Search Results: Authors starting with I from Globus Rare Books & Archives

Oblong Quarto album ca. 20x27,5 cm (7 ¾ x 10 ¾). 9 grey card stock leaves. With 53 mounted original gelatin silver photographs from ca. 8,5x6 cm (3 ¼ x 2 ½ in) to ca. 7,5x5,5 cm (3x2 in). All photos numbered, and most are additionally captioned in Icelandic in negative. Presentation inscription on the inner side of the front board “Darling Patricia from grandma, 29th Jan. 1938.”. Period green card stock album fastened with a string. Covers rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, otherwise a very good album.Unusual collection of Icelandic studio photos apparently collected by a British tourist during the trip to the island in the 1930s. The views show Icelandic communities and natural sites, including remote northern towns of Blönduós and Akureyri, Bildudalur, and Hjalteyri villages, the tuberculosis sanatorium in… Read More

Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print.A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha establishment in Yokohama, with a servant holding a match for the pipe of the client – an American sailor, who is sitting at a table served for tea with a young geisha at his feet.‘‘Miyozaki Yukaku’’, Miyozaki’s red light district opened in November 1859 after a request by the Dutch ambassador to build brothels for the many single foreign men in Yokohama. There were 15 brothels in Miyozaki, and of these, Gankiro was the largest and most famous. Gankiro was divided into two sections, one for foreigners and one for Japanese customers and Japanese customers weren’t… Read More

Quarto (ca. 32,7x20,4 cm. or 13x8 in). 3 pp. of text. Brown ink on yellow lined wove paper. Seal in the lower right corner of the last page. Fold marks, but overall very good.Historically interesting original document illustrating legal negotiations regarding early coal mining in Nicola Valley, B.C.By the late 1890s, Nicola Valley housed one of the northwest's largest and most extensive coal fields. The exceptional quality of deposits along the Coldwater River attracted significant attention, sparking a surge in coal mining activity. The coal boom continued until the 1930s when depleted coal seams eventually took their toll on the local mining industry.The agreement was made between James Corbett, Joseph Castillon, George Murray of Nicola Lake, B.C. (the first party), and Soren Andrew Hartman of Tacoma, Washington (the second party) on 19 December 1903. The document… Read More

Large Octavo (ca. 25x15,5 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Sealed and signed by two witnesses, additionally registered in 1747 and 1749. Fold marks with splits on folds repaired with archival tape, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good legible document.Interesting early piece from the early days of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, a crown colony in North America. This deed was compiled in the town of York (now in the state of Maine) on behalf of one Samuel Ingraham, a soldier who took part in William Pepperrell’s Siege of Louisbourg (11 May – 28 June 1745) during the King George’s War (or the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-1748). Louisbourg was the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia).“Known all Men by these presents that I Samuel Ingraham of… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 28,5x37,5 cm). 30 card stock leaves (2 blank). With 65 mounted photographs (63 albumen and 2 gelatin silver prints). Fifty photos are large, ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in) or slightly smaller. There is also a three-part panorama ca. 8,5x34 cm (3 ¼ x 13 ¼ in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 12x18 cm (4 ¾ x 7 in) to ca. 5x8 cm (2x3 in). A dozen photos captioned and/or signed, and/or numbered in negative; over fifty photos with period pencil captions in English on the mounts. Period black half morocco album with green pebbled cloth boards. Several images mildly faded, mild foxing on the mounts, one image with a tear on the lower corner neatly repaired, but overall a very good album of interesting photos.Attractive collection of large albumen views of Italy (43), France (15), Germany (4), and Monte Carlo… Read More