![Item #537 [CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/537.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542807312)
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
![Item #1003 [CHINESE COMIC BOOK] Gospodin Dun-Go [i.e. Mister Dun-Go] / text by Dun Tsiui-sian’...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1003.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591803775)
Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literaturyr na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1959. [2], 82 pp.: ill. 15x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and edges with few minor fragments lost, otherwise very good and clean internally. Second edition. One of 8050 copies. Very rare comic book with Chinese philosophical story..... More
![Item #1408 [THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SOVIET-CHINESE PROPAGANDA] Dva goda geroicheskoi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1408.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658797256)
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 44 pp. 20 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. A private library stamp on the title page and p. 3, a couple of tears, otherwise very good. Rare. An important example of a Soviet propaganda edition on the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). The..... More
![Item #499 [SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533142330)
Shanghai: 1930. [6], 317 pp. 13x9 cm. In original illustrated wrappers by A.A. Yaron. Very good/near ne condition. The spine is very carefully fixed. Extremely rare. First and only edition. Lev Grosse (1906-1950), writer and son of Viktor Grosse (1869-1931), Russian diplomat, one of the active members of the..... More
![Item #1002 [CAPTURING THE 1954 ALL-UNION AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION] Vsesoyuznaya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1002.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591803616)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel’stvo izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva, 1954. 152 pp., 2 ill.: ill. 29x22,5 cm. With extremely rare dust-wrapper in Chinese. In original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on the front board and the spine. Dust-wrapper with a couple of tears and small holes. Otherwise fine. Scarce. Especially..... More
![Item #542 [CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542900395)
[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly..... More
![Item #10 [THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY] Kharbin i O-vo K.V.Gh.d.: (K voprosu o vzaimnyh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446492190)
Harbin: Tov. gazetnykh rabotnikov Elektro-par. tip.-lit. T-va Bergut i Syn, 1907. 14 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Clean copy with slightly tanned wrappers. Tears to the wrappers, a piece of the end cover is missing, very fragile edges. A good copy. A rare, perhaps unique work focusing on..... More
![Item #1103 [IN PRAISE OF SHORT-TERM SINO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP] Velikaya druzhba [i.e. Great...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1103.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604436799)
Pekin: izdatel’stvo literatury na inostrannykh yazykakh, 1956. 104 pp.: ill. 27.6x35.8 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front. Light soiling of the bottom of the spine, occasional pen markings. Near fine. Scarce. First edition. With 44 black and white and 5 color illustrations. THIS RARE..... More
![Item #396 [SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/396.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1519382134)
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
![Item #328 [SIBERIA: KYAKHTA TEA TRADE] [Official Broadside, Titled:] Pravila dlya vodvoreniya v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/328.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1507301150)
[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
![Item #1095 [SOVIET-JAPANESE CONFLICTS] Samurai proschitalis’: literaturno-khudozhestvennyi...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1095.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604432495)
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1939. 482 pp., 15 ills. 22,5x17,5 cm. In original full-cloth with illustrations and silver lettering. Very good, some spots. First and only edition. Very rare with no copies in Worldcat. A curious example of a book design mixing Stalinist parade editions, Krokodil caricatures and chronicles of the..... More
![Item #540 [UYGHUR DICTIONARY] Uigursko-russky slovar’ [i.e. Uyghur-Russian Dictionary]. N. A....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/540.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542899808)
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
![Item #1083 [LUBOK ABOUT RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR] Chem tebia ia ogorchila! (Plach Iaponii) [i.e. How...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1083.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1604425490)
St. Petersburg: Litografiia V. Ivanov i Ko, 1904. 49х37,5 cm. Very good, small fragments of blank edges lost. Very rare lithographic lubok produced during the Russo-Japanese war. The censorship approved it on April 16, 1904. The war started in early February of the same year, and by the time of..... More
![Item #236 [FIRST VIEW OF LHASA] Opisanie Tibeta v Nyneshnem Yego Sostoyanii. S Kartoyu Dorogi iz...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/236.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542805368)
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
![Item #601 [RUSSIAN MISSION TO THE KHANATE OF BUKHARA] Puteshestviye v Bukharu Russkoy Missii v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/601.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1549628882)
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
![Item #171 [CHINA] Puteshestviye v Kitai. Chast’ 1-2 [i.e. Travel to China. In 2 parts]. E. P...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/171.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1483913616)
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
![Item #602 [RUSSIAN TRADE IN CENTRAL ASIA] Ocherki Torgovli Rossi v Sredney Azii [i.e. Sketches on...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/602.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1549629325)
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
![Item #312 [KOREA] Ocherki Korei, sostavleno po zapiskam M.A. Podzhio, s prilozheniyem karty...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/312.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1505900134)
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