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Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island, Including the...
Rare Photos of Ascension Island

[Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island, Including the Laying of Cable for the Western Telegraph Company in 1910, Military Presence, Local Life, Buildings and Landscapes].

1910-13. Two albums with a total of 199 gelatin silver photographs including one panorama ca. 7 x 18.5 cm (2.....

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Album of Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photographs Showing Ethnographic Views...
Rare Ethnographic and Colonial Photos of British East Africa

[Album of Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photographs Showing Ethnographic Views and Colonial Buildings and Infrastructure in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Following the Construction of the Uganda Railway (1896-1901).]

Ca. 1907. Large oblong folio album ca. 26 x 33.5 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in.). 13 light green stiff.....

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Album with Sixty-one Original Albumen Photographs, the Majority of Which are of South Africa...
Early Photos of Kimberley & De Beers Diamond Mines

[Album with Sixty-one Original Albumen Photographs, the Majority of Which are of South Africa Showing Detailed Views of Kimberley and De Beers Diamond Mines, Johannesburg Gold Mine, Sites and Memorials of the Anglo-Zulu and First Boer Wars, Views of Pietermaritzburg, Georgetown, Durban, Newcastle; Ethnographic Photos of Zulus and “Kaffirs”; With...

Ca. late 1880s. Ca. late 1880s. Oblong Folio (ca. 37,5x46,5 cm). 40 beige card stock album leaves. With 61 recto.....

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Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Where it is Titled]: "Combating the...
Attractive Watercolour Showing the Surveying Expedition to Kumassi, West Africa

[Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Where it is Titled]: "Combating the Difficulties of a new Route to Kumassi."

1 July 1899. Grisaille watercolour on cardboard, heightened in white, ca. 16x22 cm (ca. 6 ¼ x 8 ½ in).....

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Historically Interesting Album with 40 Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photos of French...
Historically Interesting Photos of Conakry and the Interior French Guinea.

[Historically Interesting Album with 40 Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photos of French Guinea, Showing Conakry, Samou River Rapids and Waterfalls, the “Baptism” of a Morane Plane of Conakry “Aero-club,” Children’s Costume Party in Conakry in March 1935, Susu Women and Girls, Kolente River Bridge Under Construction, etc.]

Ca. 1935. Oblong Octavo album ca. 19x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ½ in). 23 stiff card leaves. With 44.....

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Historically Significant Collection of over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including...
Historically Important Extensive Photo Collection Showing the Construction and the Beginning of Operation of the First Sisal Rope Factory in British East Africa.

[Historically Significant Collection of over 200 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including 112 Photos and Real Photo Postcards Taken by the Founder of the Afro-American Trading & Navigation Company’s Sisal Rope Factory in Voi, British East Africa, and Showing the Factory’s Construction and Operation, Auxiliary Railway and Trolley Tracks, Steam Engines...

Ca. 1904-1909 (with a few later family photos). Over two hundred loose gelatin silver photos of various size, including one.....

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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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Collection of Five Large Signed Mounted Black and White Monochrome Watercolours Showing Scenes of...
Large Evocative Monochrome Watercolours of Livingstone's Last Expedition

[Collection of Five Large Signed Mounted Black and White Monochrome Watercolours Showing Scenes of David Livingstone's Last Expedition Including his Meeting with Henry Stanley].

ca. 1920. Watercolours each ca. 39 x 30cm (15.5 x 12 in.), painted on larger board ca. 54.5 x 37cm.....

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Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which Document...
Rare Early Photos of the French Expedition against the Toucouleur Empire in Mali

[Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which Document Borgnis-Desbordes Military Expeditions From Upper Senegal into French Sudan (Mali). French and Indigenous Troops are Shown, as well as the Indigenous Peoples Including Chiefs and Settlements Including Forts and Villages Encountered].

1878-1881. 24 mounted original albumen photos, each ca. 19x25 cm (9 ½ x 9 ½ in) and slightly smaller, all.....

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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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Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Companhia do Boror’s Concessions in the...
Historically Interesting Photos Illustrating the Activities of one of the Largest Agricultural Companies in Colonial Mozambique

[Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Companhia do Boror’s Concessions in the Zambezia Province of Mozambique, Showing Various Operations at the Coconut, Sugar Cane & Sisal Plantations, Sugar Factories, Processing Facilities, Warehouses, Trading Posts, Residential Buildings, etc.]

Ca. 1920s. Oblong Folio (ca. 29x36 cm). 60 light-green card stock leaves. With 60 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, each.....

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Historically Significant Album with 39 Original Albumen Photos of Saint Helena and Madeira; With...
Interesting Unusual Photos of St. Helena, Supplemented with a Piece of Original Wallpaper from Napoleon’s Exile Residence in Longwood.

[Historically Significant Album with 39 Original Albumen Photos of Saint Helena and Madeira; With a Loosely Inserted Piece of “Wallpaper, Longwood Dining Room, St. Helena” (ca. 2x4,5 cm) and Several Related Ephemera].

Ca. 1887. Quarto album ca. 26x22 cm (10 ¼ x 8 ¾ in). 18 stiff card leaves. With 39 mounted.....

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Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled:] "The Transvaal Crisis: Despatching...
Attractive Watercolour of the Transvaal Crisis

[Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled:] "The Transvaal Crisis: Despatching Gold from the National Bank of Johannesburg to catch the Cape Mail."

7 Oct. 1899. Grisaille watercolour on paper, heightened in white, ca. 17x25,5 cm (ca. 6 ¾ x 10 in), within.....

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Album of Thirty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Important Places and Indigenous...
Large Photos from Along the Sudan Government Railways

[Album of Thirty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Important Places and Indigenous People in Sudan with an Emphasis on Locations Along Sudan Government Railways].

Ca. 1925. Oblong folio album ca. 30 x 37 cm (11 ½ x 14 ½ in.). 31 original gelatin silver.....

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Historically Significant Collection of Four Original Autograph Letters Giving a First-Hand...
Historically Important Vivid First-Hand Accounts of Cape Coast Castle in Early 19th Century

[Historically Significant Collection of Four Original Autograph Letters Giving a First-Hand Account of the Politics, Conflicts, Every-Day Life and Medical Treatment in Cape Coast Castle (British Gold Coast, Modern-Day Ghana); the Collection Includes Three Letters by T.M. Jones, a British Officer Stationed in Cape Coast Castle and One Letter by...

Cape Coast Castle: [ca. April 1817], 21 June, 24 July and 5 October 1817. Four Small Quarto bifoliums (ca. 22,5x19.....

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Album of Fifteen Original Ink Drawings and Watercolours of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the...
Historically Interesting Album of Drawings & Watercolours, Visually Documenting a Voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope

[Album of Fifteen Original Ink Drawings and Watercolours of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the Cape of Good Hope Visually Documenting a Voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope].

Ca. 1860s. Quarto album (ca. 29x23 cm). 10 paper leaves of different colour. With fifteen original watercolours and ink drawings.....

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Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a...
Rare Early Scenic Watercolours from a Nile Cruise to see the main Archeological Sites Along the River

[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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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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Sketch Book of Twenty Original Watercolours and Pencil Drawings Taken during His WW2 Service in...
Attractive Watercolours Documenting a British Officers WW2 Service in North Africa & the Middle East

[Sketch Book of Twenty Original Watercolours and Pencil Drawings Taken during His WW2 Service in North Africa & the Middle East].

May 1942 – June 1945. Oblong Octavo album (ca. 14x22,5 cm). 13 paper leaves (12 blank). With eight original watercolours.....

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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, with Detailed Descriptions of His Conversations with the Khedive, His Ministers and Courtiers etc.,

[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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