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

Oblong Folio album ca. 28,5x36 cm (11 ¼ x 14 ¼ in). 14 thick paper and card stock leaves. With nineteen mounted albumen photos, including six partly hand-coloured cabinet portrait photos ca. 12x19 cm (4 ¾ x 7 ½ in), first mounted on the original card ca. 13x21 cm (5 x 8 ¼ in); all card with printed photographer’s credentials on the lower margins. Seven photos from ca. 20x24 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ½ in) to ca. 12x17 cm (4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) are mounted on the original card from ca. 25,5x30 cm (10 x 11 ¾ in) to ca. 13x19 cm (5 x 7 ½ in); two cards are with the photographers’ printed or embossed credentials on the lower margins. With six albumen photos ca. 18x23,5 cm (7 x 9 ¼ in). No captions. Period brown morocco album with gilt-lettered name “Samuel Parsons” on the… Read More

Oblong Quarto album ca. 18x28 cm (7x11 in). 23 card stock leaves. With 46 mounted albumen photos from ca. 12,5x20 cm (4 ¾ x 8 in) to ca. 9,5x19,5 cm (3 ¾ x 7 ½ in). Over thirty photos signed and/or captioned and/or numbered or dated in negative. About thirty photos with period ink captions in English on the mounts. Period ink noted on the inner side of the front board: “April to September 1886. Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Elmer F. Smith.” Period brown full sheep from the Isaiah Taber’s studio, expertly rebacked using the original boards. Gilt-lettered title “Photographs, Taber Phot., S.F.” on the front board; the inner sides of both boards with moire paper; all edges gilt. Several mounts with minor chipping on extremities, the first and the last leaves with minor losses of the outer layer of… Read More

Octavo Bifolium (ca. 20x13 cm or 8x5 in). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined yellow laid paper. Fold marks, but overall a vey good letter written in a legible hand.Original autograph manuscript letter illustrating the bountiful agricultural wealth of Bellingham, Whatcom Co., Washington, as seen through the eyes of a pioneer sawmill worker.Bellingham was established in the late 19th century and named after Sir William Bellingham, a British naval officer who explored the area in the 1790s. In 1903, Bellingham consolidated with the neighboring community of Fairhaven, solidifying its status as a prominent center of commerce and agriculture in the region.George B. Taylor (1857-1938), the letter's author, was born in 1857 in Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota. Together with his wife, Nellie R. Taylor (1865-1941), they moved to Washington in the late 1870s-early 1880s. The couple… Read More

Oblong Quarto album ca. 19,5x24,5 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in). 14 card stock leaves (1 blank). With 41 mounted gelatin silver photographs (one photo mounted to verso of the front endpaper), mostly from ca. 11x15 cm (4 ¼ x 6 in) to ca. 8,5x9 cm (3 ½ x 3 ½ in). Period custom-made green pictorial papered board binding with a gilt-lettered title, gilt-tooled coat of arms of the United States Marine Corps, and color-stamped silhouette of Mt. Fuji on the front board; color-stamped name of the compiler (R. G. Taylor) on front paste down. Residue of a removed tape on the front board, mounts with some staining of residue of the old tape being removed, front endpaper loose, but overall a very good album with strong photos.Historically interesting album with original gelatin silver photographs documenting the 9th Marine Regiment of the US Marine… Read More

Oblong Quarto album ca. 19,5x25 cm (7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in). 12 card stock leaves (5 blank). With 56 mounted gelatin silver photos of various size, from ca. 8,5x10,5 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in) to ca. 4x6 cm (6 ½ x 2 ½ in); most photos are ca. 8,5x8,5 cm (3 ¼ x 3 ¼ in). All photos with period ink captions on the mounts or the images, many also dated “1913” or “1914.” With nine mounted magazine or newspaper clippings, each ca. 7x9,5 cm (2 ¾ x 3 ¾ in). Original black cloth boards and maroon sheep corners, neatly rebacked with maroon morocco spine; original endpapers. A few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting photographs.Historically significant collection of original photographs of British-owned tea and rubber plantations in the Kelani Valley near Colombo in… Read More

Oblong Quarto album ca. 17x24 cm (6 ½ x 9 ½ in). 23 black stock leaves. With 114 original gelatin silver photos, including nine large images ca. 13x17,5 cm (5x7 in); the rest of the photos are from ca. 9,5x12 cm (3 ¾ x 4 ¾ in) to ca. 6x9 cm (2 ½ x 3 ½ in). Ca. 60 photos with period ink captions on the margins. With the printed “Passenger List” of S.S. “Alaska” mounted on the first leaf; the front cover with a manuscript note “S.S. Alaska. Erma Tembreull. 527 – Malden, Seattle, Pictures of Alaska trip.” Period custom-made brown soft leather album fastened with a string; front cover with a painted scene with a Native American man in a canoe and a title “Alaska, 1938. E.T. Seattle, Wash.” Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, the first leaf with minor tears on… Read More

Gouache drawing on a plant leaf ca. 16,5x11,5 cm (6 ¼ x 4 ½ in), mounted on a period album leaf ca. 24,5x18 cm (9 ½ x 7 ½ in). A minor crack on the leaf’s top point, paper slightly age-toned, but overall a beautiful drawing in very good condition.Attractive unusual 19th-century gouache drawing of Napoleon’s first tomb on Saint Helena Island. The ex-Emperor spent there his last years in exile (1816-1821) and died in his residence, the Longwood House, on May 5, 1821. He was first buried in the Valley of the Willows near the Longwood House with full military honours for the rank of general. “The tomb was temporarily covered with a slab. In the days that followed, the grave was filled in with three square metres of cement and sealed with three heavy slabs. The plot was then fenced with an asphalt-coated cast iron… Read More

Three Oblong Folio albums (ca. 24x30,5 cm). 26, 25 and 20 stock leaves with tissue guards. With ca. 307 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including twenty-four larger ones, ca. 16,5x22 cm (6 ¼ x 8 ½ in); the other photos are or various size, from 8x12 cm (3 x 4 ¾ in), to ca. 2,5x3 cm (3/4 x 1 ¼ in). Most photos (especially the larger ones) with more or less detailed period ink captions in English on the mounts. With a loosely inserted printed menu ca. 19x25 cm (7 ½ x 9 ¾ in); ca. twenty period pencil signatures on the outer side. Three period paper cover albums fastened with strings and secured with metal pins; all three with period typewritten titles on the paper labels attached to the front boards. A couple of images very mildly faded, album covers with several minor tears or chipping on extremities, one small… Read More

Twenty-one loose pencil drawings (two slightly coloured), including nineteen large ones ca. 18x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in), and two smaller ones, ca. 13,5x18 cm (5 ¼ x 7 in). All but four drawings with period pencil captions on recto or verso; ten additionally dated September 1928 in pencil. Housed in a period folded card with an ink title “1928. Turkmenistan. A journey to Merv.”. Some drawings with minor stains, a couple with small creases on the margins, but overall a very good collection.Interesting unusual collection of pencil drawings created by a Soviet traveller to Ashgabat and Merv in 1928. The drawings give a vivid impression of the old colonial Turkmenistan, almost unchanged after the establishment of the Soviet rule. The earthquake of 1948 and the major reconstruction of the 1950s and 1960s will dramatically alter the… Read More

Two separate Folio leaves (ca. 32x20 cm or 12 ¾ x 7 ¾ in) and slightly smaller. 4 pp. Brown ink on blueish watermarked lined laid paper. Foldmarks, several minor tears on folds, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand.Interesting, content-rich original letter that provides an insight into life, farming activities and land deals executed by Washington state pioneers. Written by an Olympia resident and Freemason George Tykel, the letter is addressed to Daniel J. Hubbard - a member of the same Masonic lodge (apparently, Olympia No. 1) and a resident of Thurston County since 1852. The letter mostly discusses the conditions of their potential co-ownership of a part of the Chambers Prairie – the territory now occupied by the town of Lacey, east of Olympia. Tykel describes the size of the land lot, the price per acre and the… Read More