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Image for M. ZAITSEV. Three Russian Children Books. First editions, colour issue. Harbin, 1930s. #2

China-printed children books - the colour variant

Three Children Books: Liagushka-Tsarevna, Ivanushka i Alenushka, Baba Iaga [The Frog Princess; Ivan and Alenushka; Baba Yaga]

Kharbin, Zaitsev, [1930s]. £1,450

Attractive Russian children books produced in Kharbin, all three in the colour version and in fine condition.

Image for ZHIGANOV-JIGANOFF. Russkie v Shankhaie. Russians in Shanghai. First edition. Shanghai, 1936. #2

Fascinating and impressive panorama of Russian emigration in China

ZHIGANOV – JIGANOFF, Vladimir

Russkie v Shankhaie. Russians in Shanghai

Slovo, Shanghai, 1936. £5,750

Fantastic publication on the important Russian community in 1920s-30s Shanghai. Wide-ranging, very richly illustrated, with a wealth of fascinating details. A lovely copy of the first edition, scarce.

Chinese tea in Pushkin's Russia

[GASTRONOMY]

Preis-courant neuerhaltener, ausgesuchter, bester Chinesischer Thee die zu haben sind in den Magazinen der Kaufmanns Gregorius Marinin, in St. Petersburg

[Skt. Peterburg], 1843. £2,750

Extremely rare broadside boasting "the all-best" teas from China available at a merchant's in St. Petersburg. The poster contains much interesting information and is illustrated with many Asian scenes. Very fragile but in very good condition.

Image for J. BADDELEY. Russia, Mongolia, China. First edition. London, 1919. #2

A splendid copy, unusually bound

BADDELEY, John F

Russia, Mongolia, China

London, Macmillan & Co, 1919. £4,750

Impressive example of the first edition, with a signed binding featuring two 1767 Russian coins. One of the greatest 20th-c. books on Eastern Russia, Siberia, and the historical relations with their neighbours. A fascinating and beautiful production.

Image for CRULL & BOUVET, Moscovy and China, first edition. London, 1699. #2

In a binding with deer tools

[CRULL, Jodocus] (editor) and J[oachim] BOUVET

The Present Condition of the Muscovite Empire, till the Year 1699. In Two Letters: the First from a Gentleman, Who Was Conversant with the Muscovite Ambassadour in Holland: the Second from a Person of Quality at Vienna, Concerning the Late Muscovite Embassy, His Present Czarish Majesty; the Russian Empire; and Great-Tartary. With the Life of the Present Emperour of China

F. Coggan, London, 1699. £3,750

Russian and China at the end of the 17th century, in a lovely binding with deer tools. A fine example of the first edition, the Macclesfield copy.

Image for MARTOS, Letters on Eastern Siberia, first edition,Moscow, 1827 #1

With a view of the British mission

MARTOS, Aleksei [Ivanovich]

Pisma o vostochnoi Sibiri [Letters on Eastern Siberia]

Universitet. Tip., Moskva, 1827. £3,950

A fine, uncut copy of the first edition of this uncommon Russian book on Siberia and the Chinese border, illustrated, and giving an account of the second British mission in Russia. Praised by Gogol among others.

Image for N.A. BUTMI. Tainyia obshchestva i Iudei. First edition, Shanghai, 1934. #2

Russian fascist printing in Shanghai

BUTMI, N.A

Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei [Secret Societies and the Jews]

Shankhai, Izd-vo D. V. Otdela russkoi fashistskoi partii, January 1934. £475

Rare booklet of 'great Russian patriotism', covering one of the favorite themes of a part of the émigré community. Printed in China by Russians with Nazi sympathies.

Image for BEILIS CASE. Obvinitelnyi akt. First book edition, Shanghai, 1934. #3

Russian fascist printing in Shanghai

[BEILIS AFFAIR]

Obvinitelnyi akt o meshchanine Menakhile-Mendele-Teveve-Beilis: Istoricheskoe delo o ritualnom ubiistve kievskimi khassidami khristianskogo malchika Andreia Iushchinskogo 12 marta 1911 g [Indictment Against the Bourgeois Menahem Mendel Tevev Beilis: Historical Case of the Ritual Murder of the Christian Boy Andrei Iushchinskii by Kiev Hasidim on March 12, 1911]

Shankhai, Izd-vo D. V. Otdela russkoi fashistskoi partii, February 1934. £475

A rare work of historical manipulation, printed in China by Russian émigrés with Nazi sympathies.

Image for SHPERK, F. Rossiia Dalnego Vostoka. First edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1885. #2

From the Library of Congress - but no copy in the US

SHPERK, Franz

Rossiia Dalnego Vostoka [Russia of the Far East]

Imperat. akademiia nauk, Skt. Peterburg, 1885. £1,850

Extensive description of Eastern Siberia and the region near China. A rare work in very good condition.

Image for IAKINF [BICHURIN]. Zapiski o Mongolii. Skt. Peterburg, 1828. #2

In a particularly fine Russian binding

IAKINF [ie. Nikita Iakovlevich BICHURIN]

Zapiski o Mongolii. S Prilozheniem karty Mongolii i raznykh kostiumov [Notes on Mongolia. With a Map of Mongolia and Various Costumes]

Karl Kray, Skt. Peterburg, 1828. £7,500

Very attractive example of one of the most important Russian works on Mongolia and Northern China - one of the rare early Russian books with hand-coloured plates. With a large folding map.

Image for HOLMAN, J. A Voyage Round the World. First edition, London, 1834-35. #2

The Blind Traveller - in cloth

HOLMAN, James

A Voyage Round the World, including travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc. etc., from 1827 to 1832

Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1834-35. £3,500

The first circumnavigation by a blind person: first edition, illustrated with more than 20 plates, and very rare in the original cloth.

Image for Chaudoir, Asian coins and notes, complete catalogue, rare Russian edition #1

Chinese money in a Russian collection

CHAUDOIR, Baron Stanislas de

Kitaiskie, manchzhurskie, mongolskie, iliiskie, koreiskie, iaponskie, aninanskie i neizvestnye monety, medali, assignatsii, menialnye bilety, zolotye i serebrianye slitki.

[Catalogue of copper money of Chinese, Japanese, Korean Vietnamese and uncertain origins, medals, paper-money, exchange notes, gold and silver bars]

[Skt. Peterburg, ?Bellizard, c. 1842]. £4,500

The attractive catalogue of Asian, esp. Chinese numismatics compiled by one of the greatest coin collectors of the early 19th century. A lovely example of the rarer first Russian issue, in a fine Russian binding - a rare book indeed, with more than 60 plates.

Image for Veselye Kartinki. Chinese issue. Moscow, 1959. #2

Out of stock

Chinese artists for Soviet children

ZHANG, Leping, Vladimir SUTEEV and other artists, Ia. AKIM (translator)

Veselye Kartinki: Detskii iumoristicheskii zhurnal TsK VLKSM Funny Pictures: Children's Humourous Magazine of the Central Committee of the Komsomol]

[Izd-vo VLKSM "Molodaia gvardiia", Moskva], 1959.

Lovely issue of this famous Soviet children's magazine, focuing on Chinese artists just a year before the decline of the collaboration between the USSR and China.

Image for [CHINA - USSR]. Pioneer Friends. First edition, Moscow-Leningrad, 1953. #2

Out of stock

Chinese pioneers in USSR

[ZHANG, Tianyi] CHZHAN, Tiani and Nikolai KOCHERGIN (artist)

Druzia-Pionery: Rasskazy o kitaiskikh detiakh [Pioneer Friends: Stories about Chinese Children]

Detgiz, Moskva-Leningrad, 1953.

Very rare first edition, with no copies traced in Americas or Europe.

Image for [CHINA - USSR]. Wonderful Journey. First edition. Beijing, 1957. #2

Out of stock

Chinese colour graphic novel for Soviet children

YAN WENJING, LIU JIYOU (artist)

Udivitelnoe Puteshestvie [A Wonderful Journey]

Izd. literatury na inostrannykh iazykakh, Pekin, 1957.

A lovely Beijing production in the frame of USSR-China friendship, with full-page colour illustrations. Very rare with no copies traced in USA or Europe.

Image for [RUSSIANS in CHINA]. Two Menus in Russian. Warsaw and Yingkou, 1900. #2

Out of stock

Gastronomical joys of the Russian military in the midst of the Boxer Uprising in China

[GASTRONOMY – RUSSIAN CHINA]

Two Menus

[Warsaw and Yingkou, 1900].

Lovely menus related to Dmitrii Oznobishin and his assigmnments in China. One menu is fully watercoloured (not printed), the other a fine chromolithograph - abundantly inscribed and signed by Oznobishin's friends and colleagues.

Image for J. KLAPROTH. Asia polyglotta. Second edition of the text, Paris, 1831. #2

Out of stock

"A new departure for the classification of Eastern languages" (Encycl. Britannica)

KLAPROTH, Julius

Asia polyglotta

Paris, Beideloff & Campe, 1831.

Impressive work on all languages from the Caucasus to the North Pacific through Central Asia, Siberia, China and the Far East. Very rare on the market.

Image for [ASIA]. Notes on Travel in Japan, China and India.... First edition (?), Manila, ca. 1924. #2

Out of stock

For American soldiers-tourists based in the Philippines - only copy traced

Notes on Travel in Japan, China and India with Passport Regulations

Headquarters, Philippine Department, Manila, [ca. 1924].

A small guide packed with information and of utmost rarity: no other copy traced. Printed in the Philippines.

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