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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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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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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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Autograph Letter Signed by David Jones Edwardes, a British Diplomat in the Kingdom of Siam,...
First-Hand Account of Events in Siam, Including the Burning the Remains of a Siamese Prince in 1868

[Autograph Letter Signed by David Jones Edwardes, a British Diplomat in the Kingdom of Siam, Talking about the Funeral of a Siamese Prince (with a Separate Captivating Four-page Manuscript Account of the Funeral), the Delimitation of Siamese-Burmese Boundary, American Baptist Missionaries in Bangkok, Including Ms. Adele Fielde, etc.; the Manuscript...

Bangkok: British Consulate, 8 February 1868. Two Quarto bifoliums (ca. 26,5x21,5 cm ). Brown ink on bluish paper. 4 +.....

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Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales,...
Early First-Hand Account of British Military Service in Ceylon

[Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales, Describing his Early Service in the Military Regiment in British Ceylon, with notes on His Travel to Ceylon on Board HMS Thalia, Colombo Garrison and Officers, Local Society, Day Schedule et al].

1805-6. HMS Thalia, “18 leagues to the North of St. Jago”, 20 October 1805 and Colombo Fort, 21 June (completed.....

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A Collection of Seven Original Ink Drawings (Three initialed "C.A.") Used as Illustrations in...
Historically Important Tibetan Sketches

[A Collection of Seven Original Ink Drawings (Three initialed "C.A.") Used as Illustrations in Wilhelm Filchner's Book " Das Kloster Kumbum in Tibet. Ein Beitrag zu Seiner Geschichte (The Monastery Kumbum in Tibet. A Contribution to its History)" Berlin: Mittler & Sohn 1906].

ca. 1905. Seven ink drawings on thick paper ca. 27 x 23cm (11 x 9 in.) and slightly smaller. The.....

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Album of Ten Original Pen and Wash Sketches of Military Fortifications, Villages and Mountainous...
Original Sketches from the French Pacification of Tonkin in 1891

[Album of Ten Original Pen and Wash Sketches of Military Fortifications, Villages and Mountainous Views of Tonkin (North Vietnam) Taken by a Participant of the French Military Campaign on Pacification of Tonkin (1886-1896)].

Ca. 1891. With ten sketches in pen and wash on beige paper each ca. 13x21 cm (5 ¼ x 8.....

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Autograph Manuscript Notes on Vietnamese Law Written and Dated by Professor and Legal Expert...
Manuscript Notes on Vietnamese Law

[Autograph Manuscript Notes on Vietnamese Law Written and Dated by Professor and Legal Expert Charles Fruteau, Including 26 Lessons on Ritual, Administrative, Civil, Family, and Property Law, Titled:] Droit civil annamite.

Hanoi: 1914-1915. Period manuscript black ink on lined paper with annotations in the margins and in the text. Quarto ca.....

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Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional...
Early Watercolours of Afghans

[Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional Dress of People and Leaders in the Kingdom of Caubul [Kabul] During the Durrani Dynasty (1747-1842) Perhaps used as the Original Archetype Illustrations for Montstuart Elphinstone's, 1815 Book:] “An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its...

ca. 1815. Five cut-out portraits drawn in ink, pencil and watercolour drawings each ca. 21 x 12.5 cm (8 ½.....

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Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i devlet-i...
Islamic Incunable: Third Book Published by Müteferrika

Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i devlet-i Sâhân-i Safevîyân [The History of the Afghan Wars in Persia and the Reasons of the Fall of the Safavid Empire].

Istanbul: Typ. Of Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1142 H. [1729]. Octavo (ca. 20,5x14,5 cm). [7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system).....

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Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos, Including Eighty-Five Views of Java,...
Historically Interesting Vernacular Photos of Indonesia, New Guinea and the Western Pacific Including many Ethnographic Images.

[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. Folio album (ca. 30,5x24,5 cm). 34 thick card stock leaves. With 151 original photos, including 147 gelatin silver.....

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