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1[PERRY EXPEDITION IN JAPAN - BLACK SHIP SCROLL] [ASIA - JAPAN - PERRY EXPEDITION – BLACK SHIP SCROLL]

[Large Original, Very Finely Hand-Painted “Black Ship Scroll,” with Twenty-Two Watercolour Scenes and Portraits, Illustrating the Negotiations in Yokohama during Commodore Matthew Perry’s Naval Expedition to Japan and the Signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa in February-March 1854].

Several scenes dated Kaei 7 [1854], but possibly a slightly later, Meiji period copy. Hand-painted scroll ca. 1085x27,5 cm (ca.....

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4[AMERICANS IN BURMA & INDIA – WW2]

[Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two Albums, Taken by the Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the China Burma India Theatre of WW2; the Photos Show the Recapture of Northern Myanmar around Myitkyina, Construction and Maintenance of the Ledo Road from Assam...

Ca. April 1944 – August 1945. Two oblong Folio albums, each ca. 22,5x32 cm (9 x 12 ½ in). Each.....

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[AMERICAN FEMALE MISSIONARY IN CHINA] [NEAL, Elizabeth Blackford, née Simonton] (1859-1939)

[Original Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Female American Presbyterian Missionary in China, Written to Her Parents and Talking about Her Recent Missionary Trips around Weifang (Shandong Province), Preaching to Chinese Christians, Staying Overnight in a Village School “with the Heat & the Fleas,” Giving an Eye-Witness Account of the...

Tang Wu, 20 April 1888; Wei Hien, 19 May 1888; & Tengchowfoo, 16 June, 1888. Octavo (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 9.....

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[AMERICAN OIL INDUSTRY IN SUMATRA – STANDARD OIL CO.] [O’VARY, Geza Philip] (1887 – after 1946) & [O’VARY, Helene] (ca. 1883 – after 1958)

[Collection of Three Photo Albums with ca. 416 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Taken by an American Employee of the Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (Nederlands Colonial Oil Company) During His Work at the Oil Refinery in Soengei-Gerong (Sungai Gerong, South Sumatra) in 1929-1931].

Ca. 1929-1931. Three albums with ca. 416 original gelatin silver photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x36,5 cm). 25 card stock.....

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[AMERICAN TOURISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SRI LANKA & INDIA] HENSHAW CHICKERING, Alla [Sarah] (1887-1950); [HENSHAW, William Griffith] (1860-1924)

[Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of an Affluent California Family in ca. 1905 across the Mediterranean, Holy Land, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and India, Presented to the Compiler’s Father and Illustrated with Thirty-Four Original Photos Taken on the Trip; the Diary is Titled:] To Papa...

Ca. early 1900s & 1918. Octavo manuscript (ca. 22x16,5 cm). 35, [3], [9 - blank] leaves. Typewritten text on wove.....

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[ASIA - CAMBODIA]

[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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[ASIA - HIMALAYA - KANGCHENJUNGA] HOERLIN, Herman (1903-1983), SCHNEIDER, Erwin (1906-1987); KURZ, Marcel (1887-1967); WIELAND, Uli (1902-1934); [DYHRENFURTH, Günter] (1886-1975)

[Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga].

Ca. 1930. Seventy-one loose gelatin silver photographs, including eighteen larger photos from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾.....

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[ASIA - INDIA & SRI LANKA] BOURNE & SHEPHERD; BURKE, John (ca. 1843-1900); NICHOLAS & CO.; SCOWEN & CO.; SKEEN & CO.; PONT, V.&E., AND OTHERS

[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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[ASIA - INDIA - BIG GAME HUNTING]

[Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India].

Ca. 1921-1926. Oblong Folio album (ca. 24x35 cm). 12 card stock leaves. With 96 mounted gelatin silver photographs (mostly printed.....

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[ASIA - INDIA – WEST BENGAL]

[Album with 121 Early Albumen Photographs, Showing Kolkata, Hooghly River, Railway Station in Bardhaman, Damodar River, a “Mosque and Tank on the Hooghly Road,” a “Ruined Temple at Chandernagore [Chandannagar],” and Numerous Portraits of the Local People - Including Sellers of Toddy (Palm Wine), Curd, Poultry, Crockery, Parched Rice, Carpenters...

Ca. 1870s. Small folio album (ca. 30x25 cm). 33 card stock leaves. With 121 mounted albumen photographs, including over eighty.....

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[ASIA - 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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[ASIA - JAVA]

[Collection of Two Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolours after the Aquatints from “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (1810) by Thomas and William Daniell’s; Titled:] Anjere Point, Strait of Sunda; Malays of Java.

Ca. 1810s. Two pen and wash watercolours on paper ca. 12x19 cm (4 ¾ x 7 ¼ in) and 13x19,5.....

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[ASIA - MACAO]

[A Sepia Pen and Wash Watercolour View of Luis de Camões Grotto After the Aquatint from “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (1810) by Thomas and William Daniell’s; Titled:] Camoens Cave, Macao.

Ca. 1810s. Pen and wash watercolour on paper ca. 12x14,5 cm (4 ½ x 5 ¾ in). Mounted on a......

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[ASIA - PAKISTAN - KARAKORAM] DYHRENFURTH, Günter (1886-1975); DYHRENFURTH, Harriet Pauline “Hettie” (1892-1972); ANGST, Richard (1905-1984); ERTL, Hans (1908-2000); HÖCHT, Albert (1906-1992); BELAIEFF, James; GHIGLIONE, Piero; and others