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RUSSIAN TRAVELS INCLUDING RUSSIAN AMERICANA & PACIFIC VOYAGES FOREWORD

We are happy to present our catalogue of thirty important and rare books and prints dedicated to Russian travels and for International Antiquarian Book Fair that be held on 12- 14 of February, 2016. Here are some of the hightlights. Eleven items in the catalogue are about and Pacific voyages, including important accounts by (our copy bears his presentation inscription) and Petr Tikhmenev, two famous works by Krusenstern’s circumnavigation member Vasily Berkh – the first about the first Bering expedition to and the second about the history of voyages (with valuable information on Russian America). Among the Arctic items are an important account on by the explorer of the New Siberian , a description of the during the Siberian rush, and an original Russian work on and ’s of the . Ten valuable books on Central include two works by the world famous Russian sinologist Father Iakinf (Bichurin) – including the first Russian description of Beijing; very early essay on the Russian exploration of the supplemented with a beautiful illustrated map; first Russian work on and ; an essay on the research of Pamir. The “Other Areas” section contains a very rare essay by the famous Russian circumnavigator Vasily on the state of the Russian fleet, an interesting scarce piece of Russian Africana with notes about anti- measures, et al. Join us at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair to explore and discover remarkable Russian travel books! Our booth is # 601.

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01 [ EARLY RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RELATIONS] [Golovnin, V.M.] Zapiski Vasiliia Mikhailovicha Golovnina v plenu u yapontsev v 1811, 1812 i 1813 godakh, i Zhizneopisanie avtora [i.e. Notes of V.M. Golovnin [made] in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813, and the Biography of the Author]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of N. Grech, 1851. Second edition. Three vols. bound together. V.1: [2], xxxvi, [10], 203; V.2: [2], 148; V.3. [2], 120 pp. Octavo. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps. Contemporary brown gilt tooled half leather with period paper marbled boards and gilt title on spine. Blank margins of portrait re-margined to fit book, maps with some expert repair including a couple of tears and one blank part of map, a few hints of staining in text, but overall a very good copy. Important firsthand account on the early history of the Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under command of Adam von Krusenstern and the activity of the Russian- Company promoted by Count (1764-1807). This is a full description of the notorious diplomatic Incident of Golovnin (1811-1813) occurred in the very beginning of the Russian-Japanese relations, written by one of its participants. Count Nikolai Rezanov took part in the Krusenstern’s circumnavigation with the goal to deliver the first Russian embassy to and to establish the diplomatic relations between the countries. The embassy was unsuccessful, and in 1805 the of Japan prohibited Russian and subjects to approach Japanese . Following the instructions of irritated and insulted Rezanov in 1806-1807 two ships of the Russian-American Company - Yunona and Avos’ under command of young navy officers Nikolas Khvostov and Gavriil Davydov sailed to the Japanese possessions on the Southern , the and , robbed and burned the settlements, and captured several Japanese people. Although both Kvostov and Davydov were arrested as soon as they arrived to

RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 1 and were sent to to be trialed, the attitude of Japanese to evidently deteriorated; Russia was considered to prepare for a war with Japan. In 1808-1811 Russian sloop Diana under command of Vasily Golovnin and Peter Ricord was sent on a second official Russian circumnavigation to explore and describe Russian , Kamchatka and Alaska. Upon his return from Russian America in 1811 Golovnin sailed to chart the Kuril Islands. During a short stop at the Kunashir Golovnin, his two officers and four sailors were treacherously taken prisoners by Japanese, transported to the Hokkaido Island and were kept in prison near the town of Matsumae for over two years. The book thoroughly and vividly describes the events from Diana’s departure from Kamchatka in April 1811 to the liberation of the captives by Diana and Peter Ricord in Hakodate in October 1813, giving a brief report on the previous history of Russian-Japanese relations and the actions of Khvostov and Davydov. The third part of the “Zapiski” is solely dedicated to Japan – its geographical location, , people, language, religion, administration, legal system, trade and industries, army, possessions and colonies. The book is illustrated with a steel engraved portrait of Golovnin and a facsimile of his signature, and two folding engraved maps: “Map of the Sakhalin with the Chain of all Kuril Islands, southern of which have been described in 1811 on the sloop Diana under command of the fleet captain Golovnin,” and “Map of the Treason named so by Captain Rikord after the capture of Captain Golovnin on its shore (the bay is located on the southern part of the ).” This second edition of the book is supplemented with an extensive biography of Golovnin specially written by a Russian journalist and publisher Nikolai Grech (1787-1867). “V.M. Golovnin, one of the outstanding Russian naval officers of the nineteenth century, made several voyages to the North Pacific and to the northwest coast of America. He has left valuable accounts of his voyages and of the investigation of the state of the Russian colonies in America, which he conducted by order of the emperor in 1818” (Lada-Mokarski, #82).

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 3 02 [THE DISCOVERER OF ] Admiral M.P. Lazarev. [Steel Engraved Portrait]. [], ca. 1840s. Steel engraving, print size 39x34,5 cm on a large sheet 65,5x48,5 cm. “B.R. Davies direxit., J. Thomson sculpt.” underneath the image. With an engraved title in Russian and Lazarev’s coat of arms engraved on the lower margin. Blank margins with minor repaired tears, creases on the upper and lower blank margins not affecting the images, overall a very good print. Official portrait of Admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1788- 1851), Russian naval officer, circumnavigator, and the discoverer of Antarctica. The print engraved in England on the special order of the Russian Naval Ministry shows Lazarev in his late years, as the Chief of Staff of the Fleet (since 1832); the Admiral is depicted waist length, dressed in uniform with all his regalia and holding a spyglass under his left arm. His name under the portrait is adorned with the coat of arms of Lazarev noble family. ‘‘Lazarev first circumnavigated the globe in 1813-1816, aboard the vessel Suvorov; the expedition began at and reached Alaska. During this voyage, Lazarev discovered the Suvorov Atoll. As a commander of the and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen’s deputy on his world cruise in 1819–1821 (Bellingshausen commanded ), Lazarev took part in the discovery of Antarctica and numerous islands. On January 28, 1820 the expedition discovered the mainland, approaching the Antarctic coast at the coordinates 69°21’28’’S 2°14’50’’W / 69.35778°S 2.24722°W / -69.35778; -2.24722 and seeing ice-fields there. In 1822-1825, Lazarev circumnavigated the globe for the third time on his Kreyser, conducting broad research in the fields of and ethnography’’ (Wikipedia). Later Lazarev took part in the Battle of Navarino (1827, part of the Greek War of , 1821-32); was in charge of the naval units of the Baltic Fleet (1830), and became the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, the Black Sea ports, and military governor of and Nikolayaev (since 1833).

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 5 03 [ THROUGH THE ARCTIC TO THE PACIFIC ] [Lomonosov, M.V.] Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie raznikh puteshestvii po severnim moryam… [i.e. Lomonosov’s Project and Chichagov’s Expedition; with: A Brief Description of Various Voyages in the Northern and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the / Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry]. St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ., 1854. Second enlarged edition. [2], c, 150 pp. Small octavo. Contemporary light brown half leather with marbled boards, spine titled and tooled in black, overall a very good copy. Very rare with only five Special enlarged edition of Mikhail Lomonosov’s project on copies found in the exploration of the North East Passage, supplemented with the Worldcat; the only found copy description of two Russian expeditions to the Arctic and Pacific of the first edition which were organized on the basis of this project in 1765-66 under is in the Yale University. command of Vasily Chichagov (1726-1809). The expeditions aimed to find the sea route to the Pacific along the Arctic coast of Siberia and departed from Spitzbergen, but in both cases couldn’t proceed far due to the impenetrable ice. The book includes the text of Lomonosov’s project (discovered and first published only in 1847), description of Chichagov’s expeditions and several official documents related to it: Imperial decree, official Instruction to Chichagov, correspondence between Lomonosov and Admiralty officials, reports and resolutions by the Admiralty, as well as later descriptions of the expedition made by Gerhard Mueller and Adam von Krusenstern. All supporting documents were discovered in the Admiralty archive in the 1840s. The first edition contains only the text of Lomonosov’s project and no information about Chichagov’s expedition. ‘‘The second part consists of Lomonosov’s important memorandum on the North East Passage, in which he tied Russia’s development to the opening of new naval trade routes, and asserted the feasibility of passage through the Arctic into to ’’ (Christies). ‘‘Lomonosov, the versatile scientist and member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, was much interested in an attempt to find the , over the to the Pacific. The present work has five chapters, the first entitled: History of various sea voyages, undertaken to find the passage to East , over the northwestern

BOOKVICA 6 seas. The second: History of attempts to find a sea passage to India, from the northeastern approach, over the Arctic (‘‘Siberian’’) Ocean. The third: Possibility of a sea passage over the Arctic (‘‘Siberian’’) Ocean to East India, recognizable by natural phenomena. The fourth: Preparations necessary for a sea voyage over the Siberian Ocean. The fifth: Project of undertaking the and of confirming and extending the Russian power in the East. In Appendix One, Lomonosov suggests the best point from which to start the expedition and the preparations necessary for it, etc. In Appendix Two are recited the latest reports of the Russian regarding discoveries of islands belonging to the Aleutian chain which confirmed Lomonosov in his belief of the feasibility of his project’’ (Lada-Mocarski 128).

04 [GOLOVNIN’S RESCUE] Rikord, P.I. [& Golovnin, V.M.] Zapiski flota kapitana Rikorda o plavanii ego k yaponskim beregam v 1812 i 1813 godakh i o snosheniyakh s yapontsami [i.e. Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord About his Sailing to Japan’s Shores in 1812 and 1813, and His Relations with the Japanese]. St. Petersburg: Naval Typ., 1816. [x], 138 pp. Quarto. Four folding copper engraved maps and plans after P. Rikord, and an aquatint portrait of Takadaya-Kahei. Attractive, contemporary dark brown gilt tooled treed full calf with a red gilt title label. Extremities rubbed and with paper library label on spine and one stamp in text, portrait with period hand colouring, half title and title with mild finger soiling, but otherwise a very good copy in very original condition. First edition. Very rare. Primary source of the early history of the Russian-Japanese relations closely connected with the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) under the command of Ivan Krusenstern and the Russian- American Company under Nikolay Rezanov (1764-1807). ‘‘In 1807 Golovnin was commissioned by the Russian government to survey the coasts of Kamchatka, the Russian American colonies and the Kuril Islands’’ (Howgego 1800-1850, G15). The book describes the rescue operation organised by Captain Peter Rikord on the Imperial Russian sloop Diana as a result of the

RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 7 famous diplomatic Golovnin incident (1811-1813), which brought Russia and Japan to the brink of war. The conflict started in 1804 during Krusenstern’s circumnavigation; one of its goals as we know, was to bring the first Russian embassy headed by N. Rezanov to Japan. As the embassy Only one copy was unsuccessful and relations between Russia and Japan weren’t found in Worldcat (University of established, and also Russian ships were strictly prohibited from Michigan). approaching Japanese shores, Rezanov wanted revenge. Following his instructions, two ships Yunona and Avos’ belonging to the Russian- American Company and under the command of young navy officers Nikolas Khvostov and Gavriil Davydov in 1806-1807 sailed to the Japanese territories of Southern Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and Hokkaido, and robbed and burned the settlements there, and captured several Japanese. Although both Kvostov and Davydov were arrested as soon as they arrived to Okhotsk and sent to Saint Petersburg to be trialed, the attitude of the Japanese to Russians significantly deteriorated; they considered Russia to be preparing for a war against Japan. In 1808-1811 the Russian sloop Diana under command of Vasily Golovnin and Peter Rikord, as the second-in-command, was sent as a second official Russian circumnavigation with the purpose of exploration and surveying of the , Kamchatka and Alaska. Upon return from Russian America in 1810, Golovnin started to chart the Kuril Islands. During his short stop at the island of Kunashir, Golovnin, his two officers and four sailors were taken prisoners, transported to the island of Hokkaido and there were kept in prison near the town of Matsumae for over two years. The peaceful solution of the conflict became possible only as a result of the friendly relationship between Peter Rikord, who organized and led three expeditions to rescue his commander Golovnin, and the prominent Japanese businessman and public figure Takadaya Kahei (1769-1827), who was captured by Rikord with his ship Kanze-maru, and stayed in Russia for several months. Takadaya Kahei learned Russian, and upon returning home he convinced the Japanese government that the Russians could be trusted. The Russian sailors were then released from Japanese captivity (no one in history has ever returned from the Japanese captivity before). This work describes the story of Golovnin’s capture and the rescue in a very captivating manner. The plates depict the views of the harbours and ports of Edermo (modern Erimo) and Hakodate, plans of

BOOKVICA 8 the special facilities built for the negotiations, and a portrait of Takadaya Kahei. Rikord’s book supplements the book by Golovnin, titled Captivity in Japan During the Years 1811, 1812, 1813 (SPb., 1816).

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 9 05 [BERING’S FIRST KAMCHATKA EXPEDITION] Berkh, V.N. Pervoe morskoe puteshestvie rossiian, predpriniatoe dlia resheniia geograficheskoi zadachi: Soediniayetsia li Aziia s Amerikoiu? I sovershennoe b 1827, 28 I 29 godakh pod nachalstvom flota kapitana 1-go ranga Vitusa Beringa. S prisovokupleniem kratkago biograficheskago svedeniia o kapitane Beringe i byvshikh s nim ofitserakh [i.e. First Russian Sea Voyage, Undertaken for the Purpose of Solving the Geographical Problem: is Asia Joined to America? And Carried out in 1727, 28 and 29 under the Command of , Fleet Captain of the First Rank. With the addition of brief biographical data about Captain Bering and of his Officers]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1823. [6], iv, 126 pp. Octavo. With a folding table and a folding engraved map. Contemporary light brown half calf with marbled boards and gilt tooled spine; the spine with gilt lettered green sheep title label. Ink stamp of a Soviet bibliophile R.N. Mordvinov on the first free endpaper, ink stamp of another Soviet bibliophile A.I. Karpukhin on verso of the title page, Soviet bookshops’ stamps and markings on the last pastedown endpaper, half title with a mild water stain, the table with a tear neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy. Rare Russian imprint, first comprehensive decription of Vitus Bering’s first amchatka K expedition (1725-1730), written by Russian naval officer and historian Vasily Berkh (1781-1834), who was also a participant of the Krusenstern’s famous circumnavigation (Berkh served on under command of Yury Lisiansky). Previous copy of this book appeared at a western auction in 1965 (Eberstadt, $900). ‘‘An important source on the voyage of discovery sent out by . Bering proved for the first time that America was a separate and not joined by an isthmus to the rest of the known world. The map contains a facsimile of Bering’s signature, and the folding table extracts from the ship’s journal’’ (Eberstadt). The biographies in the end of the book include those of Captain Bering, Lieutenants Martin Spanberg and Alexey Chirikov, and warrant officer Peter Chaplin. The map compiled by Berkh outlines Bering’s track in 1728 and 1729, showing Kamchatka, and a small part of Alaska. ‘‘V.N. Berkh is an author of several books on Alaska and other aspects of Russian naval discoveries resulting from early sea voyages. His works are authoritative and are the culmination of a thorough

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 11 research for which he often used original source material. The present work is based largely on the manuscript journal of Warrant Officer (Michman) Peter Chaplin, who was with Bering on the latter’s first expedition and sailed with him on the Sviatoi Gavriil. Berkh also used material from Chirikov’s incomplete journal of the same voyage. These manuscript journals were accidentally discovered by Berkh in the State Archives of the Russian Admiralty, thus providing original source material of two participants in a historical event of great importance’’ (Lada-Mocarsky, 87). Not in Hill. Wickersham, J. A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 1724-1924, No. 6094.

06 [ARCTIC AND RUSSIAN AMERICA] Berkh, V.N. Khronologicheskaia istoria vsekh puteshestviy v severnya polyarnya strany, s prisovokupleniyem fizicheskikh svoistv togo kraia [i.e. Chronological History of All Voyages to the Arctic, with the Addition of the Survey of the Physical Characteristics of that Country]: [In 2 vols.]. St. Petersburg: Military Typography of the General Staff of His Imperial Majesty, 1821-1823. V.1: [xvi], 246, [2]; Vol.2: [4], iii, [1], 210 [2] pp. Octavo. With twelve lithographed plates (one folding) and two folding engraved maps, bound without the dedication leaf to Count Rumiantsev which is often the case. Contemporary dark brown Russian elaborately gilt tooled full calf with black gilt title and volume labels. New endpapers, but overall a near fine copy. First and only edition. A very rare and important account of the Arctic and Russian America. ‘‘The seemingly ambitious title of this work does not disappoint the reader (who know the ) as it contains what is promised – a chronological history of all generally known voyages to the Arctic , both from the Atlantic and Pacific approaches. It is true that the narratives of most voyages are extremely abbreviated and the reader is referred to original sources listed by the compiler in Part 1, pp. [ix-xiv] for a more complete relation of any voyage. At the same time, the brevity of the present work allows a quick review of all the voyages from 1492 to 1821. As far as Alaska is concerned, the following accounts should be pointed out: Part 1 – Bering, Cook, Billings, Krusenstern;

BOOKVICA 12 Part 2 – Vasiliev and Shishmarev, Ustiugov, Khromchenko and Etolin. The two maps <…> are of considerable help in following various voyages. The work is a good general review of the voyages... However, some of these voyages were not published separately in a book form and can be found only in Russian periodicals…’’ (Lada-Mocarski, 81). The book is supplemented with eight lithographed plates of animals, views and objects (one folding), and four engraved plates of crystals. The maps are both titled ‘‘Mercator map of northern polar regions, 1823’’. ‘‘The first shows the eastern coast of and extends eastward, across and Siberia to and including the northwest coast of Alaska <…>. The second map shows a small part of the Asiatic mainland, bordering on Bering Strait <…>. This second map shows mostly the north of as far as was known at that time, also Greenland and ’’ (Lada-Mocarski). In total there are 22 Russian travels described in the book: Semen Dezhnev (1648), Vitus Bering (1728), Lieutenants Muraviev and Pavlov (1733, to the ), Lieutenants Skuratov and Malygin (1736, to the Yamal and the River), Vasily Pronchishchev (1734, to the Arctic coast between and Yenisey , a part of the Great Northern Expedition), Khariton Laptev (1739, replaced Pronchishchev who died in 1736), Dmitry Ovtsyn (1734, to the Arctic coast between Ob and Yenisey Rivers, a part of the Great Northern Expedition), Ivan Koshelev and navigator Minin (1738, as the assistance to Ovtsyn), Lieutenant Petr Lassenius (1735, to the Arctic coast from the mouth of the Lena River to Kamchatka through the Bering Strait); Lieutenant (1736, as a replacement to Lassenius who died in 1735), navigator Alexey Khimkov (1743, to Spitzbergen), Nikita Shalaurov and Afanasiy Bakhov (1760, to the Arctic coast between Lena and Rivers), sergeant Andreev (1763, in search of lands in the Arctic Ocean north of the Kolyma River), Captain Vasily Chichagov (1766, to Spitsbergen), Captain Billings (two expeditions, 1787 and 1790, to the north-west coast of America, the Bering Strait and north-east coast of the ), Otto von (1815, to the north-west coast of America and the Bering Strait), Captains Vasiliev and Shishmarev (1819, to the north-west coast of America), navigator Andrey Ustiugov and Russian-American Company officers Fedor Kolmakov and Petr Korsanovsky (1819, to the Arctic coast of Alaska), Lieutenant Lazarev (1819, to ), V. Khromchenko and navigator Etolin (1821, to Russian America), Captain F. Luetke (1821, to Novaya Zemlya).

RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 13 The book also contains Berkh’s theoretical ‘‘Notes on three shortest routes to India’’, namely what is now called North-East Passage (around northern coast of Asia), North-West Passage (from the Hudson’s Bay to the Eastern Ocean), and the route between the coasts of Greenland and Spitsbergen via the North Pole to the Bering Strait. The last part of the book is a description of the physical characteristics of the Arctic regions (ice cap and , meteorology, and native inhabitants); the book finishes with a note ‘‘About awards offered for the discovery of the shortest route to India and reach of the North Pole’’. The lithographed plates are by a noted Russian artist Karl Beggrov (1799-1875) and show a muskox, a whale, a , a , a , a hunting scene, idols of the inhabitants of Novaya Zemlya seen by Barents, four views of snowflake patterns, and a plate showing an Eskimo harpoon head. The two folding maps engraved by Frolov respectively show the most current 1823 information about the North-East and the North-West Passages. Only eight printed Vasily Berkh (1781-1834) was a Russian naval officer and copies found in historian; he took part in the Krusenstern’s famous circumnavigation Worldcat and no auction records. (he served on the Neva under command of Yury Lisiansky).

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 15 07 [REMARKS ON SIBERIA FROM THE GOVERNOR OF RUSSIAN AMERICA]

Kornilov, A.M. Zamechaniya o Sibiri senatora Karnilova [i.e. Remarks on Siberia by Senator Kornilov]; [With:] Pribavleniye k zamechaniyam o Sibiri [i.e. Supplement to the Remarks on Siberia]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Karl Kray, 1828-1829. x, 104, [4], 107-136 pp. Octavo. With two folding copper engraved maps, borders outlined in colour. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards, neatly recased using original spine with a gilt lettered maroon leather title label and gilt tooled ornaments. Author’s ink presentation inscription on the half title: ‘‘To His Excellence Prince Alexey Alexeyevich Dolgorukov the author presents most heartily’’. An exlibris-stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good copy. Only six paper First edition. Rare. copies found in This is a presentation copy of the Remarks on Siberia written Worldcat (UC Berkeley, Stanford by a former Siberian governor and an Imperial Senate member Alexey University, Kornilov (1760-1848) and given to the then Minister of Justice of the University of Cambridge, Russian Empire and the head of the Senate Prince Alexey Dolgorukov Warsaw (1767-1834). Our copy is complete with the supplement and two University, National Library detailed copper engraved maps of Western and Eastern Siberia. of , Kornilov was a Russian naval officer, Captain of the fleet, a Bavarian State participant of the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790). In 1805-1806 he Library). served as the governor of the (which included Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, the and Russian America), and in 1806-1807 – as the governor of the Tobolsk province (). During his first term Kornilov travelled to via Baikal with the official inspection, and while on service in Tobolsk he joined the expedition party under command of Lieut.-Col. Popov which was sent to survey the Arctic coast between the mouths of the Ob and Pechora Rivers. The notes written during Kornilov’s time in Siberia revolve around the idea of reforms in the region and include general overview of Siberia, descriptions of the city of Irkutsk, the region, the Tobolsk province, Berezov and Obdorsk (), River Ob; brief accounts of the travels to Kyakhta and , and from Tobolsk to Berezov and Obdorsk along the and Ob Rivers; notes about means of increasing population in Eastern Siberia, the formation of the Siberian Militia, about taking children of the natives and converting them into , about the improvement of the prison system in Siberia, resettlement of peasants from Central Russia to Siberia; the

BOOKVICA 16 advantages of annexation of the northern bank of the Amur River (will happen only in 1858), about creation of storages of bread and salt, about protection of the borders of Eastern Siberia; about the advantages of moving the major annual fair from Irbit to Tyumen; about local Yamshchiks (coachmen), about Omsk and Petropavlovsk forts and the border with the Kirghizes and the , and others. The main part is concluded with the table of distances between Tobolsk, Obdorsk and various settlements on the Irtysh and the Ob Rivers. The supplement contains articles on Siberian agriculture, factories, forestries, improvement of state shipbuilding in Siberia, Siberian roads and the usage of local plants for medicinal purposes. There are several mentions about Russian America in the book (pp. 30, 41, 126), but the most interesting is the map of Eastern Siberia showing the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan coast from the

See next page for Bering Strait to the Queen Charlotte’s Islands, with the lands populated the map by several Alaskan tribes indicated (by Koliyzhi, Kenaitsy, Konyagi, Chugachi and others). The other map shows Western Siberia from the to the Anabar River, indicating the lands of various native tribes – Ostiaks, Voguls, Samoyeds et al.; the insert shows the course of the Ob River from Tobolsk to Obdorsk). Overall an interesting early account of Asiatic Russia and Russian America.

08 [NATIVES OF RUSSIAN PACIFIC SHORES]

Resin, A.A. Ocherk inorodtsev russkogo poberezhiya Tikhogo okeana [i.e. Sketch of the Natives of the Russian Coast of the Pacific]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of A.S. Suvorin, 1888. [2], 78 pp. Octavo. Contemporary green quarter cloth with marbled boards. Upper corner of the last free endpaper cut off and repaired with paper, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare Russian imprint as no copies were found in Worldcat. Interesting eye-witness description of a Russian merchant voyage to the North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean around the Chukotka Peninsula, published as an offprint from the Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society (vol. XXIV). Resin, an associate of the Governor General of the new Priamyrskoe [Near the Amur River] (formed in 1884) was assigned to observe and describe its northern regions. In May-September 1885 he joined Sibir’

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BOOKVICA 18 captain planned to reach , but was forced to turn back by the pack ice. During the return trip the schooner called at the Ratmanov Island (the Diomedes, Bering Strait) and traded there with the Chukchi. On the way to the Providence Bay the ship visited the Tkachen Bay (Chukotka) where the crew picked up a skull of a deceased Chukchi man which was later sent to the Academy of Sciences. The book describes the voyage from to the Karaga River (Northern Kamchatka) and further north around the Chukotka Peninsula; geography, climate, flora & fauna of Kamchatka, native population of the Petropavlovsk , and the Gizhiginsky district (‘‘chukmari’’ or Kereks, sedentiary Koriaks, Raindeer Koriaks and Chukchi, sedentiary Chukchi). Special part is dedicated to the activities of the Americans near Russian Pacific shores (about 30-35 whaling and trading ships call every year, they hunt whales and , bring rum, Winchester guns, tobacco, gun powder, knives, axes, animal traps, pottery, fabrics etc.), the author concludes that their influence to the natives is negative and proposes to establish a permanent at the Kamchatka and Chukotka shores.

09 [RUSSIAN TRADE IN NORTH PACIFIC AND TRAVEL TO THE USA] Skalkovsky, K.A. Vokrug svyeta: Sorok shest tysiach verst po moryu i sushe: Putevye vpechatleniya K. Skalkovskogo [i.e. Around the World: Forty-Six Thousand Versts on Land and Sea: Travel Notes by K. Skalkovsky]. St. Petersburg: Typ. T-vo ‘‘Obshchestvennaya Polza’’, 1881. [8], 185 pp. Octavo. With ten woodcut plates. Contemporary Russian brown quarter sheep with marbled paper boards. Private library ink stamps on the title page and p. [5], Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the rear pastedown endpaper, binding rubbed on extremities, faint stain on the first few leaves, but overall a very good copy. First edition. Very rare. Interesting original account of the first voyage to the Pacific by the steamer of the Russian Dobrovolny Flot (Volunteer Fleet) in 1880. The goal of the voyage was to establish trade connections between the Black Sea ports and the Far East - , Japan, and the Primorskaya region of the Russian Empire with the centre in Vladivostok. The author of the book was one of only two passengers of Moskva

RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 19 Konstantin Skalkovsky (1843-1906) - Russian mining engineer, writer, journalist and traveller. He travelled on special assignment of the Ministry of Finance to survey Russian trade in the Pacific. The steamer went from to Vladivostok via , the Malacca Strait, Singapore, and Xiamen; after having stayed in Vladivostok Skalkovsky visited Nanjing, Hankou, Shanghai, , Kobe, Kioto, Osaka, Yokohama, and Tokyo. From Japan he travelled across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco on board the SS City of Peking, took a train to New York and returned to Europe on the steamer . The notes initially published in St. Petersburg newspapers vividly describe the voyage – Singapore trade and Chinese markets, life in Vladivostok, Russian trade in China, River, Russian factory in China, Japanese tea houses, railways, industrial exhibition in Kyoto, European colony in Yokohama, Japanese navy, and others. Skalkovsky writes about the rules and way of life on board the City of Only three paper Peking, its passengers, the celebration of the 4th of July; special chapter copies found in Worldcat. is dedicated to San Francisco, talking about the economic crisis in the , local millionaires, president elections, women races, the ‘‘Alaska Company’’ – the heir of the Russian American Company (the headquarters in San Francisco, main articles of hunting and trade, the conditions of life of native Alaskans), the economic crisis in British Columbia with the decline of gold extracting, by the Americans to the natives of the Russian shores of the Pacific, et al. Overall an interesting account of trade and commerce in China, Japan and North Pacific. ‘‘Dobroflot orDobrovolny Flot (meaning «Voluntary Fleet») was a state-controlled ship transport association established in the Russian Empire in 1878 funded from voluntary contributions collected by subscription (hence the name). Also known as Russian Volunteer Fleet, Dobroflot was founded in wake of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), with the intent of providing Russia with a fleet of fast armed merchantmen. <…> Throughout its existence Dobroflot provided invaluable services for both the government and the economic development of Russia - particularly the Russian Far East, with Dobroflot established the first regular maritime link between Vladivostok and ’’ (Wikipedia).

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RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 21 10 [RUSSIAN-AMERICAN COMPANY] Tikhmenev, P.A. Istoricheskoe obozrenie obrazovaniia Rossiisko- Amerikanskoi kompanii i deistvii ieia do nastoiashchego vremeni [i.e. Historical Survey of the Formation of the Russian-American Company and its Activity until the Present Time]: [In 2 vols.]. St. Petersburg: Eduard Veimar, 1861-1863. V.1: [2], V, II, 386, [2], 66; V.2: [2], II, 388, [4], 79, 292, X pp. Quarto. With three lithographed portrait plates, tinted lithograph view of Novo-Archangel (Sitka), and four large folding engraved maps (one hand coloured). Contemporary red quarter leather binding with restoration. New endpapers. Rare owner’s markings in pencil, light restoration to title pages (removed period ink markings), but overall a very good clean and bright copy of the rare set. First edition. First fundamental research of the history of the Russian- American Company, supplemented with hitherto unpublished historical documents from the Company’s archive. After its publication each volume of the book was awarded with the prestige Demidov Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Tikhmenev received a personal gratitude from Russian Emperor Alexander II. ‘‘Although Tikhmenev was obviously bent on presenting a favourable picture of the R.-A. Co., and although he concentrated on the commercial side of its activities, anyone interested in the history of the Company will find his work a mine of original information. Altogether, it is one of the cornerstones of any collection of books on Alaska’’ (Lada-Mocarski). First volume is dedicated to the Company’s early history: its foundation by Grigory Shelekhov, first Russian circumnavigation under command of Adam von Krusenstern organized in the interests of the Company, administration and development of Russian colonies in Alaska in the 1820-1840s, trade with California and the establishment of Fort Ross, exploratory expeditions to Alaska and south the American coast organized by the Company, first Christian missionaries and development of at the Company’s territories, et al. The second volume contains the history of the Company’s activities in Eastern Siberia, exploration of the Amur River and trade in the Amur region, occupation of Sakhalin Island, descriptions of whaling by foreigners and Russians in the Eastern Ocean, delivery of supplies to the colonies and Kamchatka, the Company’s foreign trade, propagation of faith among the natives, the Company’s resources, and some statistical

BOOKVICA 22 and ethnographical data on the Russian colonies. The Appendixes contain text of the original documents from the Company’s archive: 10 in the first volume and over 50 in the second volume. The first volume includes texts of the official charter given to Shelekhov in 1788, early act of formation of the Company’s prototype (the United American Company, 1798), privileges given to the Company, its statute and rules, Imperial decree related to the Company, and others. The second volume reproduces texts of the bylaws of the Russo-Finnish Whaling company, the bylaws of the R.A. Company dated 1844, rules for elections of the Aleutian chiefs, and about 50 letters of Shelekhov, Baranov and Rezanov as well as other important documents connected with the history of the Company. The lithographed plates after the drawings of portray Grigory Shelekhov, Alexander Baranov, and Nikolai Rezanov, the view shows Sitka harbour with the town and the mountains in the background; the maps depict: (1) Russians possessions on the shores of the Eastern Ocean; (2) the mouth and the of the River Amur, Sakhalin Island, the Bay of Aian, and the Port of Okhotsk; (3) the most remarkable of the Aleutian Islands and a part of the American mainland See illustration (Kadiak Island, Unalashka, St. Paul Island, St. George Island, entrance to on the front cover and map on the the New Archangel harbour, et al.); (4) native dialects next page of the Russian-American colonies (with hand colouring). The author of the book, Petr Alexandrovich Tikhmenev (1824- 1888), was a captain 1st class; he graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg, served for the Russian Baltic fleet, at the , sailed to Japan. In 1857 was appointed for service in the Russian- American company. Tikhmenev compiled his famous work about the history of the Company using archives and firsthand information from the witnesses. Lada-Mocarski 150. Howes T262, Wickersham 5955.

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BOOKVICA 24 11 [RUSSIAN ALASKA] Zagoskin, L.A. Peshekhodnaya opis’ chasti russkikh vladeniy v Amerike, proizvedennaya leytenantom Zagoskinym v 1842, 1843 i 1844 godakh. S merkatorskoyu kartoyu gravirovannoyu na medi [i.e. Exploration on Foot of Part of the Russian Possessions in America. Accomplished by Lieutenant L. Zagoskin in 1842, 1843, and 1844. With a Copper Engraved Map on Only eight Mercator’s Projection]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Karl Kray, 1847-1848. Two copies found in vols. bound together. V.1: [2], 182, [2]; V.2: [2], 120, 43, [2] pp. Octavo. Worldcat. With a large folding copper engraved map bound at rear. Handsome contemporary gilt tooled half sheep with period paper marbled boards with black gilt title label, front covers of the original publisher’s wrappers to both parts bound in. Author’s presentation copy. First page of the first volume with an ink presentation inscription: ‘‘To much respected Sergey Platonovich Golubtsov from the author. XX/III. 1859’’. Wrapper to the first part with a prerevolutionary Russian stamp of the library of Vasily Mikhailovich Kashkarov. Overall a near fine copy. Very rare. The last time a copy of this edition appeared in a western auction was the famous Streeter Sale (1969). Our copy bears the author’s presentation inscription to Russian state official Sergey Golubtsov (1810-1888) – privy councilor, doctor of medicine, Guardian of the Odessa (1866) and Kiev (1880) Educational Districts, Honorary Justice of the Piece in Odessa. ‘‘Lieutenant Zagoskin’s expedition was to make an inland exploration of the of Alaska and to survey the Kvikhpak () and Kuskokvim rivers and the region encompassed by them. Zagoskin kept a diary which forms the basis of his work. He described in detail the Russian trading posts visited and the topography of the surroundings of Norton Sound. He also gave a good account of the life and customs of the Eskimo and the Indian inhabitants and much other important first-hand information secured during the expedition’s 18 and a half months of travel, during which about 5,000 versts (some 3,000 miles) were covered on foot and in leather baidars – a truly remarkable achievement’’ (Lada-Mocarski. 130). ‘‘The map must be one of the first, if not the first, printed map of the interior of Alaska along the lower course of the Yukon and between the Yukon and what is now Nome. Zagoskin’s were confined chiefly to the middle course of the Kuslokwim and the

RUSSIAN AMERICA & PACIFIC VOYAGES 25 lower course and northern tributaries of the Yukon’’ (Streeter. 3521). Lavrenty Zagoskin (1808-1890) was on service of the Russian- American Company since 1838. In 1824-44 he headed the exploratory expedition to the surrounding of the Norton and Kotzebue Sounds, during which he discovered the range separating the from the eastern shore of the Norton Sound, surveyed the basins of the local rivers, found previously unknown settlement (modern Holy Cross in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska), compiled the first map of the area, and collected numerous zoological, botanical, mineralogical and ethnographical items. For his achievements he was elected a member of the Russian Geographical Society which published excerpts from his travel diary in its Proceedings (1846 and 1847). First full edition of Zagoskin’s travel account was published in two volumes in 1847-1848 and was accompanied with a large folding map outlining the route of his expedition. This edition received the Demidov Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1849). Our copy bears the stamp of the private library of Vasily Kashkarov (1863-1937), Russian historian and writer, member of the Russian genealogical society, Archaeographical Commission, and Bibliographical Society at Moscow University. After the of 1917 Kashkarov took the side of the and immigrated to in 1920. Arctic Bibliography 19781; Bancroft pp. 553-54; Wickersham 5904.

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12 [ANTARCTIC] Grigoriev, S.G. Vokrug Yuzhnogo poliusa [i.e. Around the / The Latest Travels and Surveys]. Moscow: I.N. Kholchev, 1906. 132 pp. Octavo. With three maps at rear (two folding) and numerous illustrations in text. Original publisher’s printed and illustrated wrappers, slightly age toned and with minor tears on extremities, but overall a very good copy. First and only edition. Captivating overview of the history of exploration of Antarctic written in the midst of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Compiled by a Russian geographer, traveller and teacher in Moscow University (professor since 1918) Sergey Grigoriev (1874-1931), the book describes the expeditions to the mysterious Terra Australis from starting with and paying the most attention to the latest voyages of 1890-: Gerlache on Belgica, Borchgrevink on Southern Cross, Scott on Discovery, Drigalsky on , Nordenskiöld on the Antarctic, Bruce on , and Charcot on the Francais. The maps show the Land with the track of Scott, Graham Lands with the tracks of Belgica, Nordenskiöld, and the Antarctic; and of the whole Antarctica with the tracks of Cook, Dumont d’Urville, Bellingshausen, Wilkes, Ross, Challenger, Borchgrevink, Drigalsky, Bruce and Charcot.

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BOOKVICA 28 13 [EXPLORING RUSSIAN ARCTIC] Hedenström (Gedenshtrom), Mathias (Matvey) von. Otryvki o Sibiri [i.e. Excerpts on Siberia]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Medical Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1830. [2], 165 pp. Octavo. Contemporary marbled papered boards with brown gilt lettered sheep title label on the spine. Period ink owner’s inscription on the title page. Binding mildly rubbed on extremities, but overall a very good copy in very original condition. First and only edition of an important Russian Arctic account written by the explorer of the ; the only translation (into German) was published twelve years later (Fragmente oder etwas über Sibirien, St. Petersburg, 1842). Hedenström described the Arctic coast between the mouths of the Kolyma and Yana Rivers, surveyed the ‘‘Great Siberian Polynia’’ – vast area of open water between the Siberian continental shore ice and the drifting ice of the Arctic Ocean, circumnavigated and surveyed several islands of the New Siberian and named one of them (Novaya Sibir). During his expedition a myth was created about the legendary ‘‘Sannikov Land’’ – a north of the New Siberian Islands named after the expedition member Yakov Sannikov. The book summarizes Hedenström’s twenty years experience in Siberia and consists of eight independent articles: 1) About the Irkutsk Province (interesting description of eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, Yakutia and the coast of the , compiled in the form of a travel diary, following the major routes across the region: passage from the mine to Verkhneudinsk (Ulan-Ude), proposal of the best routes through the Yablonovy Mountains and across Lake Baikal, description of the Transbaikal region, a route to Yakutsk along the Lena River, a route to Okhotsk, manners and customs of Buriats, , , Chuchi, and other local inhabitants, et al); 2) About the Icy Sea (based on Hedenström’s three-year travels along the shores of the Arctic Ocean between the mouth of the Lena River and the Bering Strait, and includes descriptions of the New Siberian Islands, sea ice cover, currents, Arctic flora and fauna, dog sledding, , discoveries of frozen and heads of unknown animals; et al.); 3) About Lake Baikal (notes based on personal observations); 4) Measurement of the meridian degree at Lake Baikal; 5) About the Amur River (early description of the river and reasons of importance of its

ARCTIC, ANTARCTIC & SIBERIA 29 potential annexation to Russia - which was to happen only in 1858); 6) Water communications in Siberia; 7) The Lyamin River (a tributary of the Ob River); and 8) About Siberian foreign trade (notes about trade with China and the Bukhara khanate, a proposition of establishing the trade with China in the Bukhtarma fortress). Mathias Hedenström (1780/81-1845) was a Swedish-Russian Arctic explorer. ‘‘…some time before 1808 while working as a customs Rare. Only three paper officer in Riga, he was exiled to Siberia on a charge of embezzlement. copies found in On arrival to Tobolsk he was commissioned by Count N.P. Rumyantsev to Worldcat. carry out a survey of the New Siberian Islands (Novosibirskiye Ostrova). The islands had previously been visited by M. Vaghin (1717) and Ivan Lyakhov (1770-73). <…> Hedenström made three visits to the islands, in 1809 and 1810, and in 1811 when the project was concluded by Pshenitsin. In the first year the expedition crossed the Laptev Strait from Cape Sviatoy Nos and circumnavigated the islands of Bol’shoy Lyakhovskiy and Malyy Lyakhovskiy. Proceeding to the north it surveyed the bays and inlets along the Faddeyevskiy and Kotelnyi islands. In 1809, on Bol’shoy Lyakhovskyi, Hedenström reported that the quantity of was so great that, although the ivory diggers had been engaged in collecting ivory for forty years, the supply seemed to be quite undiminished. According to A.D. Middendorf, Hedenström planned to market the marrow from bones as a variety of pomade (hair ointment). The second expedition crossed the from Cape Lopatka and circumnavigated the adjacent island of Novaya Sibir. Hedenström published the map of the islands in 1811, then continued to travel and conduct research in Siberia’’ (Howgego, 1800- 1850, H17).

14 [YENISEY DURING THE SIBERIAN ] Krivoshapkin, M.F. Yeniseyski i yego zhizn [i.e. The Yeniseysky District and Its Life / Published by the Russian Geographical Society on the funds of V.A. Kokorev]. St. Petersburg: Imp. . geogr. o-vo, na izhdivenii V.A. Kokoreva, 1865. [4], v, [4], 378; [2], 188, 68 pp. Octavo. With two folding lithographed plates and a folding lithographed map. Contemporary quarter leather binding with marbled boards and gilt lettered title on the spine. Russian library stamp on the title page, minor foxing of several leaves. Overall a very good clean copy.

BOOKVICA 30 Detailed comprehensive description of the Yeniseysky district (northern part of the Eastern Siberian Governorate in tsarist Russia, modern ) made during the Siberian gold rush. The author was a local doctor, traveler and ethnographer, the founder of the Yeniseysk city hospital Mikhail Krivoshapkin. The book is based on his extensive travels across the region and was published by the Russian Geographical Society. In 1866 Krivoshapkin was awarded with a small of the Russian Geographical Society for his work. Apart from an extensive description of the geography, climate and administrative division of the district, the book contains interesting observations and notes of the gold bearing regions and settlements, methods of extracting gold, prospectors and their life, Siberian system of prisons and exile settlements, natives and their way of life, members of Russian religious sects inhabiting the region et al. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to the local animals and fish, and methods of hunting and fishing. The supplements contain information about the amount of furs and mammoth bone brought as a tax or sold to the government by the natives in 1846-1853, meteorological observations made in Yeniseysk in 1852-1860, and a dictionary of local words used in the region. The book is illustrated with a detailed map of the gold deposits in the Yeniseysk district, as well as two plates showing various traps and hunting devices used in the Siberian . The Siberian gold rush started in 1828 when gold was found on the Berikul River (Kuznetsk Alatau Range). In the 1830s gold was also discovered in the Western Siberia, Yeniseysk Governorate, and the Trans Baikal region. The peak of the Siberian gold rush was in the 1840- when over 30,000 prospectors worked in the region.

15 [NOVAYA ZEMLYA] Nosilov, K.D. Na Novoi Zemle: Ocherki i nabroski [i.e. At the Novaya Zemlya: Essays and Sketches]. St. Petersburg: A.S. Suvorin, 1903. [4], 327, [2] pp. Octavo. Original grey publisher’s printed wrappers with a photo illustration on the front cover. Some minor wear of extremities, but overall a very good copy. First edition. Rare. A collection of essays and memories by a Russian polar

ARCTIC, ANTARCTIC & SIBERIA 31 researcher, ethnographer and writer Konstantin Nosilov (1858-1923) describes his life and work on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago where he extensively travelled, served on the Russian meteorological station in the Malye Karmakuly settlement (Yuzhny Island) and wintered three times in 1877-1891. The author writes about polar nights and hurricanes on Novaya Zemlya, Aurora Borealis, his travel across the Yuzhny Island, hunting trips, celebrations of Christmas and Easter on Novaya Zemlya, Eight copies found in Worldcat. the Samoyeds’ (the Nenets) traditions of meeting the first rays of sun, customs of sacrifice to idols, funerals et al. Several essays describe Nosilov’s travels on the Yamal Peninsula and in the lower reaches of the Ob River in the late : fishing, travels across , cannibalism of the natives of the River estuary (essay ‘‘Our Cannibals’’) et al. Nosilov went on 1000 km trips across the northern and southern islands of the Novaya Zemlya on dog sledges (1889), built a new meteorological station in the Matochkin Strait (1890-91), opened the northernmost school in the Malye Karmakuly (1889). He was elected a member of the Russian Geographical Society (1884), was in correspondence with Russian writers A. Chekhov, D. Mamin-Sibiryak, polar explorer and others.

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BOOKVICA 32 16 [WHO WAS THE FIRST TO REACH THE NORTH POLE?] F.A. Cook i R.E. Peary. Otkrytie tainstvennogo poliusa [i.e. F.A. Cook & R.E. Peary. The Discovery of the Mysterious Pole / Compiled by V. Rozov-Tsvetkov]. Moscow: Typ. of I.D. Sytin’s Co., 1910. xxxix, 151 pp. Octavo. With two portraits (one double-page), nine plates, a map and illustrations in text. Contemporary black half cloth with marbled paper boards and spine with blind stamped title. Presentation inscription in Russian on the title page (‘‘To Matvey Ammosov for a good memory from V.M. Elizarov. 26th February 1913’’). Ammosov’s inscriptions and/or ink stamps on the first free endpaper, title page, several plates and in text. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities and weak on hinges, but overall a very good copy. No paper copies First edition. Very rare. were found in Worldcat. Interesting Russian account of the 1908 and 1909 North Pole expeditions of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary issued only a year later after the completion of the expeditions, in the midst of international discussion about who was the first to reach the Pole. The book describes both expeditions and is illustrated with the portraits of Cook and Peary, a map of their tracks and discoveries in the Arctic Ocean, and over a See next page for dozen illustrations, including nine plates (one double-page) showing illustration the North Pole (after a photo of F. Cook), the expeditions’ vessels, landscapes, native dwellings, a scene of a bear hunt, a snow blizzard and others. The preface by a Russian compiler of the book V. Rozov- Tsvetkov discusses the significance of Cook and Peary’s discoveries and their influence on the contemporary science, as well as outlines the history of previous expeditions to the Arctic (by , Hugo Willoughby, , James Cook, Edward Parry, Wilhelm Barents, , Ferdinand Wrangel, Adolf Nordenskiöld, Fridtjof Nansen, and others).

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BOOKVICA 34 17 [PHOTOS FROM THE NORTH POLE] [Sedov], G.Y. [Keepsake Album with Fourteen Photogravures of Sedov’s North Pole Expedition of 1912-1914, Titled:] Polyarnaya ekspeditsiya G.Y. Sedova [i.e. Polar Expedition of G.Y. Sedov]. Ca. 1914-1916. Oblong 12mo (ca. 10x16,5 cm). Eight card leaves, all but the first and the last ones printed on both sides. Original publisher’s green wrappers fastened with a string, with the gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. Ink stamp in pre-revolutionary Russian orthography on the first leave: ‘‘All gathered funds will be used for the families of the wounded and reserved [soldiers]’’. The wrappers and album leaves with some minor wear at extremities, but overall a very good copy. Rare Russian Arctic ephemera – a keepsake album with the photogravures from ’s unfortunate North Pole Expedition of 1912-1914. Sedov wanted to become the first Russian to reach the See next page for North Pole, and after a winter on Novaya Zemlya, the expedition vessel illustration Svyatoy Muchenik Foka (Saint Foka) delivered the North Pole party headed by Sedov to , from where they intended to go on dog sledges. Sedov died of near the Rudolph Island in March 1914, not achieving his goal. Printed during the WW1 for the benefit of the wounded Russian soldiers, the album contains a portrait of Sedov, images of the expedition vessel Saint Foka; scenes of the special prayer and blessing of the expedition flag in before the departure; Sedov’s speech on board the Saint Foka before the departure; portraits of the crew members in the ship’s lounge and on the captain’s bridge; view of the Saint Foka stuck in the pack ice in September 1912 near Novaya Zemlya; the cross erected by Sedov on the spot of astronomical observations near the expedition winter camp; departure of two parties – headed by Vize and Pavlov to cross Novaya Zemlya; Easter celebration in 1913; Sedov on return from a two-month trip around the Northern tip of Novaya Zemlya. Each photo is supplied with the explanatory text on the margins.

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Berezin, I.N. Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkazyu / Puteshestvie po Vostoku. I. [i.e. Travel to Dagestan and the Transcausasia / Travel to the East. I]. Kazan: University typ., 1849. xv, [2], 339, 149, [28], [2] pp. Octavo. With eight lithographed plans and views (e-catalogues of Russian State and Russian National libraries call for nine plates, but the e-copy from the catalogue of Russian State Library is identical to our copy; a copy from the Warsaw University calls for eight plates). Contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards and colour stamped title on the spine. Ink library numbers on the title page and p.17, and library paper labels on the top of the front cover and the spine. Binding rubbed and worn, with cracks on the top and bottom of the spine, a few of first and last leaves with mild stains on corners of the pages, but overall a very good internally clean copy. Only two paper First edition. Very rare. copies found in Historically important well written account of travels to Worldcat (Leiden University, Dagestan and modern Azerbaijan by a noted Russian Orientalist, Warsaw Turkologist, later professor of Kazan University (1846-55) and St. University). Petersburg University (since 1855) Ilya Berezin (1818-1896). Shortly after his graduation from the Eastern faculty of the Kazan University with the degree of Master in Eastern Philology Berezin was sent on an extensive scientific travel to the Caucasus, Persia, Iraq, , , Egypt and , which lasted for over three years (1842-45). This book gives a detailed account of the first part of his travel – in the southern provinces of the Russian Empire: Dagestan and the (modern Azerbaijan). Berezin went from Astrakhan to Tarki (now a suburb of ), and from there to (Dagestan), , , Salyan, Lankaran and Astara (Transcaucasia). He gives a detailed and valuable description of the history and geography of the region, overviews Russian expeditions to the Caspian Sea, talks about Muslim antiquities and architecture, local people, their occupations, manners

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 37 and customs, language, food; notes about the (1817- 1864) and rebel forces of Imam Shamil; special chapters are dedicated to Derbent and Baku and describe their history, architecture, population, trade and industries at length. 150-page comments refer to numerous sources in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, French and , used by Berezin. The supplements include tables of meteorological observations; tables of distances between Tarki and Astara, from cities of Dagestan and Transcaucasia to Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Tiflis; statistical tables showing population, buildings, industries, churches, mosques etc. of Derbent and Baku; alphabetic catalogue of the library of a Baku bibliophile; alphabetic index of geographical names et al. The illustrations include a plan of the Derbent Wall; two views of Derbent (the mosque and the Kyrkhlyar cemetery); general plan of the fortress and the city of Derbent; plan of the Palace of the Shirvanshahs in Baku; two leaves of facsimile of inscriptions on the walls and tombstones in Derbent; and a map of the mouths of the River and the Ghizil-Agaj bay of the Caspian Sea. Second revised and enlarged edition of the book was published in Kazan in 1850 (in three

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BOOKVICA 38 parts, with different numeration, but under one title page). Second part of the account of Berezin’s travels titled ‘‘Travel to the Northern Persia’’ was published in Kazan in 1852.

19 [RESEARCHING PAMIR] Chikhachyov, P.A. O issledovanii vershin Syr i Amu-Darii i nagornoi ploshchadi Pamir [i.e. On the Research of River Sources of and Amu Darya and Pamir Tableland]. St. Petersburg: V Tip. Vtorogo Otdeleniya Sobstv. E.I.V. Kantselyarii, 1848. 32 pp., 1 map. Octavo. With one engraved folding map (‘’Hypothetical map of Pamir’’). Yellow original publisher’s printed wrappers. Foxing, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, map slightly creased, minor tears of the spine, some soiling. Overall a very good copy. No copies found First edition. Rare. in Worldcat. This is a very interesting report on Central Asia and particularly Pamir and the sources of the Syr Darya and Amu Rivers, two longest major rivers of the region. It was made by Platon Alexandrovich Chikhachyov (1812-1892), Russian geographer, explorer and alpinist. He became co-founder of Russian Geographical Society in 1845, and gave this report at society’s session in 1848 where he also presented ‘’Hypothetical map of Pamir’’. It was a very thorough work in general, and the first Russian map to realistically show this region. The report was compiled to encourage the expedition to Pamir. Using scanty sources he gave the history of Pamir and pointed out its geopolitical importance for Russian Empire as it was a region where Russian and British interests collided at that time. It was also the time when Russian Empire developed trade relations with Khanate of Kokand importing cotton from there which surely bothered British authorities. The report and the map impressed the audience very much which led to its publishing in the third volume of the Proceedings of Russian Geographical Society. In 1848 on behalf of the society Chikhachyov proposed an idea to organize an expedition to explore river source of Amu River - the question which still wasn’t solved by European geography. His idea was a pioneer project at the moment. However, even with a strong support from Russian Geographical Society his project met too many obstacles and was rejected.

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 39 This edition gives a brief history of exploration of Central Asia from ancient times. The author described the history of Russian relations with this region (for example, Peter the Great had a multi- stage plan for developing this region with a goal to create a centre of See the map on the next page gold industry and trade which never came to life); the current situation in which Russia spread its influence in the north of the region and Britain - in the south; inhabitants who lived on this imaginary border of spheres of influence. The main focus of the report is on the importance and necessity of researching the geography of the region - first of all, for developing trade relations. To support his opinion he gives a few numbers, for instance, out of 750 000 poods of cotton (1 pood = 40 Russian pounds) imported to Russia only 55 000 poods came from Asia (1845). Among other things Chikhachyov compared Russian and English explorers and their ways of reflecting gathered information which again pointed out that Amu River had had much more trade and political importance to Russia but it was more explored by British.

20 [FIRST RUSSIAN DESCRIPTION OF BEIJING] Iakinf [Bichurin, N.Y.] Opisanie Pekina, s prilozheniem plana sei stolitsy, sniatogo v 1817 godu. Perevedeno c kitaiskago monakhom Iakinfom [i.e. Description of Beijing, Supplemented with the Plan of this Capital, Taken in 1817. Translated from Chinese by Monk Iakinf]. St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Smirdina, 1829. T.p., xvi, 130, [2] pp. Octavo. Contemporary Russian brown mottled full leather binding, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title label, recased and recornered, with new endpapers. Without the folding engraved plan that isn’t present in almost all known copies. Main text with period ink notes in Chinese characters and Russian, likely made by Iakinf himself and thus this might be his personal working copy. Title page remargined in the gutter. Otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the first books by the father of Russian sinology archimandrite Iakinf (Bichurin) and the first translation to a European language of Changyuan’s ‘‘Chenyuan shilue’’ (Summary of knowledge of the Imperial City, first published in China in 1788), supplemented with Iakinf’s lengthy Preface describing the location, structure, history and main sites of Beijing. The translator also supplemented the main

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CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 41 text with his own observations. Our copy contains numerous period manuscript notes in Chinese characters and in Russian, made by a Only six paper contemporary Russian sinologist, probably by Iakinf himself. Chinese copies were found in Worldcat. characters most likely show the correct Chinese names of the sites given in Cyrilic transliteration. Notes in Russian supplement the main text. Note on p. 42 (in translation): ‘‘There are a lot of common people living in the city, for that reason gates Dun-In-Myn, Si-An-Myn and Di-An-Myn although are closed, but not locked, so that people sent for a doctor or a midwife could pass them freely at any time’’. Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin better known under his monastic name Iakinf, was one of the founding fathers of sinology. For 14 years he served in the Russian Orthodox church mission in Beijing, translated a number of ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts, which had hitherto been unknown in Europe.

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Iakinf [Bichurin, N.Y.] Opisanie Chzhungarii i Vostochnogo Turkestana v drevnem i nyneshnem sostoyanii. Perevedeno s kitaiskago monakhom Iakinfom [i.e. Description of Dzungaria and Eastern Turkestan in its Ancient and Modern State. Translated from Chinese by Monk Iakinf]. St. Petersburg: Tip. Karla Kreya, 1829. xlvi, 90; [2], 91-270, [1] pp. Octavo. With four hand coloured lithographed plates. Both parts with period ink inscriptions on the title pages ‘‘E. bibl. Steph. Chotovitsky’’. Graphite and occasional blue pencil markings and notes in text (in prerevolutionary Russian orthography). Contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards, gilt tooled mounted spine; with new endpapers. Title pages with minor expert repair of blank parts, one repair affecting one letter, light foxing of the text. Otherwise a very good copy. Only eight First edition. Rare. copies found in An important work by the famous Russian sinologist Worldcat. archimandrite Iakinf, the first translation into a European language of three important Chinese sources on the history and contemporary state of so-called ‘‘Western Lands’’, or Chinese Turkestan (modern Uyghur Autonomous Region of China). The book describes the ancient history of the Western Lands as early as 126 B.C., and their modern state, and is based on three original Chinese sources: ‘‘Se yu chuen’’ (‘‘Narration about the Western Lands’’), a portion of the ‘‘Tscen Han shoo’’ by Pan Koo (‘‘History of the early ’’), and ‘‘Se yu vuin tzeen lŭh’’ (‘‘Notes about seen and heard in the Western Lands’’). The book opens with Iakinf’s preface, followed by an alphabetic index of ancient geographical names clarifying their present location. The main text is commenced with a table of distances between military stations in Chinese Turkestan, and is supplemented with texts of different government regulations and statutes regarding the region (about Chinese exiles and criminals sent for a settlement there, about duties and customs, about the possessions of the Turkestan princes allowed to be taken during travelling et al.), and with genealogical lists of the princes and rulers of the lands in the Eastern Turkestan. Coloured lithographed plates depict a Kalmykian warrior and his wife, an inhabitant of the area near Bukhara, and a Turkestan girl. Both title pages bear period ink owner’s inscriptions most likely made by Stepan Fomich Khotovitsky (1796-1885) – famous Russian

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 43 doctor of medicine, gynecologist, professor of the Medical-Surgical Academy in Moscow and the founder of pediatrics in Russia.

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BOOKVICA 44 22 [RUSSIAN EXPLORATION OF THE AMUR RIVER] Istoriya reki Amura, sostavlennaya iz obnarodovannykh istochnikov. S planom reki Amura [i.e. History of the Amur River Compiled from the Published Sources. With a Plan of the Amur River]. St. Petersburg: Tip. E. Veimara, 1859. 148 pp. Small octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Contemporary Russian quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards and blind stamped title on the spine. Owners’ ink and pencil notes on the first free endpaper dated 1860 and 1910; owner’s ink inscription dated 1951 on the title page. Binding slightly rubbed, light foxing of the text, Soviet bookshops’ stamps on the rear pastedown, overall a very good copy.

Only one paper First edition. Very rare. copy found Early anonymous account of the history of the Russian in Worldcat (Stanford exploration and settlement on the Amur River, printed just one year University). after the vast territories north of the Amur River had been transferred from China to Russia as a result of the Treaty (1858). The book is dedicated to count Nikolai Muravyev-Amursky (1809-1881), governor general of Eastern Siberia who actively promoted Russian expansion to the lower reaches of the Amur and signed the treaty from the Russian side. The account starts with the description of the course of the Amur River based on several Russian travel accounts of the 1850s and is followed by a lengthy narration of the exploration of the Amur River by Russian in the 17th century, the foundation of Albazin - first Russian settlement on the river (1651), Sino-Russian border conflicts of the 1650-1680s, and the signing of the (1689) which forced the Russians to leave the lands north of the Amur River to China. The lithographed map at rear delineates the course of the Amur River from its beginning as the confluence of the Shilka and Argun Rivers to its influx into the Strait of , marking four Russian settlements – Albazin, Blagoveshchensk, Mariinsk, and Nikolaevsk. The map also indicates the areas of settlements of native people inhabiting the Amur River region and is decorated with portraits of four their representatives: an Oroqen, a Manegri, a Gold, and a Nivkh (Gilyak). Our copy bears with an interesting owners’ inscriptions, indicating its belonging to an early Russian settler of the Far East: ‘‘Khabarovka, 26th day of June 1860’’ (‘‘Khabarovka’’ was the name of city before 1893); ‘‘[A book of] Vladimir and Vasily Borislavsky’s. 10 October 1892. Father A. Borislavsky’’; ‘‘To the museum

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 45 of Leib Guard Regiment from Podporutchik Vasily Alexandrovich Borislavsky. 5 February 1910’’.

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BOOKVICA 46 23 [FIRST RUSSIAN WORKS ON AFGHANISTAN, KASHMIR, ] Kovalevsky, E.P. Stranstvovatel po sushe i moryam [i.e. A Wayfarer across the Land and Seas]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of P.P. Bocharov, M. Olkhin, 1843- 1845. Three parts bound together. 218, [2]; 183, [2]; [6], 250 pp. Small octavo. With two woodcut vignettes on the title pages (for parts 1 and 2). Handsome contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards; spine with gilt tooled borders and green sheep gilt lettered title labels; all edges coloured. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, part 1 without a half title, period ink note on the rear pastedown endpaper, but overall a very good copy.

No copies of this First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with no copies of this edition found in first edition found in Worldcat and only one copy of the second edition Worldcat (SPb., 1872, vol. 5 of Kovalevsky’s ‘‘Collected works’’) found in the library of Harvard University. Early important Russian piece on the topic of the Great Game, by Yegor Kovalevsky, Russian geologist and diplomat of considerable renown. As Kovalevsky notes in the Preface to the first part, ‘‘I describe only what I’ve seen myself or hear from eye-witnesses. Fate threw me mostly to countries less known and almost inaccessable for Europeans…’’ (part 1, p. [3]). The first part of the book describes Kovalevsky’s travels to the Central Asian khanates of Khiva and Bukhara in 1839-1840. On the special request of the Emir of Bukhara he was sent to his khanate for the exploration of gold and minerals. Having joined the merchant karavan in Orenburg, Kovalevsky’s party left in October 1839, but a month later it was taken captive by the Khivans in the Ülken Borsyk . They managed to escape and went for 300 versts to the Akbulak fort held by the Russians. In three days the fort was besieged by the Khivans, and Kovalevsky successfully organized its defence. Later his party joined the forces of General Vasily Perovsky who was retreating from his unsuccessful Khiva Military expedition (November 1839 – March 1840). In the spring of 1840 Kovalevsky went to Bukhara again, this time with the merchant caravan via Tashkent, also visiting Khiva. Special essays are dedicated to ‘‘English Officers in Central Asia’’ (talking about Arthur Connolly and Charles Stoddart, James Abbott and Richmond Shakespear), and the ‘‘Military expedition along the shore ice of the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea’’ (under command of General Perovsky to the Mangyshlak Peninsula in 1836).

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 47 The second part of the book is one of the first Russian works on Afghanistan, Kashmir and Punjab. The essay ‘‘A story of a sepoy (Afghanistan)’’ tells the story of a survivor of the ill-fated exodus of the British Army from Afghanistan in 1842 and is considered by Russian historians as the original Russian source on the history of the first Anglo- Afghan War (1839-1842) (See: Valskaya B.A. Travels of Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky, Moscow, 1956). The other essays are ‘‘The in Kashmir (1828)’’, ‘‘Turkmenian Rakhman-Ayaz (a story of love)’’, ‘‘A trip to Kulja’’, and ‘‘Ranjit Singh (a Maharaja of Lahore)’’. The third part of the book is dedicated to the and Carpathians where Kovalevsky went in 1843-44 for gold exploration.

24 [CHINA] Kovalevsky, E.P. Puteshestviye v Kitai. Chast’ 1-2 [i.e. Travel to China. In 2 parts]. St. Petersburg: tip. Korolyeva i Ko., 1853. P.1: [4], IV, 199 pp., 2 ill.; P.2: [4], IV, 213 pp., 2 ill. Octavo. Contemporary bright red quarter leather with cloth boards, gilt-lettering and gilt decorations on the spine and decorative frames in blind on boards. Restorations of spine, binding is mildly rubbed, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamps, soiling on endpapers, spots and occasional foxing of the text, small tears of endpapers, light damp stains in the end of the book, two small tears of the last page (p.199) and restored tear on p.17. First edition. Rare. Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky (1809-1811) was a Russian explorer, writer, orientalist, a member of Academy of Science and Russian Geographical Society (1847). In 1849 he escorted Christian mission to Beijing and was able to convince authorities to let Russian caravans pass through using easy ‘merchant’s path’ instead of almost impassable sands which gave Russians a big advantage for a trade and enriched geographical knowledge of . Even more important was Treaty of Kulja concluded with his assistance in 1851. Under its terms Kulja (modern Yining) and Chuguchak (modern Tacheng) were opened to Russian trade. The treaty was preceded by a gradual Russian advance throughout the nineteenth century into in direct competition with British efforts to open China. This edition includes Kovalevsky’s account of the journey, his impressions of China and itinerary from Russian border to Beijing. The

BOOKVICA 48 last one consists of a date, a name of the station with its short description, distance in horse or camel miles, plants and water on WorldCat locates the sight, direction of the journey and its description, thermometer, four copies of this edition. barometer, hygrometer measurements. In the main part Kovalevsky described interesting things he saw in Mongolia and China alongside with description of each phase of their travel. While in Mongolia he described their folktales, origin of the people etc. In China, for example, he found among the most interesting things an imbalance in the was the country was overpopulated. The whole chapter was dedicated to opium, another - to a tea. He wrote a lot about Russian in China - schools of Russian language in Beijing, diplomatic compounds and of Russian Orthodox Church, cemeteries and churches, among most interesting - Korean and Tibetan visits of Russian .

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CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 49 25 [TRIP TO THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS AND GEORGIA] Nefedyev, N.A. Zapiski vo vremya poyezdki iz Astrakhani na Kavkaz i v Gruziyu v 1827 godu [i.e. Notes during the Trip from Astrakhan to the Caucasus and Georgia in 1827]. Moscow: Typ. of S. Selivanovsky, 1829. [4], 190 pp. 12mo. With a copper engraved frontispiece. Later 19th century quarter leather with brown cloth boards. Text with mild water stains and foxing, occasional pencil markings and notes in Georgian, binding rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Only three paper First edition. Very rare. copies found in Worldcat. Captivating description of a travel to the Caucasian Mountains and Georgia by Russian state official and ethnographer Nikolai Nefedyev (1800-1860) with eye-witness account about the events of the Caucasian War (1817-1864) and the Russo-Persian War (1826- 1828). Nefedyev travelled together with the rich St. Petersburg drama- lover and amateur singer Nikita Vsevolodovich Vsevolozhsky (1799- 1862) and his wife Varvara Petrovna Vsevolozhskaya, nee Khovanskaya (1805-1834). Vsevolozhsky was the founder of the Zelenaya Lampa (The Green Lamp) literary and noble society, and was well-acquainted with many important Russian poets, writers and society figures of the time, including , Anton Delvig, and the Decembrists Sergey Trubetskoy, Fyodor Glinka, Yakov Tolstoy and others. The book was dedicated to his travel companion Varvara Vsevolozhskaya. The party went from Astrakhan to Vsevolozhsky’s estate near the Cherny Rynok village (now Kochubey, Dagestan, on the shore of the Caspian Sea), and from there to Tiflis via ( Kray, ), , , Yekaterinograd, , Balta, Darial Gorge, Pasanauri, and Dusheti. Nefedyev vividly describes sites and people he has seen, including fishing in the mouth of the River, the society of the mineral water towns, cost of renting an apartment there, a trip on top of the Mashuk mountain, the procedure of taking mineral water, the latest events of the Caucasian war and raids of the Gortsy (mountain dwellers), Russian forts on the , Tiflis architecture and inhabitants et al. He mentions that the resort guests in the Caucasus like to discuss poetry and Pushkin at the water fountains; regrets that he hasn’t met General Yermolov who had earlier passed the village where they stayed on his return way from the Caucasian service (Yermolov was the commander-in-chief of the

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CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 51 Russian troops in the Caucasus in 1816-1827). In the Urukh fortress he met Semyon Mazarovich (ca. 1784-1852) – the head of the Russian mission in Teheran in 1818-26 - on his way back to Russia. An entry from June 1827 describes his travel along the Georgian Military Road together with the Russian troops which were headed to the Russian- Persian War (1826-28) and mentions a young officer hasting to get to the front before the capture of Erivan (it would happen only in October). Overall a very interesting valuable account of an early Russian travel to the Caucasus. The book is concluded with a table of distances from Astrakhan to Tiflis. The frontispiece shows the Lars fort in the Caucasian mountains on the way to Georgia.

26 [NEW RUSSIAN AMUR RIVER TERRITORIES] Maksimov, S.V. Na Vostoke: Poezdka na Amur (v 1860-1861 godakh). Dorozhnye zametki i vospominaniia [i.e. On the East: A Travel to Amur in 1860-1861. Notes and Memoirs]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Obschestvennaya Polza Partnership, 1864. [4], 588 pp. Octavo. Contemporary gilt tooled quarter leather with blindstamped brown cloth boards. Head and tail of spine with minor chips, first few pages with some mild water staining of upper outer corner of blank margin of pages, mild foxing throughout and a couple of mild stains in text, but overall a very good copy. Only seven This is the first edition of the travel notes by a prominent copies found in Worldcat. Russian ethnographer made during his journey to the newly annexed Russian Amur Province – the area of over 600,000 sq. km between the Stanovoy Mountains and the left bank of the Amur River became a part of Russia just two years prior to his trip, on the 1858 . Maksimov’s route went through Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and Nerchinsk; from there down the Shilka River to its confluence with the Ergune River where the Amur River proper starts. The chapter about his travel along the Amur River describes the legs from Ust-Strelka to Blagoveshchensk, then to Khabarovks, and to Nikolaevsk located near the Amur in the Pacific Ocean. Separate parts are dedicated to the Russian colonization of the Amur River valley, and to the life of Nikolaevsk and Russian settlers in the mouth of the Amur. The other chapter titled On the Eastern Ocean describe Maksimov’s voyage on a steamer throught the Strait of Tartary, with

BOOKVICA 52 stops in De Castries Bay (now Chikhachyova Bay), the Emperor’s Harbour (now Sovietskaya Harbour), St. Olga’s Bay, and recently founded Russian settlement in the Possiet Bay. The next chapters describe his subsequent travel through Japan (Hakodate), (with an interesting description of the city of Aigun), and China (Maimaicheng – now Altanbulag). There are also descriptions of the Russian fair in Blagoveshchensk and famous tea trade in Kyakhta. Overall a very interesting firsthand account of the early years of Russian colonization of the Amur River, and bordering territories of Japan, Manchuria and China. Sergei Maksimov (1831-1901) was a Russian ethnographer and traveller, an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He took part in the 1855 expedition to the Russian Arctic, organised by the Naval Ministry, and wrote his major book A Year in the North (1859) based on his impressions during the voyage. In 1860-61 Maksimov participated in the next expedition organised by the Naval Ministry to study the inhabitants of the just annexed Amur territories, which also resulted in a travel account titled On the East (1864). Maksimov’s most famous works were related to his travels to the Siberian katorga. His book Exiles and Prisons was published in 1862 for state officials only, with a print run of only 500 copies, and with a stamp «Confidential». Only several years later a public edition appeared, becoming extremely popular. Maksimov’s books strikingly describe the manners and customs of Russians, including beggars, old believers, kossaks, inhabitants of the Caspian shore, Urals, and Amur; they are still highly popular and are reissued by modern publishers.

27 [ARTIST’S JOURNEY TO ] [Vereshchagina, E.K.] Ocherki puteshestviya v Gimalaii g-na i g-zhi Vereshchaginykh [i.e. Essays on a Journey to Himalayas by Mr. and Mrs. Vereshchagin]: [In 2 vols]. St. Petersburg: tip. M.M. Stasyulevicha, 1883- 1884. V.1: . Second edition. 1883. 86 pp., 11 ill.: ill.; V.2: Kashmir. . 1884. 135 pp.: ill. 22x15,5 cm. In original printed illustrated wrappers. Wrappers are worn, with spines chipped or missing. Vol.1 of the second edition (first edition is identical and rarely found), vol.2 of the first edition. This collection of essays by Elizaveta Vereshchagina, wife of

CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS 53 the famous Russian artist Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) describes their journey through India to the Himalayas. The couple lived and travelled in India in 1874-76. The artist planned a big series of Indian works and wrote to a friend ‘’it will be a story of British takeover of India’’. Press started a campaign to discredit the artist, in number of articles he was accused of being a Russian government agent researching ways for Russia to intrude . He had to leave eventually and finish his big Indian works at home using sketches. In first volume Elizaveta describes their travel to Sikkim in 1875. They started from Agra and among other places they visited Allahabad, Bankipore, , the Pemayangtse monastery, Yuksom, the Sanga Choeling Monastery, the Tashiding Monastery, Tumlong, the Namchi Monastery et al. In the second volume she describes their second travel in April of 1876 to another border with Tibet areas - Kashmir and Ladakh. They started their journey in Deli, stopped in Lahore and , they visited Wular Lake et al. They crossed Ladakh from the west to the east using caravan road and visited Dras, , Shergol and Shergol Cave monastery, the Lamayuru Monastery, the Hemis Monastery, Leh, the Chemrey Gompa, Pangong lake, Lake Moriri, the , Dhankar, the Phyang Monastery, stations Simla and among others. Along the way Elizaveta was keeping travel journal which became the basis of this book. She describes a lot of adventures and people they met: locals and their clothing, customs and ceremonies, nature and architecture, day-to-day life and various accidents. For instance, in Sikkim their intention was to visit and climb mountains but in January it was dangerous to do so their guides and carriers left them at height of 14000 feet on Dzongri mountain (Khangchendzonga). They nearly froze there to death but were saved in time. They were also robbed in Ladakh by a carrier (‘‘Carriers appeared to be unbearable people, lazy and always asking for money to buy vodka’’). The couple met young king of Sikkim Thutob Namgyal (1860-1914). Vereshchagin got to meet main lama of Sikkim as well: ‘‘Vasily Vasilievich got to meet him closely. While he was painting his studies in monastery Kupgen- lama often visited him. This is a young 19 year old man with short and blunt face... He speaks quietly and claps his hands when he needs his servants... He wears embroidered sack in front as his vow of chastity. But it’s hard to tell how serious he takes it as one of his servent’s secretly asked Vasily Vasilievich for medicine for some illnesslama got from hard praying as servant described it’’. During their visits to Buddist

BOOKVICA 54 monasteries they met a lot of monks. She describes personal and household items they came across like beads and bowls made of human’s skull they bought from them. On the road the artist was making sketches of landscapes and inhabitants few of which later became important paintings. In India Vereshchagin created more than 150 sketches some of which were used in a book. This book favorably differs from only a few previous Russian travel notes to Himalayas because of its lively tone and enthralling details but nevertheless the book is mostly interesting for its sketeches and as an historical evidence of an early Russian journey to Himalayas.

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28 [SHIPWRECKS OF FOREIGN VESSELS] [Novosilsky, A.P.] Opisanie krushenii i drugikh bedstvennykh sluchaev voyennykh sudov inostrannykh flotov [i.e. Description of Shipwrecks and other Catastrophes of the Naval Vessels of Foreign Fleets]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Naval Ministry, 1874. [2], ii, 417, 72 pp. Octavo. Contemporary navy blue half with marbled boards; spine with gilt tooling, raised bands, and gilt lettered title. Text with parts with age toning and some minor foxing, but overall a very good. First edition. Very rare as no copies were found in Worldcat. The author has been identified by the catalogue of the Russian National Library. Printed by the order of the Russian Naval Ministry, the book includes accounts of shipwrecks of 47 British vessels which occurred in 1808-1870, namely: brig Hirondelle (1808, ), HMS Banterer (1808, St. Lawrence River), HMS (1808, coast of ), HMS Minotaur (1810, the ), HMS Pallas and HMS Nymphe (1810, coast of Scotland), HMS St. George and HMS Defence (1811, coast of Jutland), HMS Hero (1811, near the Texel Island), HMS Saldanha (1811, coast of Ireland) and HMS Talbot (near Coll and Tiree Islands, the Inner Hebrides); HMS Atalanta (1813, Halifax); HMS Daedalus (1813, Ceylon); HMS Persian (1813, the ); HMS Penelope (Cap de Rosiers, Canada); HMS Alceste (1817, ); HMS Drake (1822, ); HMS Fury (1825, Prince Regent Inlet); schooner Magpie (1826, Cuba); HMS Success (1829, Carnac Island, Western ); HMS Thetis (1830, coast of ); HMS Challenger (1835, coast of Chile); schooner Firefly (1835, the Caribbean); HMS Tribune (1839, Mediterranean); steamship Lizard (1843, Mediterranean); brig Skylark (1845, ); HMS Avenger (1847, near ); brig Snack (1847, ); HM steamer Thunderbolt (1847, near Algoa Bay, South ); HM steamer Sphynx (1847, English Channel); HMS Mutine (1848, ); HM Steamer Reynard (1851, ); HMS Birkenhead (1852, near Gansbaai, ); HMS (1854, English Channel); HMS (1854, Black Sea near

BOOKVICA 56 Odessa); HMS Raleigh (1857, near Hong Kong); steamer Indian (1859, near the coast of Nova Scotia); HMS Heron (1859, coast of ); HMS Conqueror (1861, the Bahamas); HMS Orpheus (1863, ); HMS Racehorse (1864, near Yantai, China); HMS Bombay (1864, Montevideo, Uruguay); HMS Amazon and steamer Osprey (1866, English Channel); HMS Rattler (1868, coast of Japan); HMS Ferret (1869, Dover); HMS Captain (1870, Cape Finisterre, Spain). The supplements include 1) Chronological list of English naval ships wrecked in 1793-1870; 2) Chronological list of foreign naval ships (except for English ones) wrecked in 1866-1870 [Italian, French, American, German and Austrian], and 3) Alphabetical list of foreign vessels which wrecked in 1793-1870 (with the dates of the wreck).

29 [CRITICS ON THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN 1824] [Golovnin, V.M.] O sostoyanii rossiiskogo flota v 1824 godu. sochineniye michmana Morekhodova. S rukopisi, naidennoi v nepolnom vide v bumagakh vitse-admirala V.M. Golovnina [i.e. About the State of the Russian Fleet in 1824. A Work by Midshipman the Navigator. From the Incomplete Manuscript Discovered among the Papers of Rear Admiral V.M. Golovnin]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Naval Ministry, 1861. [4], 100 pp. Octavo. Original grey publisher’s printed wrappers with a decorative ornamental border on the front cover. Ink marking on the title page, ink numbers on verso of the title page and p. 17, wrappers slightly rubbed and soiled, minor foxing of the text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book in its original condition. First and only edition. Very rare (no paper copies found in Worldcat). Anonymous essay written by the famous Russian naval officer and circumnavigator Vasily Golovnin shortly after he was appointed the general quartermaster (intendant) – the highest position on the administration of wharfs, ships, and supplies provision in the Russian fleet (in 1823). Written in the name of a midshipman Morekhodov (a pseudonym which literally means ‘‘the Navigator’’) the essay describes ‘‘the state which our fleet is in now’’. The author goes on about miserable condition of Russian naval ships, lack of efficiency, abuse of power and bribery system in the Russian fleet, blaming previous naval ministers Count Kushelev, Admiral Mordvinov, admiral Chichagov,marquis de

OTHER AREAS 57 Traversay, and Admiral von Möller. The book was first published after the manuscript was discovered in Golovnin’s papers thirty years after his death. The narration illustrated with numerous examples consists of: Chapter I. About the causes of the decline and present unfortunate state of the Russian fleet. The causes named by Golovnin are: 1) Confused and mixed up structure of all parts, comprising the chief administration of the navy; 2) Poor and humiliating pay to the Admiralty officials and workers; 3) Dissipated condition in the capital of the main Admiralty wharfs, storages and other establishments; 4) Bad administration of the ports, carelessness in looking after ships, not proper education of the fleet crews and workers; 5) Inattention, contempt, injustice and even oppression always and in all cases shown to the navy and people in its service. Chapter II. Means and ways for Russia to keep her fleet in the possibly best condition. Chapter III and last. About the benefits and necessity for Russia to have considerable naval forces. Golovnin notes: ‘‘just remember that Russia possesses many coastal areas in the White, Baltic and Black Seas, not even talking about the Eastern Ocean’’. The second part of the book is dedicated to the Naval Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg which Golovnin was a deputy Director since 1821. Titled ‘‘About the Naval Cadet Corps (written in 1824)’’, the essay contains: ‘About some shortcomings in different parts of administration of the Naval Cadet Corps’ (in twenty paragraphs); Instruction to the company commanders; Instruction to the Captain on duty in the Corps; Instruction to the Inspector; Instruction to the Chief of the police; General Instruction; Instruction to the Captain.

30 [AFRICA] Rafalovich, A.A. Puteshestvie po nizhnemu Yegiptu i vnutrennim oblastiam delty [i.e. Travel to the and the Inner Regions of the Delta]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Yakov Trey, 1850. xii, 433 pp. Octavo. With four lithographed maps (three folding). Contemporary diced half leather with marbled paper boards, neatly re-cased using the original spine; spine with raised bands, gilt lettered title label and blind stamped library numbers. Previous owner’s inscription on the half title and the

BOOKVICA 58 title page, 19th century library stamps on the first free endpaper, p. 33, and p. 219, corners slightly bumped, occasional pencil marks in the text, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare (one paper copy found in Worldcat). Interesting account of a travel of the Russian doctor and criminal medical expert Artemy Rafalovich (1816-1851) to Lower Egypt on the special assignment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to research plague and measures undertaken by the government of Muhammad Ali of Egypt. During his travel in 1846-1848 Rafalovich visited Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Algeria and Tunisia and conducted thorough epidemiological research. After his return he became a member of the Russian Geographical Society (1849) and of the Imperial Medical Council – the highest medical institution in Russia (1850). The book is focused on his travel in the delta and the Lower Egypt up to Cairo in 1847-1848. Rafalovich describes Rosetta

See next page for and Damietta of the Nile, Alexandria, barrage dams, map numerous villages on the Nile banks, notes about common diseases of people and stock, hospitals and medicine in general, death rate of the local population et al. He also gives a wide overview of geography, climate, flora and fauna, economy and population of the Lower Egypt. The last chapter of the second part describes his visit to Muhammad Ali of Egypt in April 1848 – as a doctor Rafalovich was invited to examine the Khedive of Egypt who showed signs of a mental disorder (Muhammad Ali was declared senile in 1848 and died in August 1849). The maps include a large folding map of lower Egypt from Alexandria and Damietta to Cairo, plans of the old and renovated village Kafr-Ziat and a plan of the Nile barrage. Overall valuable rare piece of Russian Africana with interesting notes about anti-plague measures.

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