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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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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 "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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Extensive Private Archive of 29 Letters, Describing Her Life as an Upper Class Lady in British...
Extensive Private Archive Describing Colonial Life in British India

[Extensive Private Archive of 29 Letters, Describing Her Life as an Upper Class Lady in British India, with Notes on the Vice Roy of India Lord Hardinge and an Attempt of Hardinge's Assassination, Planning of the Construction of New Delhi, Fort William in Calcutta, Delhi Fort and Chandni Chowk Market...

17 December 1911 - 2 September 1914. Mostly large Octavo (ca. 25x20,5 cm), with six smaller letters ca. 21x13,5 cm.....

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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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Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian...
Important View of Nagasaki From Krusenstern's Voyage

[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...

[Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813]. Copper engraving, ca. 37,5x53,5 cm (14 ¾ x 21 in) on the leaf of laid.....

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Coloured Oban Triptych 'Ukiyo-e' Woodblock Print of Foreigners Being Entertained at Gankiro...
Early Triptych of the Gankiro Brothel in Yokohama

[Coloured Oban Triptych 'Ukiyo-e' Woodblock Print of Foreigners Being Entertained at Gankiro Brothel in the Miyozaki Pleasure Quarter in Yokohama Titled:] Yokohama Miyozaki Kuruwa Gankiro Ijin Yuko no Zu.

1861. Three part coloured woodblock (each part with printed artist's name stamp), together ca. 37 x 76.5 cm (15 x......

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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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Collection of Four Notebooks Kept During His Service as a Carpenter on USS “Benicia” and...
Rare First-Hand Account of the United States 1871 Expedition to Korea and the Battle of Ganghwa Island

[Collection of Four Notebooks Kept During His Service as a Carpenter on USS “Benicia” and “USS” Alaska in 1870-1874, Containing a 12-Page “Extracts from Log of U.S.S. Benicia on the Expedition to Corea,” with a First-Hand Account of the 1871 US Navy Expedition to Korea and the Battle of Ganghwa...

Four notebooks of various sizes, 1870-1874. 1) Large notebook with entries for 1870-1872. Ca. 21x17,5 cm. Over 100 lined leaves.....

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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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Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of Ulaanbaatar during the Early...
Rare Early Photos of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

[Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of Ulaanbaatar during the Early Years of Socialistic Mongolia, Showing the Sükhbaatar Square, the Chinese Quarter, Bogd Khan’s Winter Palace, Buddhist Temples, Zakhadyr Market, Scenes from the Naadam Festival, Mongolian Wrestling, Costumes, Hairdos, Yurts and Houses, etc.]

Ca. late 1920s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 19,5x31,5 cm). 16 card stock leaves. With ca. 150 mounted gelatin silver snapshot.....

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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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Petr Simon Pallas, Yego Zhizn, Uchyonye Trudy i Puteshestviya [Peter Simon Pallas, His Life,...
Very Rare Biography of the Explorer & Zoologist Peter Simon Pallas

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

Moscow: Typ. of A.A. Torletsky, 1877. First and only edition. Large Octavo. ix, 214 pp. With a woodcut portrait frontispiece.....

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