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

Loose original albumen photographs of various sizes, all mounted on period card. The majority of photos are with period pencil captions in German or Italian on the mounts; some are captioned or numbered in negative, over twenty with blind-stamped studio names on the mounts. Photos are housed in a period dark brown folder with sheep boards, and cloth-covered flaps; gilt lettered title "Italien 1867/68 " on the front board; both boards are with protective brass fittings. Folder rubbed and worn on extremities, one photo with a left corner missing, several images slightly faded, but overall a very good collection.Impressive collection of 78 early albumen studio photographs of Italian cities collected and thoroughly annotated by a German tourist in 1867-68. The views, more than half of which are large-format (over 19x25 cm), show panoramas, streets and famous sites of… Read More

T.p., [2], 98 pp. Octavo. Contemporary half straight-grained morocco with gilt tooled title labels on the spine (gilt renewed). Pencil markings on the title page, mild water stains on the lower margins of the text leaves, ink stamp of a Soviet bookshop on the last page, otherwise a very good copy.First edition. Very rare. This early work related to the Great Game describes one of the first Russian travels to the Khanate of Kokand, which was little known before. The first edition quickly became a rarity in Russia; the second commented edition was published only in 1968.The book was written by Filipp Nazarov, a translator of the Special Siberian Corps of the Russian army. He graduated from the Asiatic School in Omsk, which prepared secretaries and translators for the Siberian administration, and since 1804 he worked as a translator on the Central Asian frontier… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in). 47 card stock leaves. With over 210 mounted gelatin silver photos, including about six colour tinted images from ca. 20x25 cm (7 ¾ x 10 in) to ca. 15x20 cm (6x8 in) and a panorama ca. 9x24,5 cm (3 ½ x 9 ¾ in). The rest of the photos are from ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5x7 in) to ca. 4x8 cm (1 ¾ x 3 ¼ in); most photos are ca. 8x14 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ½ in). Over fifty photos are captioned and/or signed in negative (some text faded). With over a hundred period white ink manuscript captions on the mounts, related to individual images or groups of images. Period black patterned sheep album, fastened with a string; front cover with a generic gilt-lettered title “Photographs;” the inner side of the rear cover with an ink stamp “L.C. Rhodes, Genuine… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 35,5x44 cm). 28 paper leaves (mostly, double). With 49 pasted on original albumen photographs including from ca. 22,5x27,5 cm (8 ½ x 10 ½ in) to ca. 15,5x22 cm (6 x 8 ¾ in). Thirty photos captioned and/or signed in negative; four photos with the photo dealer’s blind stamps in the right lower corners. Period black full cloth album with decorative endpapers. Mounts slightly waved and age-toned, several mounts with tears or chipping on extremities not affecting the images, a few photos mildly faded, the first image with water stains; overall a very good album of interesting photos.Nice collection of large albumen photos of French colonial Algeria, with nine views signed by the Neurdein brothers, and one photo taken by a lesser-known Tlemcen studio of Noël Jouve. Several photos show Algiers - general views taken… Read More

Oblong Octavo album ca. 15x20 cm (6 ¼ x 9 in). 25 card stock leaves put together in an accordion-like manner. With 108 mounted gelatin silver photos of various size, from ca. 11x15 cm (ca. 4 ¼ x 6 in) to 5,5x5,5 cm (2 ¼ x 2 ¼ in). Most photos with period black ink captions in English on the mounts (some relate to several photos, some are also dated). Period style black morocco boards. A few photos mildly faded or with mild silvering, several with minor tears or losses on the corners, but overall a very good album of interesting rare photos.Historically significant collection of original amateur photos of Sandakan and its environs – then the capital of British Northern Borneo (the Protectorate of the United Kingdom in 1888-1946, now the Sabah state of Malaysia), and rare portraits of indigenous people from the upper Rajang… Read More

Oblong Folio (ca. 28x38 cm). 26 leaves. 26 large albumen photographs ca. 20,5x26 cm (8 x 10 ¼ in) mounted on 26 stiff cardboard leaves. All photographs numbered and captioned in negative, 15 photographs with custom made labels with type written text. Period brown gilt lettered half morocco with cloth boards neatly rebacked and re-cornered in style with new endpapers. A few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album with interesting photosThe album includes early large photographs of the main sites of Nikko, a mountainous resort approximately 140 km north of Tokyo, which became especially popular among foreign visitors in the end of the 19th century. The photographs show Hatsuishi Street (numbered 1197), the Sacred Bridge (748) leading to the Futarasan Shrine, Manganji Garden (1129 and 1132), and a large group of views of the Tosho-gu Shrine. The… Read More

First and only edition. Octavo (ca. 22x15 cm). [1 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], [1 - epigraph], 384 pp. Period style brown quarter morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and dark brown gilt-lettered title label. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Some very mild age-toning and occasional foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy.An attractive copy of one of the first special Russian studies of the history and ethnography of Buddhism in Eastern Siberia, published in a book form. It was never republished or translated into other languages.The book was written by a prominent Russian Orthodox Christian writer and missionary of the 19th century, Reverend Nil (Isakovich) and is based on his studies of Buddhism in Eastern Siberia while he served as Bishop of Irkutsk, Nerchinsk and Yakutsk (1838-1853). Rev. Nil… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 26x32 cm (10 ¼ x 12 ½ in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in). Nineteen photos with period typewritten captions on paper labels, attached to the mounts. Period black patterned cloth album, a few photos with mild silvering, but overall a very good album with interesting strong photos.Attractive collection of lively original gelatin silver photos, illustrating travel likely by steamer up the West Coast starting in southern California, and then continuing to San Francisco, Portland and Victoria (BC) at the beginning of the 20th century. The album opens with a group portrait of five young guitar players, identified as “Stuck, Elliott, Zollinger, White, Hanes.” Seven photos of Los Angeles and environs show Mission San Gabriel Arcangel with the street… Read More