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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

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SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin Island – Fort...

[SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin Island – Fort Muravyovsky, Now the Town of Korsakov in Southern Sakhalin]

1859. Ca. 1859. Ca. 54x75 cm. Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured in yellow, red, black, and grey. Extensive text in Japanese on the right and left margins. Fold marks, otherwise a very good plan. Interesting early detailed Japanese plan of the first Russian settlement on Sakhalin..... More

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SIBERIA: KYAKHTA TEA TRADE] [Official Broadside, Titled:] Pravila dlya vodvoreniya v Kyakhtinskoy...

[SIBERIA: KYAKHTA TEA TRADE] [Official Broadside, Titled:] Pravila dlya vodvoreniya v Kyakhtinskoy torgovoy slobode i propuska tuda raznogo roda lyudey [i.e. Rules for the Settlement in the Kyakhta Trade Quarter and Passes for Different Kinds of People]

[St. Petersburg], 19 March 1854. 2 pp. 35x22 cm. Foldmarks, left margin with minor tear after being removed from a stub, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on verso, but overall a very good document. Official rules regulating residence in the Kyakhta trade quarter, a major centre of Russian-Chinese tea trade in..... More

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SOCIALIST CHINA] Novyi Kitai [i.e. New China

[SOCIALIST CHINA] Novyi Kitai [i.e. New China]

Beijing: Izd-vo literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1953. 84 leaves. 27x22,5 cm. In original full-cloth with colored lettering. Rubbed on corners, ink note on front flyleaf, slightly soiled, small tear of one leaf. Otherwise very good. Second, enlarged and revised edition. Rare parade photo book dedicated to socialist China. This..... More

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TURKEY IN ASIA] Karta Aziatskoy Turtsii [i.e. A Map of Turkey in Asia

[TURKEY IN ASIA] Karta Aziatskoy Turtsii [i.e. A Map of Turkey in Asia]

Tbilisi, 1877. Large folding lithographed map ca. 101.5x70cm, dissected into 12 compartments. Title, map scale and date written on a paper label and mounted on the verso of the map. With a lithographed title, legend and administrative divisions in the lower part of the map. Damp stains and a couple..... More

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SIBERIAN PLAGUE] Kratkoye opisaniye Sibirskoy Yazvy, soderzhashcheye predokhranitelnye i...

[SIBERIAN PLAGUE] Kratkoye opisaniye Sibirskoy Yazvy, soderzhashcheye predokhranitelnye i vrachevatelnye sredstva, v polzy prostogo naroda, vybrannoye iz osnovatelnykh primechaniy i opytov v meditsinskuyu kollegiyu prislannykh [i.e. Concise Description of the Siberian Plague, Containing Prevention and Treatment Means, for the Benefit of the Common People, Extracted from the Comprehensive Notes and Experiments Sent to the Medical Collegium]

Andreyevsky, S.S.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of the State Medical Collegium, 1796. [4], 104 pp. Small Octavo. Contemporary pinkish stiff card covers with an ink written title on the spine. 19th century ink library number on the title page, cover rubbed and soiled, spine with some chipping on top and bottom, overall a...... More

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SIBERIA: IRKUTSK & KYAKHTA] Zapiski i zamechaniya o Sibiri, sochineniye …y ….oy, s...

[SIBERIA: IRKUTSK & KYAKHTA] Zapiski i zamechaniya o Sibiri, sochineniye …y ….oy, s prilozhenyem starinnykh russkikh pesen [i.e. Notes and Remarks about Siberia, a Work by … …, with a Supplement of Ancient Russian Songs]

[Avdeyeva, E.A.]

Moscow: Typ. of Nikolay Stepanov, 1837. 156 pp. Octavo. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt lettered title on the spine, gilt tooled exlibris of count Alexander Sheremetyev on the bottom of the spine. Ink stamp of a later owner D.B. Astradantsev on the front pastedown endpaper. Remnants of a removed paper..... More

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UYGHUR DICTIONARY] Uigursko-russky slovar’ [i.e. Uyghur-Russian Dictionary]. N. A. Baskakov, V....

[UYGHUR DICTIONARY] Uigursko-russky slovar’ [i.e. Uyghur-Russian Dictionary]

Baskakov, N.A., Nasilov, V.M.

Moscow: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykh i nats. slovarei, 1939. 384 pp. 20x14 cm. In publisher’s red cloth with embossing. Very good. First edition. One of 3000 copies. Rare. This dictionary includes about 12,000 Uyghur words with the application of the Arabic key and grammar of the Uyghur language. The..... More

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WALL MAP OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIAN FAR EAST] [Unusual Custom-Made Set of Sixteen Original...

[WALL MAP OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIAN FAR EAST] [Unusual Custom-Made Set of Sixteen Original Russian Military Maps, Joined Together and Comprising a Gigantic Lithographed Wall Map of the Countries Bordering Eastern Siberia and Russian Far East, Including China, Mongolia, Tibet, Korea, and Taiwan, Titled:] Karta Yuzhnoy Pogranichnoy Polosy Aziatskoy Rossii [i.e. Map of the Southern Border Region of Asiatic Russia]

[Bolshev, A.A.]

[St. Petersburg]: Military Topographical Department of the General Staff, 1895-1899. Large folding colour lithographed map ca. 207,5x231 cm, consisting of 16 joined sheets, linen backed. Upper leaves with lithographed titles and numbers on the upper margins, lower leaves with lithographed dates and names of compilers on the lower margins. Several..... More

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Iaponia [i.e. Japan] / edited by Mácza János. B. Denike

Iaponia [i.e. Japan] / edited by Mácza János

Denike, B.

Moscow: izdatelstvo vsesoy uznoy akademii arkhitektury, 1935. 104 pp. 30x23 cm. One of 3100 copies. Original illustrated cloth binding. Small piece of the title page is missing from the top. Otherwise very good. First edition. Book design by Georg Fischer. The photobook is dedicated to architecture of Japan. The..... More

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FIRST VIEW OF LHASA] Opisanie Tibeta v Nyneshnem Yego Sostoyanii. S Kartoyu Dorogi iz Chen-du do...

[FIRST VIEW OF LHASA] Opisanie Tibeta v Nyneshnem Yego Sostoyanii. S Kartoyu Dorogi iz Chen-du do Khlassy Perevod s Kitaiskago [i.e. Description of Tibet in its Modern State. With a Map of the Road from Chen-du to Lhassa. Translated from Chinese]

[Iakinf/ Bichurin, N.Y.]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Imperial Foundling Home, 1828. xvi, 223, [2] pp. Octavo. With a large folding engraved map of Tibet and a hand coloured folding copper engraved view of Lhasa. Later quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt stamped ornaments and a green label with gilt..... More

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CHINA] [Presentation Copy]: Kitaitsy i Ikh Tsivilizatsiya. S Prilozheniyem Karty Kitaya, Yaponii...

[CHINA] [Presentation Copy]: Kitaitsy i Ikh Tsivilizatsiya. S Prilozheniyem Karty Kitaya, Yaponii i Korei [i.e. Chinese and Their Civilization. With a Map of China, Japan & Korea]

Korostovets, I.Y.

St. Petersburg: Bookshop of M.M. Lederle, [1896]. iv, viii, 625, [2], iii pp. Octavo. With a folding lithographed map at rear. Brown ink author’s presentation inscription in Russian on the title page: “To deeply respected Konstantin Karlovich Goeltzke from the author. I. Korostovets. Lissabon, 4/16 November 96.” Period style half..... More

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RUSSIAN MISSION TO THE KHANATE OF BUKHARA] Puteshestviye v Bukharu Russkoy Missii v 1870 godu s...

[RUSSIAN MISSION TO THE KHANATE OF BUKHARA] Puteshestviye v Bukharu Russkoy Missii v 1870 godu s Marshrutom on Tashkenta do Bukhary [i.e. A Voyage of the Russian Mission to Bukhara in 1870 with the Route from Tashkent to Bukhara].

Kostenko, L.F.

St. Petersburg: Bortnevsky, 1871. 107, [2] pp. 19,5x13 cm. With a folding lithographed map at rear. Period style dark green quarter sheep with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Front original publisher’s wrapper bound in. Wrapper with minor tears neatly repaired, paper slightly age toned..... More

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CHINA] Puteshestviye v Kitai. Chast’ 1-2 [i.e. Travel to China. In 2 parts]. E. P. Kovalevsky

[CHINA] Puteshestviye v Kitai. Chast’ 1-2 [i.e. Travel to China. In 2 parts].

Kovalevsky, E.P.

St. Petersburg: tip. Korolyeva i Ko. 1853. P.1: [4], IV, 199 pp., 2 ill.; P.2: [4], IV, 213 pp., 2 ill. Octavo. Contemporary bright red quarter leather with cloth boards, gilt-lettering and gilt decorations on the spine and decorative frames in blind on boards. Restorations of spine, binding is mildly..... More

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AMUR RIVER: EARLY VLADIVOSTOK IMPRINT] Kratkiy Russko-Orochencky slovar’ s grammaticheskoy...

[AMUR RIVER: EARLY VLADIVOSTOK IMPRINT] Kratkiy Russko-Orochencky slovar’ s grammaticheskoy zametkoy. Narechiye basseina reki Tumnin, vpadayushchey v Tatarskiy proliv, severneye Imperatorskoy Gavani [i.e. Concise Russian-Oroch Dictionary with Grammatical Notes. A Language of the Tumnin River Basin, Flowing into the Strait of Tartary, North of the Emperor’s Harbour]

Leontovich, S.G.

[An offprint from: Proceedings of the Society of Research of the Amur Region, a Branch of the Amur Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Vol. 5, issue 2]. Vladivostok: Typ. of N.V. Remezov, 1896. 147 pp., including three folding leaves. 16,5x11,5 cm. Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Front wrapper with..... More

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AMUR RIVER: NEW RUSSIAN TERRITORIES] Na Vostoke: Poezdka na Amur (v 1860-1861 godakh). Dorozhnye...

[AMUR RIVER: NEW RUSSIAN TERRITORIES] Na Vostoke: Poezdka na Amur (v 1860-1861 godakh). Dorozhnye zametki i vospominaniia [i.e. On the East: A Travel to Amur in 1860-1861. Notes and Memoirs]

Maksimov, S.V.

St. Petersburg: Obschestvennaya Polza, 1864. [4], 588 pp. Octavo. Contemporary gilt tooled quarter leather with blind stamped brown cloth boards. Head and tail of spine with minor chips, first few pages with some mild water staining of upper outer corner of blank margin of pages, mild foxing throughout and a...... More

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GREAT SIBERIAN ROUTE & TRAVEL TO CHINESE BORDER] Pisma o Vostochnoi Sibiri [i.e. Letters about...

[GREAT SIBERIAN ROUTE & TRAVEL TO CHINESE BORDER] Pisma o Vostochnoi Sibiri [i.e. Letters about Eastern Siberia]

Martos, A.I.

Moscow: University Typ. 1827. [2], 291 pp. 19x12 cm. With a copper engraved portrait frontispiece and five copper engraved plates (one folding). Period dark green quarter sheep with patterned papered boards, faded gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title on the spine. Bookplate of G.E. Stakelberg on the front pastedown..... More

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RUSSIAN TRADE IN CENTRAL ASIA] Ocherki Torgovli Rossi v Sredney Azii [i.e. Sketches on...

[RUSSIAN TRADE IN CENTRAL ASIA] Ocherki Torgovli Rossi v Sredney Azii [i.e. Sketches on the Russian Trade in Central Asia]

Nebolsin, P.I.

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1855. [6], 442, [6], [1 - errata] pp. 25,5x16 cm. With a folding lithographed map at rear. Original green publisher’s printed wrappers. First few leaves with minor foxing, wrappers with minor tears, but overall a very good uncut copy in very original condition... More

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TRIP TO THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS AND GEORGIA] Zapiski vo vremya poyezdki iz Astrakhani na Kavkaz i...

[TRIP TO THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS AND GEORGIA] Zapiski vo vremya poyezdki iz Astrakhani na Kavkaz i v Gruziyu v 1827 godu [i.e. Notes during the Trip from Astrakhan to the Caucasus and Georgia in 1827]

Nefedyev, N.A.

Moscow: Typ. of S. Selivanovsky, 1829. [4], 190 pp. 12mo. With a copper engraved frontispiece. Later 19th century quarter leather with brown cloth boards. Text with mild water stains and foxing, occasional pencil markings and notes in Georgian, binding rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare..... More

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CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China]. Gyokuzan Yusho Okada,...

[CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China]

Okada, Gyokuzan Yusho; Oka, Yugaku Bunki & Ohara, Toya Minsei

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

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KOREA] Ocherki Korei, sostavleno po zapiskam M.A. Podzhio, s prilozheniyem karty poluostrova...

[KOREA] Ocherki Korei, sostavleno po zapiskam M.A. Podzhio, s prilozheniyem karty poluostrova Korei [i.e. Sketches of Korea, Compiled from the Notes of M.A. Podzhio, with a Supplement of a Map of the Korean Peninsula]

Podzhio, M.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of E. Yevdokimov, 1892. xvi, 391 pp. Octavo. With a folding lithographed map at rear. Contemporary brown quarter leather with cloth boards and gilt lettered title on the spine. Previous owners’ inscriptions on the title page and front free endpaper, library stamps on the front free endpaper..... More

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FAR EAST] Puteshestviye v Ussuriyskom Kraye, 1867-1869 gg. S kartoy Ussuriyskogo Kraya [i.e....

[FAR EAST] Puteshestviye v Ussuriyskom Kraye, 1867-1869 gg. S kartoy Ussuriyskogo Kraya [i.e. Travels in the Ussuri Region, 1867-1869, with a Map of the Ussuri Region, by N. Przhevalsky, Member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society]

Przhevalsky, N.M.

St. Petersburg: Izdaniye avtora, 1870. [4], ii, iii, 297, [2], 58, [1] pp. Octavo. With a folding chromolithographed map at rear. Modern (period style) half calf with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Margins slightly cut, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of..... More

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CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from Overseas]....

[CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from Overseas]

Suimu Chijin [Crazy Man in a Drunken Sleep]

[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

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CHINA] Rezultaty Poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province...

[CHINA] 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 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

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YOKOHAMA PRINT] . [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Most Likely Depicting Felice Beato...

[YOKOHAMA PRINT] . [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Most Likely Depicting Felice Beato Taking a Photo of a European Lady, Titled:] Furansu [i.e. French Photographer]

Utagawa, Yoshikazu

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

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