Search Results: Titles starting with I from Globus Rare Books & Archives

Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print.A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha establishment in Yokohama, with a servant holding a match for the pipe of the client – an American sailor, who is sitting at a table served for tea with a young geisha at his feet.‘‘Miyozaki Yukaku’’, Miyozaki’s red light district opened in November 1859 after a request by the Dutch ambassador to build brothels for the many single foreign men in Yokohama. There were 15 brothels in Miyozaki, and of these, Gankiro was the largest and most famous. Gankiro was divided into two sections, one for foreigners and one for Japanese customers and Japanese customers weren’t… Read More

Octavo Bifolium (ca. 20,5x12,5 cm or 8x5 in). 3 pp. Brown ink on lined wove paper; blind-stamped papermaker’s monogram in the left upper corner of the first leaf. Foldmarks, minor stain and tears on the right margins of both leaves affecting a couple of words, but still readable, otherwise a very good letter.Penned at the height of the Great Dakota Boom and only two years before the Big Die-Up (the disastrous winter of 1886-1887), the letter documents the activities of one of the most prosperous cattle businesses in the American West in the 1880s.Dakota Territory, soon after its establishment in 1861 and against the backdrop of increased migration to the West, emerged as a center of the range cattle industry. In 1882, when W. Sturgis and G. Goodell founded the Union Cattle Co. in Cheyenne (Wyoming) and located the S&G Ranch in the present-day town… Read More

Oblong Quarto album ca. 20x27,5 cm (7 ¾ x 10 ¾). 9 grey card stock leaves. With 53 mounted original gelatin silver photographs from ca. 8,5x6 cm (3 ¼ x 2 ½ in) to ca. 7,5x5,5 cm (3x2 in). All photos numbered, and most are additionally captioned in Icelandic in negative. Presentation inscription on the inner side of the front board “Darling Patricia from grandma, 29th Jan. 1938.”. Period green card stock album fastened with a string. Covers rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, otherwise a very good album.Unusual collection of Icelandic studio photos apparently collected by a British tourist during the trip to the island in the 1930s. The views show Icelandic communities and natural sites, including remote northern towns of Blönduós and Akureyri, Bildudalur, and Hjalteyri villages, the tuberculosis sanatorium in… Read More

12 albumen photos each ca. 12 x 16.5cm (4.5 x 6.5 in). All mounted recto and verso on 6 original beige card leaves and all captioned in manuscript black ink on mounts. Some very mild fading of a couple of the images but overall a very good collection of strong, sharp and interesting images.This collection of photographs with 11 photos of Peru and 1 of Ecuador includes images of: City of Guayaquil, Ecuador; Boatsman at Paita, Peru; Paita, Peru from the boat landing (with the Hotel Pacifico in the foreground); Street in Paita, Peru; Paita, Peru from the steamer; Unloading passengers in boat at Eten (Peru); Peruvian Balsa, Paita, Peru; Pacasmayo, Peru; Adios, San Lorenzo (Island, Peru); Tomb of Pizarro – Alcove of Cathedral, Lima; Exposition Grounds – Lima; The Palma al Champeriso (Passenger Steamship).

Folio (ca. 32x19,5 cm or 12 ¾ x 7 ¾ in). 2 pp. Brown ink on blueish laid paper. Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Interesting original manuscript letter providing an insight into an early legal dispute over the confirmation of what looks like a common law marriage in the Oregon Territory. Written by a resident of Oregon City who concealed his identity under the letters “R.J.G.,” the letter is addressed to “Mr. Harding” – most likely, Benjamin Franklin Harding (1823-1899), a notable Oregonian attorney and politician. In 1852, Harding established the “Harding and Grover” law firm in Salem; in 1855-59 served as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory. During the American Civil War, Harding took the office of the US Senator from Oregon (1862-65). In the… Read More