Ethnography and Sociology

Cordier's beautiful copy of Moser's journey through Central Asia

A travers l'Asie centrale

£1,650

Cordier's beautiful copy of Moser's journey through Central Asia
MOSER, Henri. A travers l'Asie centrale.
Published/created in: [1885]

£1,650

An excellent example of the first edition of this travel account in nowadays Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - inscribed by the author to Henri Cordier. Richly illustrated, with a folding map of the region.

Image for GEREBTZOFF [ZHEREBTSOV]. Essai sur l'histoire de la civilisation en Russie. First edition. Paris, 1858. #2

Russia explained - with a twist

GEREBTZOFF, Nicolas de [Nikolai Arsenevich ZHEREBTSOV]

Essai sur l'histoire de la civilisation en Russie

£1,450

Russia explained - with a twist
GEREBTZOFF, Nicolas de [Nikolai Arsenevich ZHEREBTSOV]. Essai sur l'histoire de la civilisation en Russie.
Published/created in: 1858

£1,450

A fine example of the very first edition, originally published in French; fresh, in a master binding. Scarce, as we couldn't trace any copies at auction in many decades. An extensive work covering the history of Russia and the Russian empire, with a slavophile accent.

Image for PALLAS & GEISSLER. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire. London, 1812. #2

From the Caspian Sea to Crimea, extensively illustrated

PALLAS, Peter Simon

Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire [Translated from German by F.W.Blagdon].

£1,750

From the Caspian Sea to Crimea, extensively illustrated
PALLAS, Peter Simon. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire. [Translated from German by F.W.Blagdon].
Published/created in: 1812

£1,750

Fresh example of this classic travel account through Southern Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea - richly illustrated with original hand-colour. In a sturdy modern binding.

Image for NABHOLZ, J. General map of the Caucasus, in original German. First edition, St. Peterburg, 1797. #2

"The most accurate map to date"

NABHOLZ, J[ohann] C[hristoph] (engraver)

General Charte Des Caukasischen Geburges [General Map of the Caucasus Mountains]

£1,950

"The most accurate map to date"
NABHOLZ, J[ohann] C[hristoph] (engraver). General Charte Des Caukasischen Geburges. [General Map of the Caucasus Mountains]
Published/created in: 1797]

£1,950

Fine, crisp example of this lovely map of the Caucasus, an early and precise representation of the region, including its many various peoples and ethnic groups. Printed in St. Petersburg, rare, with no other copy traced on the market in recent years.

Image for A. de COURTOIS. Organisation sociale de la Russie. Copy from the author. Paris, 1864. #2

Russian society analysed - and beautifully bound

[COURTOIS Alfred de]

Organisation sociale de la Russie. La Noblesse, la Bourgeoisie, le Peuple

£2,250

Russian society analysed - and beautifully bound
[COURTOIS Alfred de]. Organisation sociale de la Russie. La Noblesse, la Bourgeoisie, le Peuple.
Published/created in: 1864

£2,250

An intelligent analysis of Alexander II's famous reform and emancipation of the serfs. Uncommon, and here in a fantastic example from the author.

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 LEVCHINE, A. Description des hordes..., Première édition en français, exemplaire Barante, Paris, 1840. #2

By the "Herodot of Kazakh steppes" - the dedicatee's copy

LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]

Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks

£2,750

By the "Herodot of Kazakh steppes" - the dedicatee's copy
LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]. Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks.
Published/created in: 1840

£2,750

The first extensive study of the people of Kazakhstan: first French edition, with the same illustrations as the original Russian edition; including a folding map of the area, which was very rare at the time. This is the copy which belonged to 'Le Baron de Barante', the dedicatee of the translation.

Image for PLESCHEEF - PLESHCHEEV. Survey of the Russian Empire. First edition in English, hand-coloured. London, 1792. #2

Impressive in colour

PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)

Survey of the Russian Empire

£2,750

Impressive in colour
PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.). Survey of the Russian Empire.
Published/created in: 1792

£2,750

Fine, unusual copy of this first english edition of the most accurate description of the Russian empire at the end of Catherine the Great's reign. Usually black & white: but this copy with bold, vivid contemporary hand-colour.

Image for BEREZIN. Journey through Dagestan and Tanscaucasia. Expanded edition. Kazan, 1850. #2

The Eastern Caucasus in great details

BEREZIN, Ilia and Georgii GOGENFELDEN (artist)

Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkaziu [Journey through Dagestan and Transcaucasia]

£3,750

The Eastern Caucasus in great details
BEREZIN, Ilia and Georgii GOGENFELDEN (artist). Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkaziu. [Journey through Dagestan and Transcaucasia]
Published/created in: 1850

£3,750

Important, detailed account of nowadays Dagestan and Azerbaijan, with fine observations and 14 plates, published in Kazan. Scarce: no copy at auction and only 4 in institutions.

Image for ASHIK, A. Vosporskoe tsarstvo [Bosphorus Kingdom], first edition, Odessa, 1848-9. #2

Crimean Greek antiquities in red morocco

ASHIK, Anton Baltazarovich

Vosporskoe tsarstvo s ego paleograficheskimi i nadgrobnymi pamiatnikami, raspisnymi vazami, planami, kartami i vidami [The Bosphorus Kingdom and its Palaeographic Monuments and Tombstones, Painted Vases, Plans, Maps and Views]

£4,750

Crimean Greek antiquities in red morocco
ASHIK, Anton Baltazarovich. Vosporskoe tsarstvo s ego paleograficheskimi i nadgrobnymi pamiatnikami, raspisnymi vazami, planami, kartami i vidami. [The Bosphorus Kingdom and its Palaeographic Monuments and Tombstones, Painted Vases, Plans, Maps and Views]
Published/created in: 1848-1849

£4,750

The first significant work on the Greek antiquities on the Black Sea shores. A complete copy of this famous archeological book finely produced in Odessa, here in a luxurious binding. With unusual provenance.

Image for CHAPPE d'AUTEROCHE. Voyage en Sibérie. First edition, in contemporary binding. Paris, 1768. #2

Attractive copy of this famous travel account

CHAPPE D’AUTEROCHE, Jean-Baptiste and Stepan Petrovich KRASHENINNIKOV

Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance [and] contenant la description du Kamchatka

£9,750

Attractive copy of this famous travel account
CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean-Baptiste and Stepan Petrovich KRASHENINNIKOV. Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance [and] contenant la description du Kamchatka.
Published/created in: 1768

£9,750

A very fresh copy of the first edition of one of the great French travels abroad, and a classic representative of French 18th-century publishing, with many artistic illustrations, engraved maps, and high quality printing. With a wealth of details on Russian, Siberia, the Russian Far East, including Kamchatka and the Northern Pacific.

Image for SRNEC, HORNY, CATO & COMENIUS. Adagia Bohemica, bound with Adagia Catonis. Prague, 1705. #2

Czech proverbs in your pocket

[SRNEC, Jakub] and Franciscus Andreas HORNY [bound with] CATO, Dionysius (?) and John Amos COMENIUS (translator)

Přísloví česká, Aneb Adagia Bohemica [BOUND WITH] Včení Dobrých Mrawu od Mudrce Katona wydané Aneb Moralia Catonis [Czech Proverbs, or Bohemian Adages [bound with] Learning Good Manners of the Wise Cato, published as Moralia Catonis]

£2,450

Czech proverbs in your pocket
[SRNEC, Jakub] and Franciscus Andreas HORNY [bound with] CATO, Dionysius (?) and John Amos COMENIUS (translator). Přísloví česká, Aneb Adagia Bohemica [BOUND WITH] Včení Dobrých Mrawu od Mudrce Katona wydané Aneb Moralia Catonis. [Czech Proverbs, or Bohemian Adages [bound with] Learning Good Manners of the Wise Cato, published as Moralia Catonis]
Published/created in: 1705

£2,450

Attractive small volume, in fine condition, of these two very rare editions focusing on Czech proverbs, theatre, poetry and language. With fine provenances.

Image for H. BRINDLEY. Notes on the Boats of Siberia. First edition (offprint), London 1920. #2

On one of the longest rivers in the world

BRINDLEY, Harold Hulme

Notes on the Boats of Siberia

£395

On one of the longest rivers in the world
BRINDLEY, Harold Hulme. Notes on the Boats of Siberia.
Published/created in: [1920]

£395

Fine essay on Siberian boats, their history, construction, use etc., with illustrations. Very rare offprint.

Image for PAEDIATRY. Fifty Years of the Princess Elisabeth Hospital for Small Children. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1894. #2

Extensive record of 19-c. Russian paediatric medicine

[MEDICINE]

Ocherk piatidesiatiletnei deiatelnosti Elisavetinskoi Klinicheskoi Bolnitsy dlia Maloletnikh Detei 1844-1894 [An Overview of Fifty Years of Activity of the Elizavetinsky Clinical Hospital for Small Children]

£1,850

Extensive record of 19-c. Russian paediatric medicine
[MEDICINE]. Ocherk piatidesiatiletnei deiatelnosti Elisavetinskoi Klinicheskoi Bolnitsy dlia Maloletnikh Detei 1844-1894. [An Overview of Fifty Years of Activity of the Elizavetinsky Clinical Hospital for Small Children]
Published/created in: 1894

£1,850

Rare account describing the first 50 years of an innovative hospital for childen based in St. Pertersburg, and the first in the world focusing on very early age (< 3 y-old). With a wealth of statistics and graphs. A pleasant copy, retaining most of its first, luxury binding.

Image for N.B. [BOGATOV] and PEROV. Russian Types. Chromolithographs, first edition; Moscow, 1889. #2

No other set traced

N.B. [presumably Nikolai Alekseevich BOGATOV] and Vasilii PEROV (artists)

Russkie tipy [Russian types]

£375

No other set traced
N.B. [presumably Nikolai Alekseevich BOGATOV] and Vasilii PEROV (artists). Russkie tipy. [Russian types]
Published/created in: [ca. 1889]

£375

Lovely set of depictions of various peoples of the Rusisan empire, most probably published for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle'. Of great rarity, as we couldn't find any other example. With (most of) the original printed envelope.

Image for GEISSLER, GRUBER & RICHTER. Russian Folk Amusements. First edition, Leipzig 1801. Complete with hand-coloured plates #2

Partying in late 18th-c. Russia

GEISSLER, [Christian Gottfried Heinrich], J.G. GRUBER and J. RICHTER

Russische Volke-Vergnügungen [Russian Folk Amusements]

£5,750

Partying in late 18th-c. Russia
GEISSLER, [Christian Gottfried Heinrich], J.G. GRUBER and J. RICHTER. Russische Volke-Vergnügungen. [Russian Folk Amusements]
Published/created in: [1801]

£5,750

Very rare large-format plates in striking colours, by a master of the genre. Last copy traced on the market: in 1931, incomplete.

Image for S. COLLINS. Present State of Russia. First edition, London, 1671. #2

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms

[COLLINS, Samuel]

The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years

£3,000

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms
[COLLINS, Samuel]. The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years.
Published/created in: 1671

£3,000

Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, with an important portrait of Tsar Alexei and a famous chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Attractive example of the first edition.

Image for N. GEKKER [HECKER]. Yakut Physical Type, first edition, in Russian. Irkutsk, 1896. #2

Siberian people in photography

GEKKER, Naum Leontevich [HECKER]

K kharakteristikie fizicheskago tipa iakutov : antropologicheskii ocherk. Zur Charakteristik des physischen Typus der Iakuten [On Characteristics of the Yakut Physical Type]

£3,500

Siberian people in photography
GEKKER, Naum Leontevich [HECKER]. K kharakteristikie fizicheskago tipa iakutov : antropologicheskii ocherk. Zur Charakteristik des physischen Typus der Iakuten. [On Characteristics of the Yakut Physical Type]
Published/created in: 1896

£3,500

A shot in the head, gold mining in Siberia, ethnography of the locals, and the use of photography: an interesting and unsual work on these people of deep Siberia. Scarce first edition of the original Russian, complete with its photographic plate.

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