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Item #1008 [THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION] V strane purgi : Istoriia...

[THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION] V strane purgi : Istoriia Avstraliiskoi antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii 1911-1914 gg. [i.e. In Land of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]

Mouson, D.

Leningrad: Izd-vo Glavsevmorputi, 1935. VIII, 439 pp.: ill., 1 portrait, 3 folding maps. 22,5x16 cm. In original blue cloth with two mounted illustrations, blind lettering on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. Very good, ink inscription on flyleaf, few stains on p. 178-182... More

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Item #406 [AFRICA GUIDE BOOK] Afrika Delili [i.e. The Guide on Africa]. Mehmed Muhsin

[AFRICA GUIDE BOOK] Afrika Delili [i.e. The Guide on Africa]

Muhsin, Mehmed

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

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Item #602 [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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Item #204 [TRIP TO THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS AND GEORGIA] Zapiski vo vremya poyezdki iz Astrakhani...

[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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Item #310 [EGYPT] Puteshestviye po Yegiptu i Nubii v 1834-1835 g. Avraama Norova. Sluzhashchee...

[EGYPT] Puteshestviye po Yegiptu i Nubii v 1834-1835 g. Avraama Norova. Sluzhashchee Vvedeniyem k Puteshestviyu po Svyatoi Zemle [i.e. Travel to Egypt and Nubia in 1834-35, Serving as an Introduction to the Travel to the Holy Land]

Norov, A.S.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of 3rd Department of His Majesty’s Office, 1853. Second edition. 2 vols. bound together. [8], 407; [6], 416, 22 pp. 12mo. With a copper engraved folding map at rear. Contemporary green quarter leather with marbled papered boards and faded gilt lettered title on the spine. 19th century..... More

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Item #215 [ARCTIC: NOVAYA ZEMLYA] Na Novoi Zemle: Ocherki i nabroski [i.e. At the Novaya Zemlya:...

[ARCTIC: NOVAYA ZEMLYA] Na Novoi Zemle: Ocherki i nabroski [i.e. At the Novaya Zemlya: Essays and Sketches]

Nosilov, K.D.

St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1903. [4], 327, [2] pp. Octavo. In original publisher’s printed wrappers with a photo illustration on the front cover. Some minor wear of extremities, overall a near fine copy. First edition. A rare collection of essays and memories by a Russian polar researcher, ethnographer and..... More

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Item #397 [CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China]. Gyokuzan...

[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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Item #385 [KRUSENSTERN’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION] 環海異聞 Kankai Ibun [i.e. Exotic Tales about...

[KRUSENSTERN’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION] 環海異聞 Kankai Ibun [i.e. Exotic Tales about the Surrounding Seas]

[Otsuki], Gentaku; Shimura, Hiroyuki

[Japan], Bunka 4 [1807] date of original manuscript in vol. 1, Tempo 13 [1842] (date of the present copy in vol.15). Original manuscript. Complete in 16 parts, bound in 9 vols. 26x19 cm. Black ink on rice paper. 68, 47, 47, 62, 63, 53, 59, 27, 61 doubleply leaves; with..... More

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Item #312 [KOREA] Ocherki Korei, sostavleno po zapiskam M.A. Podzhio, s prilozheniyem karty...

[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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Item #311 [FAR EAST] Puteshestviye v Ussuriyskom Kraye, 1867-1869 gg. S kartoy Ussuriyskogo Kraya...

[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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Item #304 [GREAT GAME: MONGOLIA & TIBET] Mongoliya i strana tangutov: Trekhletneye puteshestvie v...

[GREAT GAME: MONGOLIA & TIBET] Mongoliya i strana tangutov: Trekhletneye puteshestvie v vostochnoi nagornoi Azii [i.e. Mongolia, The Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, Being a Narrative of Three Years’ Travel in Eastern High Asia, by N. Przhevalsky of the Russian Staff Corps, Member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society/ Edition of the Russian Geographical Society]

Przhevalsky, N.M.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1875. 2 vols. ix, 381, [1 – errata]; [4], 2, 29, [2], iv, 176, 55, 36, 114, iv, ii pp. Large Quarto. With 31 chromolithographed plates and two large folding chromolithographed maps at rear. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt lettered titles on the spine..... More

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Item #199 [AFRICA] Puteshestvie po nizhnemu Yegiptu i vnutrennim oblastiam delty [i.e. Travel to...

[AFRICA] Puteshestvie po nizhnemu Yegiptu i vnutrennim oblastiam delty [i.e. Travel to the Lower Egypt and the Inner Regions of the Delta]

Rafalovich, A.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of Yakov Trey, 1850. xii, 433 pp. Octavo. With four lithographed maps (three folding). Contemporary diced half leather with marbled paper boards, neatly re-cased using the original spine; spine with raised bands, gilt lettered title label and blind stamped library numbers. Previous owner’s inscription on the half..... More

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Item #202 [NATIVES OF RUSSIAN PACIFIC SHORES] Ocherk inorodtsev russkogo poberezhiya Tikhogo...

[NATIVES OF RUSSIAN PACIFIC SHORES] Ocherk inorodtsev russkogo poberezhiya Tikhogo okeana [i.e. Sketch of the Natives of the Russian Coast of the Pacific]

Resin, A.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of A.S. Suvorin, 1888. [2], 78 pp. Octavo. Contemporary green quarter cloth with marbled boards. Upper corner of the last free endpaper cut off and repaired with paper, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare Russian imprint as no copies were found..... More

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Item #254 [PREVENTING A WAR WITH JAPAN] Zapiski Flota Kapitana Rikorda o Plavanii Ego k Yaponskim...

[PREVENTING A WAR WITH JAPAN] Zapiski Flota Kapitana Rikorda o Plavanii Ego k Yaponskim Beregam v 1812 i 1813 Godakh i o Snosheniyakh s Yapontsami [i.e. Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord About his Voyage to Japan’s Shores in 1812 and 1813, and His Relations with the Japanese]

Rikord, P.I. & [Golovnin, V.M.]

St. Petersburg: Naval Typ, 1816. [viii], 137, [iii] pp. 25,5x18 cm. With an aquatint portrait frontispiece of Takadaya-Kahei and four folding copper engraved maps and plans after P. Rikord. Period style mottled full leather with gilt tooled ornaments on the boards; all edges coloured. Pre-revolutionary owner’s ink stamp on the..... More

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Item #716 [NEW ZEALAND] Na schastlivikh ostrovah Ao-Tea-Roa (Novaia Zelandiya) [i.e. On the happy...

[NEW ZEALAND] Na schastlivikh ostrovah Ao-Tea-Roa (Novaia Zelandiya) [i.e. On the happy islands of Ao-Tea-Roa (New Zealand)]

Rusova, S.

Rostov-On-Don: D. Paramonov, 1904. 52 pp. , 4 ills. Original wrappers. Very good. First edition. Rare provincial edition of the anonymous Russian (from Odessa) who decided to change his life and move to New Zealand. For that he found a boat that delivered lard to Odessa and as a...... More

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Item #399 [WORLD MAP] A Map of the World in Japanese by Ed. Schnell Yokohama February 1862...

[WORLD MAP] A Map of the World in Japanese by Ed. Schnell Yokohama February 1862 (Bankoku Kokaizu)

Schnell, Edward & Takeda, Kango

Yokohama: 1862. Original outline hand coloured copper engraved map. 88x156 cm. Folding map in original beige linen covers with printed pink paper title label on front cover. Some minor worming of blank margins, but overall a very good copy in very original condition. Rare map with only three copies..... More

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Item #409 [TURKEY - ISTANBUL] [Original Large Ten Part Albumen Photograph Panorama of Istanbul,...

[TURKEY - ISTANBUL] [Original Large Ten Part Albumen Photograph Panorama of Istanbul, Titled:] Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata, par Sebah & Joailler [i.e. Panorama of Constantinople Taken from the Galata Tower]

Sebah & Joailler Studio

Ca. 1890s. Original publisher’s full cloth album with elaborate gilt tooled decorative borders on both boards and gilt lettered title on the front board. Album slightly rubbed, front cover slightly soiled, panorama with some mild foxing in places, but overall a very good strong panorama. Impressive ten-part albumen photograph of..... More

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Item #586 [EARLY PLAN OF BAIKAL] Noveyshie, Lyubopytnye i Dostovernye Povestvovaniya o Vostochnoi...

[EARLY PLAN OF BAIKAL] Noveyshie, Lyubopytnye i Dostovernye Povestvovaniya o Vostochnoi Sibiri, iz Chego Mnogoe Donyne ne Bylo Vsem Izvestno [i.e. The Newest, Curious and Reliable Descriptions about Eastern Siberia Previously Unknown to the Public].

[Semivskii, N.V.; Losev, I.A. (artists)]

St. Petersburg: Military Typography of His Imperial Majesty’s General Staff, 1817. Title page, engraved title page, engraved dedication leaf, [18], 230, 185- 186, 183 pp. 25,5x17,5 cm. With ten copper engraved plates, two large folding copper engraved maps of Lake Baikal and Eastern Siberia (the latter hand coloured), and a...... More

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Item #154 [SOVIET ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN] Sovetskiye ostrova Tikhogo okeana [i.e. Soviet...

[SOVIET ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN] Sovetskiye ostrova Tikhogo okeana [i.e. Soviet Islands of the Pacific Ocean]

Sergeev, M.A.

Moscow: Sotsekgiz, 1938. 282 pp., 15 ill., maps. 20x13,5 cm. In original publisher's cloth. Fine, couple pages with damp stain, rubbed endpapers. First edition. First book describing these territories. Book on geography, flora and fauna, population, history and economics of the most important Soviet islands in the..... More

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Item #707 [FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION] V serdtse Antarktiki [i.e. The heart of the Antarctic]. E....

[FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION] V serdtse Antarktiki [i.e. The heart of the Antarctic]

Shackleton, E.

Leningrad: Glavsevmorput, 1935. [7], 429 pp., 1 port., 1 map., ills ; 23х15 cm. Original publisher’s cloth. No dust-jacket. First edition of the first Russian translation of Antarctic classics. The design of the book is by Boris Smirnov (1903-1986) the artist, whose main contribution has been his work..... More

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Item #587 [AMERICA: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF ALL SHELEKHOV’S ACCOUNTS]...

[AMERICA: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF ALL SHELEKHOV’S ACCOUNTS] Rossiyskogo kuptsa imenitogo Rylskogo Grazhdanina Grigorya Shelekhova Pervoye Stranstvovaniye c 1783 po 1787 god iz Okotska po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam, i vozvrashchenie ego v Rossiiu... [i.e. The Russian Merchant and Notable Citizen of Rylsk Grigory Shelekhov’s First Journey from 1783 to 1787, from Okhotsk over the Eastern Ocean to the American Shores, and His Return to Russia...].

Shelekhov, G.I.

With: Rossiyskogo Kuptsa Grigorya Shelekhova Prodolzheniye Stranstvovaniyya po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam v 1788 godu... [i.e. Continuation of the Russian Merchant Grigory Shelekhov’ Voyage in the Eastern Ocean to the American Shores in 1788...]. St. Petersburg: Published on account of V[asily] S[opikov], 1793 and 1792. Two parts bound together..... More

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Item #216 [RUSSIAN TRADE IN NORTH PACIFIC AND TRAVEL TO THE USA] Vokrug svyeta: Sorok shest...

[RUSSIAN TRADE IN NORTH PACIFIC AND TRAVEL TO THE USA] Vokrug svyeta: Sorok shest tysiach verst po moryu i sushe: Putevye vpechatleniya K. Skalkovskogo [i.e. Around the World: Forty-Six Thousand Versts on Land and Sea: Travel Notes by K. Skalkovsky]

Skalkovsky, K.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. T-vo ‘‘Obshchestvennaya Polza’’, 1881. [8], 185 pp. Octavo. With ten woodcut plates. Contemporary Russian brown quarter sheep with marbled paper boards. Private library ink stamps on the title page and p. [5], Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the rear pastedown endpaper, binding rubbed on extremities, faint stain on..... More

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Item #303 [FIRST FULL ACCOUNT OF BERING’S EXPEDITION] Severnaya ekspeditsiya, 1733-1743 [i.e....

[FIRST FULL ACCOUNT OF BERING’S EXPEDITION] Severnaya ekspeditsiya, 1733-1743 [i.e. Northern Expedition, 1733-1743]

[Sokolov, A.P.]

St. Petersburg: 1851. [2], ix, 271, [1] pp. Octavo. With five folding engraved maps at rear. Contemporary cloth binding with gilt lettered title on the spine. Occasional pencil markings in text, first free endpaper removed, spine mildly faded, but overall a very good copy in very original condition. First..... More

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Item #222 [NORTH PACIFIC: RUSSIAN SHIPWRECKS FROM 1713 TO 1854] Letopis' Krusheniy i Pozharov...

[NORTH PACIFIC: RUSSIAN SHIPWRECKS FROM 1713 TO 1854] Letopis' Krusheniy i Pozharov Sudov Russkogo Flota on Nachala yego po 1854 god [i.e. A Chronicle of Wrecks and Fires on the Vessels of the Russian Fleet from its Inception to 1854]

[Sokolov, A.P.]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1855. Xxi, [2], 365 pp. 23,5x16 cm. With an additional woodcut title page (decorated with a vignette), a woodcut vignette on p. 365, and nine folding engraved maps at rear. Contemporary half leather, rebacked in style with gilt lettered title. Previous owner’s ink inscriptions..... More

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Item #987 [SOVIET WHALING IN ANTARCTIC] Chetyre pokhoda v Antarktiku [i.e. The Four Trips to...

[SOVIET WHALING IN ANTARCTIC] Chetyre pokhoda v Antarktiku [i.e. The Four Trips to Antarctic]

Solianik, A.N.

Moscow: Pravda publishers, 1950. 30, [2] pp.: ill. 22x14 cm. Printed wrappers. Water stain on the lower part of the title page, otherwise good. Illustrated with 5 photographic images from the trips. First and only edition. Rare. The book is dedicated to the Soviet whaling activities in Antarctic..... More

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