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Item #1354 [MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - EGYPT & NUBIA] [Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early...

[MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD - EGYPT & NUBIA] [Rare Collection of Twenty-Seven Early Original Watercolour Views of the Nile, Taken During a Cruise in Winter 1864-1865 and Showing the Ancient Sites and Cliffs of Upper Egypt and Nubia, and the Second Cataract]

November 1864 - February 1865. Twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, including one three-part panorama ca. 13x108,5 cm (5 x 42 ¾ in), three two-part panoramas ca. 13x72,5 cm (5 x 28 ½ in), seven panoramas ca. 13x36 cm (5 ¼ x 14 ¼ in), and ten large watercolours ca. 26x36..... More

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Item #701 [NEW ZEALAND] Novaya Zelandiya i Okeania, ili Ostrova Yuzhnogo Moria [i.e. New Zealand...

[NEW ZEALAND] Novaya Zelandiya i Okeania, ili Ostrova Yuzhnogo Moria [i.e. New Zealand and Oceania, or the Islands of the South Sea].

St. Petersburg-Moscow: Obschestvennaya polza, 1874. 638 pp., ill., 2 folding maps. Modern half-leather binding. Uncut. Front wrapper is preserved in the binding. Illustrated throughout with the steel engravings (in text, full-page and double-page). First book in Russian dedicated to New Zealand. The Russian translation of the book ‘Ozeanien..... More

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Item #11 [ON THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP IN THE 19TH CENTURY] Opisaniye priema sdelannogo...

[ON THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP IN THE 19TH CENTURY] Opisaniye priema sdelannogo 5-go avgusta 1866 goda blagorodnym sobraniyem predstaviteliu Severo-Amerikanskogo kongresa mister Foksu [i.e. Description of the reception given to the representative of the North American Congress Mr. Fox by the Assembly of the Nobility on the 5th August 1866]

St. Petersburg: A.A. Kraevskiy, 1866. 8 pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Fine copy with owner's stamp on the front cover and shop's stamp on the back cover, some soiling to the covers and very small tear to the front cover. Very rare. After the Russian tsar, Alexander II, narrowly..... More

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Item #408 [OTTOMAN - IRANIAN BORDER] [Large Folding Lithographed Map, Titled:] Map of the...

[OTTOMAN - IRANIAN BORDER] [Large Folding Lithographed Map, Titled:] Map of the Ottoman-Iranian border [Compiled] by the Special Border Commission. 1325 R.

Istanbul: Harbiye Nezareti, 1909. Large folding lithographed map ca. 159,5x54,5 cm, dissected into 24 compartments and linen backed, borders outlined in colour. With a lithographed title, legend, seals and signatures of the Ottoman Border Commission in the right lower corner. Paper slightly age toned, minor small tears or chipping on..... More

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Item #1189 [PACIFIC – JAPAN & CRIMEAN WAR] [An Issue of the Official Magazine of the Russian...

[PACIFIC – JAPAN & CRIMEAN WAR] [An Issue of the Official Magazine of the Russian Navy “Morskoy Sbornik” Talking about the Voyage of Frigates “Pallada” and “Diana” to Japan and South-East Asia, Admiral Putyatin’s Diplomatic Mission and the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with Japan; the Latest News from the Crimean War Pacific Theatre, the Escape of the Russian Squadron under Command of Admiral Zavoyko from the British Ships in the Strait of Tartary, Description of Nagasaki Port etc.]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Vol. XX, No. 1. January. Large Octavo (ca. 25,5x17 cm). [2], iv, lxiv, 64, 218, 80, 32, 25 pp. With two chromolithographed plates and two lithographed maps (two folding). Original beige publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Old library stamp on verso of the title page..... More

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Item #1183 [Photo Album of the Soviet Zoologist Expedition

[Photo Album of the Soviet Zoologist Expedition]

[Early 1950s]. 127 photos, including 2 panoramas. Size of the album 41,5x30 cm. In contemporary cloth binding. Overall in a very good condition. The album was made by a member of the biological Soviet expedition to southern Kuril islands. The photos are not dated, but judging from the..... More

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Item #86 [RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Podvig, dostoinyi stalinskoi epokhi: Fotoseriya / Sost. V....

[RODCHENKO AND STEPANOVA] Podvig, dostoinyi stalinskoi epokhi: Fotoseriya / Sost. V. Kazulin [i.e. Feat Worthy of Stalin Era: Photo Series / Compiled by V. Kazulin]

Moscow: Soyuzfoto; Fotokhudozhnik, 1938. [1], 41 pp.: ill. 28x20 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. In original cardboard folder. Folder is restored. One flap of the folder is replaced by new, two other flaps have been reattached. The spine is backed and the case has been cleaned up. Pages have few..... More

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Item #1190 [RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY - CHARTER] Pod Vysochayshim Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva...

[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY - CHARTER] Pod Vysochayshim Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva Pokrovitelstvom Rossiisko-Amerikanskoy Kompanii Akt i Vyshochaishe Darovannye Onoi Kompanii Pravila s Priobshcheniyem Prilichnykh k Onomy Uzakoneniy [i.e. The Act of the Russian American Company [Which Stays] under the Highest Protection of His Imperial Majesty, and the Rules of this Company, with the Supplement of the Accompanying Laws]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1802. [2 – t.p.], 58 pp. 34x20,5 cm. Original period marbled paper wrappers. Wrappers and spine slightly rubbed on extremities, but overall a very good copy in very original condition. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with no paper copies..... More

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Item #392 [RUSSIAN CHINESE BORDER TOWN - BLAGOVESHCHENSK] [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin...

[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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Item #23 [RUSSIAN EXPLORATION OF THE AMUR RIVER] Istoriya reki Amura, sostavlennaya iz...

[RUSSIAN EXPLORATION OF THE AMUR RIVER] Istoriya reki Amura, sostavlennaya iz obnarodovannykh istochnikov. S planom reki Amura [i.e. History of the Amur River Compiled from the Published Sources. With a Plan of the Amur River]

St. Petersburg: Tip. E. Veimara, 1859. 148 pp. Small 8vo. With a large folding lithographed map. Contemporary Russian quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards and blind stamped title on the spine. Owners’ ink and pencil notes on the first free endpaper dated 1860 and 1910; owner’s ink inscription dated..... More

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Item #227 [SAKHALIN] Karta Yakutskoy, Amurskoy i Primorsky Oblastey [i.e. Map of the Yakutsk,...

[SAKHALIN] Karta Yakutskoy, Amurskoy i Primorsky Oblastey [i.e. Map of the Yakutsk, Amur and the Far East Provinces]

St. Petersburg: Cartographical Establishment of A. Ilyin, 1900. 53x59,5 cm. Chromolithographed map. Very good. Minor tears on folds and one small repaired tear on the left margin. This map shows the Far Eastern provinces of the Russian Empire from the Yablonevy Range and port Ayan in the north to..... More

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Item #396 [SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin...

[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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Item #328 [SIBERIA: KYAKHTA TEA TRADE] [Official Broadside, Titled:] Pravila dlya vodvoreniya v...

[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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Item #1102 [SOVIET ARCTIC] Po sovetskoi Arktike [i.e. Around Soviet Arctic

[SOVIET ARCTIC] Po sovetskoi Arktike [i.e. Around Soviet Arctic]

Moscow: n.p., 1933. 16 pp.: ill. 20x29 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of edges, otherwise very good. Very rare. A brochure supplemented to an early issue of the magazine ‘The USSR on Construction’ (#9 for 1933). It is illustrated throughout with the first photographs of the newly explored Severnaya..... More

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Item #327 [SIBERIAN PLAGUE] Kratkoye opisaniye Sibirskoy Yazvy, soderzhashcheye predokhranitelnye...

[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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Item #329 [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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Item #387 [AINU CUSTOMS] [Extensively Illustrated Manuscript Titled:] Ezo-tö Kikan [i.e. Strange...

[AINU CUSTOMS] [Extensively Illustrated Manuscript Titled:] Ezo-tö Kikan [i.e. Strange Sights on the Island of Ezo (Hokkaido)]

Awagimaru, Hata

Ca. 1860. 48 pp. 26,5x38 cm. With thirty-seven vivid attractive ink and watercolour illustrations of the Ainu and their way of life and eleven pages of Japanese text in black ink, all on thin Japanese paper. Later beige patterned flexible card boards with brown cloth spine. With a centrefold and..... More

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Item #588 [FIRST RUSSIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION DURING WHICH THE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA WAS...

[FIRST RUSSIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION DURING WHICH THE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA WAS DISCOVERED] Dvukratnye Izyskaniya v Yuzhnom Ledovitom Okeane i Plavaniye Vokrug Sveta, v Prodolzheniye 1819, 20 i 21 godov, Sovershennye na Shlyupakh Vostoke i Mirnom pod Nachalstvom Kapitana Bellinsgauzena, Komandira Shlyupa Vostoka. Shlyupom Mirnym Nachalstvoval Leitenant Lazarev. Izdany po Vysochaishemu Poveleniyu [i.e. Double Investigation of the Southern Polar Ocean and the Voyage Around the World in 1819, 20 and 21, Executed on the Sloops Vostok and Mirny under the Rule of Captain Bellingshausen, Commander of Sloop Vostok. Sloop Mirny was under Command of Lieutenant Lazarev. Published on the Highest Order].

Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von (1778-1852). Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1788-1851).

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Ivan Glazunov, 1831. 2 vols. 27x20 cm (text) & 44,5x53,5 cm (atlas). Text: copper engraved title page, two copper engraved dedication leaves, [4], 397, [1]; 326, [1] pp. Atlas: copper engraved title page, copper engraved table of contents, 19 copper engraved maps (including a large folding..... More

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Item #203 [DAGESTAN AND AZERBAIJAN IN THE MIDDLE OF 19th CENTURY] Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i...

[DAGESTAN AND AZERBAIJAN IN THE MIDDLE OF 19th CENTURY] Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkazyu / Puteshestvie po Vostoku. I. [i.e. Travel to Dagestan and the Transcausasia / Travel to the East. I]

Berezin, I.N.

Kazan': University typ. 1849. xv, [2], 339, 149, [28], [2] pp. Octavo. With eight lithographed plans and views (e-catalogues of Russian State and Russian National libraries call for nine plates, but the e-copy from the catalogue of Russian State Library is identical to our copy; a copy from the Warsaw..... More

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Item #533 [WALL MAP OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIAN FAR EAST] [Unusual Custom-Made Set of Sixteen...

[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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Item #403 [RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER CATHERINE THE GREAT] İcmal-i eva’il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya...

[RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER CATHERINE THE GREAT] İcmal-i eva’il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi [i.e. General Overview of the History of the Russian Empire [or] The History of Catherine]

Castéra, Jean Henri & Argyropolous, Iakovos [transl.]

Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1830. Second edition. [9], 225 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 27x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first text page decorated with traditional floral ornaments. Occasional pencil notes in Turkish in text. Contemporary Ottoman green quarter leather, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and..... More

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Item #1037 [FROM ARKHANGELSK TO VLADIVOSTOK] Chetyre tysiachi mil’ na Sibiriakove [i.e. Four...

[FROM ARKHANGELSK TO VLADIVOSTOK] Chetyre tysiachi mil’ na Sibiriakove [i.e. Four Thousand Miles on Sibiriakov]

D’iakonov, M.

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo pisatelei, 1934. 64 pp., 36 ills. 32x28 cm. In original cloth with silver lettering on the spine and stamped image of the ship on the front cover; in original cloth case with mounted illustrations on both sides; illustrated endpapers. Foxing on the covers, tears of the front endpapers..... More

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Item #592 [KOTZEBUE VOYAGE] Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibung neuer...

[KOTZEBUE VOYAGE] Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibung neuer Thierarten, während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegsschlupp Predpriatie in den Jahren 1823-1826 beobachtet von Dr. Friedr. Eschscholtz [i.e. Zoological Atlas, Containing Drawings and Description of New Animals, Observed by Dr. Eschscholtz during the Second Circumnavigation under Command of Fleet Captain Kotzebue on the Russian Imperial Naval Sloop “Predpriyatiye” in 1823-1826. Parts 1-5]

Escholtz, Johann Friedrich

Berlin: G. Reimer, 1829-1833. Complete in five parts; bound together. T.p., iv, 17; t.p., 13; t.p., 18; t.p., 19, t.p., viii, 28 pp. 34x23 cm. With a lithographed portrait frontispiece and twenty-five hand coloured stipple-engraved plates. Contemporary half leather with marbled papered boards and faded gilt lettered title on the..... More

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Item #1199 [ASIA - SAKHALIN] [Historically Important Album with 108 Original Gelatin Silver...

[ASIA - SAKHALIN] [Historically Important Album with 108 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Sakhalin (Pre-Russo-Japanese War), Showing Tsarist Prisons, Executioners and Prisoners, Post Alexandrovsky, Post Korsakovsky, Villages and Settlements in Northern and Southern Sakhalin, Early Oil Enterprises, Japanese Fishing Boats and Fisheries, Japanese Consulate, Nivkh, Ainu, Tungus and Orok People, etc.]

[Fricken, A.A.]

Сa. 1900. Oblong Folio album (ca. 32x41 cm). 24 card stock leaves. With 108 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including one two-part panorama ca. 12x30 cm (4 ½ x 11 ¾ in) and over twenty large photos ca. 16,5x22,5 cm (6 ½ x 8 ¾ in); the rest are from ca..... More

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Item #200 [CRITICS ON THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN 1824] O sostoyanii rossiiskogo flota v 1824 godu....

[CRITICS ON THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN 1824] O sostoyanii rossiiskogo flota v 1824 godu. sochineniye michmana Morekhodova. S rukopisi, naidennoi v nepolnom vide v bumagakh vitse-admirala V.M. Golovnina [i.e. About the State of the Russian Fleet in 1824. A Work by Midshipman the Navigator. From the Incomplete Manuscript Discovered among the Papers of Rear Admiral V.M. Golovnin]

[Golovnin, V.M.]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Naval Ministry, 1861. [4], 100 pp. Octavo. Original grey publisher’s printed wrappers with a decorative ornamental border on the front cover. Ink marking on the title page, ink numbers on verso of the title page and p. 17, wrappers slightly rubbed and soiled, minor foxing..... More

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