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

Quarto (ca. 28x19,5 cm). 252 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). Text in Farsi, title page decorated with elaborate floral ornaments. Period ink notes in French and Farsi on both endpapers, the note on the rear endpaper is dated 1303 H. [1886] and reads (in translation): “It’s the property of Allah and after the property of Amun Ali abd Al-Ali ibn Akbar ali Khan, God bless him.” Period Indian brown half sheep with marbled papered boards, renewed gilt lettered title label, and gilt tooled borders on the spine and corners. Binding rubbed on extremities, a minor chip of marbled paper on the rear board, paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good copy.Rare Indian imprint in Farsi with no paper copies found in Worldcat. Interesting edition of the famous “Gulistan” by Saadi Shirazi, one of the greatest poets in the classical… Read More

First edition. Octavo (ca. 23,5x16,5 cm). With two title pages (in English and Farsi). 348 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). Text in Farsi. With numerous ink and pencil written commentaries in English, Arabic, and Farsi on verso of the title page and in text. Period brown full sheep with gilt lettered title “Lees. Persian Series” on the front board and a gilt lettered title label on the spine; marbled endpapers, bookseller’s paper label (Arthur Probsthain, Oriental Bookseller, London), in the left lower corner of the front pastedown endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed, paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good copy.Very rare Indian imprint with only four paper copies found in Worldcat. Second unaltered edition was published under the same title in 1871.“The Iqd-I Gul” or “The Rose Necklace” is a collection of short… Read More

First edition. Octavo (ca. 21,5x15,5 cm). 4, 630, [1] pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). Text in Ottoman Turkish, the book includes: table of contents, title page with date of issue in Lunar and Solar hijri, Islamic calendar with sunsets and sunrises. Original publisher’s red full cloth with the gilt stamped seal of Sultan Abdulhamid II (1842-1918) on the front cover, gilt lettered title on the spine, and decorative blind stamped frames on both boards; new endpapers. Binding with minor mild water stains, paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good copy.Very rare Ottoman imprint with only four paper copies found in Worldcat. First volume of the rare “yearbook” series published by the Ottoman Foreign Ministry (there were only four volumes issued in 1302, 1306, 1318 & 1320 H. – 1884/85, 1888/89, 1901/2, 1902/3 AD). First… Read More

First and only edition. Folio (ca. 29,5x23,5 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 – dedication to Minister Sergey Uvarov], [v]-viii, 1-632, [ix]-xi, 633-765 pp. Period style brown half calf with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt-lettered title and gilt-tooled vignettes. Dedication leaf with very minor repair of the right upper blank corner, occasional foxing in text, but overall a very good copy.Very rare Russian imprint with only six paper copies found in Worldcat (Yale University, University of Wisconsin – Madison, New York Public Library, Thuringian University, National Library of Sweden, National Library of France).Rare first and only edition of the first Russian-Tibetan dictionary. The book was never republished. The next Tibetan-Russian dictionary was issued only in 1963 (Kratky Tibetsko-Russky Slovar/ Ed. by Y.M. Parfionovich/ Siberian Department of the USSR… Read More

Octavo (ca. 24x16 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], 254 pp. With two folding lithographed maps at the rear (by St. Petersburg lithography of Nikolay Breze). Period brown quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt-lettered title and owner’s initials “I.T.” Binding very mildly rubbed on extremities, several leaves very mildly age-toned, but overall a very good original copy.Very rare Russian imprint with only five paper copies found in Worldcat (University of Chicago, British Library, State Library of Berlin, University of Darmstadt, Thuringian University). This is the first special work on the physical geography on the Sea of Japan, written by a noted Russian zoologist, geologist and ethnologist of Baltic German origin, Leopold von Schrenck. Having graduated from the natural science department of Dorpat University,… Read More

First and only edition. Large Octavo (ca. 23,5x14 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 - copper-engraved dedication leaf to Emperor Alexander I], [3 – dedication to Emperor Alexander I], [5 – official correspondence regarding the publication], [6 - preface], [2 – table of contents], 230, 186 pp. With ten copper engraved plates, two large folding copper engraved maps of Lake Baikal and Eastern Siberia (the latter with borders outlined in colour), and a large folding table at rear. Our copy is bound without the copper-engraved half-title page, apparently also absent in some institutional copies. Handsome period style black half straight-grained morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt-tooled decorations and a gilt-lettered title. Title and engraved dedication leaf with minor repairs on the inner margin, otherwise a very good copy.Very Rare Russian imprint… Read More

Pen and wash watercolour on paper ca. 12x14,5 cm (4 ½ x 5 ¾ in). Mounted on a period album leaf ca. 19x21,5 cm (7 ¼ x 8 ½ in), captioned in pencil on the mount. The mount with a small tear on the lower margin not affecting the image, otherwise a very good watercolour.Attractive 19th-century pen and wash watercolour view of Luis de Camoes Grotto in Macao, after the aquatint from Thomas and William Daniell’s classical illustrated book “A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China” (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810). Drawing, in a detailed and accurate manner, shows the cave where national Portugues poet Luis de Camões (ca. 1524 or 1525 - 1580) allegedly wrote a part of his masterpiece “Os Lusiadas.” The area around the cave was a private property, leased to the Brtish East India… Read More

Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water stains on the lower corners of several leaves at rear, otherwise a very good copy.Very rare imprint with only seven printed copies found in Worldcat. First edition of the major work by the prominent Russian explorer of Central Asia, Nikolai Severtsov (1827-1885), who was described by another famous traveller to Central Asia P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky as “one of the first Russian travellers who engaged in survey of the interesting, colossal mountainous land of Tian-Shan, one of the pioneers of geographical research in the countries previously unknown and for many centuries not opening themselves to… Read More

First edition. Large Octavo (ca. 23x15,5 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], [2 - preface], 332; [2 – t.p.], 349 pp. Two volumes bound together. Title page to vol. 1 with a period blue pencil note “Tom [Vol.] 1.” Period gilt-tooled red quarter morocco with later black cloth boards and red cloth corners. Some minor age toning and water staining of text, but only at the top margin throughout the block, but overall a very good copy.An important lesser-known Russian work on the history and modern state of the Russian American Company, related to the time of public discussion about the Company’s future in the early 1860s. This critical piece negatively characterizes RAC, concentrating on its suppression and abuse of the indigenous people from the Aleutian Islands, exploitation of Russian fur hunters (promyshlenniki), inefficient… Read More

First Edition. Quarto (ca. 25.5 x 16cm). text only. x, [2], 426, v pp. Original printed publishers wrappers. Pale water stain  throughout the block, in the top left corner of the block, not affecting the text. A small chip at head of spine, otherwise a near fine copy in very original condition.Very rare as only three copies found in Worldcat.This work is the first comprehensive research of the geology of the Altai Mountains, and still retains its scientific value today. The travel was undertaken in 1844 by Grigorii Shchurovskii, who was an outstanding Russian geologist, noted for founding his own scientific school; first professor of geology and mineralogy of Moscow University, and held that post for 50 years (1835-84). Shchurovskii was one of the founders and the first president of Society of Lovers of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography (1863);… Read More

Oblong Folio album (ca. 32x41 cm or ca. 12 ¾ x 16 ¼ in). 29 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted albumen photographs of various size (including two duplicates), mostly from ca. 21,5x28 cm (8 ½ x 11 in) to ca. 18,5x27,5 cm (7 ¼ x 11 in); twelve smaller images are ca. 10x13 cm (3 ¾ x5 ¼ in). Fifteen photos are signed “Skeen & Co.” in negative (some are also captioned); nine photos are signed “C.A. Co. Ltd.” in negative and/or with blind stamps “Apothecaries Co. Ltd., Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon” in the right lower corners; two photos are signed “Scowen” in negative; two photos are with blind stamps “G.R. Lambert & Co., Singapore.” Fifteen photos are on the mounts with period manuscript ink captions in German. Period maroon full straight-grained morocco, neatly… Read More

Karluck [sic!], 25 May 1889; Chignik Bay, 27 July 1889 and 16 August 1890. In all three leaves with 5 ppfrom ca. 28,5x21,5 cm (11 ¼ x 8 ¼ in) to ca. 24,5x19,5 cm (9 ¾ x 7 ¾ in). Brown and black ink on wove and lined paper. All letters docketed in period ink on verso. Fold marks, the paper of one letter age-toned, but overall a very good collection.Historically significant collection of three early letters documenting the beginning of the salmon canning industry in Alaska. The “Shumagin Packing Company” was a short-lived enterprise that operated in the Chignik Bay (central Alaska Peninsula) in 1889-1891.“The Chignik Bay Company’s cannery was built and operated in the spring of 1889 by the Fishermen’s Packing Company of Astoria on the eastern shore of Chignik Lagoon <…> The Shumagin Packing Company,… Read More

Oblong Folio album ca. 26x32,5 cm (10 ¼ x 12 ¾ in). 35 card stock leaves. With 130 mounted gelatin silver photos, including twenty panoramas ca. 9x25,5 cm (3 ½ x10 in) or slightly smaller, and one larger photo ca. 12,5x18 cm (5x7 in). The rest of the images are from ca. 8x14 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ½ in) or 9x12 cm (3 ½ x 4 ¾ in) to ca. 6,5x9 cm (2 ½ x 3 ½ in). No captions. Later manuscript ink note by A.N. Snook’s brother, William Ora Snook, written on the white tape mounted on the inner side of the front board. Several photos with the ink markings by W.O. Snook, identifying his brother. With two mounted period greeting cards. Period black patterned faux leather album fastened with a string. Gilt-lettered generic title “Fotografias” on the front board; paper label of “L.C. Rhodes.… Read More

Oblong Folio (ca. 25x31,5 cm). 30 card stock leaves. With 174 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, including one large image ca. 17,5x23,5 cm (7 x 9 ½ in) and five panoramic views ca. 7x26,5 cm (2 ¾ x 10 ¼ in) or slightly smaller; the rest of the photos are from ca. 10,5x16 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ¼ in) to ca. 4,5x6,5 cm (2 x 2 ½ in). Most photos with period typewritten or manuscript white ink captions in German on the mounts. With two hand-drawn white ink maps (on the album leaves), a mounted printed map showing the route of the journey (ca. 6,5x14,5 cm) and fourteen mounted paper leaves with typewritten notes on the journey and the sites visited (from ca. 19x26,5 cm to ca. 3x21,5 cm). Original blue patterned full cloth album with decorative endpapers. Overall a very good album of interesting strong… Read More

[2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy.First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library). This is the first book and the first work in the genre of “stories about naval life” written by a prominent Russian writer Konstantin Staniukovich. Published by a small private typography, the “Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea” are very rare and anticipate the later great success of Staniukovich’s “Morskiye Rasskazy” (“Sea Stories”) – which were published in a revised and enlarged form in 1888 and made the author widely popular in the Imperial and later Soviet Russia. The “Sea Stories” are now considered classic literature for youth and four Russian… Read More

[2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy.First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library). This is the first book and the first work in the genre of “stories about naval life” written by a prominent Russian writer Konstantin Staniukovich. Published by a small private typography, the “Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea” are very rare and anticipate the later great success of Staniukovich’s “Morskiye Rasskazy” (“Sea Stories”) – which were published in a revised and enlarged form in 1888 and made the author widely popular in the Imperial and later Soviet Russia. The “Sea Stories” are now considered classic literature for youth and four Russian… Read More

2 vols. bound together. [4], ii, [1], 7-276, [2]; [4], ii, 139, xiv pp. 27x17 cm. With two large folding copper engraved plates at rear. Period dark green quarter leather. Gilt lettered initials of a previous owner “P.G.” on the bottom of the spine; narrow silk bookmark bound in. Several faded private library numbers and a few mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy.First and only edition. Rare imprint with nine paper copies found in Worldcat. Valuable description of the East Siberian Yeniseysk Governorate of the Russian Empire (modern-day Krasnoyarsk Kray of Russia), written by its first governor Alexander Stepanov (1781-1837; in office in 1823-31). Formed in 1822 as a part of the Eastern Siberian General Governorship with the centre in Krasnoyarsk, the Yeniseysk Governorate covered the basin of the Yenisey River, from the Taymyr… Read More

Twenty-four gelatin silver contact sheets, each ca. 30x25 cm (ca. 12x10 in). Each sheet with nine to twelve photos, several with light leaks, so altogether with 272 good quality images, each ca. 6x5,5 cm (2 ¼ x 2 ¼ in). With ca. 60 period white ink manuscript captions on recto of the contact sheets (identifying single photos or groups of photos); several photos with hand-drawn pencil crosses. All sheets with period pencil or ink numbers, markings or captions on verso. The sheets are slightly wavy, several sheets with minor creases or tears on extremities not affecting the images, but overall a very good collection on strong interesting photos. The book: Stonor, C. The Sherpa and the Snowman. London: Hollis & Carter, 1955. First edition. Octavo. xii, 209 pp.: ill. Dust jacket (minor tears on extremities). Very good.Historically significant extensive… Read More

Quarto ca. 26x20.2 cm (10 ¼ х 8 in). 2 pp. Blue ink on laid paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.Dated 24 May 1949, this rare private letter offers an uncensored insight into the mind of one of the most notorious criminals in the United States. The lonely “Birdman,” Robert Stroud, wrote this letter the seventh year into his solitary confinement in Alcatraz and shortly after the maximum security prison stripped him both of his birds and his wings.One of the most famous inmates of Alcatraz, a federal prisoner and two-time murderer, Robert Stroud spent most of his seventy years behind bars in solitary confinement. At nineteen, Stroud murdered a bartender in Alaska in a quarrel over a dance hall queen and was sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary for twelve years. In 1916, he stabbed a guard to death… Read More

Octavo ( 20x12,5 cm or 5x8 in.) 10 pp. Blu ink on yellowish watermarked lined wove paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.Historically interesting letter by a young soldier at Fort Assiniboine (est. in 1879), with notes about severe famine in the nearby Piegan reservation. In 1883/1884, ca. 600 Piegan Indians starved to death due to buffalo extinction and the government’s neglect to supply food aid.The author, “Will C Suitt,” originally from Scioto, Ohio, was a 25-year-old soldier and an E flat cornet player in the 18th U.S. Infantry. The regiment was deployed to Fort Assiniboine from Atlanta in 1879 to ensure control over the local Indian population.In the letter to “Friend Mame,” Suitt describes his “fearful” recent trip to Fort Benton and talks about high rates of gambling,… Read More