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BROOK-SHEPHERD Gordon
Iron Maze. The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.234.
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RUTHERFORD Ward
The Ally. The Russian Army in World War I. [First Paperback Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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KOPENHAGEN Wilfried
Armored Trains of the Societ Union 1917-1945. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SCHOFIELD Vice Admiral B.B.
The Arctic Convoys. [Maps and Drawings by Ronald Nydegger Jr]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, several charts and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably updated version of the author's earlier account ('The Russian Convoys', 1964) with full use of subsequent revelations (primarily 'Ultra'). More of a reference work, if less dramatic, than the former version. Enser, p.60; Law, 0512.
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LEE Asher
The Soviet Air and Rocket Forces. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a near fine copy.
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DEAKIN F.W.
The Case of Richard Sorge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip and fold-ins, and dust-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. The first complete account of one of the most famous spy stories of WWII: the German journalist who ran a Red Army spy ring in the Far East until his eventual capture and execution by the Japanese. Not recorded by Enser.
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INFIELD Glenn B
The Poltava Affair. A Russian Warning: An American Tragedy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SWETTENHAM John
Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1919 and the Part played by Canada. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Frame G2177; not recorded by Enser.
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VOSSLER Heinrich A.
With Napoleon in Russia in 1812. Translated and introduced by Walter Wallich. Illustrated by Christian-Wilhelm von Faber du Faur. [Reissue of the original edition of 1969]. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with 6 coloured plates (4 double-page) and endpaper map; pictorial cloth, gilt back, red top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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RUSSIAN EMBASSIES
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605). Volume II. [This volume only.]. Edited with an Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by W.E.D. Allen. Texts translated by Anthony Mango. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates (one in colour), coloured map and large folding map at end; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 139. Bridges & Hair, p.290.
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ALLILUYEVA Svetlana
Twenty Letters to a Friend. Translated from the Russian by Priscilla Johnson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, small tape mark on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper lightly sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FLEMING Peter
The The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 4 maps in the text; ochre cloth, backtrip lettered in navy, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.330.
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MASSIE Robert K.
Nicholas and Alexandra. [Introduction by the Author. Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 20pp of monochrome photographs and endpaper maps; blue patterned cloth, backstrip with black leather label blocked and lettered in gilt, blue top, a near fine copy in publisher's printed board slip-case.
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MOOREHEAD Alan
The Russian Revolution. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Frame A76.
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LOWNIE Andrew
Stalin's Englishman. The Lives of Guy Burgess. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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MACLEAN Fitzroy
Eastern Approaches. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO WITH SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 14 plates on 11 and 3 folding maps (2 coloured); handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. [SLIP-CASE NOT SHOWN IN IMAGE.] A classic of its time, recalling Maclean's Buchan-like experiences before and during WWII. Includes coverage of the Moscow State Trials, operating with LRDG in the Western Desert, kidnapping a general and being dropped in occupied Europe as Churchill's personal envoy to Tito. Enser, p.481
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MACLEAN Fitzroy
Eastern Approaches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 14 plates on 11 and 3 folding maps (2 coloured), some barely discernible offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. A classic of its time, recalling Maclean's Buchan-like experiences before and during WWII. Includes coverage of the Moscow State Trials, operating with LRDG in the Western Desert, kidnapping a general and being dropped in occupied Europe as Churchill's personal envoy to Tito. THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.481.
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STEINBERG Mark D.
The Fall of the Romanovs. Polituical Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution. Russian documents translated by Elizabeth Tucker. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black boards, upper board blocked in blind, red cloth back lettered and ruled in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARZINI LUIGI
U.R.S.S. L'IMPERO DEL LAVORO FORZATO.
16°, BROSSURA A COLORI (LIEVI MENDE), PG. XI (1) 311 (1), SECONDA EDIZIONE. (C)
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SICHOV VLADIMIR
MARX NON ABITA PIU' QUI. "VIAGGIO STRAORDINARIO NELL'URSS SCONOSCIUTA".
4°, SIMILPELLE EDITORIALE CON TITOLO ORO AL DORSO, SOVR. FIG. B.N., PG. 181 (15), 132 FOTO B.N. (MOLTE A PIENA E A DOPPIA PG.), TESTI DI EUGENE SILIANOFF, INTRODUZIONE DI INDRO MONTANELLI. PRIMA EDIZIONE.
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AA. VV.
RUSSIA. RELAZIONE UFFICIALE DELLA DELEGAZIONE OPERAIA INGLESE IN RUSSIA E NEL CAUCASO NEL NOVEMBRE E DICEMBRE 1924.
8°, BROSSURA CON ALI (LIEVI SEGNI), PG. XXV (1) 249 (3), 19 ILL. B.N. F.T., 4 TAV. CON GRAFICI (1 N.T. E 3 F.T.), 2 CARTINE B.N. F.T. A FINE VOLUME (1 A DOPPIA PG.), GLOSSARIO DELLE ESPRESSIONI POLITICHE E DETTAGLIATO INDICE DELLE MATERIE. PRIMA EDIZIONE, DAL 1 AL 5 MIGL. (C)
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GRODZENSKAIA TATIANA
PROVERBI DELLA RUSSIA.
8°, BROSSURA FIG. A COLORI CON ACETATO DI PROTEZIONE (LIEVI MENDE), PG. X 106 (4), TESTO IN RUSSO E ITALIANO, ALCUNE TAVOLE DOPPIA PG. A COLORI F.T. TRATTE DAL FERRARIO (IL COSTUME ANTICO E MODERNO - 1826), DIVERSE TAVOLE B.N. P. PG. N.T. DA XILOGRAFIE DI V. PRESNIAKOV, EDIZIONE A CURA DI D. INTERLANDI STAMPATA DA L. MAESTRI, OTTIMO STATO. (C)
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KUZNECOV EDUARD SAMUILOVIC
SENZA DI ME. DIARIO DA UN LAGER SOVIETICO (1972-1971)
8°, CARTONATO EDITORIALE CON SOVR. FIG., PG. 189 (3), PAGINE LIEVEMENTE BRUNITE, ANTIPORTA CON CARTINA, UNA FIRMA AL RISGUARDO ANTERIORE, BUONO STATO, PRIMA EDIZIONE MONDIALE. (C)
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BEONIO BROCCHIERI VITTORIO
AL VENTO DELLE STEPPE.
16°, BROSSURA FIG. A COLORI CON ACETATO DI PROTEZIONE, PG. XII 315 (1), 24 TAVOLE F.T. CON FOTO B.N., UNA CARTA ITINERARIA RIPIEGATA F.T., UNA DATA A STILO ALL'OCCHIETTO, SI UNISCE RITAGLIO GIORNALE DELL'EPOCA CON ARTICOLO SULLO "SCRITTORE VOLANTE" DI ORIO VERGANI, BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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OMIETIEV BORIS - STUART JOHN
SAN PIETROBURGO. RITRATTO DI UNA CITTA' IMPERIALE.
4°, CARTONATO NERO CON TITOLO ORO AL DORSO, SOVR. CON FOTO B.N., PG. 240, NOTEVOLE CORPUS ICONOGRAFICO B.N. N.T. (RICERCA DI O. SUSLOVA E L. UKTOMSKAIA), BUONO\OTTIMO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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SILVA CARLO
VENGO DALLA SIBERIA. DIARIO DI PRIGIONIA.
8°, TELA CON TITOLO BIANCO AL DORSO, SOVR. CON FOTO A COLORI, PG. 223 (5), 12 TAVOLE CON FOTO B.N. F.T., BUONO STATO, SECONDA EDIZIONE (LA PRIMA E' 1973). (C)
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BREVI (PADRE) GIOVANNI
RUSSIA 1942-1954.
8°, TELA CON TITOLO IN ORO AL DORSO, SOVR. FIG. (LIEVI MENDE), PG. 204 (8), NORMALI BRUNITURE MARGINALI, 15 FOTO B.N. E UNA CARTA RIPIEGATA F.T., BUONO STATO.TERZA EDIZIONE (LA PRIMA E' DEL 1955). (C)
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MASSA GALLUCCI ALBERTO (GENERALE)
NO! DODICI ANNI PRIGIONIERO IN RUSSIA.
16°, BROSSURA, PG. 211 (5), NORMALI BRUNITURE MARGINALI, 16 TAVOLE F.T. CON ILL. B.N., BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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JAKOVLEV NIKOLAJ
LA RUSSIA DALLA SCONFITTA MILITARE ALLA RIVOLUZIONE.
8°, BROSSURA FIG. (MAX HUBER), PG. 191 (1), BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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POLO MAX
DALLA CEKA AL KGB. (STORIA DELLE POLIZIE SEGRETE SOVIETICHE)
16°, BROSSURA FIG., PG. 215 (9), 16 TAVOLE CENTRALI F.T. CON ILL. B.N., BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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AA. VV.
I MONASTERI RUSSI - STORIA, ARTE, SPIRITUALITÀ.
4° (CM. 30), CARTONATO BEIGE CON TITOLO SCURO AL DORSO E AL PIATTO, SOVR. CON FOTO A COLORI, CUSTODIA MUTA IN CARTONCINO MARRONE, RISGUARDI CON FOTO A COLORI, PG. 285 (3), 212 FOTO A COLORI N.T. (ANCHE A PIENA PG.), OTTIMO STATO.
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KUZNECOV EDUARD SAMUILOVIC
SENZA DI ME. DIARIO DA UN LAGER SOVIETICO 1970-1971.
8°, CARTONATO CON TITOLO IN ORO AL DORSO, SOVR. CON FOTO B.N., PG. (2) 189 (3), UNA CARTINA B.N. ALL'ANTIPORTA, TRAD. DI M. OLSUFIEVA E O. MICHAHELLES, UNA FIRMA A BIRO AL RISGUARDO, BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE MONDIALE. (C)
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AGABEKOV GIORGIO
LA G. P. U. - MEMORIE DI UN MEMBRO DELLA CECA.
8°, BROSSURA FIG. A COLORI (VELLANI MARCHI), PG. VII (1) 312 (2), ANTIPORTA CON FOTO RITRATTO B.N. DELL'AUTORE, LIEVI SEGNI E FIORITURE, SECONDO MIGLIAIO, PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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DORIA DE ZULIANI MARIOLINA
COSTRETTI A FUCILARVI.
8°, CARTONATO MARRONE CON TITOLO AL DORSO, SOVR. FIG. A COLORI (GRAFICA R. GIUST), PG. XII (2) 213 (13), NORMALI INGIALLITURE MARGINALI, 16 TAVOLE F.T. CON FOTO B.N., PREF. DI G. VIGORELLI, DEDICA AUTOGRAFA DELL'AUTRICE AL RISGUARDO ANT., LO STERMINIO DELLA FAMIGLIA IMPERIALE RUSSA ALLA LUCE DI NUOVI DOCUMENTI, BUONO STATO. PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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FORTUNA PIERO - UBOLDI RAFFAELLO
IL TRAGICO DON. CRONACHE DELLA CAMPAGNA ITALIANA IN RUSSIA (1941-1943).
8°, CARTONATO BORDEAUX CON TITOLO ORO AL DORSO, SOVR. FIG. B.N. (F. PINTÉR E E. UBERTI), PG. (2) 495 (7), 23 FOTO B.N. F.T. E 7 CARTINE P. PG. N.T. (UNA A DOPPIA PG.) A FINE VOLUME, CON BIBLIOGRAFIA E INDICI, BUONO STATO, PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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GRANICK DAVID
IL DIRIGENTE SOVIETICO. STUDIO SULL'UOMO DELL'ORGANIZZAZIONE NELL'INDUSTRIA RUSSA.
8° (CM. 21), BROSSURA LUCIDA CON ALI FIG. A COLORI (LIEVI SEGNI), PG. 346 (2), INTERNO FRESCO, BUONO STATO, PRIMA EDIZIONE. (C)
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Tatar Uzbekistan - Early Russian Reconnaissance
Beiträge zur Länder und Staatenkunde der Tartarei, von Russischen Berichten. [Contributions to the Country and States of the Tatars, from Russian Reports.]
8vo. 63 pages. Text is in German. This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label. This issue contains an extensive and detailed sketch of the towns Tashkent and Khiva, drawing from contemporary Russian sources printed in St. Petersburg. Details include economy and average incomes, religion and customs, government, and military statistics, descriptions of a cannon foundry, a palace allegedly pillaged by Turkmen, and more. A caravan route from Orenburg to Khiva is also revealed, with mention of Karakalpakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mangyshlak, the Aral Sea, Ural river, Caspian Sea, and Amu Darya. This account pre-dates the 1873 Russo-Khivan War by 69 years. These are the original pages printed in 1804, and NOT a reprint. This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816 and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy. Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important scientific journal.
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MALESPINA - Juan De Fuca - Quadra
Nachricht Von Der Entdeckungsreise Zweier Spanisher Schiffe Nach Der Nordkueste Von Amerika Im Jahre 1792. Notice of Spanish Voyages to the North Coast of North America in 1792
8vo, 16 pages, contained in a complete 200 page monthly issue of the Geographische phemeriden, attractively bound in brown cloth with marbled boards and gilt spine. Very good condition and very crisp inside. Text in German. This is the 1804 Edition of an obscure and rare Geographical publication issued in Weimar/ Germany in the late 1700's and early 1800's named 'Geographische Ephemeriden.' It contains a portrait of Hernando Maghellan and a 16 page report about the Spanish Voyages to North America. Little was known about these Spanish voyages as the Spanish kept things secret. In 1791, Alessandro Malaspina undertook a search for the Northwest Passage. He surveyed the Alaska coast from Yakutat Bay to Prince William Sound. At Yakutat Bay, the expedition made contact with the Tlingit. The expedition's scientists made a study of the tribe, recording information on social mores, language, economy, warfare methods, and burial practices. During the return to Mexico, Malaspina's expedition spent a month at the Spanish outpost in Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island (see below). The expedition made a study of the Nootka. The two ships then sailed south to Mexico, stopping at the Spanish settlement and mission at Monterey, California on the way. Simultaneously an expedition under Francisco de Eliza, exploring the Strait of Juan de Fuca, discovered an entrance to the Strait of Georgia, which prompted further investigation. In Acapulco, Malaspina took over two schooners, the Sutil and Mexicana, placed them under the command of one of his officers, Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, and had them sail north to explore the Strait of Georgia. Galiano's expedition took place in 1792 at the same time as that of George Vancouver. The two expeditions met in the Strait of Georgia and worked together to map the waters and establish the insularity of Vancouver Island
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FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.
Search and Travel in the Caucasus. [With Map]
34 pages, including black and white plates. Plus a large fold-out color map measuring 8.25 inches x 11.25 inches (21cm x 28.5cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Mild foxing to the map, otherwise this is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Freshfield recounts a 'rescue' expedition in the Russian Caucasus. Together with Hermann Woolley, C.H. Powell, and Clinton Dent, an extensive search was performed to locate two mountaineers, Donkin and Fox, who had attempted an ascent of Dychtau (Dykhtau) mountain. Notes quoted from Fox's diary, left at his camp at Dumala, provided detail of the planned route, eventually leading the search party to remains of personal belongings and a satisfactory explanation of the fateful expedition. Freshfield further explored Dychtau and the northern glaciers, illustrated on the accompanying colour expedition map, which also demonstrates the fatal route of Donkin and Fox. This account pre-dates Freshfield's important book - The Exploration of the Caucasus, first published in 1896.
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TEMPLE, Lieut. George T.
Voyage on the Coasts of Norway and Lapland.
17 pages. Plus a large fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 13.5 x 15.5 inches (34 x 39.5cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author was only given a choice to sail on a vessel, "Annie", that was undoubtedly unsuitable for navigating the hostile Norwegian coast. Temple faces many dangers and after much hard work, he provides an illuminating hydrographical report with great detail. Accompanied by a large color map, showing the depths of the ocean. The coast of Norway is of great scientific and commercial importance, not only for its own sake, but as the connecting link between Great Britain, the European Polar Sea, and Siberia, and at a single glance the numerous harbours in tempting proximity to the latest "scientific frontier" in Scandanavia is sufficient to show that it is also of political importance.
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TEMPLE, Lieut. George T.
Notes on Russian Lapland.
10 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 14 x 10.5 inches (36 x 27cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a highly fascinating travel account of the little known Russian Lapland, bounded by Finland, Norway, the Murmans and White Seas, and the Gulf of Kandalaks, sometimes called the Kola Peninsula. The author covers various aspects of this region, the Orography, the lakes, the marshes, ice-free Fjord and harbours, fisheries, colonization, and the inhabitants and their religious beleifs. Interesting speculation of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Russians, Lapps, Quaens and the Karelians is provided by Temple. According to him, Russians were traders and speculators, the Lapps lived by hunting, fishing, and the produce of their reindeer, and the Quaens and Karelians were agriculturists. Also provides a brief description of the town of Kola, which was almost destroyed in the bombardment of 1854. Accompanied by a beautiful detailed map, marking the boundary line of Finland and Norway, showing the Russian, Karelian and Lappish villages, Lappish chapels and fishing stations.
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BAKER, G.P.
Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi District, Daghestan.
17 pages, plus a fold-out color map measuring approximately 8.25 x 10.25 inches (21 x 26cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author's Caucasus expedition route is illustrated on the lovely colour map which accompanies his first-hand reminiscence of mountaineering adventures and interactions in remote settlements. Map shows the city of Shaki, formerly Nukha, in northwest Azerbaijan. Also highlighted is Shalbuz-dagh mountain, considered holy by some, being the final home of King Solomon.
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LITTLEDALE, St. George
A Journey Across the Pamir from North to South.
35 pages. Plus a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. An important first-hand narrative of St George Littledale - a significant explorer of Tibet and the Pamir, who contributed several outstanding valuable reports to the Royal Geographical Society - on the intricacies of travel across Pamir in 1890, containing extensive details of his travel route, unbearable cold and fascinating depiction of the Kirgiz tribe. Also included are some notes contributed by Sir Douglas Freshfield, Sir Peter Lumsden and Dr Leitner. Accompanied by a spectacular fold-out colour map illustrating the author's route from Khokand to Gilghit. Littledale and his wife Teresa were known in their time as the greatest British Central Asia travellers of the nineteenth century. Littledale is also considered by many hunters to be one of the greatest big game hunters of all time. He hunted horned game, the sheep and goats, that lived in the mountains of the northern hemisphere, and he collected for the Natural History Museum in London. In 1889 he wanted to cross the Pamirs from north to south from Russia into India. Although the Foreign Office approved his proposal, the Government of India rejected it, so the Littledales changed their plans and went to Russian Central Asia and Mongolia. In 1890 permission was granted for the Pamirs crossing, the first of the Littledales’ three greatest journeys. It was the height of the Great Game, a cold war between Russia and Britain over the vast lands known as Central Asia. The rivalry between the two powers was approaching its climax in that remote desolate region and the Littledales’ feat created a sensation in the press.
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W. Rickmer Rickmers.
The Alai-Pamirs in 1913 and 1928.
23 pages. Plus several black and white photographic plates and a large fold-out colour route map, measuring 15.75 x 7.5 inches (40 x 19cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author's first-hand engaging account encompasses two separate expeditions to the same region of the Alai-Pamirs, also called the 'Ruissian Pamirs', surveying the glaciers and mountains between the Amu Darya, the Sir Darya and the Chinese border, and gaining understanding of the inhabitants dispersed throughout. Rickmers uncovers routes through ancient abandoned passes and contemporary routes guarded in secrecy. He comments on smugglers and Russian intervention, as well as historic events and ancient civilaztions, the dead cities of Chinese Turkistan and changes in glaciation. He reveals traits of the nomadic Qirghiz, the Tajik, and rock-dwelling Galchas, also stating that other unknown tribes remain unknown. With fifteen years between the two journeys, Mr. Rickmers, experienced and knowledgeable in Asian travel, also remarks on the differences and similarities of travel while imparting the most intimate detail of this formidable land.
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Atlas, Maps, Prospectus
Original Prospectus Piece, With a Sample Colour Map of St. Petersburg and Moscow and an Order Form, for the Second Edition of 'The World-Wide Atlas of Modern Geography'.
Original Prospectus Piece for the Second Edition of 'The World-Wide Atlas of Modern Geography', published by W. & A.K. Johnston in Edinburgh, 1894. With a sample colour map from the Atlas, list of maps and plans, and an order form. Single leaf, double sided, measuring approximately 9.5 x 12 inches (24 x 30cm). Minor foxing, otherwise in very good condition. Included are two small maps, one depicting Moscow and part of neighbouring cities, and the other showing southern part of the Republic of Karelia, St. Petersburg, and the historic city of Novgorod; plus a very detailed colour plan of St. Petersburg and its environs. The Atlas contained 112 coloured plates, maps, and plans of cities, and an introduction, giving an account of geographical discovery and political territorial changes in the nineteenth century, by J. Scott Keltie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
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MARKHAM, Captain A. H.
The Arctic Campaign of 1879 in the Barents Sea.
First Edition. 8vo. 42 pages, including Two Large Fold Out Colour Maps. Original condition with Blue Wrappers and all the ads. Seldom found in such good and original condition. The year 1879 must always be regarded as a very remarkable one in the annals of Arctic exploration, since two important geographical problems have been successfuly solved. Including the Swedish ship Vega, under the leadership of that persevering and energetic explorer Nordenskiold, completing her voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by rounding the northern termination of the old world - a voyage which will always rank as one of the greatest geographical feats of the present century. The second successful geographical problem solved is the small Dutch exploring schooner -the Willem Barents reaching the previously inaccessible shores of Franz-Joseph Land.
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BLACKER, Captain L. V. S.
From India to Russia in 1914.
Item is in ORIGINAL Condition, With Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads!!! Notes & Condition: An incredible comprehensive travel account of Captain Blacker's overland journey from Northern India through Central Asia, and Turkestan to Russia in 1914, during which Dr. Filippo de Filippi was leading the Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Eastern Turkestan in 1913-1914. Included in this report is a detailed sketch map of the author's route from Leh to Yarkand. 27 pages including a full-page sketch map. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Small chip to front cover, otherwise this is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Excerpts from the text: "There was a great scarcity of men and ponies as a result of Dr. De Filippi's expedition. I managed eventually to secure two passable ponies and three men. One of these was a youth named Karim, an Argoon, who proved most useful. Another was a Tibetan from Gyantse Dzong, named Puntsog, most uncivilized, but cheerful and willing; the third was a Turk named Sidiq. The latter was a disappointment; though he had served with Sven Hedin and received a Swedish silver medal from him, he possessed neither endurance, pluck, nor intelligence..." "The hospitality that I met with everywhere from the inhabitants, whether Russians, Cossacks, Kirgiz, Tibetans, Hindus, Pathans, or Turkomans, must be experienced to be appreciated, more especially the goodwill of the Indians in the villages showed that their loyalty to the British Government was more than a mere phrase....In Turkestan the people looked remarkably well fed and prosperous, the astonishing lack of sanitation seeming to have little ill effect....In Kashgar and to a certain extent in Yarkand Russian influence was very prominent, not only in the presence of the troops, but in the trade and currency.... In Ferghana (Russian Turkestan) the population seemed even more prosperous and well-to-do than in Chinese Turkestan." End Excerpts
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MASON, Major Kenneth
Central Kurdistan.
Item is in ORIGINAL Condition, With Blue Wrappers - As Issued, Complete with All the Ads!!! Notes & Condition: Mason's thorough survey and cartography of tribal Kurdistan delineates the region south of the Nestorian and Jilu belt, west of the Turco-Persian frontier and north-west of the Sulaimaniya district. Interesting account of methods and people employed in the map making process including an historical summary of Kurds in the region, war with the Armenians, Russian and Turkish control. Features commentary relating to the geographical structure of the country; obstacles to mapping; best routes for road development and telegraphs; Kurdistan's climate of extremes and the need for the establishment of a southern Armenian boundary amongst much else. Fascinating too, for the sketches of the expedition's life on the road and its intercourse with the Kurdish people. Excerpt from the text: "Kurdistan is a very old country. Some of its population are believed to be descended from the Jews of the First Captivity, and so can claim to be part of the Lost Ten Tribes with more truth than the Americans. probably most of us have a vague idea that the Kurds have been concerned in Armenian massacres; fewer of us know that a very large section of Christians in pre-war days lived quite happily in Kurdistan.. The Kurd has not changed much. These Nestorians are probably the most primitive sect of Christians in the world; they were certainly there before the arrival of Mohammed on the earth. Starvation, war, and the Turks have driven them out during the last few years to find refuge under our rule in Mesopotamia, and it is one of our difficult duties to resettle them... I have heard that when the Nestorians left, the Moslem Kurds plundered and wantonly destroyed most of their villages. These nestorians must not be confused with the Armenians, and are held in much more respect by the Moslem Kurds than the latter..."End Excerpt. 22 pages, including a few photographic plates and 2 in-text sketch maps. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition.
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COOK, Peter
Manuscript Journal - Nautical Log with Compass Drawing
Constantinople, Odessa, Canary Islands, Spain, Italy, 1816-1818. Manuscript journal chronicling two voyages with a British merchant brig called "Exchange," featuring a sixteen-month voyage for trade at the Turkish city of Constantinople and Russian ruled Odessa only five years after the conclusion of the Anglo-Russian War, and two years prior to Odessa becoming a Free Port, being a detailed nautical log made by Peter Cook, a ship's mate twenty-six years of age. Folio. 88 pages, with authorship signature. A purpose-made document produced by J. Robins & Sons of Southwark, for recording nautical data during a sea voyage, completed in manuscript by the marine. Double leafs measuring approximately 21 x 32 cm, watermarked "O & P 1812" and with the Britannia, string-tied with paper wrappers titled in manuscript to front. Together with a single leaf in the same hand, with a hand coloured manuscript drawing of a mariner's compass to recto, and manuscript notes on Traverse Sailing to verso, made by the same hand circa 1805-1810, measuring approximately 21 x 25 cm. Together with the mariner's pensioner ticket, a legal document made on vellum, completed in manuscript, dated and signed on 22 April 1872 by an administrator of the Board of Trade, measuring approximately 19,5 x 25 cm. Some age-toning, a few leafs chipped at margin, otherwise in very good and original condition. Little is known of the vessel or the writer, other than what is revealed in the present documents. Robert Ashton was the commander of the brig, "SS Exchange" whose home port at the time was Plymouth. Peter Cook, born 1790, was a man of short stature, evidently employed by the mercantile marine. He was placed on the Pension List by the Board of Trade at the Port of Milford, Surrey, effective 1 April 1871, and resided in Tenby in Wales. Manuscript
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Anon.
An Original Document Delineating Public Discontent with the Progress of the Crimean War, in Particular with "The Times Newspaper" for a False Report on the Fall of Sebastopol.
Spoof decree titled "Bill for the More effectual Prosecution of the War with Russia, and for securing the Liberty of the Press, and for other Purposes." In reality, an attack on "The Times" for erroeous reporting, and attributed to Sir George Hayes (1805-1869) who would later become Justice of the Queen's Bench. Folio. 6 pages, printed document made in likeness to a Parliamentary Bill. Blue leafs measuring approximately 21 x 34 cm. Very slight age-toning to verso, otherwise in very good and original condition, an amusing document. Sir George Hayes (1805-1869), was a Judge and Justice of the Queen's Bench. At the time of this document he was a junior barrister, and the following year, in 1856, he was made serjeant-at-law. In 1868 he was named a justice of the court of queen's bench and knighted by the queen at Windsor Castle. Indeed, he had a sense of humour and liked to put his wit to paper. As well as the present document, Hayes was the author in 1854 of an elegy in which he humorously lamented the extinction of John Doe and Richard Roe from the pleadings in ejectment. A Temple Elegy (a parody on Gray's Elegy) was edited and illustrated by H. B. i.e. Hans Busk the younger and published around 1870. His song on the celebrated case of the 'Dog and the Cock' was set to music, and occasionally sung by himself. Edmund Macrory's "Hayesiana," privately printed in 1892, provided an extended biography of Hayes' life and a reprinting of some of his private publications, including the present document. Regarding the present spoof "Bill for the more effectual Prosecution of the War with Russia," Macrory describes it as "printed on blue foolscap paper, in the form of a Bill introduced into the House of Lords, and was printed (as the date on it proves) in February 1855, just at the time when the War in the Crimea was progressing not entirely in a satisfactory manner, and shortly after a second false report of the fall of Sebastopol had found its way into some of the daily newspapers, including The Times."
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