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

Oblong Small Folio album ca. 25x31,5 cm (9 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 47 card stock leaves (3 blank). With ca. 320 mounted (in corners or pasted on) gelatin silver photos, from ca. 11x13,5 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 6x9,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¾ in). Over twenty photos with period ink manuscript captions on the lower margins. About ten photos of oil drilling in Texas and Louisiana with period ink, pencil or typewritten captions on verso; several photos are with the ink stamps of “Fox Tone Picture, San Antonio, Texas” (some are also with ink dates “Sep. 1929”) on verso. Period style black pebbled cloth album. Lower right corners of the mounts with minor tears and losses, a few photos with minor creases, silvering or mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting strong photos.Historically significant… Read More

Quarto (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.Historically interesting original letter, containing an early reference to the Republicans in California. The author, Lewis D. Adkison, originally from Peru (Miami Co., IN), spent over twelve years in the Yuba county, at first running a general store in Oak Valley and later serving as a county sheriff. In the letter to George R. Bearss (1834 – ca. 1860), a son of his former employer from Peru (IN) Daniel Robert Bearss (1809-1884), Adkison conveys the latest news from the Oak Valley and discusses California politics. He talks about the elections to the California State Senate (which took place just a week earlier, on November 4, 1856), the loss of Democrat candidates, including a former representative of the Yuba County Dr.… Read More

Fifteen loose original albumen photos, each ca. 14x21,5 cm (5 ½ x 8 ½ in). Each photo is mounted on the original cabinet card ca. 15x30 cm (6 x 11 ¾ in). No captions. All edges of the card mounts are gilt. Card mounts are slightly rubber or scratched on extremities or verso; a couple of photos mildly faded, but overall a very good collection of rare cabinet card photos.Attractive collection of early, well-preserved albumen photos of Gibraltar and Tangier.The images of Gibraltar: General view from the Bay of Gibraltar; The Rock from the Road to Spain (with the border fence and guards in the lower right corner); The Rock from La Linea de la Concepcion; Naval ships at the New Mole in the Gibraltar Harbour; Gibraltar Harbour from the Upper Town; Grand Casemates Square and Moorish Castle; Gardiner’s Battery; Alameda Gardens (two views);… Read More

Two watercolours ca. 18 x 35.5cm (7 x 14 in.) and one ca. 15 x 23 cm (6 x 9 in.). Two watercolours initialled F.L. All three captioned in black ink on verso: From the slopes of the Simon's Berg Jan 1908; Bellevue, Simonstown, the Cape; Bellevue, Our Home, the Cape 1902. All on thick artist paper. The two larger watercolours have tape residue from earlier mounting on some outer margins but overall the watercolours are in very good condition.Three attractive scenic watercolours ca. 1908 views of Simon's Town near Cape Town, South Africa, "which is home to the South African Navy. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour (first for the Royal Navy and now the South African Navy). The town is named after Simon van der Stel, an early… Read More

Folio (ca. 31,5x26,5 cm or 12 ¼ x 10 ¼ in). 21 card stock leaves. With 100 mounted original photographs. Among them are ninety-two albumen and gelatin silver photos, including a large image ca. 19x27,5 cm (7 ½ x 11 in) and over fifty large photos ca. 17x23 cm (6 ¾ x 9 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 11,5x16,5 cm (4 ½ x 6 ½ in) to ca. 5x9 cm (2 x 3 ½ in); eight cyanotypes, each ca. 6,5x8,5 cm (2 ½ x 3 ¼ in). Over seventy images with period manuscript ink or pencil captions on special labels mounted underneath, on the album leaves or the margins of the photos. Four photos are captioned and signed “N.D. Phot.” in negative. Period style maroon half morocco with cloth boards. Mounts slightly soiled and waved, three photos with minor damage or losses on the extremities, a few… Read More

Twenty-five loose card sheets, all ca. 24,5x32 cm (9 ½ x 12 ½ in) or slightly smaller. With twenty-six mounted original albumen photos, including three large images ca. 17,5x22,5 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in) or slightly smaller; most photos are from ca. 12,5x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 11x14,5 cm (4 ½ x 5 ¾ in); two small photos are ca. 7,5x10 cm (3x4 in). All but four images (including two small photos mounted on the same sheet) are with period manuscript ink captions in French on the mounts. The sheet with two small images has a period ink stamp “G. Warenhorst” on recto. Mounts soiled and age-toned, with occasional water stains, small holes in the corners or minor tears or losses on extremities; a few photos with varying degrees of fading, but overall a very good collection of early large rare… Read More

Folio (ca. 30x25 cm). 23 card stock leaves. With 76 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, including a large panorama ca. 9x29 cm (3 ½ x 11 ½ in) and twenty-seven larger images, from ca. 17,5x23 cm (6 ¾ x 9 in) to ca. 14,5x20 cm (5 ¾ x 8 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 12x16 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ½ in) to ca. 6x6,5 cm (2 ½ x 2 ½ in). All but one photo with period pencil captions on the mounts, several are also dated from 1895 to 1910. With three mounted pieces of ephemera ca. 11,5x17,5 cm (4 ½ x 7 in) or slightly larger. Period style brown half morocco album with brown cloth boards; spine with raised bands and gilt-tooled decorative borders. Some mild water stains on the inner lower corners, sometimes mildly affecting the photos, over twenty photos with some generally minor damage to… Read More

Sixty-eight pairs of albumen stereoview photographs, each pair ca. 7,5x15 cm (2 ¾ x 6 in) mounted on original grey cards. All but three photos captioned in negative; thirty-two cards with ink stamps of “Durban Stereoscopic Photo Club, 126 West Street” on verso. A few card mounts with very mild foxing, otherwise a very good collection of strong stereoviews.Historically important extensive collection of 68 early stereoview photos of the Natal Colony, taken by a member or associate of the lesser-known “Durban Stereoscopic Photo Club.” These photos are from the early 1900s and coincide with the Second Boer or South African War (1899-1902). The collection includes over twenty views of the colony’s capital Pietermaritzburg and over twenty views of Durban; the other photos show the environs of Pinetown and Inchanga, Howick Falls, Castle Hotel… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 24,5x31,5 cm (9 ½ x 12 ¼ in). 25 card stock leaves (11 blank). With 106 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 8x9,5 cm (3 x 3 ¾ in). All photos with period brown ink manuscript captions in French on the mounts; several images are numbered in negative. Period black half morocco with green pebbled cloth boards; moire endpapers. Corners mildly bumped, mounts slightly waved, a few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of rare interesting strong photos.Historically significant rare collection of early original photos of Fort Crampel and environs - modern-day Kaga-Bandoro, the capital of Nana-Grebizi prefecture in northern Central African Republic. The fort was founded by a French colonial administrator Emile Gentil in 1897 and became a major point on the supply route from Brazzaville to Fort Lamy (N’Djamena,… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 22x32 cm (8 ¾ x 12 ½ in). 49 album paper leaves. With 51 gelatin silver photos (mostly mounted in corners, several pasted on), including 40 larger images from ca. 12x18 cm (4 ¾ x 7 in) to ca. 12x15 cm (4 ¾ x 6 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 8x11,5 cm (3 x 4 ½ in) to ca. 5x8 cm (2 x 3 ¼ in). With sixteen cyanotypes (mounted in corners or pasted on), from ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 8x10 cm (3x4 in). All but half a dozen photos with period pencil or ink captions in French on recto or verso; several photos are also dated 1901, 1902 or 1903. One leaf with a period pencil drawing of a naval cruiser.Period style brown full morocco binding; spine with raised bands; spine and both boards with gilt-tooled decorative borders; all edges gilt. Album leaves… Read More

Oblong Octavo album ca. 19x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ½ in). 23 stiff card leaves. With 44 mounted original photographs of various sizes, including 42 gelatin silver and platinum photos ca. 13x18 cm (5x7 in), and two smaller gelatin silver photos ca. 9x14 cm (3 ½ x 4 ½ in). With six loosely inserted platinum photos, image size in average ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ½ in). Nine photos captioned, signed “Bés” and /or numbered in negative, twenty-eight with period pencil ink captions in French on the margins. Loose photos: three captioned or signed (“Bés” or “Yann[?]”) in negative, five with period manuscript ink captions in French on the mounts. Period brown card binding fastened with a string. A painted scene with an African hut and a manuscript title “Conakry, 1935” on the front… Read More

Quarto (27,5x21,5 cm or 11x8,5 in). 2 pp. Black ink on bluish lined laid paper with the printed letterhead of the “Sumdum Mining Company. E. J. McCUTCHEN, President. H. T. Tripp, Superintendent. W. H. Payson, Secretary. Office 172 Crocker Building, San Francisco, Cal.” Fold marks, small ink stain in the lower part of the first page affecting two words, minor tear on fold, later pencil note on the first page, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically interesting Klondike Gold Rush-era private letter written on the official letterhead of Sumdum Mining Co. The firm, incorporated in San Francisco in the mid-1890s, bought, sold, and developed mines across the country. From 1895 to 1903, the company owned a Sumdum Chief Mine in Alaska (south of Juneau), producing over 24,000 ounces of gold and about the same amount of silver.… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 27x34 cm or 10 ½ x 13 ¼ in). 44 brown paper leaves (20 blank). With 229 original gelatin silver photos (mostly mounted, one loosely inserted), including 39 larger images from ca. 8x13,5 cm (3 x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 7x13 cm (1 2 ¾ x 5 in); the rest of the images are ca. 5,5x8,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in). Several photos with visible period pencil captions on verso. With pencil notes on the albums leaves not related to the photos, partly concealed by the mounted photos. With five loose leaves of lined paper (ca. 20x12,5 cm or 8x5 in) with period ink captions, possibly related to some of the photos. Period brown quarter canvas album with grey papered boards. Binding rubbed and with chipping on extremities, spine with a tear on the bottom, some photos mildly faded, one mount with a tear not affecting the… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 27x34 cm or 10 ½ x 13 ¼ in). 44 brown paper leaves (20 blank). With 229 original gelatin silver photos (mostly mounted, one loosely inserted), including 39 larger images from ca. 8x13,5 cm (3 x 5 ¼ in) to ca. 7x13 cm (1 2 ¾ x 5 in); the rest of the images are ca. 5,5x8,5 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in). Several photos with visible period pencil captions on verso. With pencil notes on the albums leaves not related to the photos, partly concealed by the mounted photos. With five loose leaves of lined paper (ca. 20x12,5 cm or 8x5 in) with period ink captions, possibly related to some of the photos. Period brown quarter canvas album with grey papered boards. Binding rubbed and with chipping on extremities, spine with a tear on the bottom, some photos mildly faded, one mount with a tear not affecting the… Read More

Steel engraving, print size 39x34,5 cm on a large sheet 65,5x48,5 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit., J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears, creases on the upper and lower blank margins not affecting the images, overall a very good print.Official portrait of Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1788-1851), Russian naval officer, circumnavigator, and the discoverer of Antarctica. The print engraved in England on the special order of the Russian Naval Ministry shows Lazarev in his late years, as the Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet (since 1832); the Admiral is depicted waist length, dressed in uniform with all his regalia and holding a spyglass under his left arm. His name under the portrait is adorned with the coat of… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 26x34 cm). 26 black card stock leaves (18 blank). With 80 mounted and one loosely inserted original gelatin silver photographs, from ca. 8,5x14 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ½ in) to ca. 6x10,5 cm (2 ¼ x 4 ¼ in). With seven mounted postcards (one real photo postcard and six printed postcards), each ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in), and a newspaper clipping. All photographs with manuscript white ink captions on mounts; loosely inserted photo with caption on verso. Period black pebbled cloth fastened with a string; front cover with a generic blind-stamped title “Photographs;” paper label of the “The U.L. Hanson Co. Chicago” on the rear pastedown endpaper. Binding rubbed on extremities, minor creases of front cover, first two leaves detached, but overall a very good album with interesting strong… Read More

Oblong Octavo album ca. 15x20 cm (5 ¾ x 7 ¾ in). 50 card stock leaves. With 39 mounted and loosely inserted gelatin silver photos from ca. 9,5x12 cm (3 ¾ x 4 ¾ in) to ca. 8x6,5 cm (3 ¼ x 2 ½ in). About twenty photos with period faded pencil manuscript captions on the mounts; one photo with a period ink caption on the mount. White ink note “Fairbanks, Alaska, March 17, 1920” on verso of the last leaf. Period brown full pebbled cloth album; paper label of the “Heinn Specialty Co., Badger Albums” on the inner side of the rear cover. Binding rubbed on extremities, both covers with minor cracks, a few photos mildly faded or with mild silvering, one photo was possibly previously removed, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos.Interesting collection of lively vernacular photographs… Read More

Twenty-eight loose cyanotypes ca. 8,5x11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in), printed on paper ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5x6 in); one leaf trimmed to fit the image. No captions. All leaves with pencil numbers on verso. One cyanotype with an ink stamp “Keuffel & Esse Co., New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco” on verso. One cyanotype with a minor staining, several slightly faded, but overall a very good collection.Rare collection of early western American cyanotypes. Most photos apparently show Northern California and the Yosemite National Park (est. 1890). Among them are two photos of the Yosemite Falls and one image of the Yosemite Half Dome rock formation. Ca. fifteen photos show California rivers, lakes, and forests, tourists posing on a boulder or next to their cabin, their pack horses, &c. Nine photos apparently depict Alaska, including three… Read More

Thirty original watercolours on paper, from ca. 8,5x17,5 cm (3 ¼ x 7 in) to ca. 8,5x12,5 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¾ in), mounted within ink-drawn frames on the original white, greyish and greenish album leaves ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in). All but one captioned and dated in period ink on the mounts. Period style brown half morocco album with gilt tooled spine and pebbled cloth boards, Several leaves with minor stains on the lower right blank corners of the mounts, not affecting the watercolours, otherwise a very good album of bright attractive watercolours.Attractive album of bright watercolour views drawn by a British traveller to the Holy Land in the spring of 1893. Dated between March 4th – April 27th, 1893, the watercolours include two views of Jaffa (city waterfront and the house of Simon the Tanner where St. Peter stayed during his… Read More

Nine original watercolours on paper, from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 6,5x12,5 cm (2 ½ x 5 in), mounted within ink-drawn frames on the original white album leaves ca. 21x27,5 cm (8 ¼ x 11 in). All watercolours captioned and dated in period ink on the mounts. Period style dark green morocco album with a gilt tooled spine and cloth boards. Several leaves with minor stains on the lower blank right corners of the mounts, not affecting the watercolours, otherwise a very good collection.An attractive album of bright watercolour views drawn by a British traveller during his Nile cruise in the winter of 1892-1893. Dated between December 1892 and February 25th 1893, the watercolours show Assouan (Aswan), Cairo, Girgeh (Girga), the ancient Thebes, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and the pyramids of Meidum and Saqqara. Overall a beautiful… Read More