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

Two pen and wash watercolours on paper ca. 12x19 cm (4 ¾ x 7 ¼ in) and 13x19,5 cm (5 x 7 ½ in). Each mounted on a period album leaf ca. 19x23 cm (7 ½ x 9 in), captioned and signed “H.E.R.” in period ink on the mount or in the right lower corner. Paper slightly age-toned, one mount with a couple of tears on the lower margin not affecting the image; overall very good watercolours.Two attractive 19th-century pen and wash watercolours, drawn after the aquatints from Thomas and William Daniell’s “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (London: Longman, Hurst, Reees and Orme, 1810). The drawings, in a detailed and accurate manner, recreated two of Daniell’s “Javanese” aquatints – “Anjere Point, Strait of Sunda” and “Malays of Java.” The first one depicts… Read More

Pen and wash watercolour on paper ca. 12x14,5 cm (4 ½ x 5 ¾ in). Mounted on a period album leaf ca. 19x21,5 cm (7 ¼ x 8 ½ in), captioned in pencil on the mount. The mount with a small tear on the lower margin not affecting the image, otherwise a very good watercolour.Attractive 19th-century pen and wash watercolour view of Luis de Camoes Grotto in Macao, after the aquatint from Thomas and William Daniell’s classical illustrated book “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810). Drawing, in a detailed and accurate manner, shows the cave where national Portugues poet Luis de Camões (ca. 1524 or 1525 - 1580) allegedly wrote a part of his masterpiece “Os Lusiadas.” The area around the cave was a private property, leased to the Brtish East India… Read More

Quarto (ca. 28,5x22 cm). 25 numbered leaves of typewritten text. Occasional period ink corrections in text. Vertical centrefold, first and last leaves with mild creases and traces of old staples removed, otherwise a very good manuscript.Original typescript of the diary of Edward de la Motte, one of the participants of the fifth ascent of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas, with his manuscript corrections in text. De la Motte’s climbing partner was a famous American mountaineer and writer James Ramsey Ullman (1907-1971), thus the expedition became the first American ascent of Aconcagua. The expedition party included two other members, named in the manuscript “Bromley” and “Mrs.” (a female). De la Motte gives a detailed description of the whole expedition from arrival to Retiro (Buenos Aires) on 25 February to the final arrival to… Read More

Watercolour on paper, ca. 26x42,5 cm (ca. 10 ¼ x 16 ¾ in). Signed and dated in watercolour in the right lower corner, captioned and dated in pencil on verso. Paper browned, with minor stains on the bottom part of the watercolour, two repaired tears on the top margin, but overall a good watercolour.This watercolour was made by a soldier of the 5th battalion, East Surrey Regiment which was engaged in the military operations on the Tigris and Southern Kurdistan as a part of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary force in WWI.“The 5th and 6th Battalions of The East Surrey Regiment were not to see service on the Western Front. They embarked for India in October 1914 and were employed on garrison duties in the United Provinces and the Punjab for two years. The 5th Battalion then joined the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and took part in the operations… Read More

Oblong small Folio album ca. 22,5x31 cm (8 ¾ x 12 ¼ in). 34 card stock leaves. With 68 mounted albumen and gelatin silver photos of similar size, from ca. 19x23 cm (7 ½ x 9 in) to ca. 16,5x22,5 cm (6 ½ x 8 ¾ in). 34 photos are numbered and captioned in French in negative; two photos are also signed “P. Dieulefils, Hanoi” in negative. Period dark green half morocco album with dark green pebbled cloth boards; spine with raised bands; decorative endpapers. Binding rubbed on extremities and slightly discoloured; some mounts with traces of wear that show photos were remounted by the compiler on mounts of previously removed images; some photos show signs of being remounted with minor wear. Several photos mildly faded, but overall an interesting collection of strong photos.Historically interesting collection of large original… Read More

Octavo, 2 vols. Xxxvi [i-ii - t.p., iii-vii – table of contents, ix-x - dedication to K. Bulgakov, xi-xii - second dedication, xiii-xxxvi – translator’s preface & Dobell’s biography], 237, [1 - errata]; [2 – t.p.], vii – table of contents, 272 pp. With two lithographed frontispieces (A. Bruloff fecit, Lith. V. Langer). Period style brown full sheep bindings housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Spines with gilt-tooled ornaments and gilt-lettered title labels; Occasional very mild foxing, a couple of pencil markings in text, but overall a very good set of this rare work.First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only six paper copies found in Worldcat. This is the first Russian edition, published three years after the first English edition ( "Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, " 2 vols., London, 1830). The Russian edition contains… Read More

Quarto ca. 30.5 х 20.3 (12 ½ x 8 in). 1 p. Black ink on wove paper. Wax seal residue in the lower left corner. Fold marks, but overall very good.A historically important, original autograph liquor license granted and signed by the first Mayor of Sitka, William S. Dodge, just a year after the US purchased Alaska from Russia and only a few months before the Act of Congress of 27 July 1868 prohibited the sale and import of alcohol to the inhabitants of the territory.Alaskan Natives were introduced to hard liquor in the early 1800s by Russian traders, who used alcohol both as a trade item and to gain advantages during bartering. By 1867, when the territory was purchased by the US, alcohol abuse was considered one of the most significant problems in Alaska. As a result, in 1868, the US Congress adopted the Customs Act, which, among other things,… Read More

Quarto bifolium ca. 24 x 20.8 cm (9 ½ х ¾ in). 2 pp. and  -. Brown ink on yellowish wove paper. Addressed and stamped on the recto of p.1 ‘Vera Cruz, Mexico. April, 26'. Fold marks, slightly age-toned, a four-inch tear repaired with tape, some separation along fold lines, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A historically important original autograph manuscript letter written by 1st Sergeant of the 7th US Infantry Regiment, William T Dorrance, from occupied Mexico City and signed to his cousin Edward Moulton in Willimantic, Connecticut, sharing breaking news of the arrival of two US Commissioners “empowered to settle the terms” of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, heatedly arguing about the possible need of marching to San Luis Potosi and giving the Mexicans “a drubbing” there, decisively… Read More

Two watercolours on paper, each ca. 14x22,5 cm (5 ½ x 8 ¾ in). Period manuscript captions in pencil on verso. Later matting. A very good pair.Attractive original watercolour views of Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) and the centre of the infamous penal colony during the British rule. Apart from an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony on the islands in 1789, Britain hadn’t risen territorial claims to the Andamans until the 1850s. In 1858 a British penal colony was set up for dissenters and independence fighters from the Indian subcontinent. Since 1972 the Andaman and Nicobar islands were administered by a chief commissioner at Port Blair. The infamous Cellular Jail was constructed in Point Blair in 1896-1906.Drawn during the colonial period, the watercolours present interesting views of the Andaman Islands,… Read More

Watercolour on paper ca. 25,5x34,5 cm (9 ½ x 13 ½ in). Artist’s signature “A.D.”, slightly indistinct date and caption “Glendalough” in the lower corners. Traces of old mount on verso, minor foxing on the extreme right margin, otherwise a very good watercolourAttractive watercolour view of the ruins of the gateway to the 6th-century monastic settlement in Glendalough, 50 km south of Dublin. The artist depicts Glendalough’s famous stone arches, now covered with the overgrown grass and trees, and a ruin of the renowned Round Tower, here shown in its original state – before the reconstruction of 1876, when a conical roof was rebuilt with the original stones. The scene taken on a bright summer day features local peasants having a conversation near the arch. Full of light and air, it gives a wonderful impression of… Read More

Two Oblong Quarto albums, each ca. 23,5x28 cm (9 ¼ x 11 in). Each with 12 card stock leaves. With 192 gelatin silver photos, mounted in windows, each ca. 8x10,5 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in) or slightly smaller. About twenty-five photos with period white ink captions on the mounts, ca. 46 photos with period ink or pencil captions on verso (with over twenty repeating the captions on the mounts). Two period green and brown full cloth albums with gilt-lettered titles “Photographs” on the front covers. Bindings mildly rubbed on extremities and slightly weakened on hinges, a few photos mildly faded, but overall very good albums with interesting strong photographs.Interesting extensive collection of original photos, taken by a high-ranking official in British India who took part in the Delhi Durbar on December 7-16, 1911. There are about thirty… Read More

189 loose gelatin silver photographs, including thirteen large square photos from ca. 18,5x17 cm (7 ¼ x 6 ¾ in) to ca. 17x17 cm (6 ¾ x 6 ¾ in); sixteen large photos from ca. 13x22 cm (5 ¼ x 8 ½ in) to ca. 12x14,5 cm (4 ½ x 5 ¾ in); thirty-one square photos ca. 13,5x12 cm (4 ¾ x 5 ¼ in); the rest 129 photos are from ca. 9x14 cm (3 ½ x 5 ½ in) to ca. 6 ½ x 11 cm (2 ½ x 4 ¼ in). All but about twenty-five photos with period pencil numbers or captions on verso (some photos with typewritten captions on paper labels attached to verso). Most photos (over 110) with period pencil/typewritten notes or ink stamps on verso identifying the photographers: “Phot. R. Angst” (or “Angst”), “G.O. Dyhrenfurth” (or ink stamp “Prof. Dr.… Read More