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[ARCTIC - KOLA PENINSULA – MINING] [Album with Seventy-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Khibinogorsk Township (Kirovsk since 1934) and the “Apatit” Mining Plant in the Modern-Day Murmansk Oblast of Russia, with the Presentation Inscription from the “Apatit’s” First Director Vasily Kondrikov (Executed during the Great Purges in 1937) to Influential Soviet Communist Party Functionary Nikolay Shvernik]

1931. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29x41,5 cm). 13 card stock leaves. With 78 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including three panoramas from ca. 9,5x58,5 cm (3 ¾ x 23 in) to ca. 10x43 cm (4x17 in); the rest are ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in). One panorama signed..... More

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[WHALING IN THE SOVIET UNION] «Slava»: Zapiski sovetskikh kitoboyev [i.e. “Fame”: Notes of Soviet Whalers]

Odessa: Odes. obl. izd-vo, 1952. 320 pp.: ill. 20.5x13.3cm. In original publisher’s illustrated cardboards. Stamp of the library of the whaling ship Slava (the library was located at the vessel and was intended for Soviet whalers exclusively) and inventory number on the title-page, p.17, and p. 320. Spine and edges..... More

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[ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]

Barsukov, I.P.

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

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[SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]

Belyavsky, F.I.

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

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[SEAL BREEDING] Kotkovoe khoziaystvo [i.e. The Northern Fur Seal Breeding]

Boytsov, L.

Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, 1934. 195 pp. 20x14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Fine condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. A very interesting and unique in its kind publication on the northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus). The title of the book suggests that the content is..... More

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[FIRST NORTHERN AIR EXPEDITIONS] Puti Severa. (Severnyye vozdushnyye ekspeditsii 1927 i 1928 gg. Ostrov Vrangelya i pervyy Leninskiy reys) [i.e. Ways of the North. (Northern Air Expeditions of 1927 and 1928. Wrangel Island and the First Lena Flight)]

Krasinsky, G.

Moscow: Izd-vo Osoaviakhim, 1929. 160 pp.: ill. 21,8x15,4 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Open tears to the spine, slight wear, several pages loose. Otherwise in a very good condition. First edition. Scarce. Black-and-white illustrations in text. THIS RARE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OFFERS A VIVID INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST AIR..... More

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[ARCTIC: NORTHEAST PASSAGE] Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie raznikh puteshestvii po severnim moryam… [i.e. Lomonosov’s Project and Chichagov’s Expedition; with: A Brief Description of Various Voyages in the Northern Seas and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the East Indies/ Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry]

[Lomonosov, M.V.]

St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1854. Second enlarged edition. [4], c, 150 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with marbled papered boards, new endpapers. Papers lightly age toned, barely visible water stain on several leaves at end of text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book... More

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[RESCUE OF UMBERTO NOBILE'S EXPEDITION] Na 'Malygine' v polyarnykh l'dakh: S 5 fotosnimkami i kartoi [i.e. On the 'Malygin' in Polar Ice: With 5 Photos and Map]

Loris-Melikov, M.A.

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

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[SIBERIA & NORTH PACIFIC] Petr Simon Pallas, Yego Zhizn, Uchyonye Trudy i Puteshestviya [i.e. Peter Simon Pallas, His Life, Scientific Work and Travels]

Marakuev, V.N.

Moscow: Typ. of A.A. Torletsky, 1877. ix, 214 pp. Large Octavo. With a woodcut portrait frontispiece. Period dark green quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; gilt-lettered title on the spine. Several markings of a Russian bookshop on the rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. First and only..... More

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[WRANGEL ISLAND] Na "Litke" k ostrovu Vrangelya. Zapiski uchastnika spasatel'noi ekspiditsii [i.e. On 'Litke' to Wrangel Island. Memoirs of the member of the rescue team]

Rikhter, Z.V.

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

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[TIRED, FROZEN, BEATEN - TRAGIC DIARIES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT] Dnevnik kapitana R. Skotta [i.e. Diary of Captain R. Scott]

Scott, R.

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

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[A PLAY ABOUT THE ADVENTURES OF CHELYUSKINTSY WRITTEN BY THE MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION] Ne sdadimsya: Narodno-geroich. predstavleniye v 4 d. i 66 kart [i.e. We will not Surrender: Folk Heroic Performance in 4 Acts and 66 Episodes]

Semenov, S.

Leningrad: Bol’shoy dramatich. teatr im. M. Gor’kogo, 1935. 40 pp., 1 ill.: ill. 20x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, small tears of the spine and covers. Very rare. First edition. One of 3,250 copies. With 14 illustrations (1 color). An interesting work dedicated to the production of..... More

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[RESCUE OF UMBERTO NOBILE'S EXPEDITION] Tragediya v ledyanoi pustyne [i.e. The Tragedy in Ice Desert]

Yampol'sky (Severny), B.S.

1928: Izdanie gazety Vyshka, Baku. 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..... More

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