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Antropologichesky Ocherk Samoyedov/ Iz Protokolov Zasedaniy Komiteta po Ustroistvu...
Rare First Anthropological Study of the Arctic Nenets (Samoyed) Peoples

Antropologichesky Ocherk Samoyedov/ Iz Protokolov Zasedaniy Komiteta po Ustroistvu Antropologicheskoy Vystavki Imperatorskogo Obshchestva Liubiteley Estestvoznaniya, Antropologii i Etnografii. No. 27 [Anthropological Sketch of the Samoyeds/ From the Protocols of the Meetings of the Committee to Organize the Anthropological Exhibition of the Imperial Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology &...

Moscow: Typ. of M.N. Lavrov & Co., 1878. First and only edition. Folio (ca. 34x26 cm). 27 pp. With woodcut.....

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Asie Centrale: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes et la Climatologie Comparee. [Central...
Humboldt's Travel's to Siberia and Central Asia

Asie Centrale: Recherches sur les Chaines de Montagnes et la Climatologie Comparee. [Central Asia: Research of the Mountain Chains and Comparative Climatology].

Paris: Gide, 1843. First French Edition. Octavo (ca. 22 x14cm), 3 vols. lviii, 570, [1]; 558, [1]; 614, [3]. With.....

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Kashgaria: Istoriko-Geografichesky Ocherk Strany, Eyo Voyennye Sily, Promyshlennost i Torgovlya/...
Important Russian Piece of Great Game Literature

Kashgaria: Istoriko-Geografichesky Ocherk Strany, Eyo Voyennye Sily, Promyshlennost i Torgovlya/ Izdaniye Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [Kashgaria: Historical and Geographical Sketch of the Country, Its Military Power, Industries, and Trade/ Published by the Russian Geographical Society].

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of V.S. Balashev, 1879. [Second enlarged] edition (First under this title). Quarto. [2], iii, 435 pp. With.....

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Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian...
Important View of Nagasaki From Krusenstern's Voyage

[Large Copper Engraving from the Famous Atlas of Captain Krusenstern’s First Russian Circumnavigation, Titled:] Sudno Printsa Chingodzina, na Kotorom Rossiysky Poslannik Poyekhal s Korablya na Bereg. Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuerst in Nangasaki ans Land fuhr [The Boat of Prince Tschingodzin on Which the Russian Ambassador Travelled...

[Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813]. Copper engraving, ca. 37,5x53,5 cm (14 ¾ x 21 in) on the leaf of laid.....

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Coloured Oban Triptych 'Ukiyo-e' Woodblock Print of Foreigners Being Entertained at Gankiro...
Early Triptych of the Gankiro Brothel in Yokohama

[Coloured Oban Triptych 'Ukiyo-e' Woodblock Print of Foreigners Being Entertained at Gankiro Brothel in the Miyozaki Pleasure Quarter in Yokohama Titled:] Yokohama Miyozaki Kuruwa Gankiro Ijin Yuko no Zu.

1861. Three part coloured woodblock (each part with printed artist's name stamp), together ca. 37 x 76.5 cm (15 x......

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One of the Earliest Descriptions of the Famous Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony)...
Earliest Photos of the Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony) in Ladakh

[One of the Earliest Descriptions of the Famous Hemis Festival and Cham (Monastic Dance Ceremony) in the Himalayan Buddhist Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Illustrated with the First Ever Photographs of the Monks, Musicians and Masked Dancers during the Ceremony in an 1865 Issue of the Journal of the Asiatic Society...

Calcutta: C.B. Lewis at the Baptist Mission Press, 1865. Vol. XXXIV, part I, No. 2. First Edition. Small Octavo (ca.....

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Petr Simon Pallas, Yego Zhizn, Uchyonye Trudy i Puteshestviya [Peter Simon Pallas, His Life,...
Very Rare Biography of the Explorer & Zoologist Peter Simon Pallas

Petr Simon Pallas, Yego Zhizn, Uchyonye Trudy i Puteshestviya [Peter Simon Pallas, His Life, Scientific Work and Travels].

Moscow: Typ. of A.A. Torletsky, 1877. First and only edition. Large Octavo. ix, 214 pp. With a woodcut portrait frontispiece.....

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Sibir kak Koloniya. K Yubileyu Trekhsotletiya. Sovremennoye Polozheniye Sibiri. Ee Nuzhdy i...
First Edition of the Main Work of Nikolay Yadrintsev, one of the Fathers of Siberian Separatism

Sibir kak Koloniya. K Yubileyu Trekhsotletiya. Sovremennoye Polozheniye Sibiri. Ee Nuzhdy i Potrebnosti. Ee Proshloye i Budushchee [Siberia as a Colony. To the 300-year Jubilee. The Modern State of Siberia. Its Needs and Requirements. Its Past and Future].

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1882. First edition. Octavo. xi, 471, [1] pp. Period brown quarter sheep with olive.....

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Description du Tibet, d’après la Relation des Lamas Tangoutes, établis Parmi les Mongoles....
Only Separate Printing of Pallas' Description of Tibet

Description du Tibet, d’après la Relation des Lamas Tangoutes, établis Parmi les Mongoles. Traduit de l’Allemand [Description of Tibet, According to the Accounts of the Tangut Lamas, Established Among the Mongols. Translated from German].

Paris: Chez Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (20 x 13 cm), [1], xii, 89. With an engraved.....

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Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. Kurzgefasste...
Attractive Minature Atlas

Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. Kurzgefasste Geographie ... Nebst compendieusen Land-Charten, welche einen kleinen Sack-Atlas ausmachen. [Portable Geographic Atlas..,].

Augsburg: T. Lobeck, ca. 1758. Expanded Edition. Oblong Duodecimo (ca. 11.5 x 15 cm),72. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved.....

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The history of the Bucaniers of America; From their First Original down to this Time; Written in...
17th Century Bucaneering Classic

The history of the Bucaniers of America; From their First Original down to this Time; Written in Several Languages; and now Collected into one Volume The Whole Newly Translated into English, and illustrated with 25 Copper Plates.

London: Thomas Newborough, John Nicholson & Ben Tooke, 1699. Small Octavo (ca. 19,5x12 cm). Fifth publication and most complete 17th-century.....

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Birdseye Plan of Paris Titled:] Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe Celeberrima Notissamquecaput...
One of the First Obtainable Birdseye Views of Paris

[Birdseye Plan of Paris Titled:] Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe Celeberrima Notissamquecaput Regni Franciae.

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559. Map from the Fourth Latin Edition of Cosmographiae Universalis lib. VI. Woodcut map ca. 27x34,5 cm.....

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Birdseye View of Florence Titled:] Florentia nobilissima Hethruriae civitas, deformata ad nostra...
One of the Earliest Obtainable Birdseye Views of Florence

[Birdseye View of Florence Titled:] Florentia nobilissima Hethruriae civitas, deformata ad nostra tempora.

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1559. Map from the Fourth Latin Edition of Cosmographiae Universalis lib. VI. Woodcut map ca. 26 x......

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