Quicama, Angola: [1929]. Unbound. The 79 b/w silver gelatin snapshots (61 different, 18 duplicates) vary in size; most are approximately 5.25” x 3.25” Twelve have typed or manuscript captions on their reverse. All slightly convex. The photos show the two white hunters (Roschen and Stringwald)—many with them posing with their... More about Group of 79 photographs documenting an Angolan safari by two American geologists who were...

London: Strangeways, Printers, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Privately printed and limited to 100 copies. Green cloth cover with printed paper spine label. 35 deckle-edge pages with photo frontispiece of an actual diary page. Protective tissue present. Light wear. Minor sunning to spine; label chipped. Clean pages. Owned by famed... More about Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey Up the Valley of the Congo in 1890

Alaska, California, and Washington DC: mostly 1913. Unbound. This 10.5” x 7” album contains over 150 photographs (most between 3.25” and 5.25”) glued to 35 leaves. Over 110 of the photos are of the ship’s Alaskan mission, many captioned. About a dozen are of Washington DC, and the last 30... More about Photograph album documenting the 1913 Alaskan cruise of the U. S. Coastal and Geodetic Service...