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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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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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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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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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Album with Fifty-two Large Rare Albumen Photographs Including Forty-four of the Tea Plantations,...
Rare Early Photos of Assam

[Album with Fifty-two Large Rare Albumen Photographs Including Forty-four of the Tea Plantations, British Planters, Native People and Historical Sites of Assam; With Six Large Studio Photos of Ceylon and Two Photos of New Zealand].

Ca. 1890. Folio ca. 30,5x38 cm (12x15 in). 25 thick card stock leaves. With 52 large original mounted albumen photographs.....

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Beautiful Elaborately Decorated Art Nouveau Album by the Famous German Bindery of Georg Hulbe...
Rare Photos of India Bound in a Beautiful Art Nouveau Pictorial Binding

[Beautiful Elaborately Decorated Art Nouveau Album by the Famous German Bindery of Georg Hulbe with Fifty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Benares, Agra, Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Dilwara Temples, Portraits of Indian Street Sellers, Dancers, Snake Charmers, Peasants with a Leopard, Etc.]

Ca. 1900. Oblong Folio (ca. 31,5x45,5 cm). 24 card stock leaves. With 33 large original gelatin silver photos, from ca.....

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Anonymous Historically Interesting Manuscript Documenting the Indian Caste System and...
Manuscript About Indian Caste System in French India

[Anonymous Historically Interesting Manuscript Documenting the Indian Caste System and Observations of Social Norms and Practices in French India, Titled:] Des Castes Indiennes.

Karaikal: April 11th, 1743? Quarto Ca. 24 x 18.5 cm (9 ¼ x 7 ¼ in.) 22 pp. Legible dark.....

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