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Image for DEMIDOV, A. and RAFFET. Voyage dans la Russie méridionale... First edition of the preferred folio format. Paris, 1848. #2

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Extra-illustrated, in a signed binding

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de [Anatolii DEMIDOV], and Denis Auguste RAFFET (artist)

Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie, et la Moldavie

Auguste Bry for Gihaut Frères, Paris, [1848].

An unusual and attractive copy of this classic plate book, here with plates in various states and with contemporary provenance.

Image for SUZUKI, Y. Shin Roshia - New Russia. First edition, Tokyo, 1932-33. #2

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The striking achievements of the young USSR seen from Japan

SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)

Shin Roshia [New Russia]

Tokyo, Nisso Bunka Kyokai, Showa 7-8 [i.e. 1932- 1933].

Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set.

Image for ONCHUKOV, N. Northern Tales, in Russian. First edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1908. #2

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Oral tradition on the shores of the White Sea

ONCHUKOV, Nikolai Evgenevich

Severnye skazki. Arkhangelskaia i Olonetskaia gg [Northern Tales. From Arkhangel and Olonetsk provinces]

Suvorin, Skt.Peterburg, 1908.

More than 300 traditional tales are gathered here, in the local dialects: a fine work of ethnographic material on the northern regions of Russia.

Image for LEVCHINE, A. Description des hordes..., Première édition en français, Paris, 1840. #2

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By the "Herodot of Kazakh steppes"

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

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

Imprimerie royale for Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1840.

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.

Image for Karafuto Shashin-cho [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin], 1936. #2

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The achievements of Japanese colonisation in Sakhalin

Karafuto Shashin-cho [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin]

Karafuto-cho [Sakhalin Public Office], Tokyo [but Karafuto Toyohara?], Showa 11 [ie. 1936].

Great visual record of South Sakhalin in the 1920s-30s: wide-ranging, artistic - and scarce. A beautifully fresh example.

Image for Chulkov, Slovar Russkikh Sueverii, first edition, 1782 #1

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Superstitions from Moscovia to the Pacific

CHULKOV, Mikhail Dmitrievich

Slovar Russkikh sueverii [The Dictionary of Russian Superstitions].

Sanktpeterburg, Shnor, 1782.

An important and very rare work on superstitions and beliefs of the peoples of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. With captivating paragraphs and descriptions. An attractive example of the first edition.

Image for UKRAINE: NOMYS, Ukrainski prykazy..., St. Petersburg, 1864. First edition #1

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Ukrainian expressions - later banned

NOMYS, Matvii

Ukrainski prykazky, pryslivia i take inshe. Zbirnyky O. Markovycha i druhykh [Ukrainian Sayings, Proverbs and so on. Collected by O.V. Markovich and others]

Skt. Peterburg, V drukarniakh Tyblena i komp. i Kulisha, 1864.

First edition of this compendium of more than 14,000 Ukrainian proverbs, sayings and riddles - published in Russia before the Ukrainian language was partly banned. Censored again in Soviet Union.

Image for GRIGORIEV, B. Faces of Russia. Berlin, 1924. #1

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In fine condition

GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich

Faces of Russia

Sinaburg, Berlin, for Great Britain and the Colonies, 1924.

A lovely, clean copy of this great book of artistic portraits of Russians. First English edition, copy num. 7.

Image for Zienkowicz, Costumes du peuple polonais, edition originale, 1841. #1

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'Un Etat immolé mais une Nation indestructible'

ZIENKOWICZ, Leon Józef

Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque

G. Silbermann for Librairie Polonaise, Paris and Strasbourg, and Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1841.

Celebrated book on Polish (and Ukrainian, Lithuanian etc.) costumes, especially interesting for its political text and context, often overlooked. Plates with attractive hand-colour - a fine example of the first edition.

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