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Tea and its cultivation in Asam and Ceylon investigated: presentation copy, with 22 original albumen prints

[CEYLON - TEA]. NETSCHER, H.J.Th., and Alexander Albert HOLLE. Verslag eener reis naar de thee-districten van Britsch-Indie en Ceylon ondernomen door de heeren H.J.Th. Netscher en A.A. Holle in opdracht van de Cultuur Maatschappij Parakan-Salak.
Including: Harold Hart MANN. Het ferment in het theeblad en zijne verhouding tot de hoedanigheid der thee.
Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1903. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With 1 engraved double-page plate, 4 lithographed colour-plates and 22 albumen photographs with guard leaves containing text. Contemporary brown cloth, title in gold, decorated endpapers. [2], 93, [1] pp. Full description
€ 4,850
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Portraits of Maori and views of New Zealand and Tasmania

[PHOTOGRAPHY - NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA]. [Collection of 18 photographs of New Zealand and Tasmania].
[New Zealand, ca. 1890]. Including 13 Maori portraits, 4 albumen prints of Hobart and locality, a loose albumen print of the North Shore Native and Aquatic Regatta at Auckland in 1898. Full description
€ 3,000
Anthropology & Ethnography Australia Charts & Maps Costumes & Uniforms New Zealand Photography
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Collection of collotype views showing the waters and the architecture of the delightful city of Venice

ONGANIA, Ferdinando (ed.). Calli e canali e isole della laguna [frontispiece: "Calli et canali in Venezia"].
Venice, Tipografia Emiliana, 1894-1895. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 37 cm). With a lithographed frontispiece showing a gondola in a Venice canal and 100 colletypes of the Venice canals, streets and buildings, mounted on guards and covered with flyleaves, index printed in red and black. Original publishers half brown sheepskin, beige cloth sides with blind-tooled frame on the front and back board and with a centrepiece with a boat in the lagoon of Venice and the gold-stamped title and author's name on the front board. [6] including the frontispiece, plus 100 collotypes. Full description
€ 2,500
Architecture Italy Photography
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Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves and Launceston in the late 19th century

PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. [Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].
[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front. 18 ll. Full description
€ 1,850
Australia Photography
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Military expedition in the Nortwest Frontier of British India

[PHOTO ALBUM - PAKISTAN]. G.W. CURTIS (compiler). [Album of photographs documenting a British military tour on the Northwest Frontier].
Waziristan/Pakistan, 1923-1925. 4to album (22.5 x 17.5 cm). With 97 black & white photographs (each ca. 11 x 6.5 cm) inserted in "frames" on 24 paperboard leaves, with 2 "frames" on each page (1 frame has 2 photos in it). Contemporary cloth. [48] pp. with 97 photographs. Full description
€ 3,750
India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) Photography
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A photographic tour from France to Australia, via Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, EGYPT & FRANCE]. [Album containing photographs of Australia, Egypt and France].
[ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (28 x 39 cm). With 58 printed photographs (ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm). Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. Contemporary black morocco, gold-tooling to boards and spine and gilt on all edges. [60] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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