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A historically significant collection of unique original materials, created and collected by a member of Admiral Richard Byrd’s Second Antarctic Expedition (1933-1935) and providing a personal, sometimes emotional account of people and events.“Party of 56 men wintered at ‘Little America II,’ Bay of Whales, Ross Ice Shelf; the most elaborate expedition base established in the Antarctic to this time; 10 new buildings added to the 1928-30 base; eastern margin of the Ross Ice Shelf roughly charted during dog sledge journeys to Ford Ranges, Rockefeller Plateau and the eastern part of Queen Maud Mountains; geological party ascended Robert Scott Glacier to Polar Plateau; proved continental character of Marie Byrd Land and that, almost certainly, no direct sea connection existed between the Ross Sea and Weddell Sea; flights showed that the newly discovered… Leer más

Several scenes dated Kaei 7 [1854], but possibly a slightly later, Meiji period copy. Hand-painted scroll ca. 1085x27,5 cm (ca. 35 ½ ft x 10 ¾ in). Ink and watercolour on rice paper, neatly remounted, with a silk cover and string attached to the outer end of the scroll. Housed in a more recent custom-made wooden box ca. 8x32x7,5 cm (3 x 12 ¾ x 2 ¾ in). Occasional very minor repaired wormholes, but overall a beautiful scroll in very good condition.Large rare beautiful very finely hand-painted “Black Ship Scroll” with a pictorial record of the negotiations of the first American-Japanese Treaty of Kanagawa which was signed in Yokohama on March 31, 1854. The Treaty resulted from Commodore Matthew Perry’s two naval expeditionary missions to Japan (July 1853 and February-March 1854) and effectively ended 220 years of… Leer más

First Edition. Quarto. [vi], 138, [ii] pp. With four folding copper engraved maps and plans after P. Rikord, and an aquatint portrait of Takadaya-Kahei.Period Russian full calf binding. Marbled endpapers. Tail of spine is restored, otherwise a very good clean copy. The previous owner’s name ‘Alexander Pavlov’ in period manuscript at the beginning and end of the text, The same name is crossed out on the title page.Rare Russian imprint as only nine copies were found in Worldcat (Library of Congress, Cornell University, Yale University, Harvard University, New York Public Library, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Berlin State Library, National Diet Library in Japan). The primary source of the early history of Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under the command of Ivan Krusenstern and… Leer más

Second edition. Quarto. Book 1 and only. [1 – t.p.], [1 – dedication to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna from Mueller], [4 – dedication to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna from the Academy of Sciences], [4 - Preface], 368, [6 – Brief Chronology of Siberian History]; [24 Alphabetical Index] pp. 20th-century owner’s inscription on the title page; Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear pastedown endpaper. Period brown full calf; maroon spine with a gilt-lettered title label and gilt-tooled decorative vignettes. Binding expertly repaired on extremities, mild water stains in text and on the title page, occasional pencil and ink markings in text, but overall a very good copy.Very rare Russian imprint with only four paper copies found in Worldcat (Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California Berkeley, University of… Leer más

Octavo, 2 vols. Xxxvi [i-ii - t.p., iii-vii – table of contents, ix-x - dedication to K. Bulgakov, xi-xii - second dedication, xiii-xxxvi – translator’s preface & Dobell’s biography], 237, [1 - errata]; [2 – t.p.], vii – table of contents, 272 pp. With two lithographed frontispieces (A. Bruloff fecit, Lith. V. Langer). Period style brown full sheep bindings housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Spines with gilt-tooled ornaments and gilt-lettered title labels; Occasional very mild foxing, a couple of pencil markings in text, but overall a very good set of this rare work.First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only six paper copies found in Worldcat. This is the first Russian edition, published three years after the first English edition ( "Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, " 2 vols., London, 1830). The Russian edition contains… Leer más

Each ca. 20x12 cm (7 ¾ x 5 in). 4, 4, 5,5 [= 13,5] pp. Brown ink on creamy laid paper. Six small ink sketches and maps in text. With a bifolium of creamy wove paper ca. 20x12,5 cm (ca. 8x5 in) with a hand-drawn map and manuscript notes in black ink. Watson’s letters: Berber, 27 September 1874; Gondokoro, 23 November 1874; Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, 5 April 1875. Three Small Octavo letters (ca. 20,5x12,5 cm or 8x5 in). 4, 6, 4 [= 14] pp. Black ink on laid paper. All manuscripts comprise ca. 29 pp. of text. Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, one leaf of Gordon’s letter with a minor loss in the centre affecting two words (but still readable), otherwise a very good collection of original expedition manuscripts.Historically significant collection of content-rich, original autograph signed letters (three are illustrated with several… Leer más

Quarto, ca. 27x19,5 cm (10 ½ x 7 ¾ in). Four pages; brown ink on cream laid paper with fleur-de-lis watermark, written in a legible hand. Paper aged and slightly faded, with fold marks, but the text is still bright and easy distinguishable. Beautiful period style crimson elaborately gilt tooled custom made full morocco clamshell box with cloth chemise. The letter in very good condition.Remarkable and Very Important Primary Source for Russian-Western European relations in the 17th century. This is a very important anonymous letter: "Curiosissimi Costumi de’Sig.i Ambasciatori Moscoviti, che ora si trovano in Livorno per passare all’Ambasciata di Venezia. " According to the historians who worked with two other known copies of the letter (see below: Attribution of "Relatione d’Alcuni Costumi ") it was written by a first-hand witness of the… Leer más

[7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 20,5x14,5 cm. Black stamps on the first and the last leaves, short manuscript notes in Ottoman Turkish on leaves 1, 7 and 8. 19th century dark brown quarter sheep with black pebbled paper boards. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, repaired on hinges, otherwise a very good copy.First edition in Ottoman Turkish. This is the third of seventeen ‘Turkish incunabulas’, published in the fi rst year of the existence of the printing house by the legendary Basma Khane of Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745) in Istanbul – the fi rst typography of moveable Arabic type under Islamic auspices. Opened by permission of Sultan Ahmet III in 1727, Basma Khane was the fi rst of its kind in the Islamic world, and published 17 titles in 22 volumes between 1729 and 1742, including geographies, histories, and… Leer más

Each ca. 20x12 cm (7 ¾ x 5 in). 4, 4, 5,5 [= 13,5] pp. Brown ink on creamy laid paper. Six small ink sketches and maps in text. With a bifolium of creamy wove paper ca. 20x12,5 cm (ca. 8x5 in) with a hand-drawn map and manuscript notes in black ink. Watson’s letters: Berber, 27 September 1874; Gondokoro, 23 November 1874; Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, 5 April 1875. Three Small Octavo letters (ca. 20,5x12,5 cm or 8x5 in). 4, 6, 4 [= 14] pp. Black ink on laid paper. All manuscripts comprise ca. 29 pp. of text. Fold marks, paper slightly age-toned, one leaf of Gordon’s letter with a minor loss in the centre affecting two words (but still readable), otherwise a very good collection of original expedition manuscripts.Historically significant collection of content-rich, original autograph signed letters (three are illustrated with several… Leer más

First and only edition. Large Octavo (ca. 23,5x14 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 - copper-engraved dedication leaf to Emperor Alexander I], [3 – dedication to Emperor Alexander I], [5 – official correspondence regarding the publication], [6 - preface], [2 – table of contents], 230, 186 pp. With ten copper engraved plates, two large folding copper engraved maps of Lake Baikal and Eastern Siberia (the latter with borders outlined in colour), and a large folding table at rear. Our copy is bound without the copper-engraved half-title page, apparently also absent in some institutional copies. Handsome period style black half straight-grained morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with gilt-tooled decorations and a gilt-lettered title. Title and engraved dedication leaf with minor repairs on the inner margin, otherwise a very good copy.Very Rare Russian imprint… Leer más

12mo (ca. 17x10 cm). [2 – half title], [2 – table of contents], [2 – title page], 374 pp. (with the additional pagination on the bottom). Period amateur Russian brown half calf with marbled papered boards; all edges coloured. Traces of soviet bookshop ink stamps and markings on the rear pastedown endpaper. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, paper slightly age-toned, a couple of minor mild stains, but overall a very good original copy.Very rare early Russian publication, reporting about the proceedings and discoveries during Otto von Kotzebue’s first circumnavigation on board the brig “Rurik” in 1815-1818 and issued before the publication of the official account (Kotzebue, O. von. Puteshestviye v Yuzhny Okean i v Beringov Proliv dlya Otyskaniya Severo-Vostochnogo Morskago Prokhoda, predprinyatoye v 1815, 1816, 1817 i 1818 godakh… Leer más

First and only edition. Small Octavo (ca. 17x10,8 cm). [1 – t.p.], [1 – dedication leaf], [2 - preface], 7-135, [2 - errata] pp. With two copper-engraved plates, two pictorial woodcut vignettes (on the title page and p. [7]), and two typographical woodcut vignettes (pp. 26, 88). Handsome period brown half sheep with marbled papered boards; both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. With a later custom-made matching slipcase. Text with some very mild age toning otherwise, a near fine very original copy.Very Rare Russian imprint with no paper copies found in Worldcat. The book wasn’t republished or translated into other languages.A beautiful copy of a very rare early illustrated account of the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), written by its participant, a private of the 40th Yeger [Infantry] Regiment of the Separate Caucasus Corps of the Russian… Leer más

Oblong Folio album (ca. 32x41 cm or ca. 12 ¾ x 16 ¼ in). 29 card stock leaves. With 77 mounted albumen photographs of various size (including two duplicates), mostly from ca. 21,5x28 cm (8 ½ x 11 in) to ca. 18,5x27,5 cm (7 ¼ x 11 in); twelve smaller images are ca. 10x13 cm (3 ¾ x5 ¼ in). Fifteen photos are signed “Skeen & Co.” in negative (some are also captioned); nine photos are signed “C.A. Co. Ltd.” in negative and/or with blind stamps “Apothecaries Co. Ltd., Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon” in the right lower corners; two photos are signed “Scowen” in negative; two photos are with blind stamps “G.R. Lambert & Co., Singapore.” Fifteen photos are on the mounts with period manuscript ink captions in German. Period maroon full straight-grained morocco, neatly… Leer más

Second edition. Three vols. bound together. [2], vii-xxxvi, [10], 203; [2], 148; [2], 120 pp. 24,5x17cm. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps at rear. Period half leather with marbled paper boards and a gilt lettered title on the spine. Frontispiece portrait backed with paper, two leaves in vol. 1 (pp. Xxvii-xxx) with the lower margins trimmed, but not affecting the text; p. 17 in vol. 1 with a weak ink stamp, mild foxing of text in places, but overall a very good copy.Important firsthand account on the early history of the Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under command of Ivan Krusenstern and the activity of the Russian-American Company promoted by Count Nikolai Rezanov (1764-1807). This is a full description of the notorious diplomatic Incident of Golovnin (1811-1813) which… Leer más

First edition. Large Octavo (ca. 23x15,5 cm). [2 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], [2 - preface], 332; [2 – t.p.], 349 pp. Two volumes bound together. Title page to vol. 1 with a period blue pencil note “Tom [Vol.] 1.” Period gilt-tooled red quarter morocco with later black cloth boards and red cloth corners. Some minor age toning and water staining of text, but only at the top margin throughout the block, but overall a very good copy.An important lesser-known Russian work on the history and modern state of the Russian American Company, related to the time of public discussion about the Company’s future in the early 1860s. This critical piece negatively characterizes RAC, concentrating on its suppression and abuse of the indigenous people from the Aleutian Islands, exploitation of Russian fur hunters (promyshlenniki), inefficient… Leer más

Two Oblong Quarto albums (ca. 19x26,5 cm or 7 ½ x 10 ¼ in). 30 and 50 card stock leaves. Album 1: with 222 mounted gelatin silver photos from ca. 8,5x11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in) to ca. 7x11 cm (2 ¾ x 4 ¼ in). All but a dozen photos with period ink captions on the mounts (some captions relate to several photos, some photos are also dated in ink). Period brown quarter sheep album with cloth boards. Binding rubbed on extremities, the boards with scratches, mounts slightly soiled and waved, a few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Album 2: with 247 mounted gelatin silver photos, including three large photos ca. 17x22,5 cm (6 ¾ x 8 ¾ in) and twenty photos ca. 11x16,5 cm (4 ¼ x 6 ½ in); the rest of the photos are ca. 8,5x11 cm (3 ¼ x 4 ¼ in)… Leer más

First edition. 2 vols. Quarto (ca. 26 x 18cm). ix, 381, [1 – errata]; [4], 2, 29, [2], iv, 176, 55, 36, 114, iv, ii pp. With 31 chromolithographed plates and two large folding chromolithographed maps at rear. Period Russian maroon half morocco with marbled papered boards; spines with raised bands and gilt-lettered titles; marbled papered endpapers. Both publisher’s wrappers of each volume bound in. Paper labels of the antique bookshop of Vasily Klochkov in the lower corners of each publisher’s wrapper bound at rear. Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp and pencil note on verso of the first free endpaper of vol. 1 (the price for two volumes was 100 rubles).Monograms roughly removed from bottoms of spines, some very mild foxing in places, maps with minor tears at joints but overall a very good original copy of this rare set.Official account of… Leer más

First edition. Quarto. [6], iv, ii, 473, [1 - errata] pp. With 108 lithographed and woodcut plates (three folding), two large folding chromolithographed maps at rear and ten woodcuts in text. Handsome period dark green quarter morocco with cloth boards; spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered title and owner’s initials “N.L.” Both boards with blind-stamped decorative borders; marbled endpapers; all edges coloured. The folding maps with several minor tears, but overall a very good copy.Official account of Przhevalsky’s third travel in Central Asia in March 1879 – October 1880, during which the expedition explored northern Tibet and the upper reaches of the Huang He River, discovered two mountain ranges in the Nanshan (Qinling) Mountains east of the Altyn-Tagh (named by Przhevalsky after Humboldt and Ritter) and managed to get to the closest… Leer más

Oblong Folio album ca. 27,5x35 cm (10 ¾ x 13 ¾ in). 21 card stock leaves. With 42 mounted large albumen photos, mostly from ca. 23x29 cm (9 x 11 ¼ in) to ca. 20x27,5 cm (8 x 10 ¾ in); three smaller photos are ca. 14x19 cm (5 ½ x 7 ½ in). All photos with period black ink manuscript captions in Italian on the mounts. Eleven photos are with period paper labels with printed captions in English, mounted on the lower margins of the leaves. One photo is captioned, numbered and signed “Griffith Photo” in negative. Period black quarter sheep album with grey cloth boards, neatly rebacked; moire endpapers. Mounts slightly soiled and with occasional minor foxing, a few photos mildly faded, but overall a very good album of rare strong interesting photosHistorically significant collection of large early photos of Hong… Leer más

Folio (ca. 28,5x39,5 cm or 11 ¼ x 15 ½ in). 28 card stock leaves. With 65 mounted albumen photos, including 47 large images from ca. 24x30 cm (9 ½ x 11 ¾ in) to ca. 20x26 cm (7 ¾ x 10 in) and 18 smaller photos ca. 10x14,5 cm (4 x 5 ½ in) or slightly smaller. Most smaller photos are numbered in negative; five are also captioned and signed “G. Berggren” in negative. Twenty-six large photos are captioned and signed in negative: twenty-one by “G. Berggren,” four by “Abdullah Frères” and one by “Sebah & Joailler.”. Period brown half morocco album with cloth boards; spine with raised bands; gilt-lettered title “Turquie” on brown labels mounted on the front board and the spine; marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities and worn on hinges, mounts… Leer más