesi & Banda, Twenty-Eight Views of New Guinea, Thirty-Five Views of Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji, and Three Photos of the 1903 Delhi Durbar]

Ca. 1900.

Price: $3,500.00

[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

[NEW CALEDONIA] [DUPOUY, André, Capitaine]

[Album with 479 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including 276 Photos Documenting His Life and Military Service in New Caledonia in ca. 1908-1911, and 203 photos Illustrating his Later Service and Family Life in France, Tonkin and Madagascar in ca. 1914-1923, Titled:] Album de photos faites en Calédonie de 1908 á 1911 par la Maison J’Y.

Ca. 1908-1911, 1914-1923.

Price: $7,500.00

[NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA]

[Two Albums with 192 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photos Taken by British Travellers, Including 142 photos from a Car and Railway Trip Across New Zealand’s North and South Islands, 29 photos of Southern Australia from Perth to Sydney, and Views of Rarotonga, Tahiti, Moorea, Celebration of Crossing the Equator, etc.]

Ca. 1925-1926.

Price: $1,500.00

[NORTH PACIFIC] Sarychev, G.A.

Puteshestvie Kapitana Billingsa chrez Chukotskuyu Zemliu ot Beringova Proliva do Nizhnekolymskago Ostroga i Plavanie Kapitana Galla na Sudne Chernom Orle po Severovostochnomu Okeanu v 1791 godu... [i.e. Voyage of Captain Billings through the Land of the Chukchi from the Bering Sea to Nizhnekolymsky Ostrog, and the Sea Voyage of Captain Hall on the ship Black Eagle over the North Pacific Ocean in 1791...]

Price: $32,500.00

[PAPUA NEW GUINEA] [PATTEN, William] (1861-1932)

[Collection of Nineteen Loose Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken During Professor William Patten’s Zoological Expedition to New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in 1912]

Ca. 1912.

Price: $2,250.00

[SAKHALIN] SUZUKI, Shigehisa (active 1854-64); MATSUURA, Takeshiro (1818-1888); UTAGAWA, Sadahide (artist, 1807-1873)

Karafuto Nikki [i.e. Diary of Sakhalin]

Edo [Tokyo]: Harimaya Katsugoro zohan, Ansei 7 [January 1860].

Price: $2,500.00

[SIBERIA & NORTH PACIFIC] Marakuev, V.N.

Petr Simon Pallas, Yego Zhizn, Uchyonye Trudy i Puteshestviya [i.e. Peter Simon Pallas, His Life, Scientific Work and Travels]

Moscow: Typ. of A.A. Torletsky, 1877.

Price: $3,500.00
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[SUMATRA – STANDARD OIL CO.] [O’VARY, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’VARY, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958)

[Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931]

Ca. 1929-1931.

Price: $3,750.00

[ANTARCTIC DISCOVERIES] KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von, Admiral (1770-1846)

[Autograph Letter Signed Talking about John Biscoe’s Discoveries in the Antarctic in January-February 1831 in German and English]

St. Petersburg: 1832.

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[HAWAII] KOTZEBUE, Otto von (1787-1846)

[Important Large and One of the Earliest Maps of Honolulu Harbour from the Famous and Exceedingly Rare Atlas to Kotzebue’s First Circumnavigation on board brig “Rurik” in 1815-1818, Map Titled:] Ploskaya Karta Gavani Ganaruru. Dekabrya 1816 [Plain Chart of Honolulu Harbour, December 1816]

Saint Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1821-1823.

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[PACIFIC] [MAKAROV, Stepan Osipovich] (1849-1904)

[SURVEY & HYDROLOGY] “Vityaz” i Tikhiy Okean. Gidrologicheskye Nablyudeniya, Proizvedennye Ofitserami Korveta “Vityaz” vo Vremya Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya 1886-1889 godov, i Svod Nablyudeniy nad Temperaturoi i Udelnym Vesom Vody Severnogo Tikhogo Okeana [“Vityaz” and the Pacific Ocean. Hydrological Observations, Carried out by the Officers of the Corvette Vityaz During the Circumnavigation of 1886-1889, and a Collection of Observations on Water Temperatures and the Specific Weight of Water in the North Pacific. By the former Commander, Rear Admiral S.O. Makarov]

Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1894.

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[PHILIPPINES - MANILA]

[Collection of Twenty-One Mounted Gelatin Silver Photos of Manila (Pasig River, Anda Monument, Clarke’s Ice Cream Parlour, Tondo Canal, Old Customs House), Casco Boats, Filipino Villages, Peasants, etc.]

Ca. 1900s.

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[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY IN ALASKA, CALIFORNIA & HAWAII]

Materyaly dlya Istorii Russkikh Zaseleniy po Beregam Vostochnogo Okeana: Prilozheniye k Morskomu Sborniku: Vyp. 1-4 [Materials for the History of Russian Settlements on the Shores of the Eastern Ocean/ Supplements to Morskoy Sbornik. Parts 1-4]

Saint Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1861.

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[SOUTH PACIFIC & INDONESIA] [EMPAIN, Jean (Johnny), Baron] (1902-1946)

[Album with 214 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Including ca. 111 Photos Taken during Jean Empain's Cruise to the South Pacific, New Guinea, and Dutch East Indies in 1933]

Ca. 1930s.

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