![Item #1181 [GOLOVNIN'S AUTOGRAPH] Les Jardins, poème [i.e. The Gardens. Poems]. Jacques Delille](/pictures/thumb/1181.jpg?v=1613985254)
Paris: P. Didot, 1801. XXXV, 214 pp., 4 ill., 13,5x8 cm. Original full leather. Restoration of the spine, otherwise in a very good condition. The first endpaper bears inscriptions and signatures of several interesting individuals which connect the book to Vasily Golovnin’s exploration of the Pacific. On the top..... More
![Item #147 [RESCUE OF UMBERTO NOBILE'S EXPEDITION] Na 'Malygine' v polyarnykh l'dakh: S 5...](/pictures/thumb/147.jpg?v=1475061301)
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
![Item #153 [WRANGEL ISLAND] Na "Litke" k ostrovu Vrangelya. Zapiski uchastnika spasatel'noi...](/pictures/thumb/153.jpg?v=1475072629)
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
![Item #1158 [TIRED, FROZEN, BEATEN - TRAGIC DIARIES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT] Dnevnik kapitana R. Skotta...](/pictures/thumb/1158.jpg?v=1612375426)
Leningrad: Vses. arktich. in-t, 1934. 392 pp., 1 map: ill. 13.8x20.4 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with lettering on the front board and the spine. Near fine. Scarce. Second extended edition. First edition published in 1917. Translated from original English by the Russian and American writer Zinaida Ragozina..... More
![Item #1368 [PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New...](/pictures/thumb/1368.jpg?v=1650378736)
St. Petersburg: Nash svet, 1914. 86 pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the eagle over the mountains: the metaphor of Russian Empire spreading its influence across the region. Minimal restoration of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. The work by the young historian..... More
![Item #536 [HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857,...](/pictures/thumb/536.jpg?v=1542806946)
St. Petersburg-Moscow: M.O. Wolf, 1867. Second corrected edition. [4], iii, 592 pp. Ca. 24,5x18 cm. With a lithographed title page and twenty-three tinted lithographed plates (complete). Contemporary quarter leather with cloth boards; spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title. Mild water stain on the half title, paper slightly..... More
![Item #148 [RESCUE OF UMBERTO NOBILE'S EXPEDITION] Tragediya v ledyanoi pustyne [i.e. The Tragedy...](/pictures/thumb/148.jpg?v=1475062719)
Baku: Izdanie gazety Vyshka, 1928. 32 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. From the series "Cheap worker's library of Vyshka newspaper" (#3). In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the wrappers and spine, damp stain on the front cover, back cover separated from the text block. Otherwise good. Rare provincial edition..... More