Elist 43 ~ New York City, China, Australia, Ephemera, Photographs, Maps

Elist 43 ~ New York City, China, Australia, Ephemera, Photographs, Maps

56 items including Shanghai Municipal Police album of photographs & postcards, 1905-10; Essay on Irish Bulls, inscribed by Maria Edgeworth, 1808; autograph letter written by Robert Scott, written in the Antarctic, possibly with a partial fingerprint, 1911; photograph album of early Hollywood Silent movie stars, including Charlie Chaplin, mostly signed; a large collection of New York City stereoviews, the lifelong collection of a NYC collector; Prix Courant trading & commodity lists for trade between France & the Middle East, 1730-1821; a young French woman’s 1829 prize-winning drawing of Grapes, from a free French drawing school run by women; unrecorded copy of Modern Methods of Birth Control or Family Limitation, pre-1927; Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows…in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford, 1829, one of 50 copies; Herrera’s Novus Orbis, 1622, reporting on the 1st voyage around Cape Horn & the 1st image of California as an island.

Books, Maps, Print, Ephemera, Photographs, etc.