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CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from...

[CHINA – BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY] [Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking/Beijing to Hankou (a part of present-day Wuhan), along the Line of the Unfinished Peking-Hankou (Jinghan) Railway, with the Eye-Witness Account on the Railway Construction, Notes on the Meetings with the Railway Company Officials, Chinese Workers, Inhabitants of Nearby Villages, Local Places of Interest etc., Titled:] V – de Pekin à Hankao

6-21 November [1903]. 32 leaves. 22,5x17,5 cm. Manuscript text in French. Black and brown ink on lined white laid paper (one page written in pencil), all entries with dates on the margins. Occasional markings in red or blue pencil in text. Period style half morocco album with cloth boards, spine..... More

Price: $3,250.00

CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and...

[CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views and Panoramas of the Newly Built City of Dalny, the Furthermost Russian Outpost in Manchuria in 1898-1905, and Modern-Day Dalian, the Major Seaport of the Liaoning Province of China, Titled in Russian:] Dalny, 1902

[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

Price: $3,950.00

CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and...

[CHINA – SECOND OPIUM WAR] [Album of Three Original Albumen Photographs, One Pencil Drawing and Two Watercolour Plans Illustrating the Third Battle of the Taku Forts during the Second Opium War in July-August 1860, Including Plans of the Forts and a nearby City of Tientsin/ Tianjin, a Scene with British Naval and Troop Ships Approaching the Landing Site at Pehtang/Beitang, and Group Portraits of the Officers of the British 31st Regiment of Foot who took Part in the Battle and were Stationed in Tientsin in 1861-62]

Ca. 1860-1862. 40x29 cm. With three original albumen photos from ca. 13x18,5 cm to ca. 5,5x8,5 cm, one pencil drawing ca. 11,5x28,5 cm, and two watercolour plans, ca. 24,5x38 cm and ca. 21x23 cm, mounted on period album leaves. All items but the last plan with period ink captions on..... More

Price: $5,250.00

CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver...

[CHINA, SINGAPORE, PORT ARTHUR AND THE CAPTURE OF NANJING] [Album with 86 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Apparently Taken by a Naval Officer while Serving on S.M.S. “Scharnhorst,” the Flagship of the German East-Asia Squadron in 1909-1914, with the Views of Tsingtao/Quigdao, Hong Kong, Amoy/Xiamen, German Colonies in Samoa and New Guinea, Batavia, Singapore, Port Arthur, German Naval Ships and Commanders, and Scenes from the Second Chinese Revolution and the Capture of Nanjing in September 1913]

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

Price: $4,250.00

CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art

[CHINESE ART IN USSR] Vystavka kitaiskoi zhivopisi [i.e. Exhibition of Chinese Art]

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

Price: $750.00

RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates....

[RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e. The Gates. Far Eastern Digest. First book]

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

Price: $1,500.00

SAKHALIN] [Original Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Showing the Delegation of Count...

[SAKHALIN] [Original Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Showing the Delegation of Count Muravyov-Amursky Coming to Yokohama in August 1859,Titled:] Rossia-jin Joriku Gyoretsu Ongaku no Zu [i.e. Russians Landing and Marching]

Yokohama: 1859. Ukiyo-e woodblock print ca. 19,5x26,5 cm. With a printed title in the right upper corner and dense printed text on the upper margin. Paper slightly age toned, four small worm holes on the right margin, but overall a very good copy of this very rare print. Rare..... More

Price: $3,250.00

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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Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants

Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]

Baltermants, Dmitrii

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

Price: $1,000.00

FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe:...

[FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]

Cherkasov, A.A.

St. Petersburg: S.V. Zvonaryov, 1867. [4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy..... More

Price: $2,500.00

SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and...

[SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e. Me, You and Him: A Novel from the Life of Shanghai Emigrants]

Grosse, L.Y.

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

Price: $1,000.00

CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel...

[CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Kubota, Beisen

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890. 2 vols. 16x23 cm (oblong large octavo). Vol. 1: t.p., 28 leaves, with 16 double-page and 17 singlepage woodblock illustrations in text.; Vol. 2: 28 leaves, with 19 doublepage and 13 single-page woodblock illustrations in text. Text and illustrations within single border. Original Japanese fukuro toji..... More

Price: $3,500.00

FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot...

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

[Lange, Lorenz]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the..... More

Price: $7,500.00

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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FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh,...

[FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh, SevernykhKhaldeyakh [i.e. A Research of the Kurds and their Ancestors, Northern Chaldeans]

Lerch, P.I.

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856-1858. 3 vols. bound together. Vii, 121, [1]; vii, 139, [1- errata]; [6], xxxvii, 113, [1] pp. 24x16 cm. Period style green half morocco. Paper slightly age toned, a couple of mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy. First..... More

Price: $3,750.00

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

Price: $1,500.00

GREAT GAME: KHANATE OF KOKAND] Zapiski o nekotorykh narodakh i zemliakh srednei chasti Azii...

[GREAT GAME: KHANATE OF KOKAND] Zapiski o nekotorykh narodakh i zemliakh srednei chasti Azii Filippa Nazarova, otdel’nogo Sibirskogo korpusa perevodchika, posylannogo v Kokant v 1813 i 1814 godakh [i.e. Notes on People and Lands in the Central Part of Asia by Filipp Nazarov, a Translator of the Special Siberian Corps Who was sent to Kokand in 1813 and 1814]

Nazarov, F.M.

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1821. T.p., [2], 98 pp. Octavo. Contemporary half straight-grained morocco with gilt tooled title labels on the spine (gilt renewed). Pencil markings on the title page, mild water stains on the lower margins of the text leaves, ink stamp of a Soviet bookshop on..... More

Price: $4,750.00

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

Price: $7,500.00

GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu,...

[GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

[Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881. [With]: Pyasetsky, P.Y. Neudachnaya ekspeditsiya v Kitai 1874-1875 gg. V otvet na xashchitu g. Sosnovskogo po povodu knigi ‘‘Puteshestvie v Kitai’’ [i.e. Unsuccessful expedition to China. In Reply to the Defense of Mr. Sosnovsky about the book ‘‘Travel across China’’]. Three volumes..... More

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ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany...

[ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany Tian-Shania, Sovershennye po Porucheniu Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [i.e. Travels Across Turkestan and Survey of the Mountainous Country of Tian-Shan, Undertaken on the Assignment of Russian Geographical Society].

Severtsov, N.A.

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water..... More

Price: $3,500.00

HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From...

[HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the World: Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea]

Staniukovich, K.M.

St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867. [2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library)..... More

Price: $2,750.00

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

Price: $3,250.00

CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story. Vagan Totovents

[CHINESE-ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARIES] Lao-Ho. The story

Totovents, Vagan

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

Price: $350.00

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

Price: $850.00

KHARBIN FICTION] Arabeski [i.e. Arabesques]. Pavel Tutkovsky

[KHARBIN FICTION] Arabeski [i.e. Arabesques]

Tutkovsky, Pavel

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

Price: $1,000.00

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