![Item #537 [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
![Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...](/pictures/thumb/1092.jpg?v=1604431141)
Moscow; Leningrad: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1939. XII, 302 pp., СХХIV ill.: ill. 34.6x27.2 cm. In original publisher’s full cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and the spine. Edges slightly bumped with the tear to the lower right edge of the front board, two last pages are slightly..... More
![Item #539 [RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e....](/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
![Item #1071 [SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/1071.jpg?v=1601556572)
Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel’stvo, 1933. V, [2], 520, [4] pp., 6 folding maps. 23x16 cm. In original red cloth with silver plate around embossed blind lettering in Chinese on the front cover; the same design of lettering in Russian printed on the spine. No dust wrappers. Some soiling on binding, otherwise..... More
![Item #685 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
![Item #1176 [CENTRAL ASIAN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitekturnyi ornament Srednei Azii [i.e. Architectural...](/pictures/thumb/1176.jpg?v=1612380188)
Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1939. 228 pp.: ill. 26,5x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the spine and the front cover. Covers soiled and slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 2500 copies. Scarce. A valuable..... More
![Item #499 [SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/499.jpg?v=1533142331)
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 #1428 [SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA] Bol’shevikam pustyni i vesny: Stikhi [i.e. To Bolsheviks of...](/pictures/thumb/1428.jpg?v=1660738286)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1931. 70, [1] pp. 15х12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Rubbed and bumped, pencil signature on half-title, otherwise very good and clean. Second edition of first collection. In all, the author published two collections under one title: the second book came out in 1933, later..... More
![Item #83 [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
![Item #722 [KHARBIN FICTION] Arabeski [i.e. Arabesques]. Pavel Tutkovsky](/pictures/thumb/722.png?v=1563412486)
Kharbin: M.V. Zaitsev, 1938. 126, [6] pp. 20x13 cm. Contemporary owner’s carton binding. The private stamp of ‘war officer A.V. Vostroknutov’ on the title page. First and only edition. Pavel Tutkovskiy (1889-1959) was the Russian novelist, who has lived in Belgrade, Kharbin, and emigrated to USA after the cultural..... More
![Item #1368 [PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New...](/pictures/thumb/1368.jpg?v=1650378736)
St. Petersburg: Nash svet, 1914. 86 pp.: ill. 24x17 cm. Original illustrated wrappers showing the eagle over the mountains: the metaphor of Russian Empire spreading its influence across the region. Minimal restoration of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. First edition. The work by the young historian..... More
![Item #1195 [ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from...](/pictures/thumb/1195.jpg?v=1613991228)
Ca. 1931. Oblong Folio album ca. 26,5x35 cm (10 ¼ x 13 ¾ in). 15 card stock leaves. With 54 mounted original gelatin silver prints including five large photos from ca. 17,5x23 cm (7x9 in) to ca. 13x17 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), the rest of the photos are..... More
![Item #390 [ASIA - CHINA] [Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of China Taken by a British...](/pictures/thumb/390.jpg?v=1516793660)
1907-1911. Oblong Folio (31x42cm). 20 thick card stock album leaves pp. With 206 gelatin silver photographs (most 12x17cm and slightly smaller and with three panoramas (Kuling & Shanghai) 8.5x30cm, mounted recto and verso, many with manuscript black ink captions in English on mounts. Original full pebbled cloth album. Overall album..... More
![Item #1198 [ASIA - MONGOLIA] [Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of...](/pictures/thumb/1198.jpg?v=1613993859)
Ca. late 1920s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 19,5x31,5 cm). 16 card stock leaves. With ca. 150 mounted gelatin silver snapshot photographs, including six large photos from ca. 11x21 cm (4 ½ x 8 ¼ in) to ca. 11x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in); the rest are from ca..... More
![Item #531 [CHINA - BEIJING] [Album of Seventy-Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Beijing...](/pictures/thumb/531.jpg?v=1542804239)
Ca. 1912-1914. 27x35,5 cm. 24 stiff card leaves. With 75 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, including 19 large photos ca. 16,5x22,5 cm, four panoramas ca. 8x22 cm or slightly smaller, the rest are from ca. 12x16 cm to ca. 9x14 cm. The majority of photos with manuscript ink captions in..... More
![Item #1057 [CHINA IN PHOTOS] Kitai: Fotoal'bom [i.e China. Photo Album](/pictures/thumb/1057.jpg?v=1601551206)
Beijing: Izdatel’stvo literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, 1958. 89 leaves: ill. 26,5x19 cm. In original cardboards with lettering on covers and spine, in original printed dust jacket; illustrated endpapers. Very good, dust jacket a bit chipped, with small tears, covers slightly rubbed. Very rare. Fine photo album features the..... More
![Item #532 [CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] [Japanese Lacquered Album of Fifty Original Hand-Coloured...](/pictures/thumb/532.jpg?v=1542804706)
Yokohama: T. Moriya, 1900-1901. 15,5x20 cm. 25 card stock leaves put together in accordion-like manner. With 50 hand coloured mounted albumen prints, each 9x13 cm. All captioned in negative in English (one with the publisher’s credentials also written in negative), thirty-seven with period ink inscriptions in French on the mounts..... More
![Item #542 [CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views...](/pictures/thumb/542.jpg?v=1542900396)
[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 #543 [CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original...](/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
![Item #545 [FULL MAP OF CHINA] 中华全图 Zhōnghuá quán tú [i.e. Full Map of China](/pictures/thumb/545.jpg?v=1542901245)
[Nanjing]: Dōngshěng tiělù jīngjì diàochájú jiānzhì, 1928. 171x186 cm. Full map 1:2,000,000; Xinjiang 1:4,000,000; smaller-scale full map 1:10,000,000; Hainan 1:2,000,000. Relief shown by gradient tints. Some soiling, tears along creases. Very rare. In Chinese. A large colorful map of China printed under control of the Eastern Railway Economic Survey..... More
![Item #1103 [IN PRAISE OF SHORT-TERM SINO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP] Velikaya druzhba [i.e. Great...](/pictures/thumb/1103.jpg?v=1604436800)
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 #544 [MAP OF NORTH MANCHURIA] 北满的地图 Běiman dìtú [i.e. Map of North Manchuria](/pictures/thumb/544.jpg?v=1542901158)
[China]: Dōngshěng tiělù jīngjì diàochájú jiānzhì, 1927. 174x190 cm. 1:840,000; smaller-scale map of Far East region 1:6,300,000. Relief shown by gradient tints. Foxing, soiling, tears along creases. Very rare. In Chinese. A huge colorful map printed at the beginning of the Chinese Civil War under control of the Eastern..... More
![Item #529 [NORTH KOREAN ARMY] Koreiskaya Narodnaya armiya [i.e. Korean People’s Army](/pictures/thumb/529.jpg?v=1542802996)
Pyongyang: Izd-vo literatury na inostr. yaz. 1968. [166] pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original cardboards with photomontage dust wrappers. Dust wrappers with restoration of tears, otherwise very good. A very rare propaganda album in Russian about North Korean People’s Army published for the 20th anniversary of its creation..... More
![Item #392 [RUSSIAN CHINESE BORDER TOWN - BLAGOVESHCHENSK] [Album of Ninety-Six Original Gelatin...](/pictures/thumb/392.jpg?v=1613991672)
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
![Item #396 [SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin...](/pictures/thumb/396.jpg?v=1519382135)
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