Which one is higher?
Publication: Bezobrazov i komp., Skt. Peterburg, 1877.
Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
£1,950
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A rare scientific work describing the results of an expedition to Central Asia tasked with establishing the level difference between the Aral and Caspian seas – the Aral sea was found 74 meters higher. Printed in relatively large format, it includes a large and detailed map of the territory between both internal seas, which nowadays is split between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Maps of this area were not commonly found before the 20th century, especially in such large scale.
Descending from a French Protestant family which settled in Kyiv, Aleksey Tillo (1839–1900) became an officer in the Russian army and a prominent Russian geographer, land surveyor and cartographer, interested in geography, terrestrial magnetism and meteorology among other themes. He published many works and is known to have coined the term ‘Central Russian Upland’.
Scarce: we could not find any other example at auction (including in Russia) in recent decades. WorldCat shows only 3 holdings in the USA (NYPL, Drexel and Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and 3 locations in Europe (Germany and Sweden).
Provenance
Biblioteka Imp. Geograf. Obshchestva (Library of the Imperial Geographical Society; blue ink stamp dated 28 November 1883 to wrappers, title and maps along with red deaccession stamp across, shelf numbers in dark ink to upper wrapper and spine label).
Item number
2091
Large 4to (34 x 25 cm). 40 incl. title and t.o.c. leaf, [2] pp., large folding map, 6 smaller maps on one folding sheet, 2 lith. plates incl. one folding, all plates by Ilin.
Binding
Original publisher’s printed wrappers.
Condition
Wrappers a bit soiled and marked, with pencil inscriptions in Swedish, edges a bit frayed, one closed tear; marginal worming and small marginal closed tear to title and first leaf, minor handling creases.
KAMPE [CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich; and Aleksandr Semenovich SHISHKOV, translator]
Detskaia biblioteka, izdannaia na nemetskom iazyke gospodinom Kampe, a s onago perevedena g. *** [Children's library [ie. Kleine Kinderbibliothek], published in German by Mr. Campe, and translated by M. ***].
More than a translation, an original adaptation, dedicated to Princess Dahskova, the first woman head of an Academy of Sciences and first female member of the American Philosophical Society. A very rare early edition of this important book for Russian children - and a lovely example with a sewn translation label!
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