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ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet...

[ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet Tourist Trips to Lake Teletskoye and Mount Belukha in the Altai Mountains, Organized by the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions]

Ca. 1931. Oblong Folio album ca. 26,5x35 cm (10 ¼ x 13 ¾ in). 15 card stock leaves. With 54 mounted original gelatin silver prints including five large photos from ca. 17,5x23 cm (7x9 in) to ca. 13x17 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), the rest of the photos are..... More

Price: $2,250.00

ASIA - AZERBAIJAN - BAKU] [Collection of Seventeen Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs...

[ASIA - AZERBAIJAN - BAKU] [Collection of Seventeen Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the Construction on Cape Bailov/Bayil in Baku]

Ca. 1910s. Seventeen loose gelatin silver photographs, each ca. 17x23 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in). Three photos with pencil captions in Russian on verso. One photo with a tear on the corner neatly repaired; overall a very good collection of interesting strong images. Rare original photographs of..... More

Price: $1,750.00

ASIA - BUKHARA] [Collection of Fourteen Real Photo Postcards and One Gelatin Silver Photo of the...

[ASIA - BUKHARA] [Collection of Fourteen Real Photo Postcards and One Gelatin Silver Photo of the Old Town of Bukhara in the Early Soviet Era]

Ca. 1930s. Fourteen loose real photo postcards ca.8x13 cm (3 ¼ x 5 in), one original gelatin silver photo ca. 8,5x12,5 cm (3 ½ x 5 in), all with pencil captions in Russian on versos. Overall a very good collection of strong images. Interesting collection of Soviet real photo..... More

Price: $850.00

CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...

[CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching the Landing Site at Pehtang/Beitang, and Group Portraits of the Officers of the British 31st Regiment of Foot who took Part in the Battle and were Stationed in Tientsin in 1861-62]

Ca. 1860-1862. 40x29 cm. With three original albumen photos from ca. 13x18,5 cm to ca. 5,5x8,5 cm, one pencil drawing ca. 11,5x28,5 cm, and two watercolour plans, ca. 24,5x38 cm and ca. 21x23 cm, mounted on period album leaves. All items but the last plan with period ink captions on..... More

Price: $5,250.00

IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i arkheologii:...

[IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i arkheologii: Doklady. Leningrad. Sent. 1935 [i.e. III International Congress of Iranian Art and Archeology: Reports. Leningrad. September. 1935]

Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More

Price: $750.00

RARE EARLY DRAWINGS OF SOVIET TURKMENISTAN] [Collection of Twenty-One Pencil Drawings of...

[RARE EARLY DRAWINGS OF SOVIET TURKMENISTAN] [Collection of Twenty-One Pencil Drawings of Ashgabat and Merv in Soviet Turkmenistan]

September 1928. Twenty-one loose pencil drawings (two slightly coloured), including nineteen large ones ca. 18x27 cm (7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in), and two smaller ones, ca. 13,5x18 cm (5 ¼ x 7 in). All but four drawings with period pencil captions on recto or verso; ten additionally dated September..... More

Price: $2,250.00

RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates....

[RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates. Far Eastern Digest. First book]

Shanghai: Lit-khud. obiedinenie “Vostok" 1934. 1 front., 12 ads, [4], 206 pp.: ill., 3 pl. 26x19,2 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Very good. Loss of small fragments of the spine, staples with rust, a couple of pages a slightly loose. Owner’s ink stamp on t.p. and p.17. First..... More

Price: $1,500.00

RUSSIAN CHINESE BORDER TOWN - BLAGOVESHCHENSK] [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver...

[RUSSIAN CHINESE BORDER TOWN - BLAGOVESHCHENSK] [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River, Showing Major Trading Houses and Shops on the Bolshaya Street, Girls’ School, Cathedrals and Churches (Demolished in Soviet Time), the Triumphal Arch, Customs House and Steamers on the Amur River, Chinese Villages on the Other Bank, Chinese workers, Russian Peasants, and Others]

Ca. 1910s. Ca. 26x34,5 cm. Twelve album leaves. Ninety-six mounted gelatin silver prints, each ca. 7x10 cm. No captions. Period brown quarter faux leather album with paper boards, rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped. Several images slightly faded, but overall a very good album. Interesting album of rare photos..... More

Price: $2,250.00

SAKHALIN] [Original Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Showing the Delegation of Count...

[SAKHALIN] [Original Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Showing the Delegation of Count Muravyov-Amursky Coming to Yokohama in August 1859,Titled:] Rossia-jin Joriku Gyoretsu Ongaku no Zu [i.e. Russians Landing and Marching]

Yokohama: 1859. Ukiyo-e woodblock print ca. 19,5x26,5 cm. With a printed title in the right upper corner and dense printed text on the upper margin. Paper slightly age toned, four small worm holes on the right margin, but overall a very good copy of this very rare print. Rare..... More

Price: $3,250.00

SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e. Soviets in China....

[SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e. Soviets in China. A Collection of Materials and Documents]

Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel’stvo, 1933. V, [2], 520, [4] pp., 6 folding maps. 23x16 cm. In original red cloth with silver plate around embossed blind lettering in Chinese on the front cover; the same design of lettering in Russian printed on the spine. No dust wrappers. Some soiling on binding, otherwise..... More

Price: $550.00
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Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants

Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]

Baltermants, Dmitrii

Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More

Price: $1,000.00

FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe:...

[FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]

Cherkasov, A.A.

St. Petersburg: S.V. Zvonaryov, 1867. [4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy..... More

Price: $2,500.00

FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot...

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

[Lange, Lorenz]

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

Price: $5,250.00

FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh,...

[FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh, SevernykhKhaldeyakh [i.e. A Research of the Kurds and their Ancestors, Northern Chaldeans]

Lerch, P.I.

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856-1858. 3 vols. bound together. Vii, 121, [1]; vii, 139, [1- errata]; [6], xxxvii, 113, [1] pp. 24x16 cm. Period style green half morocco. Paper slightly age toned, a couple of mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy. First..... More

Price: $3,250.00

LIBERALIZATION OF WOMEN IN EASTERN REPUBLICS] Oktiabr’ i zhenshchina Vostoka [i.e. The October...

[LIBERALIZATION OF WOMEN IN EASTERN REPUBLICS] Oktiabr’ i zhenshchina Vostoka [i.e. The October and a Woman of the East]

Nukhrat, A.

Moscow: Partizdat, 1932. 56 pp.: ill. 20x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good, some foxing, red pencil marks. Second edition. Constructivist cover design features three pictures of socialist women: without veils, working and smiling. The book outlines socialist methods to improve the everyday life of Oriental women and summarizes..... More

Price: $950.00
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GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu,...

[GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

[Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881. [With]: Pyasetsky, P.Y. Neudachnaya ekspeditsiya v Kitai 1874-1875 gg. V otvet na xashchitu g. Sosnovskogo po povodu knigi ‘‘Puteshestvie v Kitai’’ [i.e. Unsuccessful expedition to China. In Reply to the Defense of Mr. Sosnovsky about the book ‘‘Travel across China’’]. Three volumes..... More

Price: $4,500.00

ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany...

[ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany Tian-Shania, Sovershennye po Porucheniu Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [i.e. Travels Across Turkestan and Survey of the Mountainous Country of Tian-Shan, Undertaken on the Assignment of Russian Geographical Society].

Severtsov, N.A.

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

Price: $3,250.00

CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story. Vagan Totovents

[CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story

Totovents, Vagan

Erevan: MOPR press, 1929. 12 pp. 18x13 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Good, minor tear of the spine, private library’s stamp on the cover. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 3000 copies. In Armenian. The book was printed in Armenia by the International Society of Aif for Revolutionaries..... More

Price: $350.00

CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] Rezultaty poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a...

[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] Rezultaty poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province of Hulan-Chen]

Tsererin, A.P.

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

Price: $950.00

HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859...

[HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [i.e. Sketches in Pen and Pencil from the Circumnavigation in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860]

Vysheslavtsev, A.V.

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

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