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First and only edition. Octavo. xii, 433 pp. With four lithographed maps (three folding). Period Russian dark green quarter sheep with cloth boards; spine with blind-stamped decorations and a gilt-lettered title. Corners slightly bumped, the rear cover with a minor scrape, pages slightly age-toned and with occasional foxing, map at rear with minor tear but overall a very good copy.Very Rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (British Library). First and only edition of the original Russian travel account to the Lower Egypt and Nile River Delta, written by a doctor and criminal medical expert, Artemy Rafalovich. A son of a wealthy Jewish merchant from Odessa, he studied medicine at the Berlin and Dorpat Universities, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In February 1846 – November 1848, Rafalovich travelled to Ottoman Turkey,…
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Rafalovich, Artemy Alexeevich (1816-1851). Puteshestvie po Nizhnemu Yegiptu i Vnutrennim Oblastiam Delty [Travel to Lower Egypt and the Inner Regions of the Delta]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Yakov Trey, 1850.
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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 Interest etc., Titled: V – de Pekin à Hankao.6-21 November [1903].
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Octavo, ca. 22,5x17,5 cm (8 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). 32 leaves. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style maroon half morocco album with cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title “PEKIN A HANKAO,” original paper wrappers bound in. Manuscript table of contents on verso of the front wrapper. First leaf slightly soiled on the bottom, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good journal written in a legible hand. Interesting historically significant journal describing a travel from Beijing to Hankou (a part of modern-day Wuhan) in November 1903; the traveller apparently was a French member of the “Société d’étude de chemis de…
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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 Interest etc., Titled: V – de Pekin à Hankao.6-21 November [1903].
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Octavo, ca. 22,5x17,5 cm (8 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). 32 leaves. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style maroon half morocco album with cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title “PEKIN A HANKAO,” original paper wrappers bound in. Manuscript table of contents on verso of the front wrapper. First leaf slightly soiled on the bottom, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good journal written in a legible hand. Interesting historically significant journal describing a travel from Beijing to Hankou (a part of modern-day Wuhan) in November 1903; the traveller apparently was a French member of the “Société d’étude de chemis de…
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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 Interest etc., Titled: V – de Pekin à Hankao.6-21 November [1903].
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Octavo, ca. 22,5x17,5 cm (8 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). 32 leaves. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style maroon half morocco album with cloth boards, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title “PEKIN A HANKAO,” original paper wrappers bound in. Manuscript table of contents on verso of the front wrapper. First leaf slightly soiled on the bottom, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good journal written in a legible hand. Interesting historically significant journal describing a travel from Beijing to Hankou (a part of modern-day Wuhan) in November 1903; the traveller apparently was a French member of the “Société d’étude de chemis de…
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Album with 238 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Showing the Construction of the Lüderitz-Keetmanshoop Railway in German Southwest Africa in 1905-1907, Railway Stations, Military Posts, Schutztruppe Officers and Soldiers, Artillery Guns, Lüderitzbucht, Shark Island, Cornelius Fredericks as a Prisoner, Distressed Herero Girls, Railway Workers, etc. Ca. 1904-1907.
by [Namibia – Herero Wars & Lüderitz Railway]
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Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x35,5 cm). 31 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 238 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including a three-part panorama ca. 8x29 cm (3 x 11 ½ in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 8x15 cm (3 x 5 ¾ in) to ca. 5x7,5 cm (2x3 in). Most photos with period white pencil captions in German on the mounts. Period brown half cloth album with marbled papered boards; gilt-lettered title “Afrikanische Erinnerungen” on the front board. A few images very mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting strong photographs.Historically significant well-annotated album of original photos, taken and collected by a German Schutztruppe officer, employed during the construction of the Lüderitz-Keetmanshoop railway in German Southwest Africa in 1905-1907. The album contains several images documenting the Herero and…
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An Interesting Original Autograph Letter Written by a Pioneer Cowboy of Custer County (Dakota Territory) Working at the Short-Lived “Union Cattle Co.” to “Dear Mother” Back in the East, He Brags about the Company as the Largest Cattle Outfit (125,000 Head) in the American West, Urging His Hometown Friend to Immediately Move to Dakota Territory, and Talking about One of the Biggest Roundups Ever Conducted in the State; Also Delivering the Latest News about His Hard Work at the Newly-Established S&G Ranch (the Present-Day Town of Dewey) and Commenting on the Massive Wave of Migration to the West.S.&G. Ranch [near Custer City, Dakota Territory], 12 May 1884.
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Octavo Bifolium (ca. 20,5x12,5 cm or 8x5 in). 3 pp. Brown ink on lined wove paper; blind-stamped papermaker’s monogram in the left upper corner of the first leaf. Foldmarks, minor stain and tears on the right margins of both leaves affecting a couple of words, but still readable, otherwise a very good letter.Penned at the height of the Great Dakota Boom and only two years before the Big Die-Up (the disastrous winter of 1886-1887), the letter documents the activities of one of the most prosperous cattle businesses in the American West in the 1880s.Dakota Territory, soon after its establishment in 1861 and against the backdrop of increased migration to the West, emerged as a center of the range cattle industry. In 1882, when W. Sturgis and G. Goodell founded the Union Cattle Co. in Cheyenne (Wyoming) and located the S&G Ranch in the present-day town…
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[Read, G.A.] (fl. ca. 1900s); [Winkelmann, Henry] (1860-1931); Personal Copy Of: [Scotland, Hon. Henry, M.L.C.] (1868-1910). Album with 100 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Titled on the Front Board: Visit of Members of New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and Other Islands, 1903. Ca. 1903.
by [Read, G.A.] (fl. ca. 1900s); [Winkelmann, Henry] (1860-1931); Personal Copy Of: [Scotland, Hon. Henry, M.L.C.] (1868-1910)
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Oblong Large Octavo album ca. 16x22,5 cm (6 ¼ x 9 in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 10,5x15 cm (4x6 in). All photos are mounted on the leaves within printed black frames; all are supplemented with printed numbers (from 1 to 100) and captions (on paper labels, mounted under the images). Period olive half sheep album with cloth boards; front board with a gilt-lettered title; marbled endpapers. Two printed paper labels, identifying the owner (“Hon. H. Scotland, Pahi”), and the history of the creation of the album, are mounted on the front pastedown endpaper. A paper leaf with printed presentation note tipped onto the front free endpaper. First leaf with a minor scratch and a very small hole on the mount, not affecting the images; mounts with occasional foxing, a few photos mildly faded, binding mildly…
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Reade, Sir Thomas (1785-1849). Official Decree by the Bey of Tunis Appointing George William Crowe His Plenipotentiary in Order to Compile a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with the City of Hamburg; With: Separate Document Containing the Italian Translation of the Decree Signed by Hassuna Morali, First Interpreter of the Court of Basha Bey of Tunis; Both Documents are Certified as Genuine by the British Consul General, Sir Thomas Reade (on verso of the leaf with the Italian text). Two documents, both Tunis, 1828.
by READE, Sir Thomas (1785-1849).
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On two folded Elephant Folio leaves, each ca. 33x22 cm (when folded). Fold marks, paper aged and slightly soiled, otherwise very good documents. Each folded and consisting of two leaves. The Documents are in good condition.Official decree of the Bey of Tunis: 1 p. Brown ink on French paper watermarked “Louis XVIII, Roi de France”. Text in Arabic, with the official ink seal of the Bey of Tunis.Italian translation: 2 pp. Dated “9 Muharram, year 1244” [1828]. Brown ink on laid paper. Text in Italian and English (on verso), with the impressed seal of British Consul General in Tunis.Rare and very interesting document from the time of establishment of diplomatic relations between Tunis and Germany.Original decree with the seal of the Bey of Tunis (Hussein II Bey, ruled in 1824-1835) authorising certain George William Crowe to negotiate with the…
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Album with 74 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Two Printed Postcards, Showing USS “Dale” and other Warships of the US Asiatic Fleet, Chinese Troops, Camps, Artillery Guns and Scenes of Destruction during the Xinhai Revolution, China Inland Mission Boys School in Chefoo (Yantai), Scenes of Forceful Removal of a Queue of an Elderly Chinese Man, &c. Ca. 1910s.
by CHINA – XINHAI REVOLUTION
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Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x27 cm (7 x 10 ¾ in). 16 card stock leaves (plus over thirty blank at rear). With 74 mounted gelatin silver photos (some issued as real photo postcards), mostly from ca. 10,5x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 8x14 cm (3 ¾ x 5 ½ in); five smaller photos at rear are ca. 5x6,5 cm (2 x 2 ½ in) or slightly smaller. One photo captioned in negative “U.S.S. Dale at 17 knots, enroute to Hong Kong, China,” several photos numbered in negative, otherwise no captions. One photo mounted on the studio card of “Lai Chong, North Cze Chun Rd., Shanghai.” Period black full cloth album with the paper label of “The Heinn Co., Milwaukee” on the inner side of the front board. Binding neatly repaired on hinges, a couple of photos very mildly faded, one of the photos on the first…
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Rickards, Peter (ca. 1843-1918); Rickards, Ellen (ca. 1845-1909). Historically Interesting Letter Written by an Indiana Farmer and His Wife to “Dear Brother and Sister” in Starr’s Point, Oregon, Talking About Suffering from the Food Shortage and Seeking Provisions in Springfield, Illinois, Mentioning the Exceptional Promise of Wheat, Corn, Meadows, and Clover, and Indicating Early Prices of Various Agricultural Commodities, Including Butter, Fresh Beef, Chickens, Turkeys, Irish Potatoes, Bacon, etc. Indiana, 11 June 1876.
by Rickards, Peter (ca. 1843-1918); Rickards, Ellen (ca. 1845-1909)
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Quarto (ca. 31.5x19.5 cm, 12.5x7.5 in.) 2 pp. black ink on yellowish lined wove paper. Fold marks, minor tear, one left side with rough edge, slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand. With the original yellow postmarked envelope.A historically interesting original autograph manuscript letter from the Long Depression (1873-1879), offering a firsthand account of Indiana, economic hardship and food scarcity during the Long Depression through the eyes of a local farmer.Dated 11 June 1876, the letter was penned by a farmer Peter Rickard (ca. 1843-1918) and his wife Ellen Rickard (ca. 1845-1909) in Indiana. At the time of writing, the couple, along with their four children, resided in Pike County. Later, the Rickards would move to Gibson County and eventually settle in Oregon.The authors address the letter, full of grammatical mistakes,…
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Rikord, Petr Ivanovich (1776-1855) & [Golovnin, Vasily Mikhailovich] (1776-1831). Zapiski Flota Kapitana Rikorda o Plavanii Ego k Yaponskim Beregam v 1812 i 1813 Godakh i o Snosheniyakh s Yapontsami [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord About his Sailing to Japan's Shores in 1812 and 1813, and His Relations with the Japanese]. Saint Petersburg: Naval Typ., 1816.
by RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich (1776-1855) & [GOLOVNIN, Vasily Mikhailovich] (1776-1831)
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First Edition. Quarto. [vi], 138, [ii] pp. With four folding copper engraved maps and plans after P. Rikord, and an aquatint portrait of Takadaya-Kahei.Period Russian full calf binding. Marbled endpapers. Tail of spine is restored, otherwise a very good clean copy. The previous owner’s name ‘Alexander Pavlov’ in period manuscript at the beginning and end of the text, The same name is crossed out on the title page.Rare Russian imprint as only nine copies were found in Worldcat (Library of Congress, Cornell University, Yale University, Harvard University, New York Public Library, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Berlin State Library, National Diet Library in Japan). The primary source of the early history of Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under the command of Ivan Krusenstern and…
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Historically Interesting Original Autograph Manuscript Letter Written by a Trailblazing Stockman of Bent County, Colorado, Offering a Prospective Buyer to Purchase his Ranch in West Las Animas for $35,000 and Urging Him To Consider the Acquisition with Haste “As Some Parties Are Negotiating for the Property.” West Las Animas, Colorado: 21 August 1878
by Ripley, Charles Henry (1842-1887)
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Large Octavo Bifolium (ca. 23 x 20cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on yellowish lined watermarked laid paper. Fold marks, glue residue along the back page margin, closed tear on one edge of the back two pages, very light toning of the last page, but overall a content-rich letter, written in a legible hand.A historically interesting letter from the pioneer days of West Las Animas (incorporated in 1886; Bent County), offering a fascinating insight into the negotiations in Colorado’s early cattle industry.Dated 21 August 1878, the letter was written by Charles Henry Ripley (1842-1887), a pioneer stockman of Bent County, Colorado, and the owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in West Las Animas. Ripley was a son of a wealthy marble quarry owner and banker from Vermont. After serving in the Civil War and running a family business for a few years, Charles decided to…
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Ritchie, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819). 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 was Later also Connected to the Fate of Alexander Laing. Marseilles: 28 August 1818.
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Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm), 1. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Mild fold marks and light chipping of the top margin, ink slightly faded, but overall a very good legible letter.Rare historically important letter by Joseph Ritchie, an English surgeon and African explorer, written during his ill-fated expedition to Northern Africa in 1818-1819, which tried to ascertain the course of the Niger and the location of the fabled Timbuktu. Ritchie and George Lyon followed the route of Frederick Hornemann’s expedition of 1797, crossing the Sahara via Murzuq. “The expedition was underfunded, lacked support and because of the ideas of Barrow departed from Tripoli and thus had to cross the Sahara as part of their journey. A year later, due to much officialdom they had only got as far as Murzuk, the capital of Fezzan, where they both fell ill. Ritchie never…
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Robertson, James (1813-1888); Beato, Felice (1832-1909), attributed to. Collection of Six Loose Salt Paper Prints, Showing Sevastopol and Environs During the Crimean War and in the Aftermath of the Capture of the Malakhov/Malakoff Redoubt on September 8, 1855. Ca. 1855-1856.
by ROBERTSON, James (1813-1888); BEATO, Felice (1832-1909), attributed to
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Six loose original salt paper prints, from ca. 22x29 cm (8 ½ x 11 ½ in) to ca. 19x29 cm (7 ½ x 11 ¼ in). Each photo is mounted on the original wove paper album leaf ca. 23,5x30 cm (9 ¼ x 11 ¾ in) or slightly smaller. All photos with period brown ink captions in English on the mounts; two photos with additional ink captions on verso; one photo is signed “Robertson” in negative. Photos mildly faded, a couple with minor creases, but overall a very good collection of exceedingly rare photos.Important collection of six rare original salt paper prints, from the famous series of Crimean War views, taken by James Robertson and Felice Beato in 1855-1856.“As a pioneer war reporter, Robertson paid several brief visits to the Crimea between June 1855 and late spring 1856. <…> By the end of 1854 he…
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Rohlfs, Friedrich Gerhard (1831-1896). Autograph Letter in German Signed "Gerhard Rohlfs " Dated at New York 29 Nov. 1875 and Addressed to most Likely his American Agent Regarding two Lectures Rohlfs is Planning in the United States. "[With] A Carte de Visite Sized Albumen Photograph of Rohlfs ca. 1875 (9 x 5.5 cm) Signed in Black ink on Bottom of the Original Paper Mount. New York, 29 Nov. 1875.
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Letter, octavo (ca. 20.5x12.5 cm). 2 pp. Purple ink on grayish lined wove paper mounted into a larger sheet of paper. Photograph also mounted in a larger sheet of paper. Fold marks, but both items overall in very good condition.This interesting letter from Rohlfs' 1875 visit to the United States, mentions various topics of interest for his proposed lectures there, including his travels in Morocco, where he crossed the Atlas Mountains and visited the Oases of Draa, Tafilet and Tuat and his travels from the Mediterranean via Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea. In 1865-1867, Rohlfs was the first European to travel from Tripoli across the Sahara via Lake Chad and then along the Niger River to its mouth on the Gulf of Guinea. Rohlfs trip to the United States followed shortly after his return from his latest expedition in Egypt where together with Georg August…
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Original Autograph Letter Written by a San Jose Resident to His Brother, Professor of Music in Hamilton, Ontario (C.W.), Giving Detailed Advice for his Brothers’ “Quickest Route” to California, Suggesting to Cross the Isthmus of Central America at San Juan (Nicaragua) or Panama, the Best Place to Stay in San Francisco, as Well as Underlining the Importance of a Thorough Knowledge of English to Find a Job in California. San Jose (California), 12 April 1854.
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Quarto bifolium ca. 25,5x20 cm (10 x 8 in). 2 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked laid paper (watermark "Moinier's London "). Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter.A historically interesting California Gold Rush letter, giving details on the quickest way to get to California from the United States’ East Coast - via the Isthmus of Central America, crossing either at San Juan (Nicaragua) or Panama.The letter was written by San Jose resident M. W. Packard (ca. 1822-?) to his brother Charles R. Packard - at the time, one of three professors of music in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada West (1853 Hamilton And Dundas Directory). M. Packard discusses Charles’ and presumably, their younger brother’s (Francis) trip to San Jose, suggesting the best possible route to California, the most comfortable accommodation in steamboats, and the…
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Historically Important Original Autograph Manuscript Letter by a Fortune-Seeker from Dayton, Yamhill County, Oregon, Exposing the Web of Deception Surrounding the Fraser River Gold Rush ( "It is all a Humbug and Nothing Els "), Citing 50 Casualties by Indian Attacks and 500 Drownings en Route to the Gold Mines, and Urging His Friends to Forsake the Allure of Prospecting in Favor of More Promising Trading Realm. Dayton, Yamhill County, Oregon: 27 November 1858.
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Octavo (ca. 20.5x16 cm or 8x6.5 in). 2 pp. Brown ink on yellowish wove paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically important letter written at the height of the Fraser River Gold Rush by a disheartened fortune-seeker from Dayton (incorporated in 1880), Yamhill County, Oregon. Dated 27 November 1858, the letter provides lesser-known details about the journey of prospectors traveling from Oregon to British Columbia via steamboat.In 1858, James Douglas discovered gold in the Fraser River, British Columbia, triggering a rush that attracted thousands of prospectors from San Francisco and beyond. While some struck gold, most faced challenging conditions and limited success, leading to the decline of the Fraser River Gold Rush in the early 1860s.In the letter, the author, “C.B.,” declares the entire Fraser River gold…
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