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Peshekhodnaya Opis Chasti Russkikh Vladeniy v Amerike, Proizvedennaya Leytenantom Zagoskinym v...
Presentation Copy of the First Expedition into the Interior of Northern Alaska

Peshekhodnaya Opis Chasti Russkikh Vladeniy v Amerike, Proizvedennaya Leytenantom Zagoskinym v 1842, 1843 i 1844 Godakh. S Merkatorskoyu Kartoyu Gravirovannoyu na Medi [Exploration on Foot of Part of the Russian Possessions in Alaska. Accomplished by Lieutenant L. Zagoskin in 1842, 1843, and 1844. With a Copper Engraved Map on Mercator’s Projection].

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Karl Kray, 1847-1848. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm). Two vols. bound together. [2 –...

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En Resa Til Norra America pa Kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallning, och Publici kostnad...
"One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization, and political situation" (Streeter)

En Resa Til Norra America pa Kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallning, och Publici kostnad [A Travel to North America on Assignment of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences].

Stockholm: Lars Salvii, 1753-1761. First edition. Small octavos (ca. 18x10,5 cm). 3 vols. [2], [6], [16], 484, [20]; [2], 526...

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Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher...
With the Rare Plates of California Natives

Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien: mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letztere Jahr gelebet hat. [News from the American Peninsula California..,]

Mannheim: Churfürstl. Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. Second Edition (With Corrections). Small Octavo (17.5 x 10.5 cm), [xvi], 358, With one...

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海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New...
Important Early Japanese Shipwreck Account on Baja California

海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New Account of America].

Tokyo: Seifuen Juō, Kaei kōin, [1854]. First Edition. Complete in 5 vols. Quarto (ca. 25x17,5 cm). [26], [20], [21], [18]...

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Podrobnoye i Dostovernoye Opisaniye Zhizni i Vsekh Puteshestviy Slavneyshago Aglinskago...
Rare Russian Edition of the Life of Captain Cook

Podrobnoye i Dostovernoye Opisaniye Zhizni i Vsekh Puteshestviy Slavneyshago Aglinskago Morekhodtsa Kapitana Kuka [Detailed and Trustworthy Description of the Life and All Voyages of the Most Glorious English Navigator Captain Cook: Part 1 & 2].

Saint Petersburg: B.L. Gek [Heck], 1790. First and only Russian Edition. Octavo (ca. 20,5x12 cm). 2 vols. bound together. 271;...

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Sept années en Chine. Nouvelles observations sur cet empire, l'archipel Indo-Chinois, les...
Including Letter from Riho-Riho (Kamehameha II) to the Tsar of Russia

Sept années en Chine. Nouvelles observations sur cet empire, l'archipel Indo-Chinois, les Philippines et les îles Sandwich. [Seven years in China. New Observations on this Empire, the Indo-Chinese Archipelago, the Philippines and the Sandwich Islands].

Paris: Gide, 1838. First French Edition. Octavo (ca. 21.5 x 14cm), x, 358. With two lithographed plates of a man...

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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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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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Karta k Istorii Narodov, Obitavshih v Srednei Azii v Drevnie Vremena [A Map to the History of...
Important Early Central Asian Map

Karta k Istorii Narodov, Obitavshih v Srednei Azii v Drevnie Vremena [A Map to the History of People Who Inhabited Central Asia in the Ancient Times].

[Saint Petersburg]: [1851]. Large folding lithographed map ca. 64,5x149 cm (25 ¼ x 59 in), borders outlined in colour. Linen...

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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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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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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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Karta Aziatskoi Rossii, Sostavlennaya po Noveyshim Sviedeniyam i Chromolitografirovannaya pri...
Rare Map of Russian Central & Eastern Asia and Including Russian America

Karta Aziatskoi Rossii, Sostavlennaya po Noveyshim Sviedeniyam i Chromolitografirovannaya pri Voyenno-Topografisheskom Depo v 1860 godu [A Map of Asiatic Russia, Compiled with New Intelligence and Chromolithographed at the Military Topographical Depot in 1860].

[Saint Petersburg]: [ca. 1868]. Revised edition. Large folding chromolithographed map ca. 74x125,5 cm (29 x 49 ¼ in), borders outlined...

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Spravochnik i Adres-Kalendar Samarkandskoi Oblasti na 1901/ Izd. Samarkandskogo Oblastnogo...
Extremely Rare Samarkand Imprint

Spravochnik i Adres-Kalendar Samarkandskoi Oblasti na 1901/ Izd. Samarkandskogo Oblastnogo Statisticheskogo Komiteta [Directory and Address Book of the Samarkand Province for 1901: in two parts/ Publication of the Statistical Committee of the Samarkand Province].

Samarkand: Typ. “Tovarishchestvo”, [1901]. Small Octavo (ca. 16,5x12,5 cm). Two parts in one. [32 - ads], [6], 102; [2], v....

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Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [Sketches...
Rare Richly Illustrated Russian Circumnavigation Account

Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [Sketches in Pen and Pencil from the Circumnavigation in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860]

Saint Petersburg-Moscow: M.O. Wolf, 1867. Second Corrected Edition. Quarto (ca. 24,5x18 cm). [4], iii, 592 pp. With a lithographed title...

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