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Collection of Three Autograph Letters to Fellow Astronomer, Dr. John Lee (1783-1866), Written...
Maclear's Letters on Cape Frontier War (1846-47) and the Leper Colony on Robben Island

[Collection of Three Autograph Letters to Fellow Astronomer, Dr. John Lee (1783-1866), Written from the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and Talking about Maclear’s Field Survey during the Measurement of the Southern Arc of Meridian, Seventh Cape Frontier War (1846-47), Leper Colony on the Robben Island &c...

Royal Observatory at Cape of Good Hope: 1844-1846. Royal Observatory & Cape Point, the Cape of Good Hope, 1844-1846. Three.....

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Rare Original Expedition Letter Written and Signed by Henry Stanley in the Camp at Mikese, German...
Rare Stanley Letter from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

[Rare Original Expedition Letter Written and Signed by Henry Stanley in the Camp at Mikese, German East Africa (Modern-Day Tanzania) during the Last Phase of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition].

Camp at Mikesse: 26 and 27 November 1889. Original letter, black ink on a laid paper bifolium ca. 25x20 cm.....

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Extensive Private Archive with over 140 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs taken during Hildur...
Extensive Private Archive Including over 140 Photographs of Travels to Kenya and Uganda

[Extensive Private Archive with over 140 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs taken during Hildur Luck’s Travels to Kenya and Uganda, Showing Her Brother Cardale Luck’s Gwonongween Estate in Kenya, His Family and House Servants, Missionary Stations, Schools and Churches in Mbarara (Uganda), Lake Victoria, River Nile’s Ripon Falls, Mombasa, and Others...

Ca. 1920s. Over 140 loose gelatin silver prints of various size, including over eighty large photos ca. 11,5x16 cm (4.....

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Autograph Manuscript Signed by Charles Picard Detailing Opportunities and Advice for Trade in...
Manuscript on the Opportunities for Trade in Senegal

[Autograph Manuscript Signed by Charles Picard Detailing Opportunities and Advice for Trade in Senegal, Including a Proposal of a Slave Trade Strategy, Titled:] Renseignements sur le Commerce du Senegal.

Paris, 5th Sept. 1814. Quarto ca. 31 x 20 cm (12 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.). 8 pp. Brown ink.....

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Two Historically Important Expedition Autograph Letters Signed "Yours Most Truely Dr. Barth" from...
Rare Expedition Letters Written by Dr. Heinrich Barth on his way back from Timbuktu

[Two Historically Important Expedition Autograph Letters Signed "Yours Most Truely Dr. Barth" from Tejerri and Murzuk (Libya) to Frederic Warrington (British Consul in Murzuk) and Richard Reade (British Acting Consul in Tripoli) Describing Barth's Experiences and Impressions on His Expedition to Timbuktu; With: A Mounted Carte-de-Visite Photograph of Heinrich Barth.]

Tejerri & Mourzuk (Libya): 1855. Tejerri 5 July 1855 and Mourzuk 19 July 1855. Two bifolia manuscript letters each ca.....

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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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Historically Significant Rare Autograph Letter Written in the Besieged Cape Coast Castle during...
First Hand Account from a Besieged Cape Coast Castle During the Ashanti War

[Historically Significant Rare Autograph Letter Written in the Besieged Cape Coast Castle during the First Ashanti War (1824-31) and Addressed to William Williams, the Secretary of the British Gold Coast Colony, with the Notes about the Burning of Cape Coast Town, Williams’ Imprisonment by the Ashantis, Deputy Colonial Governor Lieut.-Col...

Cape Coast Castle: 26 June 1824. Octavo bifolium ca. 22,5x18 cm (8 ¾ x 7 in), 4 pp. Brown ink.....

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A Period Office Copy of Glover’s Official Despatch to the Duke of Newcastle, British Colonial...
Important Foundation Document for the History of Nigeria

[A Period Office Copy of Glover’s Official Despatch to the Duke of Newcastle, British Colonial Secretary, Explaining his Decision to Create British Protectorates in the Nearby Kingdoms of Addo, Pocrah and Okeodan. Description of the Relations between Lagos Colony, the French Protectorate in Porto Novo and the Neighbouring Yoruba Tribes...

Government House, Lagos: 6 November 1863. Folio manuscript ca. 33x20 cm (13x8 in). Twelve leaves of laid paper, several leaves.....

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Autograph Letter Signed "John Lander" to William Jerdan, the Editor of the “Literary...
"My heart is in Africa & has been for years"

[Autograph Letter Signed "John Lander" to William Jerdan, the Editor of the “Literary Gazette,” Talking about his Dream to go to Timbuktu, and that his “heart is in Africa & has been for years, & until I get there such is my taste, I don't think I shall enjoy a....

[London]: Customs, 15 August 1838. Bifolium manuscript letter ca 17,5x11 cm (7 x 4 ½ in), one page of text.....

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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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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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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 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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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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Original Autograph Letter Written in Akbarpur by a British Officer during the Indian Mutiny,...
Interesting First Hand Account of the British Suppression of the Indian Mutiny

[Original Autograph Letter Written in Akbarpur by a British Officer during the Indian Mutiny, Mentioning the Capture of Lucknow, Death of Captain William Thunne, the Troops' Movement, "Calpee Force," the Beginning of the Hot Season, Plans to Hunt and Take Part in a Steeplechase, etc.]

Akberpore [Akbarpur]: 24 March 1858. Small Octavo bifoium ca. 18x11 cm (7 x 4 ¼ in). 4 pp. Brown ink.....

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Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England]....
Original Watercolours by the Artist "Views in India, from Drawings Taken During the Seapoy Mutiny"

[Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England].

ca. 1857-8. Oblong Small Folio (ca. 25.5 x 32.5cm). 12 beige album leaves. With ten watercolours, each ca. 17 x......

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