[12 photographs captioned in manuscript, depicting the journey of two English speaking travellers by horse and reindeer]. Hot on Sale
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A loose travelogue of twelve captioned photographs, depicting a journey through Siberia undertaken by two English speaking travellers. The atmospheric snapshots describe a journey of…
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[3 issues of Kogei magazine on Tea Bowls]. Online Sale
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An attractive trio of Kogei publications centring around the theme of tea, which forms a significant part of the seminal mingei text, The Unknown Craftsman.…
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[A group of 10 full length figurative paintings depicting local types and tradesmen]. Supply
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A finely painted suite of figurative portraits depicting local tradesmen and types, probably executed in Madras at the turn of the nineteenth century. The captions…
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[A remarkable ALS relating to the fate of an enslaved family in North Carolina.] Discount
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A remarkable letter, testament to the confused and brutal realities of slavery in the 1840s, as a prominent lawyer describes the fate of an extended…
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[A small archive of her books, photographs and related ephemera]. Cheap
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A small family archive of materials related to pioneering female explorer, writer and Royal Geographical Society member Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks, née Rutley, later Fisher (1895-1970),…
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[Album of photographs of whaling and trading voyages.] Online now
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An excellent, substantial album compiled by Aaron Levy, who was attached to Christian Theodore Pedersen’s (1876-1969) expeditions in the 1920s. Pedersen was born in Norway…
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[ALS to Norman Lockyer The Editor of Nature .] Online now
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A lengthy and engaging letter from John Rae (1813-1893), Arctic explorer and doctor, to Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), the editor of Nature, which was the foremost…
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[ALS to Rev. Sheppard describing a trip up the Niger.] Hot on Sale
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An informative letter from Samuel Crowther (c.1807-1891) providing much information on the working of the Lagos mission. Crowther was born in south-west Nigeria to Yoruba…
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[Archive of documents, letters ephemera, and publications concerning the first years of the Royal Horticultural Society] Online
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A handsome assortment of material concerning the establishment, and first twenty years, of what would become the Royal Horticultural Society. The album belonged to the…
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[Autograph memorial to the King with reference to the difficulty of navigating the seas between the Philippine Islands and New Spain, mentioning the first shipbuilding yard on the Bay of California.] Online now
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This unique memorial is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Spain in the seventeenth-century Pacific. Captain Alonso Sanchez Verrego writes regarding the Valle de…
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[Calligraphic illuminated manuscript on vellum] A sonnet addressed by King James to his son Prince Henry on Sale
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Very good, frame chipped and rubbed at extremities. Sister to three prolific and well-known book illustrators, William Heath Robinson, Thomas Heath Robinson and Charles Robinson,…
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[Carte de visite portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln.] Sale
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This lovely portrait of Lincoln, available for customers in Hawaii, was made after Matthew Brady (Meserve 87) but here retouched and on a Hawaiian photographer’s…
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[composite sheet] Appearances of the land approaching Palermo … Plan of the Environs and Gulf of Palermo … The East Point of Palermo Bay, … Sale
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William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) was one of the leading Admiralty hydrographic surveyors of the early nineteenth century, finishing his naval career as Admiral. The majority…
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[composite sheet] View of the City of Taormina. Plan of the Bay and Environs of Taormina, … View of Schiso Point. Online Hot Sale
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William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) was one of the leading Admiralty hydrographic surveyors of the early nineteenth century, finishing his naval career as Admiral. The majority…
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[composite sheet]: Plan of the City and Bay of Lipari … View of Cape Tyndaris. View of the City of Lipari. Plan of Port Madonna & the Bay of Olivieri … on Sale
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William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) was one of the leading Admiralty hydrographic surveyors of the early nineteenth century, finishing his naval career as Admiral. The majority…
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[Engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake with a map of the World] Francisco Draco nobilissimus Angliae Eques … 1598. Online
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The very rare Crispin van de Passe portrait of Drake, a close copy of the very important Hondius portrait which, in its first state, is…
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[Extracts from the diary of the missionary.] Online
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“Anxious to give you information of our state. I have made the following extracts from my journal … I am happy to inform you that…
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[Five stereocards illustrating Jamaica & the South.] Discount
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This group of images highlight the staples of the agricultural economy in the late nineteenth century. They are captioned as follows: 1. Sugar Cane Camp,…
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[HMS Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the moment when the latter was crushed and sunk. The field of ice, easing off from the Phoenix passed astern to the Breadalbane, and entering her bow, she filled and sank in less than 15 minutes, in 30 fathoms of water. Cheap
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No. 4 of a very scarce set of four large format chromolithograph prints after Lieut. (later Admiral) Inglefield depicting the exploits of this Franklin relief…
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[Letters on the American War]. Fashion
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First published in 1778. An eighth edition also appeared in 1779. “…this wretched cause of so much bloodshed and destruction, the Tea Tax.“ Hartley’s objections…
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