Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838. 8, 263 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 23,5x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first page decorated with traditional geometric ornaments. A small ink note on verso of the last leaf. Period Ottoman brown half sheep with black papered boards and gilt..... More

St. Petersburg: A.A. Kraevskiy, 1866. 8 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Fine copy with owner's stamp on the front cover and shop's stamp on the back cover, some soiling to the covers and very small tear to the front cover. Very rare. After the Russian tsar, Alexander II, narrowly..... More

Saint Petersburg, 3 March 1845. Printed form with the Imperial coat of arms and official stamps, completed in ink. Ca. 23,5x35,5 cm (9 ¼ x 14 in). Signed by the Military Governor of Saint Petersburg Kavelin. Paper slightly age-toned, fold marks, minor tears on folds neatly repaired, but overall a...... More

Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883. viii, 769, 14, xvi, [1] pp. 26,5x18,5 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and four lithographed plates. Period style quarter morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Period pencil markings and mild foxing of the text, otherwise a very good copy..... More

Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes..... More

Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s. Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print. A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha..... More

Istanbul: Typ. Of Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1729. [7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 20,5x14,5 cm. Black stamps on the first and the last leaves, short manuscript notes in Ottoman Turkish on leaves 1, 7 and 8. 19th century dark brown quarter sheep with black pebbled paper boards. Binding slightly..... More

Moscow: Federatsiia, 1929. 222, [2] pp. 19,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, vertical crease of the front cover and some leaves, otherwise very good and clean copy. Signed by author on the half title (1929). First edition. One of..... More

Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1928. Second edition. 62, [2] pp.: ill., port., map. 23х15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some rubbings, few owner's markings on the back cover, in the text, and title page, small tears of the spine. This book was written by meteorologist of the expedition on Malygin..... More

Moscow: OGIZ, 1931. 86 [2] pp.: ill.17,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the wrappers and spine, damp stain on the lower margin of several pages. Otherwise good. With 13 photographs in the text. In 1926 expedition leaded by G.A. Ushakov came to Wrangel island. They..... More

St. Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1811. S Prilozheniyem Slovaria Dvenadtsati Narechii Dikikh Narodov, Nabliudeniya za Stuzheyu v Verkhnekolymskom Ostroge, i Nastavleniya Dannago Kapitanu Billingsu iz Gosudarstvennoi Admiralteistv-Kollegii. Izvlecheno iz Raznykh Zurnalov… Gavrilom Sarychevym [i.e. with the addition of a vocabulary of Twelve Dialects of Savages, Observations of Frost in Verkhekolymsky Ostrog..... 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

Vladivostok: Typ. of Sushchinsky & Co., 1902. [2], 46 pp. Octavo. With a folding lithographed plate and a folding lithographed map at rear. Original publisher’s gray printed wrappers. Wrappers with very minor chipping on extremities, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very Rare Russian Vladivostok imprint..... More