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

Quarto ( 25x19.5 cm, 10x7.5in). 4 pp on 2 sheets. Black ink on lined yellow wove paper. Fold marks, a minor split (on a fold), a tear repaired with tape, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Historically interesting original content-rich autograph manuscript letter from Orleans Bar (Orleans, Humboldt County, CA), documenting, among other things, the Smithsonian Society, early efforts to preserve Indian dialects in California.In the late 19th century, the Smithsonian Institution (established in 1846) embarked on a mission to preserve the rich heritage of Native American communities. Scholars and linguists from the society were dispatched to different territories, including Orleans Bar, a vibrant gold-rush town along the Klamath River, which was home to Native American settlers, particularly the Karuk and Yurok tribes.Addressed to "Dear Val ", the… Read More

Quarto bifolium (31,5 x 19 cm or 12 ½ x 7 ¾  in). 4 pp. Brown ink on bluish lined laid paper. Fold marks, slightly age-toned, tear on the last page, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.An early, historically interesting California letter by a salesman from “Beach’s Fruit Store” in Marysville (inc. 1851), Yuba County. The author likely moved to California in the mid-1850s, and after several years in San Francisco, settled in Marysville in 1859.The author writes to “Dear Sister Sarah” (apparently a teacher) and talks about the upcoming city elections, California’s rich agriculture, his exceptional cooking skills (“I can beat any of the girls cooking”), and weekly attendance at the Presbyterian church. He then mentions seeing the “droves” of Chinese immigrants with ankle-length… Read More

Quarto (ca. 31x20 cm, 12 x8 in.) 1 p. Brown ink on blueish wove paper. Docketed on the verso. Fold marks, a few minor stains, but overall a very good document written in a legible hand.A legal order issued by E. M. Anthony (ca. 1826 - ?), a Justice of the Peace in Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, on 24 December 1856. The document instructs law enforcement to arrest Sailor Jim, one of the earliest local murderers, for assault with intent to commit homicide. The order, prompted by a complaint from C. Gray, directs any sheriff, constable, marshal, or policeman to present Sailor Jim before the issuing magistrate in Yreka or the nearest accessible magistrate in the county.The legal order was issued the same day Sailor Jim shot John W. Burke on French Gulch near Yreka. Danforth Hartson (aka Sailor Jim) immediately fled and was soon followed by the Sheriff of… Read More

Fifteen loose platinum prints ca. 17x23 cm (6 ½ x 9 in). Twelve albumen photographs, including eight ca. 13x19,5 cm (5 x 7 ¾ in) or slightly smaller, and four from ca. 16,5x23 cm (6 ½ x 9 in) to ca. 16x21 cm (6 ¼ x 8 ¼ in). Four larger albumen photos with blind stamps “D-A-C” in the corners and ink stamps “”Reproduction interdite sans autorisation de la Direction des Arts Phnom-Penh (Cambodge)” on verso. A couple of photos with minor corner losses, one with a small tear neatly repaired, a couple of images very mildly faded, but overall a very good collection of interesting strong images.A historically important collection of early 20th-century photos of Angkor Wat and the nearby temples, almost certainly related to the work and travels in Cambodia of George Groslier (1887-1945). A noted historian,… Read More

Oblong Quarto Album (ca. 18 x 28cm). Ten watercolour and ink on paper sketches; six larger sketches, ca. 13x21 cm (5x8 in), and four smaller ones, ca. 10,5x14 cm (4 x 5 ½ in). All captioned and dated in ink in the lower margins of the images, with additional pencil captions or notes on the mounts. Period style maroon gilt tooled half morocco with cloth sides. Watercolours mounted laid paper leaves. Album overall in very good condition.Beautiful sketches taken from life by a French colonial engineer, while serving in Indochina. The collection includes several interesting views of Saigon showing the La Sainte Enfance School, St. Joseph Seminary (‘Seminaire Annamite’), the house of the director of the French arsenal, a horse-driven carriage or ‘Malabar’ et al. The watercolours include some nice portraits of the locals, including a sketch… Read More

Second edition. Octavo (ca. 27x17 cm). [9], 225 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first text page decorated with traditional floral ornaments. Occasional pencil notes in Turkish in text. Period Ottoman green quarter sheep with marbled papered boards, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title “Tevarih Caterinié.” Expertly recased using original spine, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good copy.Very Rare Ottoman imprint with only five paper copies found in Worldcat.Second Bulaq edition of the popular biography of Catherine the Great written by marquis Jean Henri Castéra, French diplomat, traveler and translator, who gathered much of the original information while on diplomatic service in Saint Petersburg. The book was first published just a year after the death of the… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 24x30,5 cm). 29 card stock leaves. With 150 mounted albumen photographs, including thirty-two large ones, from ca. 18,5x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ½ in) to ca. 15x20 cm (6 x 7 ¾ in); the other photos are from ca. 11x15 cm (4 ¼ x 5 ¾ in) to ca. 3,5x5 cm (1 ¼ x 2 in). All but six photos with period ink captions in English on the mounts; sixteen studio photos are captioned and/or signed in negative. Period red half morocco album with red pebbled cloth boards; gilt-tooled borders on the spine and boards; moire endpapers. Album mildly rubbed at extremities, a few images mildly faded, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos.Historically significant unique collection of original snapshot and studio photos, illustrating the charity trip of Lady Rahmeh Chamberlain to Cape Town, Mafeking and… Read More

[4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy.Very rare. First edition of this ‘encyclopaedia’ on Siberian hunting written by a Russian mining engineer, hunter, ethnographer and writer Alexander Cherkasov (1834-1895), during his service in 1856-1863 on the gold mines in Dauria (Transbaikal region). The book contains a captivating description of Eastern Siberian animals and ways of trapping and hunting them: there are 21 sketches about predators (including bear, wolf, fox, lynx, wolverine, marten, sable, stoat, badger, and others) and 12 sketches about ‘edible’ animals (including moose, Manchurian wapiti, Capreolus, deer,… Read More

First and only Russian edition. A period collection of four parts (Part 1, book 1; Part 2, book 1; Part 3, book 1 & Part 4, book 1) bound together. Octavo (ca. 21x13 cm). [2 – t.p.], 3-121; [2 – t.p.], 3-114; [2 – t.p.], 3-102; [2 – t.p.], 3-100 pp. The first title page with a period faded ink inscription by the owner. Period brown quarter sheep with papered boards; spine with gilt-tooled decorations and a green label with a gilt-lettered title. Binding neatly repaired on the spine, occasional water stains and foxing in text, but overall a very good original copy.Very rare Russian imprint with only two paper copies found in Worldcat - Yale University and New York Public Library (both holding complete sets of the magazine, comprising four parts, each in three books; no holdings of odd volumes found).Very rare and early (possibly,… Read More

Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. Fold marks, two small holes on folds, ink mildly faded but still legible, paper slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.A captivating original autograph letter written by a California gold miner, talking about his experiences in Garden Valley (El Dorado Co.) in the 1850s. The author (originally from Vermont) vividly describes his challenging voyage from New York to San Francisco on board a steamer, when steerage passengers were fed with “hard bread & stinking meat,” many people contracted “Panama fever,” and the author himself was so sick that “he could hardly crawl, walk or tumble around.” In great detail, he talks about the jobs he took, including gold mining, tree cutting and working at a sawmill, and records his… Read More

HMS Thalia, “18 leagues to the North of St. Jago”, 20 October 1805 and Colombo Fort, 21 June (completed 2 September) 1806. Both Octavos (ca. 23x18 cm and 25x20 cm). Each 3 ½ pp. Both addressed and sealed on the last pages. Brown ink on watermarked laid and white paper. Fold marks, both letters with minor holes on the 4th pages after opening, affecting several words; second letter with tears and minor holes on folds, but overall very good letters.Two extensive letters giving an interesting firsthand account of the early British rule in Sri Lanka (the British occupied former Dutch possessions on the island only ten years earlier, in 1795). The first letter describes Cleather’s voyage to Ceylon from England on board HMS Thalia, with the notes on the heat of the gun room‚ the frigate’s captain Walker, Santiago Island (Cape Verde)… Read More

Octavo ca. 18x11,5 cm (7 x 4 ½ in). Two pages; black ink on laid paper, written in a legible hand. The text of the letter is clear, despite parts of three words on verso having been trimmed away in detaching the leaf from the second leaf of what was previously a bifolium. These include the last three letters of Colquhoun's signature. Letter with folds but overall in a very good condition.In his letter Archibald Ross Colquhoun, an explorer, colonial administrator and author, talks about his work on a prospective book, dedicated to his travels in China and Burma in 1881-1882: the "narrative is to be 2 vols: and to be entitled | ACROSS CHRYSÊ | being the narrative of an exploration Through the South China Borderlands from Canton to Mandalay. " In a short footnote he describes the derivation of "Chrysê " and afterwards asks Mrs MacGregor to… Read More

Grisaille watercolour, pen and ink on laid paper, ca. 12x8 cm (4 ¾ x 3 ¼ in). Recently matted within a hand-drawn ink border, a very good watercolour.Fine watercolour showing Christopher Columbus landing in the New World. Most likely the watercolour shows his first landing which took place on October 12, 1492 in San Salvador Island (Guanahani), now in the Bahamas archipelago.The entry in Columbus journal from the 12 October 1492 describes the natives: "Many of the men I have seen have scars on their bodies, and when I made signs to them to find out how this happened, they indicated that people from other nearby islands come to San Salvador to capture them; they defend themselves the best they can. I believe that people from the mainland come here to take them as slaves. They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very… Read More

Two Quarto letters (ca. 26,5x21 cm). 1 p. and 1 p. Brown ink on blueish woven paper, one letter with a blind-stamped coat of arms in the left upper corner. Both letters addressed to “William F. Conant” on verso. Fold marks, one letter with a small tear on the left margin, but overall a very good pair of letters written in a legible hand.Two early interesting letters from Panama written by a young entrepreneur John H. Conant to his elder brother, Boston merchant William F. Conant. The letters discuss various financial matters and mention American Consul A.B. Corwin. The Conants established their business in Panama, most likely after the construction of Panama Railroad in 1855. In the 1870s-1880s, William F. Conant was a member of the Boston Exchange Company, the Mercantile Wharf Corporation, and Melrose Unitarian Society.20 September: “I wrote you… Read More

Folio (36,5x24 cm). 10 leaves stitched together over pink ribbons; pink stitching in gutter mostly gone. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, text in Portuguese. Leaves 1-7 and the table of contents on verso of the last leaf written in neat and legible secretarial hand, leaves 8-9 – by Sousa Coutinho, with his name at the bottom of leave 9 (recto). With a leaf of a French manuscript text loosely inserted. Paper slightly age toned and with mild creases, but overall a very good manuscript.This manuscript report by prominent Portuguese diplomat D. Domingo Antonio de Sousa Coutinho deals with Napoleon's 1800 campaign in Italy, including the siege of Genoa and the Battle of Marengo and its aftermath. The author, as a diplomat, was focused on the manoeuvrings that resulted in the Convention of Alexandria signed the day after the Battle of Marengo by Napoleon… Read More

Watercolour ca. 21.5 x 35cm (8.5 x 14in.), with typewritten title label mounted on verso. The watercolour, in period matting, is in very good condition.This attractive and skillfully executed watercolour by a listed artist known for his landscapes and urban scenes shows three mountaineers in camp with two tents and three horses in the background. "The Puna grasslands.., are found in the central Andes Mountains.., above the tree line at 3200–3500 m elevation, and below the permanent snow line above 4500-5000 m elevation "(Wikipedia).