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Octavo ca. (18 x 11.5 cm). 10 July, 3pp. Total four pages with one envelope with stamp. Black ink on laid paper. The letter, note and envelope are all in near fine condition.This letter is an answer to a letter sent by Wood, in which Vambery says "In political questions of high importance, as the Central Asiatic is, diversity of opinions is very natural, and I am not the least astonished of [sic] the quite opposite view you exhibit in your letters. " He would like to show his respect for his views with a personal meeting, and asks him to suggest a time and place. [11July, one page] He confirms their appointment to meet the following day at the Athenaeum. Note: Vambery, a friend of Bram Stoker's, is said to have been the model for Van Helsing, the vampire hunter in "Dracula. "In 1861 Vambery, "disguised as a Sunnite dervish, and under the name…
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Vambery, Arminius (1832-1913). Autograph Letter Signed [With] Autograph Note Signed "A. Vambéry " to Martin Wood, sometime Editor of "The Times of India " and the author of several books on India. With one original envelope addressed by Vambéry. [Embossed heading] Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, [London], 10 and 11 July 1892 respectively. London: 1892.
by VAMBERY, Arminius (1832-1913)
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Vansant, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”. Attractive Keepsake Album with Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Studio Photos and Real Photo Postcards, and One Piece of Printed Ephemera, Compiled by a Sailor from U.S.S. “New Mexico” during the US Fleet Exercise at Hawaii and its Good-will Tour to South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand in April-October 1925; the Album is Titled: U.S.S. New Mexico. In Remembrance of Maneuvres at Hawaii – Australia – New Zealand, 1925. Ca. 1925.
by Vansant, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”
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Oblong Quarto album (ca. 21x29 cm). 40 card stock leaves. With 63 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including six larger photos ca. 11,5x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in) and 57 smaller ones, ca. 9x14,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¾ in). All but two or three photos captioned in negative. Also with four real photo postcards ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in), all with printed captions on verso “Issued by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Officers and Men of the American Fleet. July-August, 1925.” With a printed leaflet ca. 17x22 cm (6 ½ x 8 ½ in), completed in manuscript. Period brown full sheep flexible cover album fastened with a string; the front board with a decorative vignette relief, depicting U.S.S. “New Mexico.” Album slightly rubbed on the extremities, the first two leaves with tears…
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Varney, Samuel (ca. 1797-1875). Historically Interesting Original Letter Signed by the Captain of the Brig “Thomas H. Perkins” to his Wife in Salem, Massachusetts, Describing the Initial Days of his Voyage from New York to Hawaii in the Winter of 1840. [Lower New York Bay]: 17 January 1840.
by VARNEY, Samuel (ca. 1797-1875)
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Quarto bifolium (ca. x cm. or x in). 2 pages of text. Brown ink on yellow wove paper. Blind-stamped papermaker’s monogram in the left upper corner of the first page. Addressed and formerly sealed on verso of the last leaf. Fold marks, a tear where the seal was opened, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically interesting autograph manuscript letter documenting one of the final voyages of the Boston merchant brig "Thomas H. Perkins " to Hawaii.The author, Samuel Varney (1797-1875), was a sea captain from Salem, Massachusetts, and owner of "Thomas H. Perkins. " (see more at Whitehouse, R., Beaudoin, C. Port of Dover. 1988. pp. 93-94) The brig left New York in January 1840, stopped briefly at Staten Island, and potentially took the Cape Horn route to Honolulu. There, Varney engaged in trade with the merchant firm Peirce &…
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Vavilov, M.I. Poslednie Dni v Russkoi Amerike. Iz Zapisok Ochevidtsa. 1867-1868 [Last Days in Russian America. From the Notes by an Eye-Witness. 1867-1868] // From: Russkaya Starina. 1886. Vol. XLIX. Pp. 549-560; Vol. L. Pp. 593-598; Vol. LI. Pp. 605-614. [Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1886].
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First edition. Octavo (ca. 23x15 cm). A custom made convolute (collection) of three articles from the “Russkaya Starina” magazine: pp. 549-560; 593-598; 605-614 [= 28 pp.]. With a 16-page article “Expedition of the Russian Army to India” (pp. 599-614) bound in. 20th-century paper wrappers. An ink stamp “A magazine offprint” and an ink note “Russkaya Starina, vol. XLIX, 1886” on the first page. Paper slightly age-toned, spine with a minor crack on the bottom, but overall a very good copy.Rare original Russian source on the history of the Alaska Sale to the United States in 1867. Written by one M.I. Vavilov - an eye-witness “of the official transfer of the colonies” (Poslednie dni… p. 549), the three-part article describes the events in New Archangel in October of 1867 and life in Russian America up to…
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[Vidocq, Eugène François] (1775-1857). A Page from a Private Diary with the Latest News on the Case of the Famous Private Detective Eugene Vidocq: Vidoeq in Jail. French Ministry of War Found Their Associates Leaking Important Documents to a Russian Agent. 6 February 1838.
by VIDOCQ, [Eugène François] (1775-1857)
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Octavo (ca. 19,5x12 cm). 1 pp. A stationary sheet with a printed letterhead “Tuesday, February 1838”. Text written in brown ink in a legible hand. Minor tears on the extremities, repaired with archival tape on verso, overall a very good document.A page from a diary of apparently a British resident in Paris, with the latest news on the famous Vidocq – an ex-criminal, the first private detective, the founder of the modern French police and an inspiration for a number of the 19th century detective novels. The text reads “Vidoeq has been some months in Prison. <…> When taken into custody his Papers were seized and examined. They led to the discovery of Clerks in the Home department who corresponded with or assisted him. Those persons also were arrested, but there were also other Clerks and Employes [sic!] in another important…
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Vladimirov, Mikhail Mikhailovich. Russkiy Sriedi Amerikantsev. Moi Lichnye Vpechatlieniya kak Tokarya, Chernorabochego, Plotnika i Puteshestvennika [A Russian Amongst the Americans. My Personal Recollections as a Turner, Labourer, Carpenter and Traveller]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of T-vo “Obshchestvennaya Polza,” 1877.
by Vladimirov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
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First edition. Octavo (23,5x15,5 cm.) iv, ix, 337 pp.. With a folding lithographed map and ten wood-engraved plates. Period brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, raised bands and gilt-lettered title on the spine. Pre-revolutionary bookseller’s stamp on the verso of last page , binding rubbed on extremities, occasional foxing throughout, but overall a very good copy.Rare Russian imprint with only thirteen paper copies found in Worldcat. First book publication of an account by a Russian day labourer (whom we would now call a backpacker) travelling across the United States. The book was never translated into other languages or republished.In 1872, a young Russian commoner from the Saratov province, of evidently socialist views, decided to travel to the United States practically without money and spent there four years, finding various day jobs and moving…
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