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.
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LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks
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.
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PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)
Survey of the Russian Empire
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.
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Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten.
Published/created in: 1714
£7,500
One of the great accounts of Russia under Peter the Great, as well as Persia, especially remarkable for the wealth of illustrations. Here in a beautifully fresh example of this Dutch edition.
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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
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.
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Lwów and the Lwów Region.
Published/created in: May 1945
£1,450
May 1945: World War II comes to an end, the Soviet are in Poland and Ukraine. It is time for the anti-Soviet Polish exiled to lobby the world's powers to restructure Poland as they wish to - that is including all its former regions, such as Eastern Galicia and Lvyv... This booklet is their detailed argumentation, with a wealth of explanations and statistics, and three maps. A fascinating read. Scarce: only 3 copies traced in the US.
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Plan stolichnago goroda Moskvy. [Plan of Moscow the Capital City]
Published/created in: 1789
£12,500
An important and decorative plan of the Russian capital, printed the year of the French Revolution. A fine hand-coloured example. Very rare.
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Essai sur l'histoire ancienne et moderne de la Nouvelle Russie: Statistique des provinces qui la composent: Fondation d'Odessa, ses progrès, son état actuel, détails sur son commerce: Voyage en Crimée, dans l'intérêt de l'agriculture et du commerce.
Published/created in: 1820
£1,150
First edition of this major, relatively early work on southern Ukraine, Odessa and Crimea; complete with engraved views and maps. A pleasant copy in attractive condition.
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Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen.
Published/created in: 1841
£425
Attractive example of this unusually wide-ranging description of Russia and its northern capital, from food to libraries and many other subject matters. First edition, with its fine folding map of the city.
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Oriental and Western Siberia: A narrative of seven years' explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia.
Published/created in: 1858
£850
Pleasant copy of the first edition of this famous, extensive description of Central Asia at the heart of the Great Game.
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HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von, Paulo GIOVIO, Paul ODERBORN and others
Rerum Moscoviticarum auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti
Rerum Moscoviticarum auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti.
Published/created in: 1600
£6,500
Important edition gathering Herberstein's famous description of early Russia together with other related works, to give a wide-ranging understanding of Muscovy. With aristocratic provenance, in contemporary binding, and complete with its famous illustrations and maps, including Moscow's first printed plan.
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Tableaux historiques, chronologiques, geographiques et statistiques de l'Empire de Russie, avec une carte généalogique.
Published/created in: 1828
£3,250
First edition of this impressive wide-ranging work, finely printed by Pluchart in St. Petersburg. A scarce publication, with a wealth of information on the Russian empire up to Pushkin's time.
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Dnevnik ekspeditsii [...] po rekam Nizhnei Tunguske, Oleneku i Lene v 1873-75 godakh. [Diary of the Expedition [...] undertaken in 1873-75 along the rivers Nizhniaia Tunguska, Olenek and Lena]
Published/created in: 1896
£1,850
First edition of this rare account of exploring expeditions in central and northern Siberia. With map and illustrations.
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Merkwürdigkeiten verschiedener unbekannten Völker des Russischen Reichs.
Published/created in: 1777
£1,750
Some of the first systematic ethnographic observations of peoples of Russia, here focusing on Siberian and Far Eastern peoples. An edition rarely found, with plates and a map. Lovely copy in fine condition.
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Essai sur le commerce de Russie, avec l'histoire de ses découvertes.
Published/created in: 1777
£2,250
Lovely, crisp copy of this classic work on Russian trade, esp. interesting for its description of the North Pacific and Alaska - but also of the Black Sea and Ukraine. With German royal provenance.
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[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]
Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria. [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Published/created in: 1899
£650
Very good copy of this uncommon illustrated history of one of the most famous monasteries of Russia. With two large folding plans.
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Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny. [The Illustrated Chronicle of War]
Published/created in: 1877-78
£6,750
The Balkans, Southern Eastern Europe and Western Turkey in two fascinating folio volumes detailing all events of the 1877-78 war. Very richly illustrated and rarely found in such an attractive example, here in the original publisher's binding.
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Opisanie Aralo-Kaspiiskoi nivellirovki proizvedennoi v 1874 godu. [Description of the Aral-Caspian Levelling Conducted in 1874]
Published/created in: 1877
£1,950
Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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