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SARYCHEV, Gavriill Andreevich. Account of a voyage of discovery to the north-east of Siberia, the frozen ocean, and the north-east sea. Translated from the Russian. London, Richard Phillips, 1806 - 1807.2 volumes in 1. Later half calf. With 2 hand-coloured engraved costume plates and 3 folding engraved views. 70; 80 pp. First English edition; an abridged translation of the first Russian edition of 1802 Puteshestvie flota kapitana Sarycheva po severovostochnoi? chasti Sibiri. - Sarychev, a surveyer, served as deputy of Captain Joseph Billings, the English leader of this Russian expedition to explore the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans. Catherine II sent out this official expedition, which lasted from 1785 to 1793, and during which Alaska and the Aleutians, especially Unalaska, were first carefully charted (Hill 1527). One of the fundamental and early books on the Aleutian Islands (Lada-Mocarski 57). - Sarychev's journal gives an account of the first major exploring expedition sent out by the Russians to the Frozen Sea and the North Pacific after Bering's second expedition of 1741. (Age-browned).Sabin 77126; not in Arctic Bibliography. [Boeknr.: 36654 ]

€ 2250,00

SCHUYLER, Eugene. Turkistan. Notes of a journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja. New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876.2 volumes. Original decorated cloth gilt (top of spines sl. dam.). With 3 folding maps and woodengraved plates and illustrations. XII,411; VIII,463 pp. First edition. - Schuyler, an American career diplomat, went to Turkistan in 1873 while serving as consul-general in St. Petersburg. 'The chief aim of my journey in Central Asia was to study the political and social condition of the regions which had been recently annexed by Russia, as well as to compare the state of the inhabitants under Russian rule with that of those still living under the despotism of the Khans. In this I was a measure successful' (Preface). Volume I contains chapters on the Syr Darya, Tashkent, Muslim life in Tashkent, bazaars and trade, Samarkand, the Zarafshan Valley, and Hodjent (present-day Khujand, Tajikistan) and Kurama (present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Volume II contains chapters on Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul (present-day Kyrgyzstan) and Semiretch (present-day Semirech'e, Kazakhstan), and Kuldja ( present-day China). Including a summary of early Chinese and medieval European travelers to Central Asia and the accounts of their voyages. - A nice set.Cordier, BS, col. 2616; Nerhood 313; Yakushi S99b. [Boeknr.: 11555 ]

€ 625,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Original pictorial cloth (1 hinge dam.).. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 21472 ]

€ 150,00

SCHWARZ, Franz von. Turkestan, die Wiege der indogermanischen Völker. Nach fünfzehnjährigem Aufenthalt in Turkestan. Freiburg, Herder, 1900.Later half cloth, original pictorial wrappers preserved. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 178 illustrations. XX,606 pp. Illustrierte Bibliothek der Länder und Völkerkunde. - The author stayed in Tashkent surveying astronomy and meteorology for 15 years, and describes Russian Turkestan. - (With library stamp).Yakushi p.348. [Boeknr.: 36025 ]

€ 125,00

SIRELIUS, Uuno Taavi. Über die Sperrfischerei bei den finnisch-ugrischen Völkern. Eine vergleichende ethnographische Untersuchung. Helsingfors, 1906. 4to. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.), uncut. With 607 illustrations. (6),486 pp. - (Société Finno-Ougrienne). [Boeknr.: 24969 ]

€ 95,00

SMITH, Barnett G. General Gordon. The christian soldier and hero. London, S.W. Patridge & Co., (1903).Original pictorial cloth (sl. stained). With illustrations. 160;32 pp. Charles George Gordon C1833 - 1885) saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. He entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt in 1873 (with British government approval) and later became the Governor-General of the Sudan, where he did much to suppress revolts and the local slave trade. [Boeknr.: 37306 ]

€ 45,00

SOUMAROCOW, Alexandre. Théatre tragique. Traduit du Russe par Manuel-Léonard Pappadopoulo. Paris, Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1801.2 volumes. Original boards (rubbed). XIV,(2),328; 320 pp. Six plays written by the Russian dramaturge Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokow (1717-1777): Sinaw et Trouwor, Sémire, Laropolk et Dimise, Khorew, Aristone and Martésie et Thalestris.Catalogue Russica S1773 [Boeknr.: 31707 ]

€ 150,00

St. PETERSBURG. Geheime geschiedenis van het Petersburgsche hof, sedert de regering der keizerin Elizabeth, tot den dood van den grootvorst Constantijn. Uit de nagelatene papieren van een oud staatsman. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Leeuwarden, Steenbergen van Goor, 1833.Contemporary half calf (extremities of spine sl. damaged; 1 hinge sl. damaged but firmly holding). With lithographed portrait. IV,396 pp. Court-life at St. Petersburg. - (Age-browned).Catalogue Russica G455; not in Muller, Bibliographie Neerlando-Russe; not in WorldCat. [Boeknr.: 13563 ]

€ 275,00

VELUWENKAMP, Jan Willem. Archangel. Nederlandse ondernemers in Rusland 1550-1785. (Amsterdam), Balans, 2000. Wrappers. With maps and illustrations. 271 pp. Dutch entrepeneurs in Russia 1550-1785. [Boeknr.: 26181 ]

€ 25,00

WALLACE, D(onald) Mackenzie. La Russie. Le pays - les institutions - les moeurs. Traduit de l'Anglais par H. Bellenger. Paris, G. Decaux et M. Dreyfous, 1877.2 volumes. Original half cloth. III,431; 448 pp. First English edition published the same year. - Wallace's book had great success, going through several editions and being translated into many languages. He learned Russian and spent five years in Russia, from 1870-1875. 'His work is a classic treatment that examines every aspect of European Russia, with special emphasis on the rural scene' (Nerhood 302). - The standard authority on Russia before the 1917 revolution. [Boeknr.: 7947 ]

€ 75,00

WEALE, B.L. Putnam (Bertram Lenox SIMPSON). Manchu and Moscovite. Being letters from Manchuria written during the autumn of 1903. London, Macmillan and Co., 1904. Original red cloth. With many photographic plates (map missing). XX,552 pp. First edition. - With an historical sketch entitled 'Prologue to the crisis' giving a complete account of the Manchurian frontiers from the earliest days and the growth and final meeting of the Russian and Chinese empires in the Amur Regions'. [Boeknr.: 25154 ]

€ 35,00

WICHMANN, Yrjö. Wotjakische Sprachproben. Im Auftrage der Finnisch-Urgrischen Gesellschaft. Helsingfors, 1893-1901. 2 volumes. Original printed wrappers. XX,199; IV,200 pp. Journal de la Societé Finne-Ougrienne. - The Wotjaken live in the Russian Republic Udmurtien. Volume I: Lieder, Gebete und Zaubersprüche; Volume II: Sprichwörter, Rätsel, Märchen, Sagen und Erzählungen. Parallel Votyak and German texts. [Boeknr.: 31747 ]

€ 65,00

WINDHAM, Charles. The Crimean Diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell. The whole edited by Major Hugh Pearse. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897.Original decorated cloth (spine faded), top edge gilt. With engraved portrait. X,272 pp. First edition. - Sir Charles Ash Windham (1810 - 1870) was a British Army officer and Liberal Party politician. Promoted colonel on 20 June 1854, Windham was assistant quartermaster-general of the 4th Division in Crimea and was present, but saw little action, at the battles of Alma River, Balaklava, and Inkerman. He was outspoken in his criticism of laggard British military leadership in the Crimea. Given command of the assault on the Great Redan at Sevastopol on 8 Sept. 1855, he personally rode back to ask for reinforcements after suffering heavy losses, but a retreat had been ordered. He was criticized by soldiers for his conduct but made a popular hero by William Howard Russell, correspondent of the Times, for having �saved the honour of the army. With preface by Charles Windham jr. and an introductory chapter by W.H. Russell, famous for his reports on The Crimean War for Times Newspaper. [Boeknr.: 35205 ]

€ 95,00

ZEEBERG, Jaap Jan. Terugkeer naar Nova Zembla. De laatste en tragische reis van Willem Barents. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007. Cloth. With many illustrations (some in colours). 254 pp. The dramatic last voyage of Willem Barentsz to Novaya Zemlya. [Boeknr.: 29707 ]

€ 18,00

ZORGDRAGER, Cornelis Gijsbertsz. Bloeijende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery .. Met byvoeging van de walvischvangst .. door Abraham Moubach. Nevens een korte beschryving van de Terreneufsche bakkeljaau-visschery. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1728.4to. Contemporary vellum. With title-page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (P. van Thol & R.C. Alberts, 1727), 6 folding maps and 11 engraved plates (1 folding after A. Salm by Van der Hem). (36),392,(13),(2) pp. Second and best edition; the first edition was published in Amsterdam in 1720. - This classic work on the Greenland whale fishery is one of the most thorough and authoritative descriptions of the early 18th century. It is the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling, including ample descriptions of the early discoveries and exploration in the northern regions, Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen and Strait Davis. Giving along with extensive natural history, geography, history, and economics, detailed lists of ships' outfits, lists of shipowners and captains, an extensive vocabulary, and copious other details. At the end an account of New-Foundland cod-fishing. - (p.101 with marginal tear without loss of text). - A fine copy of the most important and extensive Dutch work on whaling.Tiele 1241; Cat. NHSM II, p.899; Allen 177; Jenkins p.162; Sabin 106376. [Boeknr.: 1552 ]

€ 3950,00

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