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

Four Oblong Folio albums (ca. 23x32,5 cm). Each with eight card stock leaves. In all 254 gelatin silver photographs mounted in windows, each ca. 8x10,5 cm (3 x 4 ¼ in) or slightly smaller. Over seventy photos captioned in pencil on verso; many also dated 1908-1910. One album with a period paper leaf with the typewritten list of captions to all photos in that album. Four period grey card albums fastened with ribbons. With a notebook ca. 29x22,5 cm (11 ¼ x 8 ¾ in); 59 leaves are filled in manuscript on rectos (35 leaves of carbon copies and 24 leaves of originals, supplemented with carbon copies). The front cover with a paper label and a manuscript pencil title “Oehler, 19.1.10.” With Oehler’s photograph portrait ca. 14x10 cm (5 ½ x 4 ¾ in), mounted on the period card ca. 18,5x24,5 cm (7 ¼ x 9… Read More

First edition. Octavo (ca. 21x14 cm). [1 – t.p.], 398 pp. Ink stamps “Donated by the will of Professor Artemy Robertovich Orbinsky” on the title page, pp. 1 and 398; ink-stamped decorative ex-libris of Konrad Berezowsky on verso of the title page. 20th-century brown half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered title. Title page and several leaves very mildly soiled, but overall a very good copy.Rare content-rich original travel account by a Russian dissident to the United States in August-September 1869, with a detailed description of the state of affairs of the Russian diaspora in San Francisco and the former possessions of the Russian American Company two years after the Alaska purchase by the United States (the Treaty of Alaska Purchase was signed on March 30, 1867, and came into effect on October 18 that… Read More

Three Octavo bifoliums (ca. 20,5x16 cm or 8 x 6 ¼ in). 12 pp. Brown ink on creamy lined wove paper. First leaves of each bifolium with blind-stamped papermaker’s monograms in the left upper corners. With the original envelope ca. 8x14 cm (3 x 5 ½ in), addressed to “Col. Benj. Stark, Portland, Ogn.” and with an ink postal stamp. Foldmarks, several minor tears on folds, envelope with a residue of a paper leaf it used to be attached to on verso, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically significant extensive original manuscript letter illustrating political struggle and disagreements among the Oregonian Democrats before the Presidential election on November 6, 1860, and their emotions after the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln had become the President of the United States. The author noted Oregonian Democrat… Read More

Folio (ca. 37x30,5 cm or 14 ½ x 12 in). 62 card stock leaves. With 73 mounted gelatin silver photos, including seventeen large images from ca. 22x28 cm (8 ½ x 11 in) to ca. 18,5x23 cm (7 ¼ x 9 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 14x21 cm (5 ½ x 8 ¼ in) to ca. 10x14 cm (4 x 5 ½ in). Over a dozen photos are numbered in negative. Also with 24 mounted collotypes, each ca. 19x23,5 cm (7 ¼ x 9 ¼ in); all but three are signed “Clifton & Co., Bombay” in negative; sixteen are also captioned in negative. Over fifty images with period manuscript ink captions in Urdu. The first leaf with a paper label with printed and manuscript notes in Urdu, mounted on verso. Period maroon quarter morocco with cloth boards; spine with raised bands; gilt-lettered title “Album/Inde” on the front… Read More

Three albums with ca. 416 original gelatin silver photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 27,5x36,5 cm). 25 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 206 mounted gelatin silver photographs from ca. 8,5x14 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ½ in) to ca. 6,5x10,5 cm (2 ½ x 4 ¼ in). Most photos with period white ink notes in English on the mounts (the captions relate either to individual photos or groups of photos). Period decorative cloth album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered title “Photographs” on the front board. One album leaf removed from the stub and loosely inserted, five or six photos were previously removed from the album, but overall a very good collection of interesting photos. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29,5x40 cm). 24 card stock leaves with tissue guards (9 blank). With 132 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various size, including one… Read More