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Oblong Quarto (ca. 26,5x32 cm). 17 card stock album leaves. With 84 mounted and three loosely inserted original gelatin silver photographs of various size, from ca. 11x18,5 cm (4 ¼ x 7 ¼ in) to ca. 4x5 cm (1 ½ x 2 in). Most photos with manuscript white ink captions in traditional Mongolian script on the mounts. With five leaves of tissue paper with period typewritten notes and commentaries in Russian, mounted on verso of the album leaves. Original brown full cloth binding with blind-stamped floral ornaments and a faded gilt-stamped title in traditional Mongolian script on the front board. One leaf slightly detached from the stub, a couple of photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos.Historically significant content-rich original visual source on the first years of the State Sanitary-Bacteriological Institute…
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Album with 87 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the New Mongolian State Sanitary-Bacteriological Institute in Ulanbataar, Showing its Laboratory, Clinic, Museum, the Anti-Plague Research Centre outside of Ulanbataar; also with Portraits of the Institute’s Head Abram Berlin, Russian and Mongolian Associates, Patients, Photos of Laboratory Animals and Procedures, Anti-Measles, Typhus and Plague Vaccines, &c. Ca. 1933-1936.
by MONGOLIA – BACTERIOLOGY & VACCINES
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Vansant, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”. Attractive Keepsake Album with Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Studio Photos and Real Photo Postcards, and One Piece of Printed Ephemera, Compiled by a Sailor from U.S.S. “New Mexico” during the US Fleet Exercise at Hawaii and its Good-will Tour to South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand in April-October 1925; the Album is Titled: U.S.S. New Mexico. In Remembrance of Maneuvres at Hawaii – Australia – New Zealand, 1925. Ca. 1925.
by Vansant, K.L., U.S.S. “New Mexico”
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Oblong Quarto album (ca. 21x29 cm). 40 card stock leaves. With 63 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including six larger photos ca. 11,5x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in) and 57 smaller ones, ca. 9x14,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 ¾ in). All but two or three photos captioned in negative. Also with four real photo postcards ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in), all with printed captions on verso “Issued by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Officers and Men of the American Fleet. July-August, 1925.” With a printed leaflet ca. 17x22 cm (6 ½ x 8 ½ in), completed in manuscript. Period brown full sheep flexible cover album fastened with a string; the front board with a decorative vignette relief, depicting U.S.S. “New Mexico.” Album slightly rubbed on the extremities, the first two leaves with tears…
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Vavilov, M.I. Poslednie Dni v Russkoi Amerike. Iz Zapisok Ochevidtsa. 1867-1868 [Last Days in Russian America. From the Notes by an Eye-Witness. 1867-1868] // From: Russkaya Starina. 1886. Vol. XLIX. Pp. 549-560; Vol. L. Pp. 593-598; Vol. LI. Pp. 605-614. [Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1886].
by VAVILOV, M.I.
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First edition. Octavo (ca. 23x15 cm). A custom made convolute (collection) of three articles from the “Russkaya Starina” magazine: pp. 549-560; 593-598; 605-614 [= 28 pp.]. With a 16-page article “Expedition of the Russian Army to India” (pp. 599-614) bound in. 20th-century paper wrappers. An ink stamp “A magazine offprint” and an ink note “Russkaya Starina, vol. XLIX, 1886” on the first page. Paper slightly age-toned, spine with a minor crack on the bottom, but overall a very good copy.Rare original Russian source on the history of the Alaska Sale to the United States in 1867. Written by one M.I. Vavilov - an eye-witness “of the official transfer of the colonies” (Poslednie dni… p. 549), the three-part article describes the events in New Archangel in October of 1867 and life in Russian America up to…
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Original Watercolour of one of the Brazilian Islands of the Martin Vaz Archipelago, Dated and Titled: Ille de la Trinite, Vue le 1er Janvier 1821. January 1, 1821.
by SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL - TRINIDADE & MARTIM VAZ
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Watercolour ca. 19 x 28 cm (8 x 11.5 in.) Grey wash on paper, mounted on an album leaf with double borders ruled in ink, manuscript caption title. Overall a very good watercolour.This early attractive well-executed watercolour by an anonymous French voyager shows an island of the Martim Vaz Archipelago with a ship's launch at sea in the foreground. "Trindade and Martim Vaz is an archipelago located about 1,200 kilometers (740 mi) east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the State of Espírito Santo, Southeast Brazil. The archipelago consists of five islands and several rocks and stacks; Trindade is the largest island.The islands are of volcanic origin and have rugged terrain. They are largely barren, except for the southern part of Trindade. They were discovered in 1502 by Portuguese explorer Estêvão da Gama and stayed…
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Vladimirov, Mikhail Mikhailovich. Russkiy Sriedi Amerikantsev. Moi Lichnye Vpechatlieniya kak Tokarya, Chernorabochego, Plotnika i Puteshestvennika [A Russian Amongst the Americans. My Personal Recollections as a Turner, Labourer, Carpenter and Traveller]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of T-vo “Obshchestvennaya Polza,” 1877.
by Vladimirov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
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First edition. Octavo (23,5x15,5 cm.) iv, ix, 337 pp.. With a folding lithographed map and ten wood-engraved plates. Period brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, raised bands and gilt-lettered title on the spine. Pre-revolutionary bookseller’s stamp on the verso of last page , binding rubbed on extremities, occasional foxing throughout, but overall a very good copy.Rare Russian imprint with only thirteen paper copies found in Worldcat. First book publication of an account by a Russian day labourer (whom we would now call a backpacker) travelling across the United States. The book was never translated into other languages or republished.In 1872, a young Russian commoner from the Saratov province, of evidently socialist views, decided to travel to the United States practically without money and spent there four years, finding various day jobs and moving…
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