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

Quarto bifolium (ca. 27x21,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove paper. Addressed and stamped on the last leaf. Fold marks, slightly age-toned, small hole, and 1 " chip from unsealing affecting a few words, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.A historically interesting California Gold Rush-era original autograph manuscript letter written by a pioneer gold prospector of Sacramento to his father, William W. Parrott, in Massachusetts. Dated 30 January 1851, the letter offers a fascinating insight into the business struggles of one of the first gold miners in Sacramento City (incorporated in 1850).The author, John Parrott (ca. 1811 - ?), was a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who arrived in California at the height of the Gold Rush, and in 1851, started working in the lumber yard of Jones & Co in Sacramento.Dated 30 January 1851, this… Read More

Quarto (ca. 23x18 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, docketed on the 4th page. 2) Greenwich Hospital, 1 May 1854. 12mo (ca. 17,5x11,5 cm). Brown ink on laid paper, docketed in a different hand in the end of the letter. Both letters with fold marks, second letter slightly stained on the last blank page, otherwise a very good pair. Portraits: stipple engraved book plates, ca. 14x12 cm (from the European Magazine, London, 1821) and ca. 7,5x6 cm (by J. Limbird). Very good portraits.These two original letters written by a renowned Arctic explorer William Parry relate to the time of his government service in the 1830s and 1850s - as an Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner in the County of Norfolk (1835-1836) and a governor of the Greenwich Hospital (1854 until his death). In the first letter addressed to some “R. Kerrinson, Esq.” Parry asks for… Read More

Oblong Folio (ca. 24,5x35 cm). 19 thick paper leaves (4 blank). With 66 mounted gelatin silver photos, including five large images from ca. 19x28 cm (7 ½ x 11 in) to ca. 17x23 cm (6 ¾ x 9 in) and eight panoramas ca. 8x29,5 cm (3 ¼ x 11 ½ in). The rest of the photos are ca. 6x8 cm (2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in) or slightly smaller. Four large photos are captioned in negative; all but two photos with period ink captions in French on the mounts. Period style black half morocco with black cloth boards. One panoramic photo with the left upper corner cut off, mounts slightly waved, a couple of photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album on interesting photos.Attractive collection of lively amateur and studio photos of Argentina and Uruguay, taken and collected by a French traveller or resident in the ealy 1900s. The album… Read More

First and only edition. Large Octavo (ca. 26,5x18,5 cm). [2 – t.p.], 91 pp. Original publisher’s wrappers. Wrappers and the title page with minor losses on extremities neatly repaired, paper slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good original copy.Very rare Russian imprint with only five paper copies found in Worldcat (Harvard University, Columbia University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Free University of Berlin, Jagiellonian University in Krakow). First and only publication concerning Russian Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich’s embassy to Khiva and Bukhara in 1669-1673. The book contains the texts of twelve original manuscripts from the Chief Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (now a part of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents or RGADA), published by the Imperial Archaeographic Commission under the supervision of its member, Askalon… Read More

Watercolour ca.10 x 17 cm (4 x 7 in.). Recently matted and overall very good watercolour.Little is known about the artist however from a photograph and watercolour of the clipper Sobraon found in the collection with this watercolour, one can assume that they were created on a voyage from the United Kingdom to Australia. The Sobraon was used as a immigration ship between England and Australia between the years 1866 and 1890.

Watercolour ca.13.5 x 24 cm (5.5 x 9.5 in.). Recently matted, overall very good watercolour.Attractive watercolour of the harbour of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands which is "the capital and largest city of the U.S. Virgin Islands, founded in 1666 as Taphus (meaning "beer houses " or "beer halls "). In 1691, the town was renamed Amalienborg (in English Charlotte Amalie) after Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650–1714), queen consort to King Christian V of Denmark. It contains a deep-water harbour that was once a haven for pirates.., When Christopher Columbus came here in 1493, the area was inhabited by both Island Caribs and Taíno "(Wikipedia). Little is known about the artist however from the photograph and watercolour of the clipper Sobraon found with this watercolour, one can assume that the watercolours were created on a voyage… Read More

Thirty loose gelatin silver photos each ca. 15x20 cm (6x8 in). All but five photos captioned and signed in negative; three photos with period pencil captions on the mounts. A couple of photos very mildly faded, a couple with minor creases on the extremities, one photo with a loss of the left lower corner, but overall a very good collection of strong sharp photos.Interesting extensive collection of original photos of the famous Witwatersrand gold mines, taken in the early 1900s by local photographer, F.E. Pollard. During his career, he operated a studio in Germiston and worked in Johannesburg in a partnership with Cape Town photographer, Joseph Louis Levi Zadik. The photos include general and close-up views of various facilities of the Rose Deep, New Primrose, Simmer & Jack, New Comet, Angelo, Glencairn; Witwatersrand, Wemmer, Geldenhuis Deep, Knight’s Deep,… Read More

Quarto album (ca. 27,5x19 cm). 26 card stock leaves (1 blank). With 98 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, each ca. 8x11,5 cm (3 ½ x 4 ½ in). Most photos with captions. Period green cloth album with the silver-tooled generic title “Photographs” on the front board; with compiler’s black ink manuscript title on top of the frond board and the spine; with compiler’s period ink inscription on the front free endpaper: “Margot Alice Postlewaite views taken on out two months trip on the Prinzessin Victoria Luise. Leaving New York Wednesday, March 12th 1902.” Spine with slight wear, several photos with mild silvering, but overall a very good album with strong photographs.Historically interesting album of lively vernacular photos taken by Margaret Postlewaite, a family member of noted American Episcopal missionaries of St.… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 23,5x34 cm (9 ¼ x 13 ¼ in). 24 card stock leaves (6 blank at rear). With 33 mounted gelatin silver photos, from ca. 11,5x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in) to ca. 10,5x14 cm (4 x 5 ½ in). All photos with captions in English, typewritten on paper labels, mounted under the images. The first leaf with a typewritten title in English, completed with a manuscript ink presentation inscription to Dr. Monroe. Period black patterned sheep album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered generic title “Photographs” on the front board; decorative endpapers. Binding very mildly rubbed on extremities, a couple of photos with mild silvering, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos.Historically significant visual source on the Japanese raw silk industry in the 1930s, when the country was the world’s leading… Read More

Watercolour and pencil on paper, ca. 13x17,5 cm (5 ¼ x 7 in). Captioned and signed in pencil in the left lower corner. Mounted on paper within a hand drawn watercolour border. Recently matted, very good watercolour.Early important view of the Chilean city of Coquimbo, which developed from a fishing village into an important international port in the 1840-es, but was officially designated as a town only in 1867. The view was made at the time of the crucial initial stage of Coquimbo’s development and gives a wide panorama of the harbour with several large sailing vessels, and the core of the growing settlement, then just a small fishing village, with several houses and a church in the distance.“Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. The natural… Read More

Second enlarged edition. [4], c, 150 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with marbled papered boards, new endpapers. Papers lightly age toned, barely visible water stain on several leaves at end of text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book.Very rare imprint with only five copies found in Worldcat. Special enlarged edition of Mikhail Lomonosov’s (1711-1765) project on the exploration of the Northeast Passage, supplemented with the description of two Russian expeditions to the Arctic and Pacific Oceans which were organized on the basis of this project in 1765-66 under command of Vasily Chichagov (1726-1809). The expeditions aimed to find the sea route to the Pacific along the Arctic coast of Siberia and departed from Spitsbergen, but in both cases couldn’t proceed far due to the impenetrable ice.The book includes the text of… Read More

First edition. Quarto. [6], iv, ii, 473, [1 - errata] pp. With 108 lithographed and woodcut plates (three folding), two large folding chromolithographed maps at rear and ten woodcuts in text. Handsome period dark green quarter morocco with cloth boards; spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered title and owner’s initials “N.L.” Both boards with blind-stamped decorative borders; marbled endpapers; all edges coloured. The folding maps with several minor tears, but overall a very good copy.Official account of Przhevalsky’s third travel in Central Asia in March 1879 – October 1880, during which the expedition explored northern Tibet and the upper reaches of the Huang He River, discovered two mountain ranges in the Nanshan (Qinling) Mountains east of the Altyn-Tagh (named by Przhevalsky after Humboldt and Ritter) and managed to get to the closest… Read More

First edition. 2 vols. Quarto (ca. 26 x 18cm). ix, 381, [1 – errata]; [4], 2, 29, [2], iv, 176, 55, 36, 114, iv, ii pp. With 31 chromolithographed plates and two large folding chromolithographed maps at rear. Period Russian maroon half morocco with marbled papered boards; spines with raised bands and gilt-lettered titles; marbled papered endpapers. Both publisher’s wrappers of each volume bound in. Paper labels of the antique bookshop of Vasily Klochkov in the lower corners of each publisher’s wrapper bound at rear. Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp and pencil note on verso of the first free endpaper of vol. 1 (the price for two volumes was 100 rubles).Monograms roughly removed from bottoms of spines, some very mild foxing in places, maps with minor tears at joints but overall a very good original copy of this rare set.Official account of… Read More

Three volumes bound in two bindings. [2 – t.p.], 560; [2 – t.p.], iii, 561-1122, 4, xviii; [2 – t.p.], 298, ii pp. 24x16 cm. With twenty-four tinted lithographed plates and a folding lithographed map at rear. Three volumes bound in two bindings. Private library stamp of D.K. Trenyov on the title page of the ‘‘Neudachnaya Ekspeditsiya’’. Period style half leather with marbled papered boards and gilt lettered titles on the spines. Text with occasional mild foxing, map with a tear neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy.First edition of a rare Russian imprint with only eight paper copies found in Worldcat.Firsthand account of the 1874-75 Russian surveying expedition to the little-known areas of the northwestern China and the Gobi Desert under command of Captain of Imperial General Staff Yulyan Sosnovsky (1842-?). Amid the… Read More