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[Collection of Twenty-Seven Loose Platinum and Albumen Photographs of Angkor Wat, Other Angkorian Temples and Khmer Sculptures, Taken by or Related to the Direction des Arts Cambodgiens Headed by George Groslier]

Ca. 1910s-1920s.

Price: $2,500.00

[CHINA - BEIJING-HANKOU RAILWAY]

[Historically Significant Journal Recording a Travel from Peking to Hankou (a part of present-day Wuhan), along the Line of the Unfinished Peking-Hankou (Jinghan) Railway, with the Eye-Witness Account on the Railway Construction, Notes on the Meetings with the Railway Company Officials, Chinese Workers, Inhabitants of Nearby Villages, Local Places of Interest etc., Titled:] V – de Pekin à Hankao.

Price: $3,250.00

[CHINA – BOXER REBELLION] Tsererin, A.P.

Rezultaty poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province of Hulan-Chen]

Vladivostok: Typ. of Sushchinsky & Co., 1902.

Price: $950.00
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[CHINA] KOVALEVSKY (or KOVALEVSKI), Yegor (Egor) Petrovich (1809-1868)

[PRESENTATION COPY, RARE COMPLETE SET OF ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS’ WRAPPERS] Puteshestvie v Kitai [i.e. Travel to China]

Saint Petersburg: Typ. of Korolyov and Co., 1853.

Price: $5,250.00

[CHINA] [Lange, Lorenz]

[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]

Price: $5,250.00

[EAST SIBERIA] [Stepanov], A.P.

Yeniseyskaya Guberniya [i.e. Yeniseysk Governorate]

St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Conrad Wingeber, 1835.

Price: $5,500.00

[HIMALAYA - KANGCHENJUNGA] HOERLIN, Herman (1903-1983), SCHNEIDER, Erwin (1906-1987); KURZ, Marcel (1887-1967); WIELAND, Uli (1902-1934); [DYHRENFURTH, Günter] (1886-1975)

[Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga]

Ca. 1930.

Price: $3,250.00

[HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] KUBOTA, Beisen (1852-1906)

米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890.

Price: $3,250.00

[INDIA & SRI LANKA] BOURNE & SHEPHERD; BURKE, John (ca. 1843-1900); NICHOLAS & CO.; SCOWEN & CO.; SKEEN & CO.; PONT, V.&E., AND OTHERS

[Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon]

Ca. 1880s-1890s.

Price: $3,500.00

[INDIA - BIG GAME HUNTING]

[Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India]

Ca. 1921-1926.

Price: $1,850.00

[INDIA – WEST BENGAL]

[Album with 121 Early Albumen Photographs, Showing Kolkata, Hooghly River, Railway Station in Bardhaman, Damodar River, a “Mosque and Tank on the Hooghly Road,” a “Ruined Temple at Chandernagore [Chandannagar],” and Numerous Portraits of the Local People - Including Sellers of Toddy (Palm Wine), Curd, Poultry, Crockery, Parched Rice, Carpenters, Snake Charmers, Bullock Cart Drivers, Palanquin Carriers, Coolies, Basket Makers, a Butcher, Playing Children, Musicians, a Female Mill Grinder, a Knife Grinder, a Cotton Cleaner, etc.]

Ca. 1870s.

Price: $4,500.00

[INNER CHINA - GREAT GAME] [Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y.

Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, Mongolia, Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]

St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881.

Price: $4,500.00

[JAPAN - NAGASAKI] KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (1770-1846) & TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tilenau (1769-1857)

[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 Ashore from the Ship]

[Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813].

Price: $2,250.00

[JAPAN, CHINA & PACIFIC]

[Attractive Lacquered Album with 112 Original Photographs of Japan, China, Singapore, Samoa, and Hawaii, Including Interesting Images of Nikko Temples and Processions, Tea Houses, Villages and Hotels around Lake Hakone, Streets of Tokyo, and Nara, Panoramas of Penang and Hong Kong, Scenes of Execution in Canton, Portraits of “Maoris” and Samoans, etc., Titled]: Around the World, 1900.

Price: $3,500.00

[JAPAN]

[Album of 125 Original Gelatin-Silver Photographs of Central Japan Including Nikko, Mount Nasu, Mount Asama, Kyoto, Kamakura etc., Showing Architecture, Landscapes, Temples and Local People etc.[With] Six Original Japanese Prints and two Original Watercolours]

1911.

Price: $1,250.00

[JAPAN] GOLOVNIN, Vasily Mikhailovich (1776-1831)

Zapiski Flota Kapitana Golovnina o Prikliucheniyakh Yego v Plenu u Yapontsev v 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh. S Priobshcheniyem Zamechaniy Yego o Yaponskom Gosudarstve i Narode [Notes of Fleet Captain Golovnin about his Adventures in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813. With the Supplement of His Notes about Japanese State and People]; [In 3 Parts]; [BOUND WITH:] RIKORD, Petr Ivanovich (1776-1855). Zapiski Flota Kapitana Rikorda o Plavanii Ego k Yaponskim Beregam v 1812 i 1813 Godakh i o Snosheniyakh s Yapontsami [Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord about his Sailing to the Japanese Shores in 1812 and 1813, and His Relations with the Japanese].

St. Petersburg: Morskaya [Naval] Typ. 1816.

Price: $65,000.00

[JAVA, NEW GUINEA, SAMOA etc.]

[Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photos, Including Eighty-Five Views of Java, Ambon, Sulawesi & Banda, Twenty-Eight Views of New Guinea, Thirty-Five Views of Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji, and Three Photos of the 1903 Delhi Durbar]

Ca. 1900.

Price: $3,500.00

[KAMCHATKA] KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (1770-1846); TILESIUS, Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tilenau (1769-1857); UKHTOMSKY, Andrei Grigorievich (1771-1852)

[Original Copper Engraving from the Famous "Atlas k Puteshestviiu Vokrug Sveta Kapitana Krusensterna" (Atlas to the Circumnavigation of Captain Krusenstern), Titled:] Tab. XXVIII. Grobnitsa Kapitana Klerka v Petropavlovske. Captain Clerkes Grabmal im Hafen St. Peter und Paul [Captain Clerkes’ Tomb in Petropavlovsk]

[Saint Petersburg]: [Morskaya Typ.], [1813].

Price: $3,750.00

[KURDS] Lerch, P.I.

[FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh, SevernykhKhaldeyakh [i.e. A Research of the Kurds and their Ancestors, Northern Chaldeans]

St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856-1858.

Price: $3,250.00
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