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Image for A. NOS. Nachalo dobrovolnago flota. Voluntary Russian fleet. First edition, Moscow, 1890. #2

Extremely rare work on the Russian fleet, in an even rarer binding

Nachalo dobrovolnago flota [The Beginning of the Voluntary Fleet]

£2,750

Extremely rare work on the Russian fleet, in an even rarer binding
NOS, Andrei. Nachalo dobrovolnago flota. [The Beginning of the Voluntary Fleet]
Published/created in: 1890

£2,750

A diplomatic gift from Nikolay II to the French President Felix Faure, in a great, striking binidng boasting the Russian flag. First edition of this fine illustrated work, very rare as only one other copy traced worldwide.

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 Krusenstern, Woerter Sammlungen, North Pacific exploration and languages, first edition, Saint Petersburg, 1813 #1

An exceptional, large-paper example

KRUSENSTERN, Ivan Fedorovich [KRUZENSHTERN]

Wörter-Sammlungen aus den Sprachen einiger Völker des östlichen Asiens und der Nordwest-Küste von Amerika

£13,500

An exceptional, large-paper example
KRUSENSTERN, Ivan Fedorovich [KRUZENSHTERN]. Wörter-Sammlungen aus den Sprachen einiger Völker des östlichen Asiens und der Nordwest-Küste von Amerika.
Published/created in: 1813

£13,500

First edition of Kruzenshtern's important study of North Pacific languages, in a superb, very unusual example: very crisp, uncut, in plain temporary wrappers and printed on thicker woven paper. We were unable to trace other such large-paper copies. A rare book on the market: only two copies at auction.

Image for [CATHERINE II] C.G. ARNDT. Russisch-Kaiserliche Ordnung... First edition in German; St. Petersburg, 1781-82. #2

Out of stock

Part of Catherine's legislative effort

[CATHERINE THE GREAT] – ARNDT, Christian Gottlieb (translator)

Rußisch-kaiserliche Ordnung der Handels-Schiffahrt auf Flüßen, Seen und Meeren [Russian Imperial Statute of Merchant Shipping on Rivers, Lakes and Seas]

Part of Catherine's legislative effort
[CATHERINE THE GREAT] - ARNDT, Christian Gottlieb (translator). Rußisch-kaiserliche Ordnung der Handels-Schiffahrt auf Flüßen, Seen und Meeren. [Russian Imperial Statute of Merchant Shipping on Rivers, Lakes and Seas]
Published/created in: 1781-82

£650

First developped legislative corpus for maritime trade and merchant shipping. First edition in German, Catherine's native language, printed in Saint Petersburg.

Image for BORISOV, A. U Samedov. First edition, 1907. #7

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Northern regions seen by a Russian artist

BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich

U Samoedov. Ot Pingi do Karskogo moria. Putevye ocherki [Among the Samoyeds. From the Pinega river to the sea of Kars. Travel sketches]

Northern regions seen by a Russian artist
BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich. U Samoedov. Ot Pingi do Karskogo moria. Putevye ocherki. [Among the Samoyeds. From the Pinega river to the sea of Kars. Travel sketches]
Published/created in: 1907

£1,250

An artist-explorer gives his impressions of his polar trip to Northern Russia.

Image for BORISOV, A. Krainii Sever. First edition, 1931. #7

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The first Russian painter of the Arctic

BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich

Krainii sever [The Far North]

The first Russian painter of the Arctic
BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich. Krainii sever. [The Far North]
Published/created in: 1931

£2,250

Great images due to an artist-explorer discovering the Arctic regions of Russia. Scarce, and this copy inscribed by a leading Soviet explorer.

Image for Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny [The Illustrated Chronicle of War], Skt. Peterburg, 1877-78. First edition, in publisher's binding. #1

Out of stock

Fascinating illustrated account

GOPPE, German (publisher)

Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny [The Illustrated Chronicle of War]

Fascinating illustrated account
GOPPE, German (publisher). 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.

Image for LEBEDEV, Vl. Antarktika. Moscow, 1957. #2

Out of stock

The Soviet Antarctic - inscribed

LEBEDEV, Vladimir Lvovich

Antarktika [The Antarctic]

The Soviet Antarctic - inscribed
LEBEDEV, Vladimir Lvovich. Antarktika. [The Antarctic]
Published/created in: 1957

£650

Important study of the Antarctic by a leading Soviet oceanographer: a first edition, inscribed by the author to a distinguished hydrologist and engineer. Illustrated, in particular with maps.

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]

The achievements of Japanese colonisation in Sakhalin
. Karafuto Shashin-cho. [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin]
Published/created in: Showa 11 [ie. 1936]

£950

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

Image for MORRIS, Typed letter to Charles Hart, on Vladivostok during the Russian Civil War. #2

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A US Ambassador visits Vladivostok during the Civil War

Signed Letter to Charles Hart, with Envelope

A US Ambassador visits Vladivostok during the Civil War
MORRIS, Roland. Signed Letter to Charles Hart, with Envelope.
Published/created in: October 4, 1918

£195

The US Ambassador to Japan recounts his views of Vladivostok, just a year after the Russian Revolution while the Civil War front is moving eastwards: a fine letter on embossed official paper of the Embassy, kept with its signed original envelope.

Image for See-Zoll Reglement & Customs Tariff & Latino-Russo-German dictionary, rare Russian-German first editions, St. Petersburg, 1731-32 #1

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For the 1730s Baltic traders

Morskii poshlinnyi reglament ili ustav […] Neues See-Zoll-Reglement […]
[BOUND WITH:]
Lateinisch-Rußisch und Teutsches Vocabularium. Latino-rossiiskaia i nemetskaia slovesnaia kniga.
[BOUND WITH:]

Poshlinnoi Tarif […]. Zoll-Tarif […]

For the 1730s Baltic traders
. Morskii poshlinnyi reglament ili ustav […] Neues See-Zoll-Reglement […]

[BOUND WITH:]

Lateinisch-Rußisch und Teutsches Vocabularium. Latino-rossiiskaia i nemetskaia slovesnaia kniga.

[BOUND WITH:]

Poshlinnoi Tarif […]. Zoll-Tarif […].
Published/created in: 1731 and 1732

£12,500

An exceptional sammelband for Russo-German sea trade under the Germanophile Tsarina Anna Ivanovna, containing three rare and early Russian publications: the first bilingual editions of the new duty statute and of the customs tariff, together with a trilingual dictionary. A lovely, fresh example in contemporary binding.

Image for EFREMOV. Desiatiletnee stranstvovanie i priklucheni... First edition, 1786. #1

Out of stock

Small but packed with fascinating content

EFREMOV, Filipp

Desiatiletnee stranstvovanie i prikluchenie v Bukharii, Khive, Persii i Indii, i vozvrashchenie ottuda cherez Angliu v Rossiu [Ten Years of Wanderings and Adventures in Bukhara, Khiva, Persia and India, and the return journey from there through England to Russia]

Small but packed with fascinating content
EFREMOV, Filipp. Desiatiletnee stranstvovanie i prikluchenie v Bukharii, Khive, Persii i Indii, i vozvrashchenie ottuda cherez Angliu v Rossiu. [Ten Years of Wanderings and Adventures in Bukhara, Khiva, Persia and India, and the return journey from there through England to Russia]
Published/created in: 1786

£14,500

Very rare fiist editoion of this travel to areas "almost completely closed to Europeans" (Vigasin): the first significant Russian publication on Central Asia, "the first geographic exploration of Uzbekistan" (Lebedev) with a detailed description of silk production, and most probably the first printed Russian-Persian vocabulary.

Image for LEITSINGER, Photographs of Arkhangelsk and Northern Russian people, late 19th century #1

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Samoyeds, barrels and snow

LEITSINGER, Jakob Ivanovich

Photographic Views of Arkhangelsk and its Region

Samoyeds, barrels and snow
LEITSINGER, Jakob Ivanovich. Photographic Views of Arkhangelsk and its Region.
Published/created in: 1890-1900s

£895

A lovely group of rare Russian photographs, showing Northern indigenous peoples and local trades by one of the main photographers of the Russian North, and future mayor of Arkhangelsk.

Image for FOX, G.V., Narrative of the Mission to Russia, first edition in full red morrocco, New York, 1873. #2

Out of stock

In a signed full-morocco binding

FOX, Gustavus Vasa

Narrative of the Mission to Russia, in 1866 From the journal and notes by J. F. Loubat. Edited by J. D. Champlin.

In a signed full-morocco binding
FOX, Gustavus Vasa. Narrative of the Mission to Russia, in 1866. From the journal and notes by J. F. Loubat. Edited by J. D. Champlin.
Published/created in: 1873

£1,100

Fine example, in full red morocco, of the account of this official American mission to Russia, just 6 months before the sale of Alaska.

Image for BURTSEV, Tsar i vneshniaia politika, Russo-Japanese War, Berlin, 1910. #1

Out of stock

Another war which went wrong...

BURTSEV, Vladimir Lvovich

Tsar i vneshniaia politika. Vinovniki russko-iaponskoi voiny [The Tsar and Foreign Affairs. The Culprits of the Russo-Japanese War]

Another war which went wrong...
BURTSEV, Vladimir Lvovich. Tsar i vneshniaia politika. Vinovniki russko-iaponskoi voiny. [The Tsar and Foreign Affairs. The Culprits of the Russo-Japanese War]

Published/created in: 1910

£65

Great denunciation of the catastrophy for Russia of the war against Japan. A pre-revolutionary publication banned in tsarist Russia.

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