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[ROBINEAU, Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand, dit de BEAUNOIR].
Voyage sur le Rhin, depuis Mayence jusqu'à Dusseldorf (tome 1 et 2 reliés en 1 volume).
A Neuwied, chez la Société Typographique, 1791, 2 parties reliées en 1 volume in-8 de 210x125 mm environ, (1) f. 1 faux-titre, 1 titre, 180-174 pages, demi-basane fauve marbrée, dos lisse portant titres dorés sur pièce de titre corail, orné de filets et fers dorés, tranches marbrées. Petites galeries de ver et mouillures dans les marges, couverture état moyen, léger manque de papier sur la page de table des gravures, bien complet des 13 planches dépliantes annoncées.
Référence libraire : 99108
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[ROUILLE D'ORFEUIL (Gaspard Louis)]
1- L'Ami des François. Constantinople [i.e. Paris], 1771. 793, (2) f. "d'avis de l'éditeur" et d'errata. 2- L'Alambic Moral, ou Analyse raisonnée de tout ce qui a rapport à l'Homme. Par l'Ami des François. Maroc [i.e. Paris], 1773. xij, 570 p., (1) f. "d'Errata". (EXEMPLAIRE DE L'AUTEUR)
2 ouvrages reliés en 2 volumes in-8 (196 x 123 mm), plein maroquin rouge de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de compartiments richement fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre de maroquin vert bronze, plats encadrés de triples filets garnis de fleurons d'angle, roulettes sur les coupes et les chasses, tranches dorées, gardes de tabis bleu. Exemplaire d'auteur (?) 1- Édition originale et unique de ce projet de réformes politiques, économiques et administratives, donné sous forme d'un voyage imaginaire utopique: un naufragé aborde le pays des Sérosages… Planche gravée en regard de la p. 531, qui figure un curieux: "Tableau de culture, pendant vingt-quatre ans". L'originalité du projet, par ailleurs inspiré des idéaux physiocratiques, réside en ce que l'auteur, en disciple de Rousseau, fait reposer son modèle sur l'hypothèse anthropologique d'une bonté originelle de l'homme et sur un principe d’autorité fondé sur celui de la famille. Ainsi, le narrateur s'adresse-t-il au roi Alcidor pour préconiser prioritairement l'éradication des vices inhérents à la société avant toute réforme structurelle: "Sire , en détruisant le luxe, les moeurs s'épurent d'eux-mêmes , les villes se débarrassent, les campagnes se repeuplent, les terres se défrichent, la population augmente, l'émulation renaît, la circulation se rétablit, le Royaume devient un Paradis terrestre & Votre Majesté verra sous son règne un second âge d'or" (p. 696). (Goldsmiths, 10717. Higgs, 5385. INED, 3938. Kress, 6818. Weller, II, p. 188). 2- Édition originale. L'auteur soumet, sous forme de dictionnaire philosophique classé par article, un vade-mecum des idéaux économiques, politiques et sociaux fondés sur le populationnisme, la défense de l'agriculture et la liberté du commerce. On y trouve des articles sur l'accouchement, l'adoption, l'adultère, l'agriculture, les banqueroutes, le cadastre, le célibat, les courtisanes, le divorce, la famine, les fêtes, l'hôpital, les loteries, les salaires... "Très varié et fort intéressant. Théories sur l'excellence de la population et de l'agriculture, sur la nécessité de modérer l'industrie, sur les dangers du luxe, des colonies, etc." (cf. longue analyse in INED, 3937 sq.). (Goldsmiths, 10955. Higgs, 5646. Kress, 6975). Homme des Lumières, acquis aux idées physiocratiques, Gaspard Louis Rouillé d'Orfeuil (1732-1791) devint conseiller, puis maître des requêtes au parlement de Paris, président au Grand Conseil, intendant de La Rochelle, puis de Champagne. Tenu en grande estime par Diderot, il a laissé une réputation "d'intendant modèle". Exemplaire de l'auteur, sans doute, comportant deux rajouts manuscrits repliés en marge (p. 136 et 320) et une petite correction (p. 513). Les pièces d'auteur aux dos portent "L'Ami des Francois". Deux papillons imprimés, collés l'un au verso du titre de "l'Alambic" ; l'un pour signaler que "le manuscrit de cet ouvrage a été enlevé beaucoup trop tôt à l'auteur" et regretter les trop nombreuses erreurs non corrigées. L'autre p. 551 pour annoncer d'autres titres du même auteur à paraître. Quelques petits trous en pied d'une reliure. Certains feuillets légèrement froissés. Autre provenance: Viscount Mersey Bignor Park (ex-libris imprimé) Bel exemplaire très bien relié en maroquin rouge à l'époque, imprimé sur beau papier vergé.
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[Royal Asiatic Society].
Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. London, 1824-1834.
4to. 3 volumes in 8 parts. With 80 lithographed plates, including several folding plates and 2 chromolithographed plates, and some smaller illustrations in text. Contemporary blue and grey paper wrappers, kept in two modern half morocco boxes. Complete set of all the articles published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in the years 1824-1834 under the name "Transactions". In 1835 the journal would continue under the name Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. The society was founded in 1823 and received its Royal Charter in 1824 for "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia" (website Royal Asiatic Society). The set consists of three volumes, published in two or three parts, each containing several articles on a wide variety of subjects: archaeology, religion, philosophy, languages, scripts, coins, inscriptions, and occasionally natural history and medicine. The areas covered are China, India, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. The lithographed plates illustrate temples, statues of gods, inscriptions, scripts, coins, maps, etc. Some half-titles slightly browned, but overall in very good condition, wholly untrimmed and mostly unopened. Paper wrappers slightly frayed along the extremities. Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, Serials p (individual fascicules 1709, 1716, 1720, 1721, 1723, 1726, and 1734).
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[Royal Mail Steam Packet Company]
Guide for Brazil and River Plate cover title. Guide for the South American Route For the Information of Tourists and Passengers
London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo 112 pp plus 13 blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations including 2 folding panoramas a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear to the fold of one parorama; all else very good or better in original green cloth. The "South American Route" begins in Spain and Portugal proceeding to Madeira Teneriffe St. Vincent Fernando de Noronha Pernambuco Bahia Rio Santos Sao Paolo Monte Video Buenos Ayres etc. Descriptive information history commerce landscape tourist excursions etc is provided on each locale. There is also a list at the end of more than 50 books on South America recommended for the education of travelers including works of history and geography fiction travel narratives dictionaries emigrant's guides and statistics on commerce and natural resources. An uncommon guidebook; 7 copies located in OCLC. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 14710
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[RUSSIAN TRAVEL] TAFT, Marcus Lorenzo
Strange Siberia – Along the Trans Siberian Railway. A Journey from the Great Wall of China to the Skyscrapers of Manhattan Inscribed Presentation Copy
New York: Eaton & Mains 1911. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper to James 1st Viscount Bryce at this time British ambassador to the United States: "To the Rt. Hon. James Bryce P.C. etc etc etc with the compliments of the Author" dated July 1911. 12mo 17.5cm. Publisher's green pictorial cloth titled in gilt; 260pp; color photographic frontispiece twenty unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones. A bright complete and crisp copy mildly darkened on spine with just a touch of rubbing at spine ends and board corners - Very Good to Near Fine and unusual thus. <br /> <br /> Taft 1850-1936 a distant cousin of the U.S. President served for more than thirty years from 1880 to around 1913 as a Chinese missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church. This uncommon little travelogue well-illustrated from photographs by the author appears to have been his only commercially published work. Eaton & Mains unknown
Référence libraire : 87395
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[RUSSIAN TRAVEL] TAFT, Marcus Lorenzo
Strange Siberia – Along the Trans Siberian Railway. A Journey from the Great Wall of China to the Skyscrapers of Manhattan
New York: Eaton & Mains 1911. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 17.5cm. Publisher's green pictorial cloth titled in gilt; 260pp; color photographic frontispiece twenty unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones. A bright complete and crisp copy mildly darkened on spine with just a touch of rubbing at spine ends and board corners - Very Good to Near Fine and unusual thus. <br /> <br /> Taft 1850-1936 a distant cousin of the U.S. President served for more than thirty years from 1880 to around 1913 as a Chinese missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church. This uncommon little travelogue well-illustrated from photographs by the author appears to have been his only commercially published work. Eaton & Mains unknown
Référence libraire : 83593
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[RÉGON] - [POURRAT (Henri)] -
En Auvergne.
Paris, Arthaud, 1973 ; petit in-4, 366 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bon état - avec jaquette.
Référence libraire : 201306533
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[SAIGE (Guillaume-Joseph)]
Catéchisme du Citoyen, ou Elemens du Droit public français; Par Demandes & Réponses; suivi de Fragmens politiques; par le même auteur.
1788 In-8 (193 x 120 mm), plein veau porphyre de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs guillochés, orné de compartiments fleuronnés et garni d'un fer à l'urne répété, tranches mouchetées bleues, iv, [-5], 159 pages. En France, 1789.
Référence libraire : 39122
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[SAVOIE Louis Amédée de]. S. A. R DUC DES ABRUZZES.
Expédition de l'Etoile polaire dans la mer arctique 1899-1900. Traduit de l'italien et résumé par M. Henri Prior.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1904. In-4, 2 ff (introduction)-285 pp plus table des matières. Reliure de l'époque, demi-maroquin bleu marine à coins, deux filets dorés, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés. N couronné doré en queue, tête dorée.
Référence libraire : 24440
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[SAFARI] - ZUBER (Christian) -
Le grand safari.
Paris, Presses de la cité, 1966 ; in-8, 215 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette en superbe état.
Référence libraire : 201903201
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[SAINT-SIMON (Claude Henri, comte de)]
Paroles d'un mort [Parabole de Saint-Simon].
In-8, broché, couverture imprimée, 11 p. Paris, Imprimerie centrale de Napoléon Chaix, 1848.
Référence libraire : 32987
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[Saint FRANCOIS-XAVIER] - THIVOLLIER (P.).-
Une grande aventure au pays des épices avec François Xavier. Illustrations de M. Rançon.
Sans lieu, ni date, ni éditeur, petit in 12 broché, 87 pages ; couverture illustrée ; illustrations hors-texte en couleurs.
Référence libraire : 38429
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[SAHEL, VOYAGES] - FROMANTIN (Eugene) -
Une année dans le sahel.
Vienne, Manz, éditeur, s.d. ; in-12, 287 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Référence libraire : 200900638
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[SAINTE-BEUVE]
Volupté.
Charpentier, Paris, 1840. In-12 reliure demie basane verte, plats marbrés. Dos long avec dorures. 422 pages. Mention "nouvelle édition" sur page de garde. Publication anonyme (pas d'auteur) sauf préface signée S.-B.
Référence libraire : 5520
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[SAINT-MARTIN (Louis Claude de)]
1- Des Erreurs et de la Vérité, ou Les hommes rappellés [sic] au principe universel de la Science (...). Par un Ph... Inc... Edimbourg [i.e. Lyon, J.-A. Périsse-Duluc], 1782. (4), viii, 456 p. 2- Suite des Erreurs et de la vérité (...). Salomonopolis, Androphile, 5784 [i.e. Paris, 1784]. (4), 435 p.
Ensemble relié en 2 volumes in-8, plein veau havane marbré, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin, tranches rouges (reliure maçonnique de l'époque). Rare ensemble réunissant le premier écrit du "Philosophe Inconnu" et sa "Suite" dans une reliure maçonnique de l'époque. 1- Edition originale sous page de titre de remise en vente. Le premier livre de L.-C. de Saint-martin, qu’il rédigea alors qu’il suivait l'enseignement de Martinès de Pasqually. "L’auteur, indigné de lire, dans Boulanger, que les religions étaient nées de la frayeur causée par les catastrophes de la nature, composa ce livre pour montrer, dans la nature même de l'homme, la connaissance sensible d'une cause active et intelligente, véritable source des allégories, des mystères, des institutions et des lois" (Gence, ‘Notice biographique sur L.-C. de Saint-Martin’, 1824) Cette édition aurait été imprimée par Jean-André Périsse-Duluc, député du tiers état aux États généraux de 1789 pour Lyon. Franc-Maçon, il fit partie de la maçonnerie mystique lyonnaise. 2- Edition originale de cette "suite" apocryphe de l’ouvrage de Saint-Martin qui serait l'œuvre de Charles de Suze. Réaction au rationalisme des Lumières, l'oeuvre de Saint-Martin exerça une influence majeure sur la génération romantique. (Caillet, III, 9762 et 9770. Dorbon, 4308. Guaita, 931. Chateaurhin, ‘Bibliographie du martinisme’, p. 17). Bel exemplaire, frais, très bien relié à l’époque, grand de marges. L’exemplaire est conservé dans une reliure maçonnique comportant 2 fois trois étoiles placées symétriquement dans les pièces de tomaison, rappelées par deux fois trois grains placés dans les caissons.
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[SAINT-SIMON (Claude Henri, comte de)]
Paroles d'un mort [Parabole de Saint-Simon].
In-8, broché, couverture imprimée, 11 p. Deuxième édition, publiée par Olinde Rodrigues, de la célèbre "Parabole" de Saint-Simon publiée initialement dans le périodique "L'Organisateur" en 1819. Saint-Simon imagine que la France perde subitement ses cinquante meilleurs représentants dans les arts, les sciences et l’industrie et oppose ce malheur irréparable à la perte, sans conséquence, de cinquante officiers de la Couronne, ministres, fonctionnaires, ecclésiastiques et propriétaires fonciers "qui vivent noblement". Il note, non sans malice, que le peuple en serait certes affligé parce que "ces hommes sont bons", mais qu’il n’en résulterait aucun mal pour l’État. "Cette 'parabole' du Comte de Saint-Simon pourrait être relue avec nos lunettes d'aujourd'hui si on veut bien faire l'effort de changer les mots et les vocables qui appartenaient à la société de Louis XVIII" (Vingtras, Club de Mediapart). (Mazzone, n°71, 8, p. 29. Walch-Gerits, 410). Petits accrocs de papiers à la couverture, sinon bon exemplaire. Rare.
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[Sansom, Joseph]
Travels from Paris through Switzerland and Italy. In the years 1801 and 1802. With sketches of the manners and characters of the respective inhabitants. By a native of Pennsylvania.
London, Richard Phillips, 1808. 8°. 22 cm x 14 cm. 280 Seiten. Broschur. Blauer Farbschnitt.
Référence libraire : 2033FB
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[SAVOIE Louis Amédée de]. S. A. R DUC DES ABRUZZES.
Expédition de l'Etoile polaire dans la mer arctique 1899-1900. Traduit de l'italien et résumé par M. Henri Prior.
Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1904. In-4, 2 ff (introduction)-285 pp plus table des matières. Reliure de l'époque, demi-maroquin bleu marine à coins, deux filets dorés, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés. N couronné doré en queue, tête dorée. Nombreuses illustrations in-texte, 34 illustrations à pleine page dont une en frontispice, (portrait de l'auteur), 4 cartes dont une à pleine page. De la bibliothèque du Prince Victor Napoléon avec son chiffre couronné en queue. Légères traces d'humidité dans la marge supér ou infér sans gravité, coins frottés.
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[SCIENCE NATURELLE] - COMPILATION D'AUTEURS DIVERS
Forêts, prairies & jungles: chasses & aventures.
Rouen, Mégard & Cie Libraires-Éditeurs, 1886 ; in-8, 224 pp. + frontispice hors-texte, relié pleine percaline d'éditeur, coloris rouge vif, dos lisse, plats estampés à motifs noirs, texte inscrit: «Collège de Pont-à-Mousson» dans une couronne de chêne et d'olivier surmontée d'une couronne de laurier, tranches jaspées. Livre de Prix du Collège de Pont-à-Mousson. Traduit de l'anglais par Mlle Pugsley. Bon état.
Référence libraire : G0035
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[SCHWABISCHE FRANKREICH, VOYAGES, RIQUEWHIR, RIBEAUVILLÉ, WURTEMBERG] - KLUCKERT (Ehrenfried) -
Reise nach Mompelgard.
Stuttgart, Deutsche verlags anstalt, 2001 ; in-8, 254 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Neuf - avec sa jaquette - kulturgeschichtliche streifzuge ins schwabische Frankreich.
Référence libraire : 201217893
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[SCIENCE NATURELLE] - COMPILATION D'AUTEURS DIVERS
Forêts, prairies & jungles : chasses & aventures.
Rouen, Mégard & Cie Libraires-Éditeurs, 1886; in-8, 224 pp. + frontispice hors-texte, relié pleine percaline d'éditeur, coloris rouge vif, dos lisse, plats estampés à motifs noirs, texte inscrit : « Collège de Pont-à-Mousson » dans une couronne de chêne et d'olivier surmontée d'une couronne de laurier, tranches jaspées. Livre de Prix du Collège de Pont-à-Mousson. Traduit de l'anglais par Mlle Pugsley. Bon état.
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[Scrap book - Asia and Middle East].
The Callender scrap book. England, USA, Austria, Germany, Bermuda, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Malaya, Bombay, Aden, 1916-1950s.
382 photographs (various sizes), mostly tipped in to album. Captioned throughout. Includes two exit visas dated 1949, issued by the new Communist Regime. Scrap book documenting the journeys and diplomatic stations of longtime British First Secretary R. T. Callender and his wife Cécile, mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. Shows family life in Britain, Berlin under National Socialist rule, the Rhine Valley, holidays in Tyrol, stations in Bermuda and Shanghai, (some 75 images of the siege of the city and Mao's Communist invasion), Bombay, and, finally, Aden in Oman (the harbour, a military encampment, and the famous wells) and the Suez canal. Several photos have been removed without much care, leaving the album sheets torn in places.
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[Scrapbooks] : [Travel]
FROM DAY TO DAY WITH THE PURNELL'S ON A WESTERN TOUR: July - 1934 Cover Title - Original Typescript Travel Narrative Illustrated by Real Photographs
1934. About 100 thin white paper leaves each approximately 11" x 8." Hand-illustrated title page in front followed by a combination of typed entries and leaves mounted with original photographs commercial photographs various ephemeral articles brochures menus etc. all to rectos only. Contents loose from a perished binder or album of some kind. Some scattered edge toning and wear. Many binding holes reinforced at left margins. Overall contents clean well preserved. Good or better overall. <br/><br/>An original typescript travel narrative of some 8500 words conservatively illustrated by dozens of souvenir photos and 30 original vernacular snapshots documenting the automobile trip of a Purnell family from the Philadelphia-area to Yellowstone and back during July of 1934. The travel log spans July 7 - July 31 and entries suggest they traveled nearly 5000 miles in a period Buick though we are unable to discern its model year. <br /> <br />It begins with the family which appears to have three members George Caryolyn and Elizabeth Betty driving through Eastern Pennsylvania en route to Yellwostone via a southern route which included St. Louis Kansas City and Denver. Stops for meals and frequent vehicle maintenance figure heavily into the typed entries as well as their judgements of various towns and cities encountered on the journey: <br /> <br />"We left Indianapolis 8.25 A.M. ; spedometer at 59575. The weather was semi-hazy and warm but not hot. At Stilesville we bought gas and oil and had the fan well oiled. Terre Haute was the largest city en route but not very impressive. We stopped for a salad lunch at noon at Benwood Hotel Effingham Ill. ; thence through a rather uninteresting flat farm country to St. Louis Mo. arriving at Jefferson Hotel about 3.30 P.M. East St. Louis Ill. across the Mississippi River from St. Louis from what we saw of it would easily take firsts prize as the world's shabbiest town." July 9 1934 <br /> <br />The family spends several days in Yellowstone dutifully recording entries on their activities the journal seems to be maintained mostly by Carolyn the wife / mother of the family before heading back east on a northern route which takes them through Chicago where they visit and likewise record their impressions of the 1934 Century of Progress World's Fair. <br /> <br />In all an uncommoonly detailed and well illustrated vernacular record of travel by automobile in the American West during the Depression-era. unknown
Référence libraire : 3255
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[Scrapbooks] : [Women's Education] : [Travel] : [Missouriana]
SCRAPBOOK OF THE SPRING TRIP Interior Title - Original Scrapbook and Photo Album of the 13th Annual Stephens College Educational Tour
Columibia Missouri 1938. Large commercial scrapbook. 14" x 11" x 2" thick. Smooth brown vinyl over board panels with ornate relief design of a sailing ship above the tite "SCRAP / BOOK" to front. String binding at left margin holding 50 thin brown card leaves the first 45 with contents moounted to rectos and versos throughout ; final five leaves blank. Contents include 39 original snapshot photographs along with dozens of travel publications including many maps postcards clippings a typed itinerary in cut scraps etc. Maybe half a dozen articles perished from mountings otherwise about very good condition. <br/><br/>A dense scrapbook kept by a student of the all-women's Stephens College during a two-week trip from Columbia Missouri into Texas and Mexico then west to Los Angeles up the Pacific coast and into Seattle before heading back east throuogh the Norther Plains states. The trip began on March 3 1938 and was directed by The Travel Guild of Chicago which arranged transport on at east five different rail lines. The scrapbook includes 39 original photographs dozens of ephemeral articles including several fine examples of period traavel brochures including a large pictorial map of Montana and scarce pictorial brochure for Uvalde Texas a typed record of their daily itinerary and more. <br /> <br />A rich document of Depression-era women's educational experience and travel in the American West from an important Missouri institution. unknown
Référence libraire : 3244
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[SEGALEN] - COLLECTIF
CAHIERS DE L'UNIVERSITE DE PAU N° 11 : VICTOR SEGALEN.
1987 Université de Pau, Centre de Recherches sur la Poésie Contemporaine, 1987. Deux volumes grands in-8 brochés totalisant 607 pp. (pagination continue). Des annotations au crayon sur une quarantaine de pages, sinon bon état.
Référence libraire : 11961
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[SELECTIONS DE CONNAISSANCE DU MONDE ]
SELECTIONS DE CONNAISSANCE DU MONDE.
Paris, Société continentales d edition modernes illustrés, 1959 ; in-8, cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Référence libraire : 201313974
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[SEGALEN] - TAYLOR (Michael)
Vent des royaumes, ou les voyages de Victor Segalen.
Gr. In-8, 252p. Avec un cahier photographique central. Enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de l'auteur.
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[SERIZAWA KEIGO]. 芹澤馨吾
標準大東亞分圖・南洋群島 内南洋. Hyojun Daito-A bunzu: Nanyo gunto nai Nanyo. Standard Sectional Map of the Greater East Asia: the South Sea Islands Inner South Sea.
統正社 Tōseisha . Showa 18 1943. Colour folded map 54. x 76.5cm. Pinholes at corners light even browning good copy. This Japanese map of Micronesia shows the Mariana Islands Eastern and Western Caroline Islands Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands. The separate maps around the edge are clockwise from the upper right corner: Jaluit Atoll Guam Island Rota Island Saipan Island Palau Islands Yap Island Hall Islands Pohnpei Island Truk Islands and Kusaie Island. . 統正社 [Tōseisha ]. unknown
Référence libraire : 155215
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[Shanghai and the Xinhai Revolution].
Photograph album. Shanghai, early 20th century.
Oblong folio (362 x 274 mm). Contemporary block-bound silk album of 111 photographs. Various sizes; largest 212 x 155 mm. A photograph album comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, including several images of battleships, various English-language shop signs for local businesses (such as "Hsing Loong Carpenter Mason and Painter"), and 12 photographs showing the burial procession of the mother of Shanghai businessman Pau Ching Po. Also, there are several photographs of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai: in November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city, establishing the Shanghai military on 8 November that same year. The photographs offered here depict the uprising in the streets as well as scenes of destroyed homes and weapons used when taking the city. The revolution resulted in the overthrow of the last imperial monarchy in China and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912. - Also includes images of the German Theatre at the Lyceum, founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society, a photograph of Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) at the Club Concordia in 1904 laying the foundation stone to the new German Club in Shanghai, and three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul General in Shanghai from 1899 to 1906. - Very well preserved. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Born in India, the brother of the German poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder grew up in Bremen, trained as a merchant and visited India, China, Japan, and America. He established his own business in Shanghai in 1906. His intimate knowledge of East Asia led him to embrace the philosophy of anthroposophy.
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[Shanghai, Huangpu River, Moganshan, Hangzhou].
Photograph album. Shanghai, Huangpu River, Moganshan, Hangzhou, ca. 1900.
Oblong folio (363 x 274 mm). Contemporary block-bound silk album of 167 photographs. Various sizes; largest 297 x 218 mm. A photograph album comprising 167 images of the life of a German merchant family in China around the turn of the century. Includes several views of the interior of the Schröders' art-deco residence in Shanghai and of their Chinese domestic workers dressed in late Qing costumes with house puppies and pet monkey, with several portraits of Schröder's wife, showing her feeding the chicken in the courtyard or seated on a horse carriage in the streets of Shanghai, many photographs were taken during the Schröder family's extensive travels in and around Shanghai, for example along the Huangpu River to the mountain retreat in Moganshan and to Hangzhou, showing not only scenic views but also the life of locals they met en route. - Extremeties somewhat rubbed with slight flaws to silk, but still well preserved. Provenance: From the collection of Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Born in India, the brother of the German poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder grew up in Bremen, trained as a merchant and visited India, China, Japan, and America. He established his own business in Shanghai in 1906. His intimate knowledge of East Asia led him to embrace the philosophy of anthroposophy.
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[Sheridan, Frances]
The History of Nourjahad
London: J Dodsley. G : in good condition. 20th century rebind with new eps. Prelims stained. 1767. First Edition. Marbled hardback boards with brown leather spine. More images available on request. 180mm x 120mm 7" x 5". 240pp. . J Dodsley hardcover
Référence libraire : j5038
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[SHIHAN GAKKŌ] 師範学校編輯.
北亜米利加洲. Kita Amerika-shū. The States of North America.
Kyoto.: 村上勘兵衛 文部省刊行. Murakami Kanbē; Monbushō kankō. Meiji 10 1877. Colour woodblock map of North and Central America. From the Journal of World Geography 萬國地誌略 published in 1877. Printed area measures 33.5 x 21cm a good copy with occasional soiling. . 村上勘兵衛, 文部省刊行. [Murakami Kanbē; Monbushō kanko& unknown
Référence libraire : 159812
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[Sieur Mouette]
Les Aventures de deux captifs français dans le royaume de Fez et de Maroc par le Sieur Mouette, compagnon de leur disgrâce.
Paris, Bibliophiles du Maroc, 1934; in-4° en feuilles, couverture, chemise et étui.Gravures sur cuivre de Josso, coloriées par Maillart. Tiré à 150 exemplaires sur vélin blanc de Rives; le nôtre porte le n° 86 et est enrichi d’une suite en noir et de la décomposition des couleurs du frontispice.
Référence libraire : EXE-6
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[SINGAPOUR] - TALABOT (Marcel) -
Singapour troisieme Chine.
Paris, Robert Laffont, 1973 ; in-8, 253 pp., br.
Référence libraire : 201408082
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[Siam - Thailand]. McFarland, Samuel Gamble, ed.
Siamese hymnal. Phetchaburi (in Thailand), Samuel Gamble McFarland, 1876.
8vo. 148 pp. (collates: [1]2 2-194 = 74 ff.). With western round-head letterpress music notation, a decorated rule on the title-page and each page in a frame of rules. Set in Thai type with incidental roman and the place of publication in a decorative textura. This copy with the letterpress presentation slip on blue paper tipped in (from McFarland and his wife), for people who contributed to the project. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, gold dotted fillets on spine, bubble-grain grey-brown cloth sides, probably bound for presentation. Very rare first edition (first issue) of McFarland's Thai (Siamese) hymnal, one of the first books printed by the mission press at Phetchaburi (Petchabury) in Thailand, with the 86 hymns selected by donors who contributed at least five dollars for the production of the hymnal. Each hymn appears on a single double-page spread (with the music at the head of the left page) except the last, whose text continues on nine additional pages. The texts of the hymns themselves appear only in Thai, but the title, introductory note and hymn titles also appear in English and each hymn gives the name of the person or organisation that selected it in English only. Some of the donors who selected the hymns lived in Thailand (both Europeans and natives) but most lived in the United States. Each hymn also indicates the metre, either with abbreviations for the common, long, short, hallelujah or particular metre, or with an indication of the number of syllables per line. The music was apparently set and electrotyped by J.M. Armstrong in Philadelphia and the electrotype blocks shipped to Phetchaburi for printing, for the Newberry Library copy of the second issue has a manuscript note "Music typography by J.M. Armstrong, Philadelphia, Pa." (Armstrong advertised his services for music typesetting and electrotyping at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition). - The first European book printed in Thai type is said to be Jean Baptiste Pallegoix's 1854 Thai dictionary (with Latin, French and English translations) by the Imprimerie Impériale in Paris, but missionaries printed Thai books in Asia decades earlier. The Missionary George H. Hough set up a printing office in Yangon (Rangoon), Burma, where he had Thai type made and used it in 1819. His materials were taken to the mission press in Calcutta soon after. Claudius Henry Thomsen of the London Missionary Society brought a printing press to Singapore in 1822 and operated it with another missionary, Samuel Milton, who brought a fount of Thai type from the Calcutta mission, along with a set of matrices to cast more. Thomsen sold the press and materials to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1834 and John Taylor Jones printed Thai for them there in 1835. The ABCFM missionary Dan Bradley took one press and the Thai type to Bankok in July 1835 and produced Thailand's first printing with Thai type in 1836, and Jones moved there to take charge of the press. The Thai King Mongkut (Rama IV)'s interest in printing features in the musical "The King and I", based on Anna Leonowens's 1870 memoires. In 1861 Samuel McFarland, Daniel McGilvary and their wives set up the first Thai mission outside Bankok at Phetchaburi, where McFarland printed the present hymnal in 1876 (he is said to have printed a dictionary in 1866). A second edition appeared in 1885 and the fifth and last in 1920. - We have located five other copies of the 1876 edition. The four recorded in WorldCat have 181 pages, but the Pittsburg Theological Seminary has a second copy that has 148 pages, like the present copy. The preliminary note explicitly says the hymnal includes 86 hymns and they are all present, and there is no evidence that any leaves ever followed page 148, so the additional leaves sometimes included were probably added after copies had been distributed to donors. They probably add further hymns or possibly some other supplementary text. The presentation slip for the donors notes that the hymnal is already being used by the missionaries' congregations, so the present copy probably shows the book as the Thai people first saw it. Cf. KVK & WorldCat (4 copies of the 2nd issue); not in Cordier, Indosinica; for the history of the presses: eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1074_2008-12-20.html; J.F. Coakley, "Printing offices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ...", in: Harvard Library Bulletin IX (1998), pp. 5-34, at pp. 26-27.
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[Siebenbürgen].
Elenchus civitates, oppida et pagos in m. principatu Transylvaniae existentes, distincta serie iuxta comitatus, districtus, et sedes exhibens. O. O. u. Dr. [wohl Wien?], [um 1775].
54 SS., l. w. Bl. Blaue Interimsbroschur der Zeit. 8vo. Seltenes Verzeichnis der Städte und Dörfer Siebenbürgens. Über Bibliothekskataloge nur 3 Exemplare nachweisbar (Wienbibliothek, Siebenbürgische Bibliothek Gundelsheim, BSB München [incpl.]). - Sehr sauberes, gutes Exemplar mit hs. Deckeltitel in rosafarbenem Buntstift (um 1900).
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[Singapore - Photographs]. Sachtler, August, and others.
Views of Singapore and surroundings. Singapore, ca. 1870.
20 large uniform albumen prints (210 x 270 mm), all but one in landscape format. Each print mounted on paper boards (245 x 325 mm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Stored in a modern black cloth clamshell box with a red morocco label ("Singapore"). A uniform set of large photographic albumen prints of Singapore, including exterior views of traditional, European, and mixed-style buildings, landscapes, the botanical gardens, etc., many with European and/or Malay people in the scene and some with horse-drawn carriages, or boats. The two views from Fort Canning have been attributed to August Sachtler (ca. 1839-73): one looking southwest toward Telok Blanagah village and its hill, with a Malay man in the foreground; the other looking southeast toward the roadstead, with many ships in the background and a canon in the foreground, at least the former published in the National Museum of Singapore's catalogue "The Image of Our Landscape" (2009). Sachtler gained experience as a photographer in the Prussian expedition to Japan and China (1860-62), came to Singapore in 1863 and worked there as a commercial photographer until his death in April 1873. He may be the author of some of the other photographs as well. They show the Jamae Mosque (ca. 1835) and Sri Mariamman Hindu temple (ca. 1827; the tower and wall to the left differ only slightly from those in a dated view of 1866: the tower was completely changed in the early 20th century); six views of the botanical gardens established by Whampoa (1816-80); a jungle plantation in operation (with 4 boats); jungle houses built on wooden stilts with roofs and some walls of reed; the Hôtel de l'Europe (either that on St Andrew's Road, demolished in 1906, or its predecessor on Beach Road); the mission chapel; the gothic revival St Andrew's Cathedral (ca. 1861); Raffles Square (named Commercial Square by Stamford Raffles in 1823 but changed to Raffles Place in 1858, the name in the photograph apparently retaining the older name); the town hall (ca. 1862: the offices moved elsewhere in 1893). The view of Raffles Place clearly shows the signboards of the shops: G. Schiller; Geokteat & Co; John Little (department store established 1845), and Singapore Dispensary (these last two are also visible in an album presented to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1869). - Two of the photographs have lettered captions and numbers as part of the photographic prints themselves, in white sans-serif capitals in the lower right corner: "Bot. Garden S. 200" and "Raffles Square S. 212". Most have a number in the lower left corner, written after the print was made, ranging from 3 to 200 (matching the number in the print, but the print with number 212 has no written number). Each has a number written on the mount, along one long edge (the head except in the one photograph in portrait format) ranging from 109 to 139, not corresponding to the other numbers. - As usual for albumen prints, the sky in the background shows little or no cloud detail, and two or three have lost a bit of detail in the background, but all further preserve very detailed images and are in very good condition, with only occasional minor spots. A remarkable set of large, detailed and well-preserved historical images of Singapore ca. 1870. For Sachtler, see the report of a lecture by Sebastian Dobson on oag.jp.
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Bulletin de la Société de Géographie... Année 1894.
Paris, Société de Géographie, 1894. In-8°, 618p. Reliure demi-toile grenat.
Référence libraire : 22546
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Bulletin de la Société de Géographie... Année 1894.
In-8, 618p. Avec 9 cartes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire. Détails sur demande.
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Compte rendu de la Société de Géographie... Année 1894.
In-8, 500p. Avec 4 cartes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire. Détails sur demande.
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Compte rendu des séances de la Société de Géographie... Année 1895.
In-8, 398p. Avec 2 cartes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire.
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Compte rendu des séances de la Société de Géographie... Année 1899.
In-8, 410p. Avec 2 cartes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire.
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[SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE]
Compte rendu des séances de la Société de Géographie... Année 1893.
In-8, 496p. Avec 2 cartes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire.
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[South America]: [Travel]
EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED PHOTOGRAPHIC SCRAPBOOK OF AMERICANS TRAVELING IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Various locations in Latin America 1938. 100pp. containing 230 photographs as well as postcards maps dozens of menus greeting cards and other travel ephemera. Thick folio. Contemporary brown paper-covered cloth string-tied. Boards lightly scuffed and worn. Some leaves loose moderate edge wear and chipping. Photographs clean and nice annotations highly legible. Good plus. An illuminating and entertaining illustrated scrapbook documenting the travels of six friends on a trip to Mexico Panama and various points in South America including Colombia Peru Chile Argentina and Brazil in 1938. One of the opening leaves has four photographs of the travellers comprised of two elderly couples and two single women captioned "Rogues to the Pampas!" Throughout the album there are numerous photographs both vernacular and professional a great many capturing locals in native dress as well as images of scenery and the city streets. The photographs are accompanied by detailed descriptive annotations which are colorful and entertaining but also display the compilers' uncharitable to openly offensive views towards some of the foreign peoples and cultures they visit.</p> <p>The voyage began January 20 1938 aboard the Japanese NYK Liner S.S. Bokuyo Maru. There are numerous menus and other ephemera from the ship as well as a photograph of the Japanese crew signed by the ship's officers. The first photographs depict Manzanillo Mexico a week later with captions such as "Worst city we ever saw says the man from Capetown South Africa who has been around the world" and "Sid Thompson says 'I bet if these Mexicans had a good hot bath they'd find a suit of underwear they didn't know they had!" They picture a "peddler of hats and drink" and a "man carrying load on his head" in the streets of Manzanillo. They then take a train to Colima Mexico on which a passenger is noted to say "Jesus Christ you'd think they never saw an American before" and where they eat papaya for the first time. In Panama on February 3 they see "a native with an iguana in each hand - we also saw our first sloth and a land crab" and they witnessed "a negro funeral."</p> <p>On February 5 the travellers stop at Buenaventura Colombia where they experienced an earthquake and their first sight of the Andes along with a "strong acrid wet odor that pervades atmosphere everywhere." There are several photographs of the city and the locals including one of "natives" fishing accompanied by significant commentary on the locals:</p> <p>"The natives have plenty of fish which they catch in nets thrown by hand - plenty of bananas and fruits and cocoanuts and will not work enough to buy anything but a little clothing rice and coffee. There are no public schools in Colombia - a few religious schools inland. All education for boys and girls of better class is in U.S. or Europe.U.S. buys 85% of Colombia's coffee. Population 80% negroes on coast. Government is unstable foreign capital will not make very much of an investment here but Standard Oil Co. has a $52000000 pipeline in Colombia. Malaria is the greatest plague here though typhoid is also guarded against in fruits and vegetables. Buenaventura is wholly tropical."</p> <p>The group then proceeds to Lime Peru where they arrive "in a dense fog - worst in 10 years." They take numerous snapshots of various cultural sights around the city images of "guano birds" along the shoreline and a "Typical Peruvian Indian of the High Andean Plateaus." They stayed three nights at the Hotel Bolivar before proceeding to Cuzco Tacua and Mollendo which they describe as "a dirty town." Still they took several photographs here including "Descendants of the Incas at Cuzco" an "Indian woman riding Burro - typical scene" in Tacua and other street scenes.</p> <p>Chile was next for the group. They were in Santiago by February 23 and shot several images at a street market such as a soap dealer the flower market a corn stand and other scenes. Shortly thereafter they traveled to Valparaiso Puerto Varas Puerto Montt and other Chilean locations. They captured the port of Valparaiso the Three Brothers at Chilean Lakes scenes in the Chilean mountains Lake Llanquihue and include in the album a professional real photo postcard captioned "Typical Araucanian Indian Hut" among other images.</p> <p>The travellers then moved on to Argentina. They describe Buenos Aires as "the most beautiful city in South America so far as the city itself is concerned." Their time in the city is illustrated exclusively with postcards but they include a plethora of descriptive text for numerous monuments landmarks harbor scenes gardens and other sites.</p> <p>During their time in Brazil the travellers document coffee production cattle and other agricultural settings as well as cities and architectural features. These include numerous images of Rio de Janeiro which "no picture however beautiful can portray with any accuracy the beauty of Rio." On March 30 the group heads "from Buenos Aires down the muddy Rio de la Plata" towards the Amazon River. Here they include real photo postcards of "Typical Indians of the Amazon" an "Amazon Indian Hut" and "More Indians - These are some of the most primitive people living." Among the images taken on the streets of Brazil is one showing a black woman walking with a bundle on her head which is captioned "N asterisks ours mammy in pink dress and head load - and was she furious when I took her picture! If looks could kill I'd be buried in Brazil."</p> <p>The group rejoined their cruise in Brazil boarding the Rio de Janeiro Maru and finished their journey at the end of April. A detailed revealing and lengthy travel account extensively illustrated and annotated by a group of judgmental American tourists. hardcover
Référence libraire : WRCAM55556
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[SOUTH AMERICA -- TRAVEL]. STEPHENS, Henry.
Journeys and experiences in Argentina Paraguay and Chile: including a side trip to the source of the Paraguay River in the State of Matto Grosso Brazil and a journey across the Andes to the Reio Tambo in Peru.
New York: Knickerbocker Press 1920. Tall 8vo. xvii 1 525 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates colour plate & photo text illustrations throughout 3 printed plates of Argentine Plazas 2 large folding maps. Orange-coloured pictorial publisher’s binding wraparound cover art in peach green blue & black of vulture perched atop crag w/ palatial rancho in distance on front cover sailing ship and ocean on back cover t.e.g. minor rubbing and sunning to spine some minor thumbing & dustsoiling minor thumbing on ffep. minor bumping to couple corners still VG bright copy w/ author’s presentation inscription on ffep. First edition stated inscribed and dedicated to H.L. Mencken Stephens details gambling Playa Ramirez experiences in the humidity and 1.75 million inhabitants of Buenos Aires viticulture and vines in Mendoza along with an assortment of train rides ship voyages and more. The closing chapter focuses primarily on the business opportunities in Argentina Paraguay & Chile describing opportunities in wheat beef leather breweries and sugar mills while wary of grafting politicians. Knickerbocker Press, hardcover
Référence libraire : 61468
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[SOUTH ASIA - MAP]. NEELE, SAMUEL JOHN.
Map of the East Indies from the Best Authorities.
London & Glasgow.: W. and D. Brownlie. 1805. Engraved map 18.7 x 23.9 cm original folds age toned and spotted inner margin a trifle ragged paper thinning in a few spots in good condition. Attractive map engraved for "A System of Geography; or A Descriptive Historical and Philosophical View of the Several Quarters of the World" published in 1805. . (W. and D. Brownlie) unknown
Référence libraire : 175148
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[Soviet General Staff Maps] - China 1:1,000,000.
General'nyí shtab. (China 1:1,000,000). [Moscow, General Staff], 1971-1989.
A total of 25 topographic maps, colour-printed, ca. 57 x 59.5 cm - 58 x 66.5 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale. In Russian (Cyrillic). The Soviet Union's 1:1,000,000 General Staff map quadrangles showing China: from the Russian series of maps produced during the Cold War, based on high-quality satellite imagery, but usually also ground reconnaissance. While there are a few lacunae mostly concerning central China, the South ranging from Myanmar to Fuzhou and parts of the East Coast including Nantong and Beijing are well covered. Assembled continuously, the quadrangles would form an enormous map spanning more than 5 x 6.5 metres!. - Products of a massive, clandestine cartographic project begun under Stalin and ultimately encompassing the entire globe, the Soviet General Staff maps are today noted for their extreme precision. Indeed, even in post-Soviet times they provide the most reliable mapping for many remoter parts of the world: "Soviet-era military maps were so good that when the United States first invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, American pilots relied on old Russian maps of Afghanistan. For almost a month after the United States began a bombing campaign to help oust the Taliban government, American pilots were guided by Russian maps dating back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s" (Davies/Kent, p. xi). - Although the details of the cartographic programme evolved over the decades, its overall system and plan remained remarkably constant. "The basic quadrangle is the 1:1,000,000 sheet spanning 4° latitude by 6° longitude. The quadrangles are identified by lettered bands north from the equator and by numbered zones east from longitude 180° [...] Each 1:1,000,000 sheet is subdivided into four 1:500,000 sheets (from northwest to southeast), labeled [by] the first four letters of the Russian alphabet" (ibid., p. 19-21). "Printing such large-format plans in so many colors with near-perfect print registration itself testifies to the skill of the printers in the military map printing factories across the former Soviet Union. The quality of printing reflects the level of training and the reliability of humidity-control equipment and the electricity supply at the time" (ibid., p. 6f.). Although the details of the cartographic programme evolved over the decades, its overall system and plan remained remarkably constant. "The basic quadrangle is the 1:1,000,000 sheet spanning 4° latitude by 6° longitude. The quadrangles are identified by lettered bands north from the equator and by numbered zones east from longitude 180° [...] Each 1:1,000,000 sheet is subdivided into four 1:500,000 sheets (from northwest to southeast), labeled [by] the first four letters of the Russian alphabet" (ibid., p. 19-21). "Printing such large-format plans in so many colors with near-perfect print registration itself testifies to the skill of the printers in the military map printing factories across the former Soviet Union. The quality of printing reflects the level of training and the reliability of humidity-control equipment and the electricity supply at the time" (ibid., p. 6f.). - Although the general terrain evaluation maps and operational maps produced at the smaller scales of 1:1,000,000 and 1:500,000 were not separately marked as classified (larger-scale maps were often specifically labelled "Secret" or "For Offical Use"), all General Staff maps de facto constituted closely guarded military material, none of which became available in the West before the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. - Light traces of folds and occasional wrinkles, but altogether in excellent condition. Cf. J. Davies / A. J. Kent, The Red Atlas (Chicago/London, 2017).
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[Soviet General Staff Maps] - China 1:200,000.
General'nyí shtab. (China 1:200,000). [Moscow, General Staff], mainly 1970s and 1980s.
A total of 1,618 topographic maps, colour printed, ca. 45 x 51.5 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale. In Russian (Cyrillic). The Soviet Union's 1:200,000 General Staff map quadrangles showing China: from the Russian series of maps produced during the Cold War, based on high-quality satellite imagery, but usually also ground reconnaissance. While there are a few lacunae in the north and south, western and central China as well as the east coast including Taiwan are well-covered, ranging as far as Vladivostok. Assembled continuously, the quadrangles would form an enormous map spanning roughly 27 x 34 metres!. - Products of a massive, clandestine cartographic project begun under Stalin and ultimately encompassing the entire globe, the Soviet General Staff maps are today noted for their extreme precision. Indeed, even in post-Soviet times they provide the most reliable mapping for many remoter parts of the world: "Soviet-era military maps were so good that when the United States first invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, American pilots relied on old Russian maps of Afghanistan. For almost a month after the United States began a bombing campaign to help oust the Taliban government, American pilots were guided by Russian maps dating back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s" (Davies/Kent, p. xi). - Although the details of the cartographic programme evolved over the decades, its overall system and plan remained remarkably constant. "The basic quadrangle is the 1:1,000,000 sheet spanning 4° latitude by 6° longitude [...] Each 1:1,000,000 sheet is [...] subdivided into 36 1:200,000 sheets in a six-by-six grid [... They] normally contain on the reverse side a detailed written description of the districts (towns, communications, topography, geology, hydrology, vegetation, and climate) together with a geological sketch map" (ibid., p. 19-21). "Printing such large-format plans in so many colors with near-perfect print registration itself testifies to the skill of the printers in the military map printing factories across the former Soviet Union. The quality of printing reflects the level of training and the reliability of humidity-control equipment and the electricity supply at the time" (ibid., p. 6f.). - Somewhat curled at the sides, including the odd edge flaw, but altogether very well preserved. Cf. J. Davies / A. J. Kent, The Red Atlas (Chicago/London, 2017).
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[Soviet General Staff Maps] - China 1:500,000.
General'nyí shtab. (China 1:500,000). [Moscow, General Staff], 1970-1989.
A total of 108 topographic maps, colour-printed, ca. 52.5 x 57.5 cm - 56 x 68.5 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale. In Russian (Cyrillic). The Soviet Union's 1:500,000 General Staff map quadrangles showing China: from the Russian series of maps produced during the Cold War, based on high-quality satellite imagery, but usually also ground reconnaissance. While central and southern China are well covered, ranging from Myanmar over Hongkong to Hefei, and far Western quadrangles include parts of Kashmir, a few quadrangles of the East coast and the far North are lacking. Assembled continuously, the quadrangles would form an enormous map spanning roughly 10 x 15 metres!. - Products of a massive, clandestine cartographic project begun under Stalin and ultimately encompassing the entire globe, the Soviet General Staff maps are today noted for their extreme precision. Indeed, even in post-Soviet times they provide the most reliable mapping for many remoter parts of the world: "Soviet-era military maps were so good that when the United States first invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, American pilots relied on old Russian maps of Afghanistan. For almost a month after the United States began a bombing campaign to help oust the Taliban government, American pilots were guided by Russian maps dating back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s" (Davies/Kent, p. xi). - Although the details of the cartographic programme evolved over the decades, its overall system and plan remained remarkably constant. "The basic quadrangle is the 1:1,000,000 sheet spanning 4° latitude by 6° longitude. The quadrangles are identified by lettered bands north from the equator and by numbered zones east from longitude 180° [...] Each 1:1,000,000 sheet is subdivided into four 1:500,000 sheets (from northwest to southeast), labeled [by] the first four letters of the Russian alphabet" (ibid., p. 19-21). "Printing such large-format plans in so many colors with near-perfect print registration itself testifies to the skill of the printers in the military map printing factories across the former Soviet Union. The quality of printing reflects the level of training and the reliability of humidity-control equipment and the electricity supply at the time" (ibid., p. 6f.). - Five of the maps carry the Russian air defense grid ("setka PVO") printed in pink. Although the general terrain evaluation maps and operational maps produced at the smaller scales of 1:1,000,000 and 1:500,000 were not usually marked as classified (larger-scale maps were routinely labelled "Secret" or "For Offical Use"), all General Staff maps de facto constituted closely guarded military material, none of which became available in the West before the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. - Light traces of folds and occasional wrinkles, but altogether in excellent condition. Cf. J. Davies / A. J. Kent, The Red Atlas (Chicago/London, 2017).
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[Soviet General Staff Maps] - Japan 1:200,000.
General'nyí shtab. (Japan 1:200,000). [Moscow, General Staff], 1968-2002.
A total of 152 topographic maps, colour-printed, ca. 45 x 45 cm - 47 x 55 cm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale. In Russian (Cyrillic). The Soviet Union's 1:200,000 General Staff map quadrangles showing Japan: from the Russian series of maps produced during the Cold War, based on high-quality satellite imagery, but usually also ground reconnaissance. All three main islands are very well covered, showing many large cities including Sappora, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka, as well as Busan in North Korea and several small islands. Assembled continuously, the quadrangles would form an enormous map spanning roughly 17 x 16 metres!. - Products of a massive, clandestine cartographic project begun under Stalin and ultimately encompassing the entire globe, the Soviet General Staff maps are today noted for their extreme precision. Indeed, even in post-Soviet times they provide the most reliable mapping for many remoter parts of the world: "Soviet-era military maps were so good that when the United States first invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, American pilots relied on old Russian maps of Afghanistan. For almost a month after the United States began a bombing campaign to help oust the Taliban government, American pilots were guided by Russian maps dating back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s" (Davies/Kent, p. xi). - Although the details of the cartographic programme evolved over the decades, its overall system and plan remained remarkably constant. "The basic quadrangle is the 1:1,000,000 sheet spanning 4° latitude by 6° longitude [...] Each 1:1,000,000 sheet is [...] subdivided into 36 1:200,000 sheets in a six-by-six grid [... They] normally contain on the reverse side a detailed written description of the districts (towns, communications, topography, geology, hydrology, vegetation, and climate) together with a geological sketch map" (ibid., p. 19-21). "Printing such large-format plans in so many colors with near-perfect print registration itself testifies to the skill of the printers in the military map printing factories across the former Soviet Union. The quality of printing reflects the level of training and the reliability of humidity-control equipment and the electricity supply at the time" (ibid., p. 6f.). - Traces of folds, occasional odd edges, but altogether very well preserved. Cf. J. Davies / A. J. Kent, The Red Atlas (Chicago/London, 2017).
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