![Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants](/pictures/thumb/685.png?v=1559602821)
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 about Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China
![CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver...](/pictures/thumb/543.jpg?v=1542900622)
Ca. 1912-1913. 33,5x23,5 cm. 36 album leaves (14 blank). With 86 original gelatin silver prints from ca. 12x17 cm to ca. 8x11 cm. Most images numbered in negative, all with period manuscript ink captions in German on the mounts, some also dated in ink. Later navy-blue half morocco with moire... More about CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver...
![CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from...](/pictures/thumb/541.jpg?v=1542900145)
6-21 November [1903]. 32 leaves. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style half morocco album with cloth boards, spine... More about CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from...
![RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates....](/pictures/thumb/539.jpg?v=1542899172)
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 about RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates....
![FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot...](/pictures/thumb/538.jpg?v=1542896544)
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 about FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot...
![CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art](/pictures/thumb/537.jpg?v=1542807313)
Leningrad: Gosudartsvennyi Ermitazh, 1934. [2], 70, [2], [2] pp.: ill., 15 pl. 17x12 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers detached from the text block, small tears of the spine and wrappers rubbed in general, pen marks on the front cover and t.p. Otherwise a good and internally clean copy... More about CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art
![HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859...](/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 about HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858,...
![CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...](/pictures/thumb/534.jpg?v=1542806209)
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 about CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...
![CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from Overseas]....](/pictures/thumb/530.jpg?v=1542803470)
[Japan]: Gyoyo-do, Ansei 2 [1855]. Second, but first illustrated edition. 5 vols. T.p., 19; 24; 23; 19; 19 double-ply leaves; with 20 double-page woodblock illustrations in text. 26x18 cm. Text and illustrations within single border, main text ten vertical lines. Original Japanese fukuro toji bindings: brownish paper covers with leaves... More about CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from Overseas
![CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel...](/pictures/thumb/398.jpg?v=1519383242)
Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890. 2 vols. 16x23 cm (oblong large octavo). Vol. 1: t.p., 28 leaves, with 16 double-page and 17 singlepage woodblock illustrations in text.; Vol. 2: 28 leaves, with 19 doublepage and 13 single-page woodblock illustrations in text. Text and illustrations within single border. Original Japanese fukuro toji... More about CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel...
![CHINA] Rezultaty Poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province...](/pictures/thumb/321.jpg?v=1542898141)
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 wrappers. Very good. Wrappers with very minor chipping on extremities. First and only edition. Very rare. The account of a travel to Harbin across... More about CHINA] Rezultaty Poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province...
![GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu,...](/pictures/thumb/306.jpg?v=1505817090)
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 about GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu,...
![HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From...](/pictures/thumb/225.jpg?v=1542898512)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867. [2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library)... More about HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e....
![CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story. Vagan Totovents](/pictures/thumb/83.jpg?v=1450188641)
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 about CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story