[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly..... More

Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literaturyr na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1959. [2], 82 pp.: ill. 15x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and edges with few minor fragments lost, otherwise very good and clean internally. Second edition. One of 8050 copies. Very rare comic book with Chinese philosophical story..... More

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of N. Grech, 1851. Second edition. Three vols. bound together. [2], vii-xxxvi, [10], 203; [2], 148; [2], 120 pp. 24,5x17cm. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps at rear. Period half leather with marbled paper boards and a gilt lettered title on the spine..... More

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the..... More

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. 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..... More