Harbin: Izdatel’stvo M. V. Zaitseva, [1936?]. Octavo (21.8 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial card boards; 11 pp. Numerous illustrations, including two full-page color plates. Card wrappers and pages somewhat creased, but still about very good. Rare illustrated children's book about the adventures of three dogs who go hunting, published for..... More
Large album of 60 photographic plates printed on thick paper, published to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, edited by Sakata Yataro, and distributed as a sort of propaganda targeted at a Japanese audience, the plates depicting scenes including the Mukden or..... More
Commercial souvenir album of 120 gelatin silver prints, each 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in., of Peking, with printed captions identifying the subjects, the first 98 photos primarily concerned with architecture and ornament, providing detailed exterior views of the city's most famous sites including The Temple of Heaven, the Universal..... More
Xinjiang: Xinjiang Maarip Nexriyati, 1976. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 307 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. About very good. Third chapter (presumably a third-year text book) of this Chinese history textbook in Uighur, ranging from the first capitalist period to Mao Zedung. In Uighur, printed..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26 × 18.5 cm). Staple-stitched pamphlet with paper spine strip; 23 pp. Rust to staples; last page discolored; else very good, printed on better paper. A short, but highly informative Russian-language description of the history and present makeup of the State Public..... More
![Portretnaia galereia mongol'skoi dinastii [The portrait gallery of the Mongolian dynasty]....](/pictures/thumb/P003518_1.jpg?v=1591526103)
Harbin: Club of Natural Science and Geography, 1941. Quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers. pp. 101-106, eleven black and white illustrations on six leaves of plates. Old vertical creases; small nick to lower right corner; alse about very good. Rare Russian-language offprint from "News of the Club of..... More
Harbin: N. P. Kobtsev; tip. "Zaria", 1934. Quarto (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 17 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vladimir Petrovich in Almaty, Kazachstan in 1959. One page with author's ink correction. About very good; covers with light soil and a few nicks; old bookstore..... More
![Liudi – idioty. Budut li Liudi kak Bogi [L’Homme Stupide. Will Men Be Like Gods]? Owen...](/pictures/thumb/P003867.jpg?v=1591527183)
Shanghai: 1918. Octavo (26.5 × 19.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98 pp. Wrappers toned and foxed; text somewhat brittle; laid-in errata slip. A curious book that joins two works in Russian translation, “L’Homme Stupide” (1919) by Charles Richet (1850-1935), the French physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 and..... More
![Chuzhoe nebo [Foreign Sky]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50515.jpeg?v=1582572188)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 66, [6] pp. Publisher's ads on p. [72]. About very good. A rare re-edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1912 collection of poems “Foreign Sky.” Published as part of a series of collected works that included..... More
![Zhemchuga [Pearls]. Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works]. Nikolai Gumilev](/pictures/thumb/50516.jpeg?v=1582572189)
Shanghai: Drakon, [1941]. Octavo (19 × 12 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 135 pp. About very good. A rare edition by Russian émigrés in China of Nikolai Gumilev’s 1910 collection of poems “Pearls” (Zhemchuga). With a new preface by I. Putsiato. The volume was published as part of a series of..... More
Beijing (Peking): Tipo-litografiia Russkoi Dukhovnoi Missii, 1919. Octavo (23.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed paper over boards; 265 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light fading and soil to wrappers; edges and corners slightly rubbed. Internally very good. First edition outside of Russia. A Russian émigré publication of a classic textbook on ancient..... More
Harbin: self-published, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 98, [1] pp. Very good. First edition of this early memoir of the Tsar and his relatives, by the daughter of their physician, Evgenii Sergeevich Botkin (1865–1918), who was murdered along with the Imperial Family in Ekaterinburg..... More
![Tainstvennaia natsiia (Iaponiia) [The mysterious nation - Japan; An Unknown Nation]. Juji Nakada,...](/pictures/thumb/P4450.jpg?v=1593529683)
Harbin: Mech Gedeona, [1933]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 119 pp. Very good; text evenly toned due to stock; very discrete repairs to spine extremities. Russian translation of this 1933 work by Nakada, a Japanese protestant minister and the first bishop of the Japan Holiness Church. Influenced..... More
Beijing: Tipo-litografiia Russkoi Dukhovnoi Missii, 1919. Octavo. Recent full-leather binding with gilt title in Cyrillic to front board; lacking original wrappers; 501 pp. With all eight folding maps. Occasional light wear and nicks to margins; else a very good copy. A Russian history textbook intended for the quickly expanding Russian-speaking..... More
Harbin: Printing-Office Chinese Eastern Railway, 1926. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed blue wrappers; [3], 4-50 pp. With a 2 pp. bibliography of the author's works. Three plates of illustrations, featuring traditional Taoist subjects and one painting by the author, on better stock. About very good; wrappers lightly creased..... More
Gerasimov. [Harbin]: self-published, [1931-32]. Octavo (17.6 × 13.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 162 pp. Very good, save for light moisture stain to front wrapper. Very rare self-published textbook for Russians beginning to learn Chinese, authored by Ivan S. Skurlatov (1874-after 1937), a Russian-born Sinologist and scholar of Far Eastern linguistics..... More
VIII, 71 pp. text on the ancient Chinese bronze mirrors in the collection of the Hanoi Museum, including examples from the Han through Ts'ing dynasties, as well as others from Japan and Siam, with appendices, bibliography, and illus. on 71 plates. 4to. Wrpps., edges somewhat rubbed. Paris (Ecole Française D'Extreme-Orient)..... More
Harbin: Izdanie KVZhD, 1933. Quarto (25 cm). Original printed wrappers in gray and green; pp. [1], 137, [2], 2-15, [9] (adverts). Light toning to wrapper edges; ca. 4 cm. loss of spine strip at bottom; text toned; else very good in the rare, attractive wrappers. Rare journal published by the..... More
![Povest’ ob odnoi materi [A story of one mother]. Zhemchiuzhnaia, inaida Nikolaevna](/pictures/thumb/P002663.jpg?v=1580499143)
Tientsin (N. China): “Nashe znanie”, [1939]. Octavo (19.5 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 131, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. An example of White émigré literary production in China, this epistolary novel was written by the novelist and memoirist Zinaida Zhemchiuzhnaia (1887-1961). The novel tells the story of..... More