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Image for [GASTRONOMY] - Broadside of Chinese teas available at Marinin's shops. St. Petersburg, 1843. #2

Chinese tea in Pushkin's Russia

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

£2,750

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.
Published/created in: 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

£4,750

A splendid copy, unusually bound
BADDELEY, John F. Russia, Mongolia, China.
Published/created in: 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

£3,750

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.
Published/created in: 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]

£3,950

With a view of the British mission
MARTOS, Aleksei [Ivanovich]. Pisma o vostochnoi Sibiri. [Letters on Eastern Siberia]
Published/created in: 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

Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei [Secret Societies and the Jews]

£475

Russian fascist printing in Shanghai
BUTMI, N.A. Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei. [Secret Societies and the Jews]
Published/created in: 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]

£475

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]
Published/created in: 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

Rossiia Dalnego Vostoka [Russia of the Far East]

£1,850

From the Library of Congress - but no copy in the US
SHPERK, Franz. Rossiia Dalnego Vostoka. [Russia of the Far East]
Published/created in: 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]

£7,500

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]
Published/created in: 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

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

£3,500

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.
Published/created in: 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]

£4,500

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]
Published/created in: 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]

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]
Published/created in: 1959

£420

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]

Chinese pioneers in USSR
[ZHANG, Tianyi] CHZHAN, Tiani and Nikolai KOCHERGIN (artist). Druzia-Pionery: Rasskazy o kitaiskikh detiakh. [Pioneer Friends: Stories about Chinese Children]
Published/created in: 1953

£750

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]

Chinese colour graphic novel for Soviet children
YAN WENJING, LIU JIYOU (artist). Udivitelnoe Puteshestvie. [A Wonderful Journey]
Published/created in: 1957

£320

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

Gastronomical joys of the Russian military in the midst of the Boxer Uprising in China
[GASTRONOMY - RUSSIAN CHINA]. Two Menus.
Published/created in: 1900]

£1,300

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

"A new departure for the classification of Eastern languages" (Encycl. Britannica)
KLAPROTH, Julius. Asia polyglotta.
Published/created in: 1831

£1,750

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

For American soldiers-tourists based in the Philippines - only copy traced
. Notes on Travel in Japan, China and India with Passport Regulations.
Published/created in: [ca. 1924]

£1,250

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

Image for [SIBERIA & RUSSIAN FRA EAST]. Guide to the Great Siberia Railway. First edition in English. Fine copy. St. Petersburg, 1900. #2

Out of stock

Everything you need to know - and more

DMITRIEV-MAMONOV, A.I., A.F. ZDZIARSKII and John MARSHALL (transl.)

Guide to the Great Siberian Railway

Everything you need to know - and more
DMITRIEV-MAMONOV, A.I., A.F. ZDZIARSKII and John MARSHALL (transl.). Guide to the Great Siberian Railway.
Published/created in: 1900

£1,250

Fine example of the first edition in English. A volume with a wealth of information on Russia, Siberia and the Russian Far East under Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Richly illustrated, with foloding maps and city plans.

Image for ZAITSEV, M. Liagushka-Tsarevna. Kharbin, 1930s #2

Out of stock

China-printed children book

ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]

Liagushka-Tsarevna [The Frog Princess]

China-printed children book
ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]. Liagushka-Tsarevna. [The Frog Princess]
Published/created in: [1930s]

£295

Lovely children book produced in Harbin/Kharbin, in an interesting variant.

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