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Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos, Including Eighty-Five Views of Java,...
Interesting collection of 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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Five Indian School Watercolour, Ink and Pencil Portraits Signed “CP,” Showing the Traditional...
Watercolours of the Afghan Portraits in Montstuart Elphinstone's "An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul"

[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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Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet Tourist Trips to Lake...
Photos of the Altai Mountains

[Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet Tourist Trips to Lake Teletskoye and Mount Belukha in the Altai Mountains, Organized by the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions].

Ca. 1931. Oblong Folio album ca. 26,5x35 cm (10 ¼ x 13 ¾ in). 15 card stock leaves. With 54.....

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Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River,...
Album of Rare Photos of Blagoveshchensk an Important Trading Centre on the Amur River

[Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River, Showing Major Trading Houses and Shops on the Bolshaya Street, Girls' School, Cathedrals and Churches (Demolished in Soviet Time), the Triumphal Arch, Customs House and Steamers on the Amur River, Chinese Villages on the Other Bank, Chinese...

Ca. 1910s. Oblong Folio (ca. 26x34,5 cm). Twelve album leaves. Ninety-six mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 7x10 cm (2.....

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Two Original Watercolours of the Andaman Islands, Titled on Verso]: 1) Ross Islands from the...
Rare Watercolour Views of Port Blair, Capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

[Two Original Watercolours of the Andaman Islands, Titled on Verso]: 1) Ross Islands from the Aberdeen District Officers’ House, Port Blair; and 2) Government Rest House, Mount Harriet – Port Blair.

ca. 1890. Two watercolours on paper, each ca. 14x22,5 cm (5 ½ x 8 ¾ in). Period manuscript captions in.....

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Autograph Letter Signed by David Jones Edwardes, a British Diplomat in the Kingdom of Siam,...
Account of Burning the Remains of a Siamese Prince

[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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Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian...
Important Collection 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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Asie Centrale: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes et la Climatologie Comparee. [Central...
Humboldt's Travel's to Siberia and Central Asia

Asie Centrale: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes et la Climatologie Comparee. [Central Asia: Research of the Mountain Chains and Comparative Climatology].

Paris: Gide, 1843. First French Edition. Octavo (ca. 22 x14cm), 3 vols. lviii, 570, [1]; 558, [1]; 614, [3]. With.....

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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 111 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Beijing and Environs, Apparently Taken by an...
Photos of Beijing Taken by an American Photographer

[Album with 111 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Beijing and Environs, Apparently Taken by an American after the Boxer Rebellion, Including 86 Interesting and Unusual Portraits of Chinese Beggars, Street Sellers, Elders, Peasants, Construction Workers, Families, Monks, Noble Women, Camel Riders; Market and Street Scenes, Views of Beijing Historical Sites...

Ca. 1910. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 21x29,5 cm). 28 black card stock leaves. With 111 mounted gelatin silver photos, ca.....

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Album with Eighty-six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer...
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...
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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Collection of Several Original Logbooks of 1882-1886, Kept by a Young Midshipman on Board of...
Interesting China Station Logbooks Describing Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan

[Collection of Several Original Logbooks of 1882-1886, Kept by a Young Midshipman on Board of Several Royal Navy Ships, Bound Together with Information on Hong Kong, Singapore, Geomundo Islands, Battle of Fuzhou, French Blockade of Taiwan, Bombardment Of Alexandria and Titled:] Logs of Her Majesty’s Ships “Achilles” Commanded by Captain...

[Various places at sea]: 21 January 1882 - 12 October 1886. Folio (ca. 32x20,5 cm). Ca. 295 leaves (20 blank).....

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Album with 233 Original Gelatin Silver Vernacular Photographs,Taken by Likely American Travellers...
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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Collection of Thirty-Three Loose Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken in the Modern-Day Xinjiang Uyghur...
Rare Original Photos from Sven Hedin’s Fourth and Last Expedition to Central Asia

[Collection of Thirty-Three Loose Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken in the Modern-Day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China during Hedin’s Sino-Swedish Expedition of 1927-35; With Hedin’s Carte-de-visite, and Two Published Accounts of the Expedition, Featuring Four of the Photos from the Collection: Hedin, S. Åter till Asien (Stockholm, 1928), and Berger...

Ca. 1927-1928. 33 loose gelatin silver photos, including three larger photos ca. 13 & 15,5 x 18 cm (5 &.....

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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 Collected 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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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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