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

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Everything you need to know - and more

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

Guide to the Great Siberian Railway

Artistic Printing Society, St. Petersburg, 1900.

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

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China-printed children book

ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]

Liagushka-Tsarevna [The Frog Princess]

[Kharbin], Zaitsev, [1930s].

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

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Important early eyewitness description of Siberia and China

BRAND, Adam

Beschreibung der Chinesischen Reise : welche vermittelst einer zaaris. Gesandschaft durch dero Ambassadeur, Herrn Isbrand, Ao. 1693, 94 und 95 von Moscau über Groß-Ustiga... und durch die Mongolische Tartarey verrichtet worden

Hamburg, Greflinger fur Schiller, 1698.

A rich diminutive volume, with much new material on Eastern Russia and China, including Ludolf's first descriptions of Russia - scarce first edition, the Macclesfield copy.

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Russia, Persia and China at the time of Peter the Great

BELL, John

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia [to Ispahan...to Pekin through Siberia...from Mosco to Derbent in Persia... A Journey from St. Petersburg to Constantinople]

Glasgow, for the author by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763.

The preferred first edition in the Quarto format; with the folding map of Siberia up to China.

Image for STRAHLENBERG, Ph. Description - with map - in English. London, 1738. #2

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With the large map of the Russian Empire

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von

An Historico-Geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia; but More Particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary

London, Innys and Manby, 1738.

Fine, fresh example of this famous work, with its impressive map but also with important illustrations and a wide-ranging content on Siberia and other Russian regions.

Image for ORZHIKH, B. Albom Bortsov za Svobodu. Nagasaki, 1907. First edition, with wrappers. #2

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With the striking wrappers

ORZHIKH, Boris

Albom Bortsov za Svobodu [Album of Freedom Fighters, Pt.1 [all published]]

Tip. 'Voli', Nagasaki, 1907.

Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers.

Image for RUF ANANIN, Kharbin v krivom zerkale, 1930s, complete set of postcards. #2

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"International city": Russian caricatures in Japanese China

RUF [pseud. for Ruf Sozonovich ANANIN] (artist)

Kharbin v krivom zerkale [Harbin in a crooked mirror]

[Harbin, mid-1930-early 1940s].

Witty depictions of the Russian diaspora in Harbin under Japanese occupation. A complete set of these fine postcards, within the printed wrappers: very rare so.

Image for GONCHAROV, I. Fregat Pallada, first edition, 1858 #1

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First bananas, curry and sake

GONCHAROV, Ivan

Fregat Pallada [The Frigate Pallada]

Glazunov, Skt Peterburg, 1858.

One of the best travel accounts by a Russian literary author: Goncharov's travel to Japan, Hong Kong and Africa. An excellent example of the first edition.

Image for SKALKOVSKII, K. Vneshniaia politika Rossii [Russia's external policy]. First edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1897 #2

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The World Powers seen from Russia - and bound in Istanbul

SKALKOVSKII, Konstantin

Vneshniaia politika Rossii i polozhenie inostrannykh derzhav [Russia's External Policy and the Position of Foreign States]

Suvorin, Skt. Peterburg, 1897.

Wide-ranging and fascinating analysis of the world powers and their relationships with Russia at the turn of the 20th century - with great comments on China and the USA. First edition, bound in Constantinople and with interesting, related modern provenance.

Image for Travels to the Tatars and other Eastern peoples, first edition, 1825 #1

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Looking at the past at the start of the Great Game

IAZYKOV, Dmitrii Ivanovich (editor and translator)

Sobranie puteshestvii k tataram i drugim vostochnim narodam, v XIII, XIV i XV stoletiakh [Collection of Travels to the Tartars and Other Eastern Peoples in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries]

Dep. narodn. prosveshch., Skt. Peterburg, 1825.

A witness of the Russian interest in the eastern parts of its empire and its neighbours. Includes Carpini's 13th-c. travel account, thought to be the earliest significant Western description of Northern and Central Asia, Rus, and the regions of the Mongol dominion. A fresh example of the rare first edition.

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