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

Second Edition (With Corrections). Small Octavo (17.5 x 10.5 cm), [xvi], 358, With one copper engraved folding map and two copper engraved plates on one leaf. Recent handsome period style brown gilt tooled half sheep with marbled boards and a red gilt title label. Some leaves with very mild browning, otherwise a very good copy. "Baegert, a German Jesuit missionary and resident of Baja California for eighteen years, wrote an interesting but by no means glowing account of the natives and of the country. He served at the mission of San Luis Gonzaga. The map is most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751, and his route out in 1768, after the expulsion of the Jesuits. The two plates, which are not found with all… Read More

Folio (ca. 33x20 cm). 4 pp., with two integral blank leaves, tied with two pink ribbons. Brown ink on laid paper watermarked “1813”, legible text in Portuguese. Paper tag ( "Avulços ") glued to final leaf. Laid into later ruled paper folder (typed title as given above). Paper slightly age toned, mild fold marks, otherwise a near fine document.Unpublished manuscript on church burials in Rio de Janeiro by one of the earliest Brazilian literary critics and an important figure in the independence movement.An apparently unpublished work on the protocols and procedures for burials in churches of Rio de Janeiro, written at a time when such burials were becoming an important public health issue. Cunha Barbosa was appointed prégador for the royal chapel in Rio de Janeiro in 1808. There he became involved in deciding which tombs in the church could… Read More

Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper, blind-stamped paper maker’s monogram in the left upper corner. Fold marks, a small minor stain, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Interesting letter by a pioneer jeweller of Eddyville (Iowa) and Chillicothe (Missouri), talking about his store in Eddyville, the construction of the railroad which had extended 20 miles away from Eddyville by that time (the line built by “Keokuk, Des Moines & Minnesota Railway Co.” will reach Eddyville in May 1861), and mentioning the unfolding Pike’s Peak Gold Rush in western Kansas and Nebraska. Written with spelling mistakes and addressed to Barker’s brother, who lived in the family town of Oriskany Falls (NY), the letter is an interesting example of pre-Civil War correspondence by an American Midwest… Read More

viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy.First and only edition. First fundamental authoritative biography of Saint Innocent of Alaska (Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow, born Ivan Veniaminov, 1797-1879) - a prominent Russian Orthodox missionary and enlightener of Alaska, «remarkable Russian cleric» (Lada-Mocarski, 111), the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas. The biography was published just four years after his death by Russian historian and bibliographer Ivan Barsukov, and is mentioned in Lada-Mocarski (see below).Barsukov gives a detailed story of St. Innocent’s life, work and travels in Russian America and… Read More

Two Large Quarto albums, each ca. 30,5x24,5 cm (12 x 9 ½ in). Each with 60 card stock leaves. With 144 mounted original photos, including 122 albumen photos ca. 20x26 cm, 19 gelatin silver photos and one photochrome, all ca. 16,5x20,5 cm (6 ½ x 8 in). All photos with period ink captions in English on the mounts, ca. sixty photos with the photographers’ signatures or captions in French in negative. Two period black half moroccos with black pebbled cloth boards; front boards with gilt-lettered titles and the owner’s name; spines with raised bands, moiré endpapers; all edges gilt. Binder’s paper labels on both rear pastedown endpapers (“J. Maudsley & Son, Stationer, Castle Street, Liverpool”). Spines and corners neatly repaired, a few photos mildly faded, a couple of leaves with minor tears not affecting the images;… Read More

Seventeen loose gelatin silver photos ca. 11x16 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ¼ in) mounted on period card ca. 21x27 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ½ in). All photos with period pencil or ink captions in French on recto or verso of the mounts; all but one photo also with period ink numbers on the mounts. A couple of photos mildly faded, several mounts slightly soiled, with creases or small tears, but overall a very good collection of interesting photos.Interesting collection of lively vernacular photos showing the archaeological sites and contemporary life of the Ottoman Empire Vilayet of Beirut in the early 20th century. The photos were taken by a French traveller who visited Beirut and Baalbek in 1905. Eight photos of Baalbek include general and street views, showing stone houses, shops and sellers, passers-by, &c. A photo of a large stream possibly depicts the… Read More

Folio (ca. 28,5x39,5 cm or 11 ¼ x 15 ½ in). 28 card stock leaves. With 65 mounted albumen photos, including 47 large images from ca. 24x30 cm (9 ½ x 11 ¾ in) to ca. 20x26 cm (7 ¾ x 10 in) and 18 smaller photos ca. 10x14,5 cm (4 x 5 ½ in) or slightly smaller. Most smaller photos are numbered in negative; five are also captioned and signed “G. Berggren” in negative. Twenty-six large photos are captioned and signed in negative: twenty-one by “G. Berggren,” four by “Abdullah Frères” and one by “Sebah & Joailler.”. Period brown half morocco album with cloth boards; spine with raised bands; gilt-lettered title “Turquie” on brown labels mounted on the front board and the spine; marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities and worn on hinges, mounts… Read More

Two Oblong Folio albums (ca. 31x42 cm). 50 and 23 stock leaves. Ca. 680 gelatin silver photographs (including twenty-one loosely inserted), some printed as real photo postcards. The album houses thirteen large photos from 20x27,5 cm (8x11 in) to ca. 18x24 cm (7 x 9 ¼ in), and one panoramic photo ca. 8,5x28 cm (3 ½ x 11 cm); the rest of the photos are from ca. 16,5x17 cm (6 ½ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 5,5x8 cm (2x3 in) with the majority ca. 8x11 cm (3 x 4 ¼ in). Over half of the photos with period pencil captions in French on the mounts. The second album with a mounted envelope ca. 9,5x12 cm (3 ¾ x 4 ¾ in), inscribed “Commandant et Madame Bernard.”. Period green cloth hardcover albums. The first album weak on hinges, the front cover with cracked hinge, a few images mildly faded, one of the mounts with… Read More

Elephant Folio folder (ca. 41x32 cm). With 72 albumen photographs, mounted on the original studio card; the photos are from ca. 22x28 cm (8 ¾ x 11 cm) to ca. 20x25,5 cm (7 ¾ x 10 in). All but eleven photos with the photographers’ signatures, captions and numbers in negative; all photos with period manuscript numbers (from 1 to 74, with two gaps) and French captions on the mounts. Period custom-made maroon half morocco folder with cloth boards; gilt-lettered title and the owner’s name (“Edouard Mignard”) on the front board; marbled endpapers. Paper label with the hand-written number “399” on the front board. A couple of images mildly faded, a couple with minor staining, mounts slightly age-toned, two mounts with minor tears or a loss of card on the margins not affecting the images; the folder rubbed on the spine and… Read More

Large folio album ca. 46 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.) with 50 large original albumen photographs, each ca. 28 x 22 cm (11 x 8 ½ in.), mounted loosely one per leaf on brown paper leaves. All captioned in French and/or English, and signed and/or numbered in negative by the studio “Bonfils.”. Period red quarter morocco with marbled boards. Mild wear at album extremities and spine, one hinge with a crack at tail of the spine, two photographs with a very small tear (ca. 0.5 cm), and one photograph mildly faded, but overall a very good album with strong, sharp photographs.This interesting album contains 50 large photographs by Maison Bonfils (active 1867-81, studio in Beirut) showing important religious sites in the Holy Land of Israel and Palestine. The majority of the photographs show Jerusalem, including detailed images of the interior and exterior of… Read More

Small Folio album (ca. 32x25 cm). 39 card stock leaves. With 39 original albumen photographs including 37 larger photos from ca. 22x28 cm (8 ¾ x 11 cm) to ca. 16,5x22 cm (6 ½ x 8 ½ in); the two smaller photos are ca. 11x21 cm (4 ¼ x 8 ¼ in) and ca. 12,5x19,5 cm (4 ¾ x 7 ½ in). All but seven photos signed and captioned in negative; three photos with period manuscript ink captions in the right lower corners. Two photos of a monolith block in Baalbek are the same. Period maroon full cloth album with gilt and blind stamped ornaments on the spine. Paper label of “Papeterie de la Rue de la Barre, P. Dellevaux á Lyon” on the front pastedown endpaper. Mounts waved, a few images mildly faded, front board slightly detaching at the inner hinge, several images with tears or minor losses at the… Read More

Oblong Octavo receipt (ca. 11 x 21cm). Early historically interesting billhead of California’s pioneer bookseller A. Roman & Co, returning an “imperfect” copy of one of the earliest Merriam-Webster dictionaries to publisher G & C Merriam (Merriam-Webster) in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dated 29 October 1867, the billhead charges $9.00 for “Websters Dictionary Imperfect Returned” and $2.00 for the “freight fuel” from San Francisco to Springfield. Importantly, the document also features Merriam’s later note about sending the damaged book to the company’s binder and the proprietor of Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton (1823-1893), in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Houghton got signed by the G & C Merriam Co. in 1863, almost twenty years after the Merriams secured publishing and revision rights to Webster’s… Read More

24 mounted original albumen photos, each ca. 19x25 cm (9 ½ x 9 ½ in) and slightly smaller, all with period manuscript pencil captions in French on mounts under the photos. Mounts light grey-green stiff card. Majority of the images mildly faded, no doubt due to the fact that were produced in Africa under less than perfect conditions, but overall still a very historically important collection of interesting photographs.This historically important collection of photographs documents the French expedition led by Borgnis-Desbordes against the Toucouleur Empire during the period 1878 to 1881. In 1878, Borgnis-Desbordes' forces destroyed the Toucouleur fort at Sabouciré, which is shown in the present collection after the assault. Borgnis-Desbordes is made Commander of the Military Territory of Haut Senegal in 1880, which essentially makes him Governor of all… Read More

With ten sketches in pen and wash on beige paper each ca. 13x21 cm (5 ¼ x 8 ¼ in) and mounted on album leaves. All but one captioned in ink in the lower margins of the sketches, five signed “Aug. Bournas” in the lower corners (three additionally dated February or December 1891), one signed “Diesenhosen”(?) in the right lower corner Period style maroon gilt tooled half morocco with maroon cloth boards, Several drawings with very minor corner creases, but overall a very good album of sketches. Period style maroon gilt tooled half morocco with maroon cloth boards, Several drawings with very minor corner creases, but overall a very good album of sketches.Interesting album of original drawings made by a participant of the French Pacification of Tonkin (1886-1896) - one Aug[ust?] Bornas who served in the column of Commandant Fournier… Read More

Large Oblong Folio ca. 37,5x47,5 cm (14 ¾ x 18 ¾ in) with 20 stiff black card leaves. Sixteen mounted watercolours of various size, from ca. 25x35,5 cm (10x14 in) to ca. 10,5x19 cm (4 ¼ x 7 ¼ in). 64 mounted gelatin silver prints, including one large image ca. 29x40 cm (11 ½ x 16 in), the rest are ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) or slightly smaller. Most images captioned and some dated in manuscript white ink on the mounts. Inscription on verso of the front free endpaper: “Albania, Montenegro, France”. Period black full morocco with a printed name of the binder on top of the front pastedown endpaper “W. & J. Milne” (Edinburgh). Album mildly worn at extremities and spine, with faint scratches on the boards, four watercolours apparently previously removed, but overall a very good album with… Read More

Three Quarto letters (ca. 25x20 cm or 10 x 7 ¾ in). 2, 2, 3 = 7 pp. Brown and black ink on watermarked laid and wove paper; filled in on rectos only. All letters with the original envelopes, addressed to “Mr. W.A. Hoppkins, #25 Carr St., Watsonville, Santa Cruz Co., Calif.,” with postal ink and U.S. postage stamps. One envelope with period handwritten pencil calculations and a list of groceries. The envelopes slightly soiled and with a couple of minor tears on extremities, but overall a very good collection.Collection of three content-rich original letters, talking about gold mining in Nome and near the newly founded Iditarod camp in the lower Yukon River basin in 1909-1910. The author, Charles M. Butler, originally from Redding, California, came to Nome in 1899 or 1900. He remained in Alaska and owned several gold mining claims there (see:… Read More