Manuscripts & Drawings

Refine search results

Results 1 - 25 (of 103)
Manuscripts
Page 1 of 5
Manuscript Journal and Letter Book, Compiled by California Argonaut and Columbia River Steamboat...
Historically Important California 49er Journal and Letterbook

[Manuscript Journal and Letter Book, Compiled by California Argonaut and Columbia River Steamboat Captain William Hall, and Containing Diary Entries on His Voyage to San Francisco on board Ship “New Jersey” around Cape Horn in May-October 1849, His First Months in California, and Several Travels to Vermont and Back; With...

The journal: ca. 1860s-1880s. Octavo journal (ca. 18x11,5 cm). 79 leaves. 58 leaves filled in manuscript ink, generally both on.....

Read Full Description about Manuscript Journal and Letter Book, Compiled by California Argonaut and Columbia River Steamboat...

Price: $8,500.00 USD

Add to Cart

Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during...
Historically Important Archive of the Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush

[Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during the Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush (1895-98); the Archive Consists of Wiswell’s Pocket “Excelsior” Diary with over 60 Pages of Entries; Two “Notices of Location” for the Claims in the Turnagain Arm Mining District, Two Related Power of Attorney...

Diary: ca. 12,5x8 cm (4 ¾ x 3 ¼ in). Standard pocket full calf “Excelsior” diary with a closing flap.....

Read Full Description about Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during...

Price: $4,500.00 USD

Add to Cart

Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner from Michigan Bluff (Placer County,...
Unusual Extensive and Content-Rich Letter from a California Gold Rush Miner

[Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner from Michigan Bluff (Placer County, California), Describing the Hardships of His Work on the Basin Mine, Sharing His Loneliness and Longing for Home, and Supplemented with His Original Verses about the Gold Rush].

The Basin (Placer County, California): 16 December 1855. Quarto bifolium(ca. 25x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on blue-lined laid paper.....

Read Full Description about Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner from Michigan Bluff (Placer County,...

Price: $1,750.00 USD

Add to Cart

Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S....
First Hand Account of the 1878 Trial of Notorious Deadwood, Dakota Outlaw "Laughing Sam"

[Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S. Hartman), and Mentioning the New Governor of the Dakota Territory William A. Howard, the First State’s Attorney of the Lawrence County A.J. Flanner, and Yankton’s Store Owner and Public Figure A.W. Lavender].

Yankton, D[akota]. T[erritory]. 25 April 1878. Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S....

Price: $1,750.00 USD

Add to Cart

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).....

Read Full Description about Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Where it is Titled]: "Combating the...

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Collection of Five Large Signed Mounted Black and White Monochrome Watercolours Showing Scenes of...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled:] "The Transvaal Crisis:...

Price: $525.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Two Original Watercolours of the Andaman Islands, Titled on Verso]: 1) Ross Islands from the...

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of present-day...

Price: $2,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans...
Photographs and Sketches Documenting the 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.....

Read Full Description about Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans...

Price: $3,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

Collection of Three Volumes of Logbooks, Recording the Voyage of the East India Contract Ship...
Historically Significant Collection of Original Logbooks Giving a Content-Rich Record of a Classic East Indiaman’s Trade Voyage During the Age of Sail.

[Collection of Three Volumes of Logbooks, Recording the Voyage of the East India Contract Ship “Larkins” (Captain Charles Ingram) from London to Calcutta via Cape of Good Hope and Madras, and Back to London via Madras, Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, 12 March 1840 – 27 February 1841].

1840-1841. Three Small Folio standard printed logbooks (each ca. 32x26 cm). In three logs over 400 pages with manuscript entries.....

Read Full Description about Collection of Three Volumes of Logbooks, Recording the Voyage of the East India Contract Ship...

Price: $4,500.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Original Autograph Letter Written in Akbarpur by a British Officer during the Indian Mutiny,...

Price: $750.00 USD

Add to Cart

Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England]....
Original Watercolours by the Artist of "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......

Read Full Description about Album of Ten Original Watercolour Views of India and from the Homeward Voyage back to England

Price: $3,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

Attractive Private Scrap Book with Forty-Two Original Ink, Pencil, Pen and Wash Drawings and...
Historically Interesting Scrap Book of Drawings, Photographs and Watercolours Documenting a Young British Civil Servant's Life in Southwestern India in the 1870s

[Attractive Private Scrap Book with Forty-Two Original Ink, Pencil, Pen and Wash Drawings and Watercolours, Eleven Albumen Photographs (Including Two Carte-de-Visite Portraits by Lala Deen Dayal), and Two Rare Lithographs by the “Behar Lithographic Press” (After Sketches by Sir Charles D’Oyly). The Scrap Book Shows Winterbotham's Work and Leisure Activities...

Ca. 1870-1879; lithographs: ca. 1828. Folio album (ca. 30,5x24 cm). 17 paper leaves. With 42 original mounted works of art.....

Read Full Description about Attractive Private Scrap Book with Forty-Two Original Ink, Pencil, Pen and Wash Drawings and...

Price: $5,250.00 USD

Add to Cart

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.....

Read Full Description about Early 19th Century Manuscript Hand Coloured Copy of a Map from Hayashi’s Prohibited Book...

Price: $2,500.00 USD

Add to Cart

Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of...
First-Hand Account of the Gurkhas in the Anglo-Nepalese War

[Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of Moira (later 1st Marquis of Hastings) Reporting the Latest Intelligence Including Troop Strengths and Movements of the Gurkhas (Nepali Troops) in the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814-16)].

Hawalbagh (India): 18th Dec. 1815. Quarto (ca. 25x20 cm). 6 pp. Brown ink on beige wove paper. Original fold marks.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed to a Superior (Most likely Governor-General of Bengal, Francis, Earl of...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

Autograph Letter Signed by David Jones Edwardes, a British Diplomat in the Kingdom of Siam,...
First-Hand Account of Events in Siam, Including the Burning the Remains of a Siamese Prince in 1868

[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 +.....

Read Full Description about Autograph Letter Signed by David Jones Edwardes, a British Diplomat in the Kingdom of Siam,...

Price: $950.00 USD

Add to Cart

Results 1 - 25 (of 103)
Page 1 of 5