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[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

[HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] KUBOTA, Beisen (1852-1906)

米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890.

Price: $3,250.00

[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

[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

[SUMATRA & BANGKOK]

[Album with 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken by a European Couple during their Travel to Sumatra and Bangkok in 1934, and Showing Bukittinggi, Medan, Minangkabau Traditional Houses, West Sumatra Highlands, Bangkok’s Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew Temple Complex, etc.]

1934.

Price: $2,250.00

[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

[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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[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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[THAILAND] LENZ, Robert (1864-1939)

[Exquisite Lacquered Album with 25 Large Original Albumen and Gelatin Silver Views of Bangkok and Portraits of Thai People]

Ca. 1890s.

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