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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 MARBAULT M. de. Essai sur le commerce de Russie. #1

Russian vodka & caviar - a fresh example

[MARBAULT, M. de, also MARBEAU]

Essai sur le commerce de Russie, avec l'histoire de ses découvertes

£2,250

Russian vodka & caviar - a fresh example
[MARBAULT, M. de, also MARBEAU]. 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.

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 [ALASKA]. Act of the Russian-American Company. First complete edition, in Russian. St. Petersburg, 1802. #2

Out of stock

Very rare early charter and bylaws of the Russian-American Company in Alaska

[ALASKA]

[The Act of the Main Board of the Russian-American Company, under the patronage of His Imperial Majesty, the Rules granted to this Company by the Emperor, and the enclosed statutes relevant to the Company] Pod Vysochaishim Ego Imperatorskogo Velichestva pokrovitelstvom Rossiisko-Amerikanskoi Kompanii Glavnogo Pravleniya Akt i Vysochaishe darovannya onoi Kompanii Pravila s priobshcheniyem prilichnykh k onomu Uzakonenii

Very rare early charter and bylaws of the Russian-American Company in Alaska
[ALASKA]. [The Act of the Main Board of the Russian-American Company, under the patronage of His Imperial Majesty, the Rules granted to this Company by the Emperor, and the enclosed statutes relevant to the Company]. Pod Vysochaishim Ego Imperatorskogo Velichestva pokrovitelstvom Rossiisko-Amerikanskoi Kompanii Glavnogo Pravleniya Akt i Vysochaishe darovannya onoi Kompanii Pravila s priobshcheniyem prilichnykh k onomu Uzakonenii
Published/created in: 1802

£17,500

An exceptional document pertaining to the history of Alaska, of greatest rarity and here in fantastic condition.

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

Out of stock

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

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.
Published/created in: 1738

£7,500

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

Out of stock

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

MORRIS, Roland

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.

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