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A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN CARTOGRAPHY Up to 1600; Up to 1800. Edited by Henry W. Castner.
Walker Press Wolfe Island Ontario, 1975. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 4to. xiv + 312pp. + xv + 140pp. Numerous maps. Some light browning, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, original pictorial green cloth.
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REINDEER, DOGS, AND SNOW-SHOES: A Journal of Siberia Travel and Explorations Made in the Years 1865, 1866, and 1867.
New York Harper & Brothers, 1871. 1st Ed. 529pp. + 6pp. publ. adverts. Numerous ills. including 9 full page, folding map (clumsily folded and crudely repaired). Light browning, one gathering protruding sl. to fore-edge, original gilt lettered and black embossed green cloth, minor marking, corners frayed, spine chipped.
¶ ‘Is it possible to connect two continents by a telegraph line through Bering Strait? Richard J. Bush thought it was possible even though he encountered challenges such as a sinking ship, shortage of supplies, annoying mosquitoes, hungry dogs, etc. After three years of military service in the Carolinas, Bush and two other men accepted a mission to explore Siberia under the leadership of Russian Major Serge Abasa ...’ Smithsonian Institute.
¶ ‘Is it possible to connect two continents by a telegraph line through Bering Strait? Richard J. Bush thought it was possible even though he encountered challenges such as a sinking ship, shortage of supplies, annoying mosquitoes, hungry dogs, etc. After three years of military service in the Carolinas, Bush and two other men accepted a mission to explore Siberia under the leadership of Russian Major Serge Abasa ...’ Smithsonian Institute.
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ADVENTURES IN RED RUSSIA. From the Black Sea to the White Sea.
John Murray ..., 1926. 1st Ed. vii + 193pp. Many ills. Sporadic browning, with the signature of Ann Savours Shirley, ex.-libris E.D. Nicholson, upper hinge cracked, original black lettered red cloth, minor cloth bubbling, spine sl. bumped and faded.
¶ Printed for Private Circulation.
¶ Printed for Private Circulation.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF SIBERIA, In the Years 1840 and 1841.
John W. Parker, 1842. 1st Ed. xii + 410pp. + 16pp. publ. adverts. Folding frontis. map (with closed tear skilfully repaired to verso). Some light browning, paper split to upper hinge, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, spine chipped.
¶ Charles Herbert Cottrell (1806–1860) English Barrister who travelled to Siberia in 1840-41.
¶ Charles Herbert Cottrell (1806–1860) English Barrister who travelled to Siberia in 1840-41.
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SHAMANISM IN SIBERIA. Selected Reprints Edited by Mihály Hoppál. Translated by S. Simon.
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1996. 1st Ed. [xx] + 189pp. + [iii]. Numerous figures. Ownership inscription, good in white lettered light blue laminated boards.
¶ International Society for Shamanistic Research Volume 5.
¶ International Society for Shamanistic Research Volume 5.
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FREE RUSSIA.
Hurst and Blackett, 1870. 2 vols. viii + 352pp. + [ii]. publ. adverts. + vi + 344pp. + [xvi] publ. adverts. Some light browning, original gilt lettered dec. cloth, some fading particularly to chipped spines.
¶ With the folding ‘Lending List’ of Cardigan books Society, possibly a ‘Ladies only’ Society, certainly no gentleman are listed, the ladies include Lady Lloyd, Mrs Rhys Lloyd, Mrs Vaughan etc.
¶ With the folding ‘Lending List’ of Cardigan books Society, possibly a ‘Ladies only’ Society, certainly no gentleman are listed, the ladies include Lady Lloyd, Mrs Rhys Lloyd, Mrs Vaughan etc.
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AMONG HORSES IN RUSSIA.
R.A. Everett & Co., 1900. 1st Ed. Square 8vo. xiv + 214pp. + [vii] publ. adverts. 53 ills. from photos. taken chiefly by the Author. Some light browning, institutional ink stamps to prelims, sl. shaken with several gatherings protruding to fore-edge, original gilt lettered cloth, spine faded and sl. chipped.
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MÉMOIRE L’EXPLOITATION DE L’OR EN SIBÉRIE ORIENTALE. Premiére Partie Transbaïkalie [only of 2].
Paris Èdouard Rouveyre, Èditeur, 1896. Royal 8vo. 201pp. 13 plates and plan mainly double page, 1 folding colour map. French text. Mainly unopened, upto pp.12 frayed with loss at tail, last 40 odd pages with turned leading corner, original wrapps., fragile with loss, spine taped, soiled.
¶ Inscribed ‘A Madame Baron temoiguage de haut estime H Sabachudroff ? Paris 14 Mai 1896.’
¶ Inscribed ‘A Madame Baron temoiguage de haut estime H Sabachudroff ? Paris 14 Mai 1896.’
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THE MAISKY DIARIES. Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s 1932-1943. Translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready. Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky.
Yale University Press, 2015. 3rd Imp. Thick 8vo. [xlviii] + 584pp. 77 ills. from photos. Good in very sl. chipped d/w.
¶ With 2 TLS from Maisky viz: ‘... 17th July, 1941. Dear Mr Robertson Scott, Will you please accept my very sincere thanks for the cheque for £10 which you have so very kindly forwarded from "The Countryman". It will give me much pleasure to forward this to the Soviet Red Cross. I am also very pleased to know your delight at the Agreement which now exists between our two countries. Yours sincerely J. Maisky J.W. Robertson Soctt, Esq.’ ‘14th February, 1943. Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of the 10th. I do appreciate teh way you have expressed your indignation against the defilement of the Lenin Memorial which occurred recently. Yours sincerely J. Maisky Ambassador of the USSR in Great Britain Mr J.W. Robertson-Hill Countryman, Idbury, Kingham, Oxford.’ Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, a Soviet diplomat, historian and politician, served as the Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943, including much of the period of the Second World War. John William Robertson Scott CH (1866-1962) British journalist and author, best known for his writings on rural affairs,
¶ With 2 TLS from Maisky viz: ‘... 17th July, 1941. Dear Mr Robertson Scott, Will you please accept my very sincere thanks for the cheque for £10 which you have so very kindly forwarded from "The Countryman". It will give me much pleasure to forward this to the Soviet Red Cross. I am also very pleased to know your delight at the Agreement which now exists between our two countries. Yours sincerely J. Maisky J.W. Robertson Soctt, Esq.’ ‘14th February, 1943. Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of the 10th. I do appreciate teh way you have expressed your indignation against the defilement of the Lenin Memorial which occurred recently. Yours sincerely J. Maisky Ambassador of the USSR in Great Britain Mr J.W. Robertson-Hill Countryman, Idbury, Kingham, Oxford.’ Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, a Soviet diplomat, historian and politician, served as the Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943, including much of the period of the Second World War. John William Robertson Scott CH (1866-1962) British journalist and author, best known for his writings on rural affairs,
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ROAD TO POWER. The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia 1850-1917.
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1991. 1st Ed. [xxiv] + 240pp. 12 ills. from photos., 3 maps. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley with inscription, very good in d/w.
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TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, In the Years 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German of ...
Printed for John Stockdale, 1812. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. 4to. xxiii + 552pp. + xxxii + 523pp. 25 stipple engravings including 21 hand coloured and with 8 folding; 26 stipple engravings with aquatint including 23 hand coloured with 16 folding; 29 line/line and stipple vignettes including 23 colour; 4 folding maps. Mainly unopened. Sporadic spotting and some offsetting, contemporary boards, some wear and marking, rebacked in stiff card with title labels to spines.
¶ Abbey 222 (First Edition, plates corresponding to our Second edition above); Cat. Russica No. P59; Prideaux, pp.220-1, 225, 347; Tooley (1954) Nos. 357-8. First published in English in 1802-3. Translated by F.W. Blagdon, journalist and Author of the ‘History of India.’ Between 1793 and 1794, Pallas led his second expedition to southern Russia, visiting the Crimea and the Black Sea. He was accompanied by his daughter and his second wife, an artist, servants, and a military escort. In February 1793, they travelled to Saratov and then downriver to Tsaritsyn. They explored the country to the east, and in August travelled along the banks of the Caspian Sea and into the Caucasus Mountains. In September, they travelled to the Crimea, wintering in Simferopol. Pallas spent early 1794 exploring to the southeast, and in July travelled up the valley of the Dnieper, arriving back in St Petersburg in September. Pallas gave his account of the journey in his P. S. Pallas Bemerkungen auf einer Reise in die Südlichen Statthalterschaften des Russischen Reichs (1799–1801), translated as the above. Journey from St Petersburg to Tzaritzin - Remarks during excursions on the S. banks of the Volga - Vernal journey to Astrakhan - Journey from Astrakhan to lines of Caucasus - Observations during journey along Caucasus - Account of nations inhabiting Mt Caucasus, particularly Tsherrkessians or Circassians - Journey from Georgiefsk to Tsherkask & Taganrof - From Taganrog to Taurida - Travels in Crimea - Through S.W. quarter of Crimean peninsula - To Tshorguna, Balaklava & S. W. coast - Over Tshatyrdag & through S. E. mountains of Crimea - Through interior of Crimea, peninsula of Kertsch, to Isle of Taman - General remarks on Crimea - Present state of Crimea & economical improvements - Culture of vine in Crim-Tartary - Orchards of Crimea - Forest trees & shrubs of Crimea - Plants for economical purposes - Tame & wild quadrupeds, birds etc - Salt lakes - Manufactures & commerce - Return from Crimea to St Petersburg.
¶ Abbey 222 (First Edition, plates corresponding to our Second edition above); Cat. Russica No. P59; Prideaux, pp.220-1, 225, 347; Tooley (1954) Nos. 357-8. First published in English in 1802-3. Translated by F.W. Blagdon, journalist and Author of the ‘History of India.’ Between 1793 and 1794, Pallas led his second expedition to southern Russia, visiting the Crimea and the Black Sea. He was accompanied by his daughter and his second wife, an artist, servants, and a military escort. In February 1793, they travelled to Saratov and then downriver to Tsaritsyn. They explored the country to the east, and in August travelled along the banks of the Caspian Sea and into the Caucasus Mountains. In September, they travelled to the Crimea, wintering in Simferopol. Pallas spent early 1794 exploring to the southeast, and in July travelled up the valley of the Dnieper, arriving back in St Petersburg in September. Pallas gave his account of the journey in his P. S. Pallas Bemerkungen auf einer Reise in die Südlichen Statthalterschaften des Russischen Reichs (1799–1801), translated as the above. Journey from St Petersburg to Tzaritzin - Remarks during excursions on the S. banks of the Volga - Vernal journey to Astrakhan - Journey from Astrakhan to lines of Caucasus - Observations during journey along Caucasus - Account of nations inhabiting Mt Caucasus, particularly Tsherrkessians or Circassians - Journey from Georgiefsk to Tsherkask & Taganrof - From Taganrog to Taurida - Travels in Crimea - Through S.W. quarter of Crimean peninsula - To Tshorguna, Balaklava & S. W. coast - Over Tshatyrdag & through S. E. mountains of Crimea - Through interior of Crimea, peninsula of Kertsch, to Isle of Taman - General remarks on Crimea - Present state of Crimea & economical improvements - Culture of vine in Crim-Tartary - Orchards of Crimea - Forest trees & shrubs of Crimea - Plants for economical purposes - Tame & wild quadrupeds, birds etc - Salt lakes - Manufactures & commerce - Return from Crimea to St Petersburg.
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RUSSIA: Or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of That Country and Its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes Made on the Spot, During Travels, at Different Times, in the Service of the Bible Society, and A Residence of Many Years in That Country.
Seeley & Sons, 1833. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xii] + 488pp. + [ii]. 8 hand coloured litho. plates. Some light browning, contemporary cloth backed boards, some minor wear and loss, rebacked with much of original spine laid down.
¶ Abbey Travel 230. Containing the sum of Pinkertons exceptional knowledge of Russia gained in his work for the British and Russian Bible Societies. He travelled extensively observing the character, manners, religious practices, folklore, hospitals, and prisons, economy and social condition of the Russian people. Including discussion of serfdom, of the Russian Jewish population, the problem of drunkenness, the enmity between Russians and Poles. An appendix contains several examples of preaching styles prevalent among the Russian clergy. Illustrations include The Russian Merchant’s wife in her Every-day Dress, the Mushroom Gatherer, The Isbitentschik, Carpenter and Milkmaid, A National Dance, Moujick and Family, Svaika a favourite Game, Village Amusements, etc.
¶ Abbey Travel 230. Containing the sum of Pinkertons exceptional knowledge of Russia gained in his work for the British and Russian Bible Societies. He travelled extensively observing the character, manners, religious practices, folklore, hospitals, and prisons, economy and social condition of the Russian people. Including discussion of serfdom, of the Russian Jewish population, the problem of drunkenness, the enmity between Russians and Poles. An appendix contains several examples of preaching styles prevalent among the Russian clergy. Illustrations include The Russian Merchant’s wife in her Every-day Dress, the Mushroom Gatherer, The Isbitentschik, Carpenter and Milkmaid, A National Dance, Moujick and Family, Svaika a favourite Game, Village Amusements, etc.
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SCOTLAND’S PARIAH. The Life and Work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826.
University of Toronto Press, 2015. 1st Ed. [xiv] + 313pp. + [iii]. Very good in d/w.
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LA RUSSIE Extra Européenne et Polaire. Sibérie, Caucase, Asie Centrale Extrême-Nord.
Paris Imprimerie Paul Dupont ..., 1900. 1st Ed. 242pp. Folding colour map. Some occasional ruling and annotations, light browning, rebound in brown buckram with gilt lettered label.
¶ Commission Impériale de Russie a l’Exposition Universalle de 1900.
¶ Commission Impériale de Russie a l’Exposition Universalle de 1900.
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SIDE-LIGHTS ON SIBERIA Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. 1st Ed. xvi + 383pp. Numerous ills., folding map. Signet bookplate, some light browning, gilt lettered green cloth with gilt image to upper board, upper corner bumped, minor marking, spine sl. chipped.
¶ Detailed record of impressions of a journey in Siberia in the Summer of 1896.
¶ Detailed record of impressions of a journey in Siberia in the Summer of 1896.
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