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Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930...
Historically Significant Photos of the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga led by Günter Dyhrenfurth

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

Ca. 1930. Seventy-one loose gelatin silver photographs, including eighteen larger photos from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾.....

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Two Albums with 94 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos from a Mountaineering Trip to the Chamba...
Historically Interesting Photos of a Mountaineering Trip also Documenting Early Women's Mountaineering to the Chamba Princely State in Northern British India

[Two Albums with 94 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos from a Mountaineering Trip to the Chamba Princely State, Showing Chamba City and Valley, Local Officials, the Travellers (Including Two Ladies) Trekking and Ascending the Western Himalayas, Their Guides and Porters, Local People, etc.]

Ca. 1920. Two oblong Folio albums (ca. 26x33 cm). 47 and 43 card stock leaves. With 49 and 45 mounted.....

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Collection of 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1934 “International...
Historically Significant Photos of the 1934 “International Himalaya Expedition” Including a World Altitude Record for Women

[Collection of 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1934 “International Himalaya Expedition” to the Karakoram – the Upper Baltoro Glacier, and Sia Kangri (Queen Mary Peak) and Baltoro Kangri (the Golden Throne) Mountains].

Ca. 1934. 189 loose gelatin silver photographs, including thirteen large square photos from ca. 18,5x17 cm (7 ¼ x 6.....

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Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an...
Extensive Photo Documentation of the Beginnings of the US Oil Industry in Sumatra in the early 1930s.

[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. Three albums with ca. 416 original gelatin silver photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x36,5 cm). 25 card stock.....

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Album with 127 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards Taken and Collected During...
Rare & Unusual Photos of Fiji, Tonga, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Samoa & Hawaii in the 1920s

[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;...

Ca. 1920s. Oblong Octavo album (ca. 18,5x28,5 cm). 36 card stock leaves (9 blank). With 94 mounted gelatin silver photographs.....

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Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian...
Important Photos of Angkor Wat and Khmer Architecture Related to the Travels and Work of George Groslier

[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. Fifteen loose platinum prints ca. 17x23 cm (6 ½ x 9 in). Twelve albumen photographs, including eight ca.....

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Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of present-day...
Manuscript Journal of Early Travel on the Peking-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...

6-21 November [1903]. Octavo, ca. 22,5x17,5 cm (8 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). 32 leaves. Manuscript text in French. Black.....

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Album with Eighty-six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer...
Historically Interesting Photos of the Voyages of S.M.S. 'Scharnhorst,' Stationed in Tsingtao

[Album with Eighty-six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer While Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Qingdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and...

Ca. 1912-1913. Folio Album (33,5x23,5 cm). 36 album leaves (14 blank). With 86 original gelatin silver prints from ca. 12x17.....

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Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans...
Photographs and Sketches Documenting the Third Battle of the Taku Forts, Second Opium War

[Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching...

[China]: Ca. 1860-2. Folio album (ca. 40x29 cm). With three original albumen photos from ca. 13x18,5 cm (5 x 7.....

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Album with 233 Original Gelatin Silver Vernacular Photographs,Taken by Likely American Travellers...
Historically Interesting Photos of Northeastern China During the Warlord Era (1916-28)

[Album with 233 Original Gelatin Silver Vernacular Photographs,Taken by Likely American Travellers to China in 1920, Showing the Sites of Beijing, the Great Wall of China, the Ming Tombs Overgrown with Grass, a Trip by Railway to Jinan and Japanese-occupied Quingdao, Portraits of Chinese Monks, Soldiers, Children, the Travellers Sitting...

Ca. 1920. Oblong small folio album (ca. 26x33,5 cm). 50 card stock leaves. With 233 original gelatin silver photos, the.....

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Album with Sixty Photographs, including Fifty-five Albumen, Four Cyanotypes and One Platinum...
Early Large Photos of French Indochina, Including Vietnam, Guangzhouwan (Zhanjiang) in Southern China, and Cambodia,

[Album with Sixty Photographs, including Fifty-five Albumen, Four Cyanotypes and One Platinum Print Compiled by a French Officer During His Service in French Indochina].

Ca. 1890s-1900s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 32,5x40,5 cm). 24 card stock leaves. With 55 albumen photographs (one mounted on card.....

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Album with Over 190 Original Amateur and Studio Gelatin Silver Photos and Five Printed Postcards,...
Historically Interesting WWI Photos of the British Military in Northern India and Aden

[Album with Over 190 Original Amateur and Studio Gelatin Silver Photos and Five Printed Postcards, Documenting the Service of the 7th Battalion, British Royal Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Force, in India and Aden during WW1, Titled in Manuscript:] Views from India, sent by Pte. A.B. Rodber, 7th Hants Regt. whilst training...

Ca. 1914-1918. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 21x25,5 cm). 49 stock leaves (8 blank). With ca. 192 gelatin silver photographs, including.....

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Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon]. ASIA - INDIA, SRI...
Vivid Large Albumen Studio Photos of British India & Ceylon

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

Ca. 1880s-1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x38 cm). 49 paper leaves. With 49 mounted albumen photographs, including 47 larger ones.....

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Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri...
Vivid Photos of British Colonial Big Game Hunting Trips in Central and Southern India in the 1920s.

[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. Oblong Folio album (ca. 24x35 cm). 12 card stock leaves. With 96 mounted gelatin silver photographs (mostly printed.....

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Collection of Three Volumes of Logbooks, Recording the Voyage of the East India Contract Ship...
Historically Significant Collection of Original Logbooks Giving a Content-Rich Record of a Classic East Indiaman’s Trade Voyage During the Age of Sail.

[Collection of Three Volumes of Logbooks, Recording the Voyage of the East India Contract Ship “Larkins” (Captain Charles Ingram) from London to Calcutta via Cape of Good Hope and Madras, and Back to London via Madras, Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, 12 March 1840 – 27 February 1841].

1840-1841. Three Small Folio standard printed logbooks (each ca. 32x26 cm). In three logs over 400 pages with manuscript entries.....

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Original Autograph Letter Written in Akbarpur by a British Officer during the Indian Mutiny,...
Interesting First Hand Account of the British Suppression of the Indian Mutiny

[Original Autograph Letter Written in Akbarpur by a British Officer during the Indian Mutiny, Mentioning the Capture of Lucknow, Death of Captain William Thunne, the Troops' Movement, "Calpee Force," the Beginning of the Hot Season, Plans to Hunt and Take Part in a Steeplechase, etc.]

Akberpore [Akbarpur]: 24 March 1858. Small Octavo bifoium ca. 18x11 cm (7 x 4 ¼ in). 4 pp. Brown ink.....

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Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England]....
Original Watercolours by the Artist of "Views in India, from Drawings Taken During the Seapoy Mutiny"

[Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England].

ca. 1857-8. Oblong Small Folio (ca. 25.5 x 32.5cm). 12 beige album leaves. With ten watercolours, each ca. 17 x......

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Attractive Private Scrap Book with Forty-Two Original Ink, Pencil, Pen and Wash Drawings and...
Historically Interesting Scrap Book of Drawings, Photographs and Watercolours Documenting a Young British Civil Servant's Life in Southwestern India in the 1870s

[Attractive Private Scrap Book with Forty-Two Original Ink, Pencil, Pen and Wash Drawings and Watercolours, Eleven Albumen Photographs (Including Two Carte-de-Visite Portraits by Lala Deen Dayal), and Two Rare Lithographs by the “Behar Lithographic Press” (After Sketches by Sir Charles D’Oyly). The Scrap Book Shows Winterbotham's Work and Leisure Activities...

Ca. 1870-1879; lithographs: ca. 1828. Folio album (ca. 30,5x24 cm). 17 paper leaves. With 42 original mounted works of art.....

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Early 19th Century Manuscript Hand Coloured Copy of a Map from Hayashi’s Prohibited Book...
Surreptitious Manuscript Map of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Manchuria, Russian Tartary and Kamchatka

[Early 19th Century Manuscript Hand Coloured Copy of a Map from Hayashi’s Prohibited Book “Sangoku tsûran zusetsu”, or "Illustrated Outline of the Three Countries” (1785), Depicting Ezo (Hokkaido), Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, Coasts of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Tartary and Manchuria, Titled:] Ezo Chi No Zu [Map of the Country...

[Japan]: Bunka 4 (1807). Ca. 92x58,5 cm (36 ¼ x 23 ¼ in). Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured.....

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Attractive Lacquered Album with 50 Original Albumen Hand-Coloured Photographs of Japan, Including...
Unusual Hand-Coloured Albumen Photos of Japan and Scenes of Japanese life

[Attractive Lacquered Album with 50 Original Albumen Hand-Coloured Photographs of Japan, 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.].

Ca. 1890s. Oblong Folio (ca. 32,5x40 cm). With 50 mounted hand-coloured albumen photos, each ca. 19x24,5 cm (ca. 7 ½.....

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Album of 125 Original Gelatin-Silver Photographs of Central Japan Including Nikko, Mount Nasu,...
Vernacular Photos of Central 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. Oblong Folio (27 x 36cm), 33 black album leaves. Collection of 125 gelatin silver prints, all but six mounted.....

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One of the Earliest Descriptions of the Famous Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony)...
Earliest Photos of the Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony) in Ladakh

[One of the Earliest Descriptions of the Famous Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony) in the Himalayan Buddhist Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Illustrated with the First Ever Photographs of the Monks, Musicians and Masked Dancers during the Ceremony in an 1865 Issue of the Journal of the Asiatic Society...

Calcutta: C.B. Lewis at the Baptist Mission Press, 1865. Vol. XXXIV, part I, No. 2. First Edition. Small Octavo (ca.....

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Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of...
First-Hand Account of the Gurkhas in the Anglo-Nepalese War

[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)].

Hawalbagh (India): 18th Dec. 1815. Quarto (ca. 25x20 cm). 6 pp. Brown ink on beige wove paper. Original fold marks.....

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