Ca. 1880s. Oblong Folio ca. 25x33 cm. 49 stiff card leaves (12 blank). With 124 mounted albumen prints, including 36 larger photographs, from 17,5x23 cm to 15x21,5 cm; the rest are from 11x18 cm to 7x10,5 cm. The majority captioned in French in period manuscript black ink on the mounts... More about AFRICA - ALGERIA - TLEMCEN] [Album with 124 Original Albumen Photographs, Taken by a Cavalry man...

Cairo: El-Felah Gazetesi Typ. 1894. 13, 11, 769 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 28x19,5 cm. With eight lithographed plates (two folding) and three large folding lithographed maps at rear. Text in Ottoman Turkish, the book includes table of contents, errata pages, the panegyric by Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, and the... More about AFRICA GUIDE BOOK] Afrika Delili [i.e. The Guide on Africa

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 about ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Tarih-İ İskender Bin Filipos [i.e. A History of Alexander the Great, the...

Yokohama: Izumiya Ichibei, 1861. Coloured woodblock print. 37x24,5 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp ‘Issen Yoshikazu ga’, title and date on the right margin. Paper slightly age toned and soiled on extremities, otherwise a very good print. The print depicts ‘‘a photographer wearing western clothing adjusting a camera beneath a...... More about YOKOHAMA PRINT] . [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Most Likely Depicting Felice Beato...

Osaka: 1806. Osaka: Kawachiya Kichibei et al., Bunka 3 [1806]. 6 vols. 26x18 cm. With ca. 250 woodcut views and maps, of which approx. 170 are double-page. Original publisher’s orange wrappers each with printed paper title labels and housed in a later cloth slip case. Wrappers with some mild signs... More about CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China

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

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

Tver': Oktiabr, 1923. 48, [2] pp.: ill. In original wrappers with portrait. Very good, extremities chipped, generally slightly rubbed. First and only edition. One of 1500 copies. Very rare. The book design by G.I. Noskov, the local Tver’ artist, who attempted to follow some of leftist typescript designs... More about VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD] Meyerhold. Sbornik. K 20-letiyu rezhisserskoy i 25-letiyu akterskoy...

Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1945. 131, [1] pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tiny tears of outer edges of extended yapped wrappers. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The guide book includes thorough description of all 26 halls with historic details on the side. Even more valuable are black... More about LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada. Ocherk-putevoditel’...

St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, occasional foxing, with later spine and back cover. Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Russian Language of Academy of... More about FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh...

Sevastopol: tip. N.A. Kovaleva, 1910. [3], 60 pp.: diagr. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original wrappers. Lacking back wrapper and spine, loose, tears and owner’s signature on the front wrapper, foxing and stains on the title page with small holes on the margin. First and only Russian translation (original was published... More about CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby...

[4], IV, 134 pp., 2 pl. including 29 ill. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Binding is rubbed. Extremely rare textbook, one of the first examples of the medical book written by a female doctor Lyubov Izmailova from Kutaisi (Georgia). The textbook was created for the female schools. The book has... More about FEMALE DOCTOR] Uchebnik gigieny, anatomii, fiziologii [i.e. The Textbook on Hygiene, Anatomy and...

Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 164 pp.: port. 20x14 cm. In original blue cloth with gilt title, blind stamping of the imprint and embossed image on the front board. Near fine, slightly bumped on the corners and spine, couple of erased pencil markings on endpapers, bookshop’s stamp on p.51. Twenty five... More about SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of Socialism