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[ARCTIC - SPITSBERGEN] LAUNAY, Louis de (1860-1938)

[Collection of Forty-four Large Original Platinum Print Photos Showing Spitsbergen during the Early Years of Industrial Development on the Archipelago].

Ca. 1910. 44 loose platinum print photos, each ca. 16x21,5 cm (6 ¼ x 8 ½ in), all with period.....

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[ATLAS - WORLD] LOBECK, Tobias (Active 1750-70) & Lotter, Tobias Conrad (1717-1777)

Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. Kurzgefasste Geographie ... Nebst compendieusen Land-Charten, welche einen kleinen Sack-Atlas ausmachen. [Portable Geographic Atlas..,].

Augsburg: T. Lobeck, ca. 1758. Expanded Edition. Oblong Duodecimo (ca. 11.5 x 15 cm),72. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved.....

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[EUROPE - ARCTIC - ICELAND]

[Interesting Album with 53 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Iceland, Showing Natural Sites, Kaldadal Highland Road, Bridges, and Smaller Communities around the Island].

Ca. 1938. Oblong Quarto album ca. 20x27,5 cm (7 ¾ x 10 ¾). 9 grey card stock leaves. With 53.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ARCTIC - LABRADOR] MOXHAM, Edgar Coleman (1858-1913)

[Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photograph Portraits Taken on a Voyage from St. John’s in Newfoundland to Rowsell Harbour Located North of Saglek Bay in Northern Labrador, Including Views of Rowsell Harbour and Camp Headquarters, Moravian Missionary Station in Hebron, Bays and Inlets of Labrador, Icebergs and Packed Ice...

Ca. 1905. Oblong Folio (ca. 28,5x40 cm). 18 gray card stock album leaves. With sixty mounted gelatin silver prints, including.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ARIZONA TERRITORY] HARDY, William Harrison (1823-1906); GARRISON, John George (1831-1908)

[Historically Significant Archive of Twenty Autograph Letters, Nineteen Signed by William Hardy and Addressed to His Business Partner John G. Garrison and one Letter from Garrison to Hardy, Describing the Pioneering Days of Hardyville (now Bullhead City) and Prescott, Including the Construction of the first Dwellings, Skirmishes with the Native...

San Francisco, Hardy’s Landing, Hardyville, and Sacramento: 1862-1868. Twenty letters written on single pieces of paper or bifoliums, from ca.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ARIZONA – PHOENIX] MCNEIL, Homer H. (1856-1942) (Printer & Publisher)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Arizona Pioneer Homer McNeil to His Brother, Written on the Official Letterhead of his “Daily and Weekly Arizona Gazette”, and Talking about the Smallpox Epidemy in Phoenix, McNeil’s Work in the Printing Office, His New “Girl” and a Greyhound Pup he Had Bought for...

Phoenix, Arizona: 8 September 1883. Quarto (ca. 25x30 cm). 4 pp. on two separate leaves with printed letterheads of the.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - FRASER RIVER GOLD RUSH] MITCHELL, William (1802-1876)

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Brother “Charlie,” Describing His Recent Fur Trade Expedition in the Puget Sound, and Sharing His Impressions on the Fraser River Gold Rush].

Fort Nisqually, Washington Territory: 6 September 1863. Quarto bifolium (ca. 28,5x23 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked paper.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - BRITISH COLUMBIA – FRASER RIVER GOLD RUSH]

[Early Interesting Atmospheric Letter from an American Fortune-Seeker in Oregon, Written at the End of the First Year of the Fraser River Gold Rush; the Author Dissuades the Addressee From Mining of the Fraser River, Calling the Rush a “Humbug” and a “Specklation among the Steam Boat Men,” and Mentions...

Dayton (Oregon): 27 November 1858. Octavo (ca. 20,5x16 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on laid paper, written in a legible.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - BURGLARS, ROBBERS & A MURDERER] MYERS, Jerome, [Stockton Police? Official]

[Original Manuscript Signed by a Stockton City Official, Describing the Appearance of Several Criminals Held in Custody, and Asking for Help in the Investigation of Their Crimes, Which Included Burglaries, Robberies and a Murder].

Stockton, CA: 7[?] March 1864. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x19 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper. Written in.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - RANCHING][WILCOXSON, Jefferson] (1809-1898)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed and Addressed to Noted Californian Pioneer Jefferson Wilcoxson, Written by His Ranching Partner “Jack”, Possibly by His Brother Jackson, With News from the Union Cattle Ranch near Marysville, Yuba Co.]

Union Ranch [near Marysville, Yuba County, California]: 14 March 1854. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – GOLD RUSH] BORDEN, Melvin

[Autograph Letter Signed by an Associate of the Massachussets-Based Lumber Enterprise “Cook Borden & Co.” and Written in San Francisco on the Third Year of the California Gold Rush, with Interesting Notes on Gold Mining, San Francisco Lumber Business, Cheese Supplies, Population, Dwellings, Streets &c.]

San Francisco: 28 February 1850. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x20 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on blueish wove paper. Written in.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] HINKLEY, Timothy Duane (1827-1907 or 1914)

[Autograph Letter Signed by California Gold Miner and Future Pioneer of Seattle, Timothy Hinkley, with an Early Description of the Weaverville Gold Mining Town, Mentioning its Stores, Hotels, “Gambling Halls and Whorehouses,” as well as the “Shasta Courier” Gold Mining Newspaper Founded by his Brother].

Weaver Creek, Trinity County, California: 1 June 1852. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA WINERIES]

[Attractive Collection of Over Seventy Rare Documents and Ephemera Illustrating the Early History of Californian Wineries and Liquor Producers, Including Correspondence and Envelopes with the Official Letterheads, Postcards and Business Cards, Two Albumen Photos of the Wineries and Their Managers, Invoices and Receipts, Shares, Price Lists and Wine and Liquor...

Ca. 1877-1910. Collection of 73 various documents and ephemera (see detailed description below). One large chromolithographed ad with a corner.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – HUMBUG CREEK GOLD MINING] GRAY, Stephen H.

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Wife Rowena, Talking About His Gold Mining at the Humbug Creek (Siskyou County, Northern California), with the Details of Sluicing Operations, Notes about the Local Mail Service, His New Cat, and Expressive Passages Reassuring in His Love and Fidelity].

Humbug Creek, CA: 15 March 1863?]. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 5 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked laid paper.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA] [BAEGERT], [Johann Jakob] (1717-1772)

Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebet hat. [News from the American Peninsula California..,]

Mannheim: Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. Second Edition (With Corrections). Small Octavo (17.5 x 10.5 cm), [xvi], 358, With one.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA] [BUNZO, MAEKAWA AND SAKAI, JUNZO],

海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New Account of America].

Tokyo: Seifuen Juō, Kaei kōin, [1854]. First Edition. Complete in 5 vols. Quarto (ca. 25x17,5 cm). [26], [20], [21], [18].....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - CRIMEAN WAR] MEREDITH, Edmund Allen (1817-1898)

[Autograph Letter Signed “Meredith” to James McFesters, the Mayor of Bowmanville, Regarding Russian Guns Captured During the Crimean War and Transferred to Canada].

Toronto: Secretary's Office, 19 May 1859. Folio (ca. 33x20,5 cm). 2 pp., with an integral blank leaf. Brown ink on.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - MONTREAL] CHARLAND, Louis (1772-1813); CHABOILLER, Louis (1766-1813); RICHARDSON, John (1755?-1831)

[Manuscript Signed Document in French of Charland’s Request for Payment of his Salary at the District of Montreal and Signed by Him, and two Justices of Peace, Chaboiller and Richardson].

[Montreal, at the weekly session of the District de Montreal], 10-11 June 1800. Folio (ca. 32,5x20 cm). 1 p., with.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - NOVA SCOTIA - HALIFAX]

[Album of 50 Original Albumen Photographs Showing the Royal Artillery Park in Halifax, the Officers’ Mess, Close-Up Photos of the Artillery Guns, Eight Group Portraits of the Artillery Officers, with Many Names Marked, Group Portraits of the Officers’ Wives and Families, etc.]

Ca. 1880s. Oblong Folio (ca. 28x38 cm). 23 stock album leaves. With fifty mounted albumen photos, the majority are from.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - ONTARIO - LONDON ]

[Album of 53 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of London, Ontario, Premises of the “McPherson Fruit Company,” and including a Portrait of its General Manager and Future Owner R.R. Scott].

ca. 1903-9. Oblong Octavo (ca. 15x18 cm). 22 grey stock album leaves. With 53 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - UPPER] STUART, Rev. John (1740-1811).

[Autograph Letter Signed "Jn. Stuart" to His Son, James Stuart, then Personal Secretary of Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada Sir Robert Milnes].

Kingston [Upper Canada]: 8 November 1803. Folio (ca. 32,5x20 cm). 1 p. (with three lines on verso). Brown ink on.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - VANCOUVER ISLAND - FIRST DETAILED MAP OF] VANCOUVER, George, Captain (1757-1798)

Côte Nort-Ouest de L’Amérique Reconnue par le Cape. Vancouver. 3e Partie depuis 45°30’ de Latitude Septle et 236°12’ de Longitude jusqu’à 52°15’ de Late et 232°40’ de Longe [Northwest Coast of America Surveyed by Captain Vancouver. Part 3].

[Paris]: [De l'Imprimerie de la Republique], [1800]. First French edition. Large wide-margined copper-engraved double-page map, plate size ca. 82,5x66,5 cm.....

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