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

Two Oblong Quarto albums (ca. 19x26,5 cm or 7 ½ x 10 ¼ in). 30 and 50 card stock leaves. Album 1: with 222 mounted gelatin silver photos from ca. 8,5x11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in) to ca. 7x11 cm (2 ¾ x 4 ¼ in). All but a dozen photos with period ink captions on the mounts (some captions relate to several photos, some photos are also dated in ink). Period brown quarter sheep album with cloth boards. Binding rubbed on extremities, the boards with scratches, mounts slightly soiled and waved, a few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Album 2: with 247 mounted gelatin silver photos, including three large photos ca. 17x22,5 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in) and twenty photos ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in); the rest of the photos are ca. 8,5x11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in)… Read More

First Edition. Large Octavo (ca. 26,5x16,5 cm). 6, 637 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). Text in Ottoman Turkish, within double printed border, first page of text decorated with traditional floral and geometric ornaments. Late 19th century Ottoman dark green quarter morocco with decorative stamped pebble cloth boards and gilt lettered title on the spine; marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good copy.“Ravzat ül-ebrar” is an important example of an Islamic overview of world history, popular in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. The book starts from the creation of Adam and consists of four parts, titled History of the Prophets, Life of Muhammad, History of the Islamic monarchs, and History of the Ottoman Sultans, the latter covering the history of the Ottoman Empire up to the reign of… Read More

First edition. Quarto (ca. 24x16,5 cm). xxxiv, 145 pp. With a portrait frontispiece, nineteen plates and a map at rear. Original publisher’s brown cloth binding with blind stamped title on the front board and the spine. Binding with cracks on hinges, neatly repaired, occasional wormholes and water stains in the outer corners of some pages, but overall a very good copy.The book offers an interesting insight to Afghanistan and its politics during the last year of reign of a western-oriented Amanullah Khan (in power in 1919-29) from the point of view of its non-British neighbours. Katrak travelled to Kabul by car from Peshawar via Khyber Pass and Jalalabad in August 1928 to take part in the celebrations of the Afghanistan Independence Day (the date was set up to commemorate the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919). The book contains vivid descriptions of Kabul and… Read More

Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm or 10 ¾ x 8 ¼ in). Two leaves of watermarked lined paper with the printed letterheads of the “Circle City Hotel, Juneau.” 3 pp. Text in black ink, written in a legible hand. Fold marks, the lower right blank corner of the second leaf is torn off (not affecting any text); overall a very good letter.Interesting Klondike Gold Rush-era private letter. The author, one “W.W. Kennedy,” wrote to his “Dear Old Mother” (“Mrs. William Kennedy, Whippleville, New York”) on the stationery of Juneau’s well-known “Circle City Hotel” (built by Lockie MacKinnon and George Miller on Third Street in 1895-96, demolished in 1924). Originally from New York state, Kennedy compared New York State's winter conditions to those in Juneau, talked about his wages, plans for the future and overall… Read More

Large Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33,5 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in). 13 stiff card album leaves. 56 mounted gelatin silver photos including fifteen large images ca. 15x21 cm (5 x 8 ½ in) and eight photos ca. 10,5x15 cm (4x6 in); the rest are ca. 6,5x10 cm (2 ½ x 4 in) and slightly smaller. All but ten photos with period manuscript ink or pencil captions on the mounts. Period dark brown quarter sheep with brown pebbled cloth boards; spine with gilt-tooled decorations; moiré endpapers. Overall a very good album with interesting strong photos.This album contains photographs of local people and colonial establishments in British East Africa (present-day Kenya), Uganda (protectorate established in 1896) and German East Africa (present-day Tanzania). A large portion of the photographs are taken along the Uganda Railway from Mombasa, where the Railway began… Read More

Ocatvo (ca. 20,5 x12,5 cm). 2 pp. on bifolium. Black ink on blue laid paper. Fold marks but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand. A historically important original autograph manuscript letter by M. H. Kolloch regarding his discovery of gold at the once thriving mining camp and now-abandoned community of Brownsville, California. The author, apparently a geologist, mine surveyor, or engineer, wrote this letter on his way from the gold mining district of Fairplay (Colorado Territory) to Paradise Valley (Arizona Territory) on 14 October 1866. In the text addressed to his colleague G. W. Swan, Kolloch brags about discovering the north extension of the “richest mine” in Brownsville and enthusiastically reports on a two-foot ledge stuffed with “free gold.” In the rest of the letter, the author discusses a newly-built road to the… Read More

First and only edition. Large Octavo (24,5x16 cm). [2- t.p.], [2 – h.t.], [1- table of contents], 170, [1 - errata] pp. With a large folding chromolithographed map at the rear. Ink stamps of the private library of Anur Vakhitov (of Tbilisi) on the title page, half title and p. 97. Period remboîtage brown quarter sheep with cloth boards. Spine with raised bands and a gilt-lettered title; new endpapers. With the front original publisher’s wrapper bound in. The wrapper, title page and the map with tears or minor losses, neatly repaired, the map is backed, the text with occasional staining, but overall a very good copy.Rare Russian imprint with only seven paper copies found in Worldcat. Historically significant, first Russian study of traditional Kalmyk land rights in the steppes of the Astrakhan Province (modern-day Kalmykia and Astrakhan oblast of… Read More

12mo (ca. 17x10 cm). [2 – half title], [2 – table of contents], [2 – title page], 374 pp. (with the additional pagination on the bottom). Period amateur Russian brown half calf with marbled papered boards; all edges coloured. Traces of soviet bookshop ink stamps and markings on the rear pastedown endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, paper slightly age-toned, a couple of minor mild stains, but overall a very good original copy.Very rare early Russian publication, reporting about the proceedings and discoveries during Otto von Kotzebue’s first circumnavigation on board the brig “Rurik” in 1815-1818 and issued before the publication of the official account (Kotzebue, O. von. Puteshestviye v Yuzhny Okean i v Beringov Proliv dlya Otyskaniya Severo-Vostochnogo Morskago Prokhoda, predprinyatoye v 1815, 1816, 1817 i 1818 godakh… Read More

Copper engraving, ca. 37,5x53,5 cm (14 ¾ x 21 in) on the leaf of laid paper ca. 43x60 cm (17 x 23 ½ in). Engraved title in Russian and German, names of the artist and engraver under the image; plate number in the right upper corner. A couple of very minor tears on the blank margins not affecting the image, otherwise a very good strong impression with wide margins.Plate LIV from the famous Russian edition of the Atlas of Krusenstern’s circumnavigation in 1803-1806 (Atlas k Puteshestviiu Kapitana Krusensterna… SPb, 1813). The Atlas and three volumes of text published in Russian in 1809-1812 is the first publication of the account of the first Russian circumnavigation accomplished in 1803-1806 on the Russian ships “Nadezhda” and “Neva” under command of Adam von Krusenstern and Yury Lisyansky. The book became an… Read More

Copper engraving ca. 34x52 cm (13 ½ x 20 ½ in). Copper engraved title in Russian and German on the lower margin. A couple of minor repaired tears on the extremities, a minor water stain on the lower margin, but overall a very good strong impression of this copper engraving.Plate XXVIII from the famous Russian edition of the atlas to Adam von Krusenstern’s circumnavigation in 1803-1806 (Atlas k Puteshestviiu Kapitana Krusensterna. SPb, 1813). Published on the funds of the Russian Imperial Cabinet, the atlas became one of the most luxurious Russian editions of the early 19th century. The complete atlas (with 118 engraved views and scenes, according to the Russian State Library) is a great rarity, with only one copy found in Worldcat (National Maritime Museum in Greenwich), but separate engravings are also very rare.Our engraving depicts the tomb… Read More

[7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 20,5x14,5 cm. Black stamps on the first and the last leaves, short manuscript notes in Ottoman Turkish on leaves 1, 7 and 8. 19th century dark brown quarter sheep with black pebbled paper boards. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, repaired on hinges, otherwise a very good copy.First edition in Ottoman Turkish. This is the third of seventeen ‘Turkish incunabulas’, published in the fi rst year of the existence of the printing house by the legendary Basma Khane of Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745) in Istanbul – the fi rst typography of moveable Arabic type under Islamic auspices. Opened by permission of Sultan Ahmet III in 1727, Basma Khane was the fi rst of its kind in the Islamic world, and published 17 titles in 22 volumes between 1729 and 1742, including geographies, histories, and… Read More