A fascinating photo album assembled by a French Jesuit missionary in China during the first quarter of the 20th century. This album tells the story of Jesuit priest Père Crochet who began working as a missionary in China in the 1890s, remaining there until at least the 1930s. Two larger.....
A rare issue of the Bar Harbor Blue Book illustrated with three mounted photographs. Includes routes to and from, tables, and individual chapters on Topography and History; Literature on Mount Desert; Laws concerning Carriages; Bar Harbor and Boating, Walks, Hotels, and more. Folding maps of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert.....
A rare and impressive locomotive trade catalog illustrated with original photographs of engines and parts, providing comprehensive and detailed photographic documentation of locomotive construction. The photographs were taken by the firm of noted New York City photographer George Rockwood. Included here are portraits of the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad.....
An exceptionally rare and important photographically-illustrated work documenting President Chester Arthur’s legendary trip to Yellowstone National Park at a critical moment in its history, featuring photographs by expedition member Frank Jay Haynes, who would subsequently become the official Yellowstone photographer. Just twelve copies of this album were made, one for.....
Revered Elias Hillard’s remarkable tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Revolutionary War, illustrated with original photographs of the six he was able to locate. Each photograph is accompanied by text based on Hillard’s interviews with each survivor, including Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Millener, William Hutchings.....
A presentation copy of an early and exceedingly rare Newton publication, comprising twenty erotic postcards reproducing his photographs, inscribed to the noted fashion editor and stylist Polly Allen Mellen and her husband. First and only edition. This is one of only two examples that we have been able to trace.....
A stunning and important set of eight photo albums documenting Japanese life, scenery, and culture, as well as the activities of two American expatriate brothers in Japan and the foreign community to which they belonged. Also included are images of China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan). These albums, compiled by.....
An apparently unrecorded typescript report—richly illustrated with captioned, original photos—on the mining possibilities of Pine Creek in British Columbia, issued by a placer mining firm some thirty years after the region’s initial boom on the heels of the Klondike Gold Rush. Although gold had been discovered the Pine Creek Valley.....
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A very fine and unusual typescript journal of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club of Yorkshire, including typescript accounts of spelunking adventures and sixteen striking original photographs. This remarkable journal consists of lists of the officers of the Northern Cavern and Fell Club (est. 1928); a list of over a......
A scarce and handsome Lake George souvenir book illustrated with a series of twelve evocative photographs of this popular nineteenth-century resort destination. Stoddard’s text is written in the voice of one of many arriving from the city for respite and takes the reader through a typical summer visit to the.....
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A marvelous two-volume Harvard University class album comprising 205 original photographs, picturing the administration, faculty, students, and campus scenes, including images of a number of notable figures. Vol. 1 features photographs of 124 members of the class; Vol. II comprises photographs of the administration, including the president, the ex-president, the.....
![Item #8992 “Westward Ho!” Diary and Log of Four Argunots [sic] June to September 1917....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8992_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729536657)
A spirited, photographically illustrated narrative of a trip to Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Alaska, and other Western points, undertaken by four young women from the Bennett School of Millbrook, New York, just months after the U.S. entered World War I. The travelers, also known as the “Arguenots” (usually spelled with.....