![Item #1839 [INDONESIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE] [Illustration]. V. Litko](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1839.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699422168)
N.p., [late 1920s]. 18x22 cm. Cardboard, ink. Some foxing and soiling. Signed by the artist. An original illustration for the novel “Amok” written by Belarusian children’s writer Yanka Maur (pseudonym of Ivan Michajłavič Fiodaraŭ; 1883-1971). He is known as one of the founders of Belarusian children’s literature and a...... More
![Item #1809 [KOREA DURING WARTIME] Novaia Koreia [i.e. New Korea] #3 (July) for 1950](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695158708)
Pyongyang: Novaia Koreia, 1950. 64 pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, spine and covers slightly rubbed, ink name of subscriber on front cover. An early issue of the North Korean propaganda magazine “New Korea” released some days after the outbreak of the Korean..... More
![Item #1776 [YOUNG COMMUNIST CHINA] V novom Kitae : Zapiski i risunki khudozhnika [i.e. In New...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1776.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690325762)
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1950. 85, [30] pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 23x18 cm. In original illustrated cardboards and original blank dust wrappers with lettering on spine. Dust jacket with tears and stains, some fragments of edges lost. Slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Signed by author on front flyleaf. First and only..... More
![Item #1775 [MANCHURIAN EMIGRE CULTURE] Po belu svetu [i.e. Around the World]. N. Baikov](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1775.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690325540)
Harbin: Izd. M.V. Zaitseva, 1937. 176 pp.+4 pp. of ads. 19x13,5 cm. In contemporary binding; original illustrated front wrapper preserved. Front wrapper slightly detached from block, some small stains, previous owner’s notes on rear side of front cover, p. 19-20 slightly chipped, otherwise very good. Extremely rare and repressed..... More
![Item #1750 [PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA] A tourist set for visiting the Summer Palace in Beijing](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1750.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688579657)
Pictorial plan. Běijīng Yíhé Yuán – Wànshòu Shān – niǎokàn [i.e. Beijing Summer Imperial Palace – Longevity Mountain – with Bird’s Eye View]. 52,5x76,5 cm. Brochure. Yíhé Yuán = Ikheiuan’ (byvshii Letnii imperatorskii dvorets) [i.e. Summer Palace]. Beijing, 1954. 7 pp. 22x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In original..... More
![Item #1746 [SINO-JAPANESE WAR] Map. Kitai [i.e. China](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1746.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688578876)
[Moscow]: Gos. izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1939. 70x106 cm. Tears of edges, handwritten title on rear side, otherwise very good. Mostly in Russian. A folding map of China with Russian supplementing texts. They outline the country’s geography, population, international relations, agriculture, industry, transport and economy. The last and the largest..... More
![Item #1742 [MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS] Karta Severnoi Man’chzhurii [i.e. Map of North Manchuria] /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1742.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688578345)
[Harbin]: Izd. Ekonomicheskim biuro KVZHD, 1926. 172x185,5 cm. One folding leaf backed on cloth. Very good, small tears, lower edge chipped, small lower right corner lost. Scale 1:840 000. In Russian. Large folding map displaying northern Chinese territory, its borders with the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People’s Republic..... More
![Item #1738 [FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688577378)
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
![Item #1428 [SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA] Bol’shevikam pustyni i vesny: Stikhi [i.e. To Bolsheviks of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1428.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660738286)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. 70, [1] pp. 15х12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, pencil signature on half-title, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition of first collection. In all, the author published two collections under one title: the second book came out in 1933, later..... More
![Item #1368 [PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1368.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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 #1176 [CENTRAL ASIAN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitekturnyi ornament Srednei Azii [i.e. Architectural...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1176.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1612380188)
Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1939. 228 pp.: ill. 26,5x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the spine and the front cover. Covers soiled and slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 2500 copies. Scarce. A valuable..... More
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604431141)
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
![Item #1071 [SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1071.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601556572)
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