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Item #537 [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

Item #1092 [IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i...

[IRANIAN ART AND ARCHEOLOGY] III Mezhdunarodnyy kongress po iranskomu iskusstvu i arkheologii: Doklady. Leningrad. Sent. 1935 [i.e. III International Congress of Iranian Art and Archeology: Reports. Leningrad. September. 1935]

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

Price: $750.00

Item #1809 [KOREA DURING WARTIME] Novaia Koreia [i.e. New Korea] #3 (July) for 1950

[KOREA DURING WARTIME] Novaia Koreia [i.e. New Korea] #3 (July) for 1950

Pyongyang: Novaia Koreia, 1950. 64 pp.: ill. 29x21,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition, spine and covers slightly rubbed, ink name of subscriber on front cover. An early issue of the North Korean propaganda magazine “New Korea” released some days after the outbreak of the Korean..... More

Item #1742 [MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS] Karta Severnoi Man’chzhurii [i.e. Map of North Manchuria] /...

[MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS] Karta Severnoi Man’chzhurii [i.e. Map of North Manchuria] / Compiled and drawn by M.P. Andrievskii, N.Iu. Stankovich, L.A. Blashkevich, G.A. Mandryk

[Harbin]: Izd. Ekonomicheskim biuro KVZHD, 1926. 172x185,5 cm. One folding leaf backed on cloth. Very good, small tears, lower edge chipped, small lower right corner lost. Scale 1:840 000. In Russian. Large folding map displaying northern Chinese territory, its borders with the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People’s Republic..... More

Price: $1,750.00
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Item #1750 [PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA] A tourist set for visiting the Summer Palace in Beijing

[PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA] A tourist set for visiting the Summer Palace in Beijing

Pictorial plan. Běijīng Yíhé Yuán – Wànshòu Shān – niǎokàn [i.e. Beijing Summer Imperial Palace – Longevity Mountain – with Bird’s Eye View]. 52,5x76,5 cm. Brochure. Yíhé Yuán = Ikheiuan’ (byvshii Letnii imperatorskii dvorets) [i.e. Summer Palace]. Beijing, 1954. 7 pp. 22x16 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. In original..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #539 [RARE SHANGHAI LITERARY DIGEST] Vrata. Dal’nevostochnye sborniki. Kniga pervaya [i.e....

[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

Item #1746 [SINO-JAPANESE WAR] Map. Kitai [i.e. China

[SINO-JAPANESE WAR] Map. Kitai [i.e. China]

[Moscow]: Gos. izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1939. 70x106 cm. Tears of edges, handwritten title on rear side, otherwise very good. Mostly in Russian. A folding map of China with Russian supplementing texts. They outline the country’s geography, population, international relations, agriculture, industry, transport and economy. The last and the largest..... More

Price: $1,200.00

Item #1071 [SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e....

[SOVIETIZATION OF CHINA] Sovety v Kitae: Sbornik materialov i dokumentov [i.e. Soviets in China. A Collection of Materials and Documents]

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

Price: $550.00
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Item #1775 [MANCHURIAN EMIGRE CULTURE] Po belu svetu [i.e. Around the World]. N. Baikov

[MANCHURIAN EMIGRE CULTURE] Po belu svetu [i.e. Around the World]

Baikov, N.

Harbin: Izd. M.V. Zaitseva, 1937. 176 pp.+4 pp. of ads. 19x13,5 cm. In contemporary binding; original illustrated front wrapper preserved. Front wrapper slightly detached from block, some small stains, previous owner’s notes on rear side of front cover, p. 19-20 slightly chipped, otherwise very good. Extremely rare and repressed..... More

Item #685 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

Item #1176 [CENTRAL ASIAN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitekturnyi ornament Srednei Azii [i.e. Architectural...

[CENTRAL ASIAN ARCHITECTURE] Arkhitekturnyi ornament Srednei Azii [i.e. Architectural Ornament of Central Asia]

Denike, B.

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

Price: $950.00

Item #1776 [YOUNG COMMUNIST CHINA] V novom Kitae : Zapiski i risunki khudozhnika [i.e. In New...

[YOUNG COMMUNIST CHINA] V novom Kitae : Zapiski i risunki khudozhnika [i.e. In New China. Notes and Sketches by an Artist]

Finogenov, K.

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1950. 85, [30] pp.: ill., 2 portraits. 23x18 cm. In original illustrated cardboards and original blank dust wrappers with lettering on spine. Dust jacket with tears and stains, some fragments of edges lost. Slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Signed by author on front flyleaf. First and only..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #499 [SHANGHAI CONSTRUCTIVISM] Ya, vy i on: Roman iz zhizni shankhaiskikh emigrantov [i.e....

[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

Item #1738 [FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu...

[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: $5,250.00
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Item #1839 [INDONESIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE] [Illustration]. V. Litko

[INDONESIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE] [Illustration]

Litko, V.

N.p., [late 1920s]. 18x22 cm. Cardboard, ink. Some foxing and soiling. Signed by the artist. An original illustration for the novel “Amok” written by Belarusian children’s writer Yanka Maur (pseudonym of Ivan Michajłavič Fiodaraŭ; 1883-1971). He is known as one of the founders of Belarusian children’s literature and a...... More

Item #1428 [SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA] Bol’shevikam pustyni i vesny: Stikhi [i.e. To Bolsheviks of...

[SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA] Bol’shevikam pustyni i vesny: Stikhi [i.e. To Bolsheviks of Desert and Spring: Verses]

Lugovskoi, V.

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

Price: $400.00

Item #722 [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

Item #1368 [PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New...

[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA & TURKESTAN] Ocherki novogo Turkestana [i.e. Sketches of New Turkestan. The Light and the Shadows of the Russian Colonization]

Voshchinin, V.P.

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

Price: $950.00

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Item #1195 [ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from...

[ASIA - ALTAI MOUNTAINS] [Album with Ninety Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from Two Soviet Tourist Trips to Lake Teletskoye and Mount Belukha in the Altai Mountains, Organized by the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions]

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

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Item #390 [ASIA - CHINA] [Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of China Taken by a British...

[ASIA - CHINA] [Album of 206 Gelatin Silver Photographs of China Taken by a British Expat Showing Tsingtau (Qingdao), Kuling (Lianxi), Laushan (Laoshan), Hankow (Wuhan), Wuchang & Shanghai]

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

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Item #1198 [ASIA - MONGOLIA] [Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of...

[ASIA - MONGOLIA] [Album with ca. 150 Original Gelatin Silver Snapshot Photographs of Ulaanbaatar during the Early Years of Socialistic Mongolia, Showing the Sükhbaatar Square, the Chinese Quarter, Bogd Khan’s Winter Palace, Buddhist Temples, Zakhadyr Market, Scenes from the Naadam Festival, Mongolian Wrestling, Costumes, Hairdos, Yurts and Houses, etc.]

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

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Item #531 [CHINA - BEIJING] [Album of Seventy-Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Beijing...

[CHINA - BEIJING] [Album of Seventy-Five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Beijing and Environs Taken by a German Officer during the First Years of the Republic of China]

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

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Item #1057 [CHINA IN PHOTOS] Kitai: Fotoal'bom [i.e China. Photo Album

[CHINA IN PHOTOS] Kitai: Fotoal'bom [i.e China. Photo Album]

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

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Item #532 [CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] [Japanese Lacquered Album of Fifty Original Hand-Coloured...

[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] [Japanese Lacquered Album of Fifty Original Hand-Coloured Albumen Photographs of Beijing and Tianjing, Most Likely Compiled as a Keepsake for the Officers and Soldiers from the International Forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance which Took Part in the Suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900]

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

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Item #542 [CHINA – MANCHURIA - DALIAN] [Album of 36 Photogravures with the Plan, Street Views...

[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

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