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

First and only edition. Octavo. xii, 433 pp. With four lithographed maps (three folding). Period Russian dark green quarter sheep with cloth boards; spine with blind-stamped decorations and a gilt-lettered title. Corners slightly bumped, the rear cover with a minor scrape, pages slightly age-toned and with occasional foxing, map at rear with minor tear but overall a very good copy.Very Rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (British Library). First and only edition of the original Russian travel account to the Lower Egypt and Nile River Delta, written by a doctor and criminal medical expert, Artemy Rafalovich. A son of a wealthy Jewish merchant from Odessa, he studied medicine at the Berlin and Dorpat Universities, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In February 1846 – November 1848, Rafalovich travelled to Ottoman Turkey,… 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

Oblong Large Octavo album ca. 16x22,5 cm (6 ¼ x 9 in). 50 card stock leaves. With 100 mounted gelatin silver photos, all ca. 10,5x15 cm (4x6 in). All photos are mounted on the leaves within printed black frames; all are supplemented with printed numbers (from 1 to 100) and captions (on paper labels, mounted under the images). Period olive half sheep album with cloth boards; front board with a gilt-lettered title; marbled endpapers. Two printed paper labels, identifying the owner (“Hon. H. Scotland, Pahi”), and the history of the creation of the album, are mounted on the front pastedown endpaper. A paper leaf with printed presentation note tipped onto the front free endpaper. First leaf with a minor scratch and a very small hole on the mount, not affecting the images; mounts with occasional foxing, a few photos mildly faded, binding mildly… Read More

On two folded Elephant Folio leaves, each ca. 33x22 cm (when folded). Fold marks, paper aged and slightly soiled, otherwise very good documents. Each folded and consisting of two leaves. The Documents are in good condition.Official decree of the Bey of Tunis: 1 p. Brown ink on French paper watermarked “Louis XVIII, Roi de France”. Text in Arabic, with the official ink seal of the Bey of Tunis.Italian translation: 2 pp. Dated “9 Muharram, year 1244” [1828]. Brown ink on laid paper. Text in Italian and English (on verso), with the impressed seal of British Consul General in Tunis.Rare and very interesting document from the time of establishment of diplomatic relations between Tunis and Germany.Original decree with the seal of the Bey of Tunis (Hussein II Bey, ruled in 1824-1835) authorising certain George William Crowe to negotiate with the… Read More

Quarto, ca. 27x19,5 cm (10 ½ x 7 ¾ in). Four pages; brown ink on cream laid paper with fleur-de-lis watermark, written in a legible hand. Paper aged and slightly faded, with fold marks, but the text is still bright and easy distinguishable. Beautiful period style crimson elaborately gilt tooled custom made full morocco clamshell box with cloth chemise. The letter in very good condition.Remarkable and Very Important Primary Source for Russian-Western European relations in the 17th century. This is a very important anonymous letter: "Curiosissimi Costumi de’Sig.i Ambasciatori Moscoviti, che ora si trovano in Livorno per passare all’Ambasciata di Venezia. " According to the historians who worked with two other known copies of the letter (see below: Attribution of "Relatione d’Alcuni Costumi ") it was written by a first-hand witness of the… Read More

Quarto (ca. 31.5x19.5 cm, 12.5x7.5 in.) 2 pp. black ink on yellowish lined wove paper. Fold marks, minor tear, one left side with rough edge, slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand. With the original yellow postmarked envelope.A historically interesting original autograph manuscript letter from the Long Depression (1873-1879), offering a firsthand account of Indiana, economic hardship and food scarcity during the Long Depression through the eyes of a local farmer.Dated 11 June 1876, the letter was penned by a farmer Peter Rickard (ca. 1843-1918) and his wife Ellen Rickard (ca. 1845-1909) in Indiana. At the time of writing, the couple, along with their four children, resided in Pike County. Later, the Rickards would move to Gibson County and eventually settle in Oregon.The authors address the letter, full of grammatical mistakes,… Read More

First Edition. Quarto. [vi], 138, [ii] pp. With four folding copper engraved maps and plans after P. Rikord, and an aquatint portrait of Takadaya-Kahei.Period Russian full calf binding. Marbled endpapers. Tail of spine is restored, otherwise a very good clean copy. The previous owner’s name ‘Alexander Pavlov’ in period manuscript at the beginning and end of the text, The same name is crossed out on the title page.Rare Russian imprint as only nine copies were found in Worldcat (Library of Congress, Cornell University, Yale University, Harvard University, New York Public Library, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Berlin State Library, National Diet Library in Japan). The primary source of the early history of Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under the command of Ivan Krusenstern and… Read More

Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm), 1. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Mild fold marks and light chipping of the top margin, ink slightly faded, but overall a very good legible letter.Rare historically important letter by Joseph Ritchie, an English surgeon and African explorer, written during his ill-fated expedition to Northern Africa in 1818-1819, which tried to ascertain the course of the Niger and the location of the fabled Timbuktu. Ritchie and George Lyon followed the route of Frederick Hornemann’s expedition of 1797, crossing the Sahara via Murzuq. “The expedition was underfunded, lacked support and because of the ideas of Barrow departed from Tripoli and thus had to cross the Sahara as part of their journey. A year later, due to much officialdom they had only got as far as Murzuk, the capital of Fezzan, where they both fell ill. Ritchie never… Read More

Six loose original salt paper prints, from ca. 22x29 cm (8 ½ x 11 ½ in) to ca. 19x29 cm (7 ½ x 11 ¼ in). Each photo is mounted on the original wove paper album leaf ca. 23,5x30 cm (9 ¼ x 11 ¾ in) or slightly smaller. All photos with period brown ink captions in English on the mounts; two photos with additional ink captions on verso; one photo is signed “Robertson” in negative. Photos mildly faded, a couple with minor creases, but overall a very good collection of exceedingly rare photos.Important collection of six rare original salt paper prints, from the famous series of Crimean War views, taken by James Robertson and Felice Beato in 1855-1856.“As a pioneer war reporter, Robertson paid several brief visits to the Crimea between June 1855 and late spring 1856. <…> By the end of 1854 he… Read More