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Two Watercolour Panoramas each on four Joined Sheets Titled: "St. Georges, Grenada from Hospital...
Two Artistic Watercolours of St George's, Grenada

[Two Watercolour Panoramas each on four Joined Sheets Titled: "St. Georges, Grenada from Hospital Hill," & "View of the Harbour, St. Georges, Grenada, from Belmont Hill." Dated on verso 1852.]

1852. Each panorama ca. 18 x 54 cm (7.5 x 21.5in.). Both watercolour panoramas consisting of four sheets of paper.....

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Two Detailed Manuscript Testimonials of a Voyage of the Merchant brig Jane to the West Indies in...
Interesting Manuscripts Documenting an Early Shipwreck in Montego Bay, Jamaica

[Two Detailed Manuscript Testimonials of a Voyage of the Merchant brig Jane to the West Indies in 1780, and the Circumstances of Her Shipwreck during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane, Notarially Certified in Montego Bay and London; [WITH] a Period Copy of Jane’s Portledge Bill for 1781].

Montego Bay (Jamaica) - London: 1780-1781. Three Folio Manuscripts (ca. 44x28 cm, ca. 40x26 cm and ca. 36,5x22 cm) folded.....

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Pair of Autograph Letters Signed by a Young American Merchant in Panama City to His Brother in...
Two Historically Interesting Early Letters from an American Businessman in Panama

[Pair of Autograph Letters Signed by a Young American Merchant in Panama City to His Brother in Boston].

Panama: 20 September 1857 & 30 March 1858. Two Quarto letters (ca. 26,5x21 cm). 1 p. and 1 p. Brown.....

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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Prayers” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, with the...
Beautiful Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript Leaf

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Prayers” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, with the lines from Two Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary: O Intemerata… and Obsecro te…, Illustrated with a Miniature Portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary].

Paris: ca. 1510-1520. Single leaf, manuscript on vellum, written/decorated area ca. 14,5x8 cm (ca. 5 ½ x 3 ¼ in);.....

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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Suffrages to Saints” Part of a French Latin Book of...
Beautiful Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript Leaf

[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the “Suffrages to Saints” Part of a French Latin Book of Hours, Appealing to Saint Martin and Saint Fiacre and Illustrated with Miniature Portraits of Both Saints].

Paris: ca. 1510-1520. Single leaf, manuscript on vellum, written/decorated area ca. 14,8x8 cm (ca. 5 ¾ x 3 1/8 in);.....

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Interesting Content Rich Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife with a Description of Temples and...
First-Hand Description of Temples and Antiquities in Athens

[Interesting Content Rich Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife with a Description of Temples and Other Antiquities of Athens, Including the Acropolis, the Prison where Socrates was Sentenced to Death, the “Bema” or pulpit “where Demosthenes and other orators went to address the people," Hill of Areopagus, Temple of Hephaestus...

Athens: 6 December 1851. Quarto (ca. 27x21 cm). 7 pp. On two bifoliums. Brown ink on bluish wove paper, addressed.....

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Original Watercolour View of the Ruins of the Monastic City Gateway in Glendalough in Ireland]....
Attractive Watercolour of the Ruins of the Gateway to the 6th-Century Monastic Settlement in Glendalough

[Original Watercolour View of the Ruins of the Monastic City Gateway in Glendalough in Ireland].

[1871]. Watercolour on paper ca. 25,5x34,5 cm (9 ½ x 13 ½ in). Artist’s signature “A.D.”, slightly indistinct date and.....

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Manuscript Report by a Notable Portuguese Diplomat, Reporting on Napoleon's 1800 Campaign in...
Original Report on Napoleon's 1800 campaign in Italy, including the siege of Genoa and the Battle of Marengo by a Portuguese Diplomat

[Manuscript Report by a Notable Portuguese Diplomat, Reporting on Napoleon's 1800 Campaign in Italy, including the Battle of Marengo].

Livorno: 6 July 1800. Folio (36,5x24 cm). 10 leaves stitched together over pink ribbons; pink stitching in gutter mostly gone.....

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Anonymous Period French Manuscript Account of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812 Titled:]...
Original First-Hand Manuscript Account of Napoleon's Invasion of Russia in 1812

[Anonymous Period French Manuscript Account of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812 Titled:] Campaigne de Russie. Toujour victorieux depuis 19 ans, Napoleon revait la conquete du monde, et les limites de la terre semblaiens trop rapprochee, pour fixer le terme de ses exploits!...

[ca. 1820-1825]. Folio (ca. 32,5x22 cm), 73, [2] stitched with a string. Brown ink on watermarked lined paper, text in.....

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REMARKABLE PRIMARY SOURCE ON 17TH CENTURY RUSSIAN-WESTERN EUROPEAN RELATIONS]. Relatione...
Remarkable Primary Source on Early Russian-Western European Relations

[REMARKABLE PRIMARY SOURCE ON 17TH CENTURY RUSSIAN-WESTERN EUROPEAN RELATIONS]. Relatione d’Alcuni Costumi de’Sig.i Ambasc. Moscoviti, che ora si trovano in Livorno per passare all’Ambasciata di Venezia [Autograph Letter by an Anonymous Author from Livorno Witnessing the Muscovite Embassy to Venice (1656-1657) and Containing Vivid Observations and Remarks About Russians].

Livorno: ca. 1656. Quarto, ca. 27x19,5 cm (10 ½ x 7 ¾ in). Four pages; brown ink on cream laid.....

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Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a...
Rare Watercolours from an Early Nile Voyage

[Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a Cruise in Winter 1864-1865 and Showing the Ancient Sites and Cliffs of Upper Egypt and Nubia, and the Second Cataract].

November 1864 - February 1865. Twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, including one three-part panorama ca. 13x108,5 cm (5 x 42.....

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A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the...
Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the Sons to Khedive Tewfik Pasha

[A Historically Important Manuscript Diary Documenting Butler's Work in Egypt as a Tutor to the Sons to Khedive Tewfik Pasha, with Detailed Descriptions of His Conversations with the Khedive, His Ministers and Courtiers, European Diplomats and Residents, Mutiny in the Egyptian Army in February 1881, Religious Holidays, State Ceremonies, Coptic...

15 January – 10 May 1881. Folio journal (ca. 36x23 cm). 376 numbered pages, of which 217 are filled in.....

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Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles...
Beautiful Artist Sketches used for "Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque"

[Collection of Nine Original Drawings by Wilhelm and Ismael Gentz, Leopold Mueller, and Charles Welsch, Used as Prototypes for Illustrations in Georg Ebers’ Encyclopaedic Work “Aegypten in Bild und Wort (Stuttgart & Leipzig 1879-80);” [Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque] [With]: Complete Sets of both the First German and the First...

ca. 1870s. Pencil, pen, ink and wash on album paper, some heightened in white, all but one signed by the.....

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Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:]...
Attractive Watercolours of the Holy Land by a British Traveller

[Collection of Twenty-eight Very Attractive Original Watercolour Views of the Holy Land; [With:] Two Watercolours from the Same Travel Showing Surghaya village in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Syria) and the Acropolis in Smyrna/Izmir (Turkey)].

March-May 1893. Thirty original watercolours on paper, from ca. 8,5x17,5 cm (3 ¼ x 7 in) to ca. 8,5x12,5 cm.....

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Seven Watercolour and Ink Drawings of the Euphrates Valley and the Environs of Baghdad After...
Attractive Early Sketches of Iraq

[Seven Watercolour and Ink Drawings of the Euphrates Valley and the Environs of Baghdad After Plates from J. Buckingham’s “Travels in Mesopotamia” and R. Mignan’s “Travels in Chaldaea”].

1828-1830. Watercolour, ink and pencil on grey and white paper, from ca. 11,5x18,5 cm (ca. 4 ½ x 7 ¼.....

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Original Unsigned Watercolour Showing a "Tuarick of Ghraat" and "Negresses of the Soudan,"...
Attractive Watercolour View After Two Costume Plates in Lyon's "A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa...,"

[Original Unsigned Watercolour Showing a "Tuarick of Ghraat" and "Negresses of the Soudan," Combined from two Illustrations in Lyon's "A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa," Titled in Brown ink:] Lyon's Travels in Africa.

After 1821. Watercolour ca. 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) on beige artist's wove paper with blind stamp.....

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Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at...
Letter from Ill-fated Expedition to Timbuktu

[Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha's Foreign Minister, and Additionally he...

Marseilles: 28 August 1818. Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm), 1. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Mild fold marks and light.....

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