CALIFORNIA ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR 2020: TRAVEL & NEW ACQUISITIONS CALIFORNIA ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR 2020: TRAVEL & NEW ACQUISITIONS F O R E W O R D

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are happy to present our new catalogue for the upcoming California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2020!

Here one will find two big and very different sections - Travel and Early . We selected best items from the recent acquisitions fro this fair catalogue The main highlight of the Travel is, of course, extremely rare and historically significant handwritten letters of and Christian Berckhan (#1). In Art section we also have famous names like Rodchenko, Mavrina, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, ROSTA Windows, Lenin and Stalin, Chaplin, etc.

The fair will be held from February 7 to February 9 (Pasadena, CA). Our booth is # 405. Please stop by!

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01 [BERING AND BERCKHAN’S LETTERS] Two Extremely Rare and Historically Important Original Autographed Letters Signed from the Great Northern Expedition (1733-1743), the First by the Expedition Leader and European Discoverer of , Vitus Bering (17 April 1741), and Second by the Expedition’s Artist Johann Christian Berckhan (23 April 1741). Each letter is housed into a custom-made folder, and both folders laid into a brown full morocco clamshell box bound in a Russian style of the period, richly decorated with gilt tooled ornaments on the boards and the spine; with two gilt lettered light-brown morocco title labels on the spine. Both letters bear the secretary’s notes “Zapisano v knigy” [“Written down to the book”] on the left margins which most likely reflects the fact that they had been copied or registered in official correspondence books of the administrative office in the Bolsheretsky ostrog. Extremely rare original manuscripts from the Great Northern or Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743) – an outstanding Russian Expedition of exploration in the Arctic, North Pacific and Alaska inspired by and fully funded by the Russian government, which involved seven independent parties and about 3000 people, and became one of the largest exploratory missions in history. The main goals of the expedition were to confirm that and America were separated with a strait in the North Pacific, to discover and map the Northern Sea Route or around the Siberian Arctic coast, to find the northern sea route to Japan, to explore and describe natural resources and people of Eastern and secure its attachment to the . The expedition was put under the general command of a Danish explorer in Russian service Vitus Bering, a leader of the recently completed First Kamchatka Expedition (1725- 1727) which had mapped the coasts of Kamchatka and north-eastern Siberia, but hadn’t sighted the American coast and thus couldn’t confirm that the continents didn’t connect in the .

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BOOKVICA 6 The “maritime party” of two vessels “St. Peter” and “St. Paul” under command of Bering himself and naval Lieutenant Alexey Chirikov (1703-1748) explored the North Pacific and became the European discoverers of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. “St. Peter” and “St. Paul” left the newly founded ports of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka on June 4, 1741 and sailed eastward. After the ships had been separated by a fog, they independently reached Alaska, Bering sighted and named Mount St. Elias in the Gulf of Alaska and discovering several islands off the southwestern coast of the Alaskan peninsula, including Kayak and Kodiak Islands, and several islands of the Aleutian group (Shumagin Islands and others). “St. Peter’s” doctor and naturalist Georg Steller (closely connected with the authors of both letters - (V. Bering and J. Berckhan) became the first European to step on Alaskan soil when the party landed on the Kayak Island on July 21, 1741. On the way back to Kamchatka “St. Peter” wrecked off the coast of an uninhabited island in what will be later known as the Commander Group, and being forced to winter there, the crew lost to scurvy 29 of its members, including Bering himself who died on December 8, 1741. In the spring of 1742 the rest of the crew, including Steller, managed to build a smaller vessel and sailed to Kamchatka, reaching Petropavlovsk in August 1742. The first letter written in a secretarial hand and signed by Vitus Bering is an amazing survival shedding light onto the last stage of the expedition shortly before Bering’s departure on the fateful voyage from which he would never come back from. The letter was written in the Petropavlovsky ostrog – the new Russian fort in the Avacha Bay (Eastern Kamchatka) which had been founded by Bering half a year earlier – on October 6, 1740. Dated less than two months before Bering’s departure to America on June 4, the letter is in fact one of the last documents signed by him and becomes one of the few known documents authored by Bering so close to his tragic death on an uninhabited island in the North Pacific on December 8, which was later named in his honour. The letter signed by artist Johann Christian Berckhan is closely related to the so-called “Academic Party” of the Great Northern Expedition and one of its most prominent members (1709-1746). Led by the Professors of St. Petersburg Academy of Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705-1783), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755) and Louis De l’Isle de la Croyere (1690-1741), the party strived to produce a comprehensive description of the geography,

BOOKVICA 7 history, biology, and ethnography of Siberia and Kamchatka. The “Academic Party” in fact carried out the first scientific expedition to Russia and surveyed vast territories of Siberia from the Ural River to and , and from Lena River and to Transbaikalia. Johann Christian Berckhan was attached to the “Academic Party” as an artist and draughtsman and produced a series of perspective views of Russian cities and prominent sites, many – for the first time (Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, , ruins of a Kalmyk settlement near Semipalatinsk, Tomsk, and others), and hundreds of botanical and zoological drawings, portraits and costumes of indigenous people. Several of his botanical drawings (including a view of a rhododendron branch) were later used illustrations in Gmelin’s “Flora Sibirica” (SPb., 1746, Tab. LIV). In early March 1739 Berckhan was attached to the new member of the “Academic Party” – German doctor and naturalist Georg Steller who had joined the scientists in in December 1738 and was dispatched with a scientific mission to Kamchatka. Steller, Berckhan and their assistants arrived in the Bolsheretsky ostrog in Kamchatka on September 27, 1740 and wintered there, studying Kamchadals and Koryaks together with another member of the “Academic Party” Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711-1755). In early 1741 Steller was invited by Bering to take part in his voyage to America, as “St. Peter’s” doctor and naturalist, and happily accepted the offer, leaving Berckhan in the Bolsheretsky ostrog where the latter continued producing drawings of local subjects. The letter signed by Berckhan was written during his independent work time in the Bolsheretsky ostrog, after Steller’s departure to the Avacha Bay in March 1741, and asks the local authorities to help by providing Berckhan with an assistant and by constructing a leak-proof dwelling for him so that he would be able to do his duties “intrusted to me by the Academy of Sciences and Adjunct [Professor] Steller.” The branch of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences houses three more letters by Berckhan (one in German and two in Russian) dated June-July 1742 and July 1743 (AAH РФСПб. Ф. 21. Оп. З. No 41. Л. 1-2 об.) The letters give an interesting insight into Berckhan’s life in the Bolsheretsky ostrog without Steller and reveal his anxiety and struggle during the winter of 1741-1742 when his superior and friend didn’t return from the voyage with Bering (although he was supposed to return in the autumn 1741, Steller came to Belsheretsky ostrog by foot only in August 1742, after the wreck of

BOOKVICA 8 “St. Paul” and forced wintering on the Bering Island). As follows from Berckhan’s 1742 letters, the leak-proof barabara (dwelling) he was asking about in our letter (23 April 1741) had never been constructed. Nevertheless, he managed to produce the drawings of “9 fish, 7 birds, 30 herbs, 6 items brought by the sea, 3 mushrooms, 2 Kamchadal people” (quoted from: Cherkashina, A.S. Risovalshiki Vrotoy Kamchatskoy Ekspeditsii [Draughtsmen of the Second Kamchatka Expedition ]] // “O Kamchatke I Stranakh, Kotorye v Sosedstve s Niyu Nakhodiatsia”: Materials of the XXVIII Krasheninnikovskie Conference. Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky, 2011, pp. 216-221). After Steller’s return to Kamchatka, Berckhan continued working with him for at least two years. After Steller’s death in Tyumen in November 1746 Berckhan accompanied his possessions and collections to St. Petersburg, making sure nothing was stolen. In the late he worked in the Academy of Sciences’ Kustkamera, making drawings of the museum’s ethnographical and zoological objects. No records of sales of his original manuscripts or autographs have been found on the western market. 1. Bering, Vitus Jonassen (1681 – 8 (19) December 1741) [Autograph Letter Written in Secretarial Hand and signed “W. Bering,” Addressed to Pyotr Chuprov, “zakashchik” or the elected head of the peasant community in Bolsheretsky Ostrog, Western Kamchatka, the letter Inquires about the Livestock in Possession of the Bolsheretsk Inhabitants which will be Supplied for the Expedition]. [Petropavlovsk], 17 [?] April 1741. Ca. 19x15,5 cm. 1 page, 11 lines of text. Black ink on laid paper. Text in Russian, written in secretarial hand, signed by Bering in German in black ink. First leaf with the date “Aprelya 17[?] dnya 1741 gd” on the lower margin and a note “Zapisano v knigy” [“Written down to the book”] on the left margin. Addressed “To zakashchik Pyotr Chuprov in Bolsheretsk” on verso of the second leaf, Bering’s armorial red seal ibidem (bear holding a ring in front of a shield). Paper slightly age toned, fold marks, tears on the margins neatly repaired; overall a very good letter. Approximate translation into English: I have been advised that local people in Bolsheretsk own some cattle. It is not clear who had brought it here, and how many heads, and who had given it to the people, and which cattle had been given for sale and which had been given for ownership, and if [the cattle] had been given for sale, how much money had been collected for the treasury. Having acquired all this information send me a note immediately. [Signed:] W. Bering. 17th[?] of April 1741. [A secretary’s note on the left margin]: Written

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down to the book. [Addressed on verso:] To zakashchik Pyotr Chuprov in Bolsheretsk. This letter was written in the Petropavlovsky ostrog – the new Russian fort in the Avacha Bay (Eastern Kamchatka) which was founded by Bering half a year earlier: the expedition ships “St. Paul” under command of Alexey Chirikov and “St. Peter” lead by Bering himself arrived to the Avacha Bay from Bolsheretsky ostrog on September 27 O.S. (October 11 N.S.) and October 6 O.S. (October 17 N.S.) 1740 respectively, and October 6th is considered the date of foundation of Petropavlovsk. Bering wintered in Petropavlovsk, gathering supplies and preparing the ships for the voyage and sailed towards North Pacific and America on June 4, 1741. This letter was written less than two months before Bering’s departure and in fact becomes one of the few surviving documents authored by Bering so close to his tragic death on an uninhabited island in North Pacific on 8 December 1741, which was later named in Bering’s honour. The letter is an official request to an authority in the Bolsheretsky ostrog – a Russian fort in the south-western Kamchatka, which was the main port of the peninsula since 1717 and its administrative centre in 1740-1783. In the letter, Bering enquires about the cattle owned by the Bolsheretsk inhabitants asking about their quantity, history of sales to

BOOKVICA 10 the expedition and the price. The letter illustrates Bering’s everyday routine duties during the preparation for the main voyage of 1741, which included numerous correspondence with local authorities who were obliged to provide the expedition with food, horses, transportation and other supplies. 2. Berckan, Johann Christian (1709-1751) [Original Letter to the Prikaznaya Izba (District Administrative Office) in Bolsheretsk, Western Kamchatka, Written in Secretarial Hand and Signed “Johan Christian Berckhan,” the Letter Requests the Assignment of an Assistant to Berckhan from Local Servicemen or , and the Construction of a Traditional Kamchatka Barabara Dwelling for Berckhan to Live and Work in, Which Was to Produce Drawings of Kamchatka and Its Inhabitants]. [Bolsheretsky ostrog], 23 April 1741. Ca. 19x15,5 cm. 1,5 pages, 20 lines of text. Black ink on watermarked laid paper (two lions supporting a crown). Text in Russian, written in secretarial hand, signed by Berckhan in German in black ink. Dated on the lower margin of the second page “Aprelya 23 dnya 1741 g”, with a note “Zapisano v knigy” [“Written down to the book”] on the left margin of the first page. Paper slightly age toned, slightly darkened on the extremities, several minor repaired tears on the margins, otherwise a very good letter. Approximate translation into English: To the Bolsheretsk Prikaznaya Izba [District Administrative Office]. A Request. Since I have been ordered to live this [coming] summer at the mouth of the

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Bolshaya River, to better execute all duties laid upon me, [I request] that for the necessary errands and for the help in business entrusted to me by the Academy of Sciences and Adjunct [Professor] Steller, [you] send me as soon as possible one sluzhivoy [serviceman], and in case of all sluzhivoys being underage, at least one Cossack, and that a barabara [traditional Kamchatka dwelling] to be erected at the mouth of the Bolshaya River where I could live, and that such [barabara] to be made as sturdy as possible that it would not leak during rains, so that there would be no stop in [me executing] by duties. And execute all this in the Bolsheretsk Prikaznaya Izba according to the decree of Her Imperial Majesty. [Signed:] Johan Christian Berckhan. 23 April 1741. [A secretary’s note on the left margin]: Written down to the book. The letters originate from the library of Boris Alexandrovich Kremer (1908-1976), a prominent Russian geographer, meteorologist and polyarnik (Arctic explorer).

To the best of our research and knowledge, no original manuscripts by Vitus Bering are deposited in the institutional collections in North America. The Library of Congress, for example, possesses only microfilm copies of the original reports from both Kamchatka Expeditions. Additionally, no sales of original manuscripts or autographs by Vitus Bering have been found on the western market. $250,000

BOOKVICA 12 02 [FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] [Lange, Lorenz] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the spine, and blind stamped volume number “7-8”. Copper engraved 19th-century library paper label on the front pastedown endpaper. Binding rubbed on extremities, corners slightly bumped, paper very mildly age toned, pp. 17-18 with a loss of the lower blank margin neatly repaired with old paper, a few words slightly affected, but overall a very good copy of this rare Russian periodical in very original condition. First and only edition. First publication of an important Russian early 18th-century account of a caravan travel to along the unusual route via Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. The manuscript describes the travel of a Russian diplomatic and the trade caravan to Beijing in July 1736 – May 1737, under command of Siberian merchant Yerofey Firsov and an important Russian diplomat of Swedish origin Lorenz Lange (ca. 1690s-1752). The caravan didn’t have the traditional stopover in the tea-trading town of , but proceeded further east and crossed the Russian-Chinese border near Tsurukhaitu (now , Zabaykalsky Kray); later moving over the Greater Khingan Range and along the route of the Nen River, and stopping in Naun (Nenjiang, Heilongjiang province). The diary includes a detailed description of Naun and the Great Wall of China; a separate part of the narration is titled “What happened on our arrival to Beijing.” The publication is supplemented with a folding copper engraved plan of Beijing – the first such plan in a Russian book. The plan shows Beijing within the 18th-century city border, with the Forbidden City in the centre, as well as its vicinity with the nearby wells, rivers and ; in the north the plan marks the first Russian cemetery outside the city wall. The plan is supplemented with a list of 30 objects also shown by the compiler, including the Emperor’s Palace,

BOOKVICA 13 several city gates, the Jingshan Hill, French and Portuguese embassies, “the house where elephants are lodged,” Russian Embassy and church, the Temple of Heaven, and others. The annotations to the plan were compiled by a noted Russian sinologist Ilarion Rassokhin (1707/1717- 1761). The original manuscript was found in the famous “Mueller’s Portfolios” (i.e. Portfeli Millera) – an enormous collection of original and copied documents from Siberian archives collected by the famous Russian historian, traveller and pioneer ethnologist Gerhard Mueller during the Great Northern Expedition (1733-43); the documents bound in 34 gigantic volumes comprise of the largest in the world archival collection on Siberian geography, ethnography, and history of Russian exploration. The “Mueller’s Portfolios” are now stored in Moscow in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents (RGADA). The original Russian text of the “Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel” was published in parts VII and VIII of the “Academical Newsletter” (pp. 466-505, 602-631); the German text was published the same year in P.S. Pallas’s famous “Neue Nordische Beitraege” (Bd. 2, St.-Pbg. and Leipzig, 1781, pp. 160-207).

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BOOKVICA 14 A prisoner of war after ’s defeat in the (1720-21), Lorenz Lange “was a military engineer in German service. He entered Russian service in 1712, and accompanied the British surgeon Thomas Garvine on an expedition to China. In all he appears to have made six journeys to China. He remained in Siberia and in 1739 was appointed vice- of Irkutsk. He wrote six diaries: one of them covering the years 1720-22, was published in French and German in 1726” (Howgego, To 1800, S198). Overall an important first publication of a Russian travel to China, with the first plan of Beijing published in a Russian book. $5,250

03 [CARIBBEAN: FROM TO PUERTO RICO] Baranshchikov, V.Y. Neshchastnye priklyucheniya Vasilya Baranshchikova, meshchanina Nizhnyego Novgoroda v tryokh chastyakh svyeta: v Amerike, Azii i Yevrope s 1780 po 1787 god [i.e. Unfortunate Adventures of Vasily Baranshchikov, a Burgess from Nizhny Novgorod, in Three Parts of the World: America, Asia, and , from 1780 to 1787]. St. Petersburg: S.K.R., Typ. of Vilkovsky and Galchyonkov, 1787. 72 pp. 18x11,5 cm. Contemporary light brown half leather with marbled boards and a colour stamped title label on the spine. Bookplate of Sergey Sobolewsky on the front paste down endpaper, paper label with a pencil note by a Soviet bibliophile on the front free endpaper, paper label of Vasily Klochkov’s bookstore and a stamp of a Soviet bookshop on the rear pastedown endpaper. Very good. Corners slightly bumped, paper slightly age toned. First edition. Extremely rare. Interesting original travel account by the first Russian to cross the Atlantic and visit the Caribbean Islands. A merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Vasily Baranshchikov (1756-early 19th century) went to a trade fair and lost considerable amount of money lent by fellow tradesmen. In an attempt to escape he went to Saint Petersburg and became a sailor on a ship bound for Copenhagen. There he was kidnapped and sold to a slave ship which brought him to Saint Thomas Island (then in Danish West India, now a part of the American Virgin Islands). There Baranshchikov served for two months in a Danish military garrison and was then sold as a household servant to a Spanish ‘‘General’’ in Puerto Rico. After a year of service Baranshchikov was released and went to Venice as a sailor on an Italian ship; near the

BOOKVICA 15 Barbary coast the ship was captured by pirates and the traveler was sold into slavery to the Palestine. Baranshchikov was forcibly converted into Islam, eventually brought to Constantinople and married a Turkish woman. In 1785 he escaped to Russia via Bulgaria, Moldavia and Poland, returning to Nizhny Novgorod a year later. On request of his creditors he was put in debt prison, but released with the help of the local bishop. Baranshchikov went to Saint Petersburg and was received by Catherine II and representatives of Saint Petersburg high society. The Empress recommended him to write an account of his travels, which was first published in 1787. All author’s fees went for the payment of his debts. The book contains lots of interesting details of everyday life in St. Thomas Island and Puerto Rico (like outfits and salaries of Danish soldiers, ceremony of taking military oath, descriptions of banana plants, coconuts, sugar cane, and coffee), description of Jerusalem and Constantinople, Baranshchikov’s service as a Janissary in Turkey, and others. Printed during the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-91, the book became a bestseller and was published four times in the 18th century, all subsequent editions have a slightly edited finale and the ‘‘Supplement, containing the description of Tsargrad [Constantinople] and Turkish spiritual, military and civil authorities’’. No paper copies The text of the first edition finishes with a complaint about of this first edition Baranshchikov’s bankruptcy and life in ‘‘uttermost poverty’’ after his found in Worldcat. There are only return home; all subsequent editions have that part replaced with a two copies of the praise to the generosity of ‘‘many honorable people of Saint Petersburg’’, second edition (Harvard, NYPL), who ‘‘graciously relieved him from destitution’’, the list of the ‘‘honorable and two copies people’’ includes over twenty names of the members of Russian high of the fourth society, i.e. State Chancellor Count Alexander Vorontsov, first Russian edition (Columbia University, State Minister of Education Ivan , President of the Imperial Academy Library of Berlin). of Arts , Baron Alexander Stroganov, and others. Our copy bears an armorial bookplate of Sergey Sobolevsky (1803-1870), a noted Russian bibliophile, bibliographer and poet of the Golden Age of Russian Poetry. He was a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Adam Mickiewicz, Prosper Mérimée and many other European writers. Sobolevsky’s library contained over 25,000 volumes, with the departments of geography and travels, Russian history, and bibliography and books on books. After his death, a part of the library was bought by the British Museum and Leipzig University, the rest was sold at auctions by Leipzig booksellers; the archive was bought by count Sergey Sheremetev and is now deposited in the Russian state

BOOKVICA 16 collections. A note on the piece of paper attached to the first free endpaper was written by a Soviet bibliophile and reads: ‘‘In the catalogue of ‘‘Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga’’ No. 21 from 1933 it is said: First edition of this book has never been registered and it is unclear whether it exists’’ (Annotation #213). This copy is from the library of Sobolevsky and is the first, unknown edition. P.S. It is mentioned in Smirnov-Sokolsky’s, vol.1, p. 195’’ (Smirnov-Sokolsky, Moya Biblioteka. M., 1969). The book also has a paper label of the bookshop of a famous Saint Petersburg antique book dealer Vasily Klochkov (1861-1915). Svodny Katalog 4575. $7,500

04 [FIRST RUSSIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]

Lisiansky, Y.F. Puteshestvie vokrug Sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh, po poveleniyu Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Alexandra Pervago, na korable Neve, pod Nachalstvom Flota Kapitan-Leytenanta, nyne Kapitana I-go Ranga i Kavalera Yuriya Lisyanskogo [i.e. Voyage Round the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 Performed by the Order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia in the ship , under Command of Captain-Lieutenant of the Fleet, Now Captain of the 1st Rank and Chevalier Yury Lisiansky]. St. Petersburg: Typ. Of F. Drekhsler, 1812. In 2 vols. [6], ix, 246, iii, [1 - errata]; [2], 335, iii, [1 - errata] pp. Small Octavo. With a stipple engraved frontispiece portrait of Yuri Lisiansky by A. Ukhtomsky after a drawing by G. Geuzendam. Preface to vol. 1 (p. Vi) and the errata page in vol. 2 signed by Lisiansky in brown ink. Owner’s ink inscription on the title page of vol. 1. Period style half calf with marbled papered boards. Paper slightly age toned, but overall a very good copy of this rare set. Beautiful presentation copy (both volumes are signed by the author) of the text of rare first edition of Yuri Lisiansky’s account of the first Russian circumnavigation executed in 1803-1806 under command of Ivan Krusenstern. Very rare imprint with only nine paper copies found in Worldcat: complete edition of 2 vols. text and atlas presents in the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Alaska Fairbanks, New York Public Library, and Yale University (according to Forbes (428), “the

BOOKVICA 17 No 04 portrait listed in the collation of the atlas is not present”); text volumes (only) are deposited in Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Alaska State Library, and the University of Chicago; and atlas (only) is in the National Library of . The book was published on account of the Office of the Russian Emperor, first English edition translated by the author was issued in 1814; second Russian edition with annotations was published only in 1947. “A companion account to the narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation. The Neva and Nadezhda left and remained together until their stop at Hawaii in 1804, at which point Lisianskii proceeded directly to Kodiak, where he confirmed reports of the destruction of the settlement at Sitka by Kolosh Indians. Lisianskii sailed into Baranov, repulsed the Indians, and took possession of anew hill, which he named New Archangel (and which is illustrated in his account). He sent more than a year at both Sitka and Kodiak, and the text proves him to have been a keen observer. His account of the Marquesas differs from that of Kruzenshtern <...>. The Neva arrived at Hawaii June 8 and departed June 20, 1804, and Lisianskii’s account is brief, but includes visits to Kealakekua Bay and to Waimea, Kauai <...>” (Forbes 443).

BOOKVICA 18 In the preface Lisiansky notes that due to frequent stormsand unexpected circumstances his ship Neva had to be parted with Krusenstern’s ship Nadezhda for many times, and not only he had to perform a separate travel, but also had “to observe and describe places which Krusenstern had no chance to visit”, and this edition was published for “the respected readers” to have “the full account of the travel.” First volume starts with the “list of the Officials and Naval Servants of the ship Neva” (pp. Vii-ix) and describes the voyage from St. Petersburg to the , Brazil (Santa Catarina Island), around Cape Horn to the Easter Island and further to the Marquesas and Hawaii. Six chapters out of ten are dedicated to Neva’s travel in the Pacific. Easter Island was visited on 17-21 April 1804; Lisiansky describes its relief, shores and bays (giving advice on navigation around the island), famous statues, natives and their dwellings, handcrafts,and costumes, notes about communication with the natives, et al. The Marquesas were visited on 7-17 May; Neva reunited with Nadezhda in the Taiohae Bay (Nuku Hiva), local king and queen visited the ship, Lisiansky visited the king’s hut, home of an Englishman Roberts who lived there, local cemetery; the king was treated with pancakes, honey and port wine; 15 May – Krusenstern and Lisiansky with several officers visited nearby Hakaui Bay where they found a wonderful anchorage and a small river which Lisiansky called Nevka (after an arm of the Neva River in Saint Petersburg). Separate chapter outlines geographical location of the main Marquesas Islands (southern Fatu Hiva, Moho Tani, Tahuata, Hiva Oa, and northern Ua Pou, Ua Huka, Nuku Hiva, Eiao), and gives a detailed description of Nuku Hiva: coast, relief, anchorages,advice on navigation, local kings, wars, burials, wedding ceremonies,human sacrifice, explanation of taboo, appearance and beauty of locals, tattoos, costumes, signs of cannibalism, war tactics, weapons; special division describes about twenty local trees and plants. There is also a dictionary of the Nuku-Hivan language (pp. 152-159), including expressions: “Don’t touch, the cannon will kill you”, “He is a thief”, “Have you stolen anything?”, “Do you want to sleep on the ship?”, “Do you eat your enemies?” and others. Hawaiian Islands were visited on 8-20 June, 1804. Two days after the Hawaii Island had been sighted, Nadezhda left for Kamchatka (on the 10th of June), and Krusenstern didn’t land on the islands. 11- 16 June Neva visited Kealakekua Bay where Captain Cook had been killed

BOOKVICA 19 in 1779, bought provisions from the islanders, went to the where the chief showed them holes on the trees from British cannonballs fired after the death of Captain Cook, looked at the royal palace, main temple and talked to the local priest, later visited the place of death of Captain Cook and saw “the stone where this immortal man fell, and soon after we saw the mountain where according to the locals his body was burned”. After return to the ship Lisiansky found there two Americans who told him about the Sitka massacre which had happened the previous year. 19 June – visited Waimea Bay (Kauai) and talked to the local king who was in the state of war with Kamehameha I. Separate chapter describes the Hawaiian Islands, especially the Big (Hawaii) Island: local kings and laws, barbaric customs, the meaning of the taboo, armed and naval forces of king Kamehameha, Hawaiian calendar and holidays, temples, human sacrifice, funerals, appearance of the Hawaiians, their costumes, list of prices paid for the provisions, and others. Separate chapter is dedicated to the reign of Kamehameha,talking about history of his ascension to the throne, and wars with other chiefs; Lisiansky also talks about the volcanic activity of the islands, local agriculture, and domestic animals; concise dictionary of the language of the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands (pp. 228-236), includes phrases: “Do you have pigs?”, “Eat shit” (noted as “Common curse of Sandwich Islanders”), and others. Five chapters of the second volume are dedicated to Neva’s voyage in , including “Brief dictionary of the languages of the north-west coast of America with Russian translation” (the largest of all dictionaries prepared for the book, with about 500 words and expressions, and their translations into languages of Sitka and Unalaska, pp. 154-207). Lisiansky gives a detailed description of the (October 1804), voyages around the Kodiak Island and wintering there. Last three chapters describe the return travel to Saint Petersburg via Canton, Sunda Strait and Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of the Lisianski Island (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, ca. 1,600 km northwest of Honolulu). Our copy houses a beautiful stipple engraved frontispiece portrait of Yuri Lisiansky (vol. 1) executed by a prominent Russian engraver Andrey Ukhtomsky (1770-1852) after a drawing by Gerrit Yacobus Geuzendam (1771-1842). Both Lada-Mocarski (68) and Forbes (428) don’t mention the portrait frontispiece in the first text volume, but count for a portrait of Lisiansky in the Folio full engraved atlas to the text published in 1812. Electronic copy of the atlas from the Russian

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National Library though doesn’t have the atlas which most likely means that there should be only one portrait of Lisiansky in the whole edition. “Lisianskii, commanding the Neva, participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe under Kruzenstern. While Kruzenstern (on his ship Nadezhda) spent most of the time in Kamchatka, Lisianskii with his ship crossed to Sitka and played an important role in Baranov’s reoccupying the original Russian fort and settlement there, which had been overrun by Koloshes who massacred all the Russians. This is a very important and rare work on the history of Alaska in general and Sitka in particular” (Lada-Mocarski 68). ‘‘Ranks in value with Cook and Vancouver as a contribution to geographical knowledge on the N. W. Coast, Sandwich Islands, etc. The colored plates are of unsurpassed beauty’’ (Wright Howes 56-259). ‘‘Most important work dealing with discoveries on the N.W.Coast of America’’ (Soliday 873). Forbes 428. Sabin 41416. Smith 2255. Wickersham 6260 (incorrectly described). Howgego 1800 to 1850, K23, L36. Arctic Bibliography, vol. 2, no. 10208 (doesn’t describe or mention the atlas which belongs to this work). Obolyaninov 1493. Svodny Katalog 1801-1825, # 4550. Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, Catalogue # 32 “Geography and Travels”, # 351 “Copies with Atlas are extremely rare”. $65,000

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Shelekhov, Grigory Ivanovich. Puteshestvie G. Shelekhova c 1783 po 1790 god iz Okotska po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam, i vozvrashchenie ego v Rossiiu, s obstoyatel’nym uvedomleniiem ob otkrytii novoobretennykh im ostrovov Kyktaka i Afognaka, do koikh ne dostigal i slavny Aglinsky morekhodets Kapitan Kuk, i s priobshcheniiem opisania obraza zhizni, nravov, obriadov, zhilishch i odezhd obitaiushchikh tam narodov, pokorivshikhsia pod Rossiiskuiu derzhavu; takzhe Klimat, godovye peremeny, zveri, domashnie zhivotnye, ryby, ptitsy, zemnye proizrasteniia i mnogue drugie liubopytnye predmety tam nakhodiashchiesia, chto vsio verno i tochno opisano im samim [i.e. Shelekhov’s Voyage from 1783 to 1790, from Okhotsk over the Eastern Ocean to the American Shores, and His Return to Russia; with a detailed Report about the Discovery of the Newly Gained Islands of Kyktak and Afognak, which haven’t been reached by the glorious English Navigator Captain Cook; Supplemented with the Description of the Style of Life, Manners, Customs, Habitations, and Costumes of the Local People Who Submitted Themselves to the Russian Empire; also of the Climate, Yearly Changes, Wild and Domesticated Animals, Fish, Birds, Vegetation and Many Other Curious Things There; All Truthfully and Correctly Being Described by [Shelekhov] Himself]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of the Gubernskoe Pravlenie [Regional Administration], 1812. 12mo. Third and textually complete edition. 2 parts bound together. [2], 172; [2], 90 pp. With a copper engraved frontispiece. Complete as published without the map found in the first edition. Period brown Russian half calf with marbled boards and an orange gilt titled label. Period pencil inscription in Russian on the front pastedown (“This book belongs to

No copies of this Sergey Yanov[?]. 1815”). Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, spine edition and only with a minor crack on top of the front hinge, frontispiece slightly soiled three copies of the first edition and worn on the outer margin, but overall a very good copy in very found in Worldcat original condition. (Newberry Very rare. This third edition is the complete narrative of Grigory Library, New York Public Library, Shelekhov’s account of his exploratory and commercial voyages from Yale University Okhotsk to the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan coast in 1783-1789, Library; all three institutions hold with an important firsthand account of the foundation of the first the first edition Russian settlement in North America (Kodiak Island) and the early years of 1791, together with the 1792 of Shelekhov’s fur trade enterprise which would eventually become the supplement). Russian-American Company. This edition contains all three parts of

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Shelekhov’s account: the description of his first travel in 1783-1787 (published in the first edition, 1791, with two variants of the title page known), the extensive “Historical and Geographical Description of the Kuril, Aleutian, Andreanof, and Fox Islands, stretched over the Eastern Ocean from Kamchatka to America” (first published in the second edition, 1793), and the “[Voyage to America] of the galliot named “Three Hierarchs” under command of two navigators, Izmailov and Bocharov in 1788” (separately published as a supplement to the first edition in 1792). Grigory Shelekhov (1747-1795), a Russian seafarer and merchant, started organizing commercial fur hunting voyages of Russian ships from Okhotsk to the North Pacific (Kuril and Aleutian Islands) and Alaska in 1775. In 1783 he organized and took part in the voyage along the Aleutian Islands, during which he proved that Kodiak was an island, and discovered several islands of the Kodiak Archipelago, including the Afognak Island. In 1784 Shelekhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement on Kodiak Island which was to become the centre of Russian America for the next 20 years. In 1785-86 a party of navigators was sent by him to explore the southern part of the Alaskan peninsula and the Kenai (Cook) Inlet; the party described the

BOOKVICA 23 Kenai Peninsula, islands in the Gulf of Alaska, and the Alaskan shore up to the Cape Saint Elias on the Kayak Island. On Shelekhov’s assignment, Gavriil Pribylov went to the north of the Aleutian Islands in 1786 and discovered a group of islands named after him (Pribilof Islands). The last part of the book is dedicated to another exploratory voyage of the Alaskan coast organized by Shelekhov: on the ship “Three Hierarchs” under command of navigators Dmitry Bocharov and Gerasim Izmailov; during the voyage, about 800 km of the Alaskan coast was explored and mapped, from the Kenai Peninsula to the Lituya Bay, including the Yakutat Bay. The state-funded Russian American Company was founded on the base of Shelekhov’s fur trading company (owned together with merchant Ivan Golikov) in 1799. “Bancroft considered these two narratives as “one of the chief authorities for this period [1783-1787] of Alaskan history.” The first editions are extremely rare; even the subsequent editions are difficult to find, and they command a high price” (Lada-Mocarski). Lada-Mocarski 49 (first edition); Sabin [77539 for the German edition of 1793]; Sopikov 11566 (Part II erroneously indicated the year 1795 as the date of the 1st edition). Wickersham 6284 (incorrect attribution of the 1793 edition as the 1st edition of part I; it should be 1791). The most complete and scholarly study of different editions is that of Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Yarmolinsky, A. Shelekov’s voyage to Alaska// Bulletin of the New York Public Lib., March 1932, p. 141-148). (All references taken from Lada- Mocarski). RESERVED

06 [PACIFIC - JAPAN] [Golovnin, V.M.] Zapiski Flota Kapitana Golovnina o Prikliucheniyakh Yego v Plenu u Yapontsev v 1811, 1812 i 1813 Godakh. S Priobshcheniyem Zamechaniy Yego o Yaponskom Gosudarstve i Narode [i.e. Notes of Fleet Captain Golovnin About his Adventures in Japanese Captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813. With a Supplement of His Notes about the Japanese State and its People]. St. Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1816. In three parts (bound in two volumes). Quarto. [2 – t.p.], [4 – two different dedications to Alexander I], [2 - preface], [2 – table of contents], [4 – list of Diana’s crew], 285, [1 - errata]; [2 – half title], [2 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], 206, [2 – advertising & errata]; [2 – t.p.], [2 – table of contents], 169, [1 -

BOOKVICA 24 errata] pp. With two folding copper engraved maps and a small printed sketch in text (vol. 1, p. 144). Both volumes with several 19th-century ink stamps of the library of the First boys gymnasium (school) in Tiflis (Tbilisi, Georgia): part 1 (both dedication leaves, first page of the crew list, pp. 1, 50, 100, 150, 205, 245, 277, errata); part 2 (pp. 1, 50, 100, 150, 171, 203); part 3 (pp. 47, 95, 119, errata); also a couple of manuscript ink library numbers on the titles and the first leaves. Part two with two early 19th- century ink inscriptions on the half-title and the title page “Iz knig Maryi Dolgovo-Saburovoi.”. Period brown full calf; spines with gilt-tooled decorative ornaments and faded gilt lettered titles; marbled endpapers. Paper slightly age-tones and with occasional stains, spines neatly repaired, free endpapers and maps with minor tears repaired; overall a very good set. Only eleven copies Rare first edition of an early important Russian voyage to the were found in Worldcat (Stanford Pacific and a primary source on the history of the beginning of Russian- University, Japanese relations. This copy has an interesting relation to a 19th- University of century Russian female reader. The two 19th century manuscript notes Missouri-Columbia, Cleveland Public on the title page and half-title to part 2 read: “From the books of Maria Library, Syracuse Dolgovo-Saburova.» This is a very uncommon example of an “exlibris” University, Columbia inscription made by a Russian woman of that period. We have found at University in least three women from the noble Russian family of Dolgovo-Saburovy, the city of New York, New York who might have written this note - Maria Ivanovna Dolgovo-Saburova Public Library, (1802-1837, nee Maikova), mother of Nikolay Dolgovo-Saburov, the Harvard University, National Diet civil governor of Simbirsk in 1873-1886; her daughter-in-law Mariya Library in Japan, Nikolayevna Dolgovo-Saburova (1844-1874); or Mariya Pavlovna British Library, Dolgovo-Saburova (ca. 1835-1901), the owner of the Samchiki country Berlin State Library, University estate (modern-day western Ukraine) where she founded one of the of Strasbourg). first libraries in the region. The book describes a part of a larger voyage of Vasily Golovnin on the Russian Imperial sloop “Diana” to Kamchatka, Russian America and the Kurile Islands in 1807-1814. Although only completed in the eastern direction up to Sitka, Golovnin’s voyage is considered the third Russian circumnavigation, after the famous voyage of “Nadezhda” and “Neva” under command of Adam von Krusenstern and Yuri Lisiansky (1803-1806), and “Neva’s” voyage to Russian America under command of L.A. Gagemeister in 1806-1809. It was also the first major Russian voyage to the Pacific which used a ship completely built on a Russian wharf (“Diana” was built on the Svir River in the modern Leningrad ). The book describes the history of the famous diplomatic

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“Golovnin incident”, when Vasily Golovnin, navigator Andrey Khlebnikov, midshipman Fedor Mur, and four sailors were taken captive by the Japanese on the Kunashir Island and were imprisoned for two years in Matsumae (1811-1813). The incident brought Russia and Japan to the brink of war and was solved with the help of Golovnin’s second-in- command Captain Pyotr Rikord and Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei (see below). The book contains a captivating description of Golovnin’s imprisonment and life in Japan, the attempt of an escape and final liberation in 1813. The third part of the book is entirely dedicated to Japan – geography, climate, language, manners and customs, religion, administration, laws, industry and trade, military, nations conquered by Japan and paying tribute. The maps include: “Map of the Sakhalin Sea with the Chain of all Kurile Islands, of Which the Southern Ones were Described in 1811 by the Sloop Diana under Command of Fleet Captain Golovnin” (compiled by navigator Andrey Khlebnikov who stayed in captivity with Golovnin); “Plan of the Izmena [Treason] Bay, Called so by Captain Rikord after Commander of Sloop Diana Captain Golovnin Had Been Taken Captive on Shore”. Golovnin’s account of captivity in Japan became an important source on the country which then followed the policy of sakoku (total isolation from the outside world), and was quickly translated into Dutch and German (1817), English and French (1818), and even Japanese (1825). Overall an interesting important and early Russian travel book.

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07 [GREAT GAME: KHANATE OF KOKAND] Nazarov, F.M. Zapiski o nekotorykh narodakh i zemliakh srednei chasti Azii Filippa Nazarova, otdel’nogo Sibirskogo korpusa perevodchika, posylannogo v Kokant v 1813 i 1814 godakh [i.e. Notes on People and Lands in the Central Part of Asia by Filipp Nazarov, a Translator of the Special Siberian Corps Who was sent to Kokand in 1813 and 1814]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1821. T.p., [2], 98 pp. Octavo. Contemporary half straight-grained morocco with gilt tooled title labels on the spine (gilt renewed). Pencil markings on the title page, mild water stains on the lower margins of the text leaves, ink stamp of a Soviet bookshop on the last page, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare. This early work related to the Great

BOOKVICA 27 Worldcat Game describes one of the first Russian travels to the Khanate of locates only six paper copies Kokand, which was little known before. The first edition quickly became (Stanford, Library a rarity in Russia; the second commented edition was published only in of Congress, Columbia, Harvard, 1968. School of Oriental The book was written by Filipp Nazarov, a translator of the and African Studies Special Siberian Corps of the Russian army. He graduated from the of the University of London, Berlin Asiatic School in , which prepared secretaries and translators State Library). for the Siberian administration, and since 1804 he worked as a translator on the Central Asian frontier of the Tobolsk province. In 1813 Nazarov was sent to Kokand in order to settle the incident of the murder of a Kokand ambassador who had been killed in the Russian- Kazakh border town Petropavlovsk while returning home from Saint Petersburg. Accompanied by a caravan of Russian merchants and laden with gifts to the Khan of Kokand from the Russian Emperor, Nazarov departed from Omsk in May 1813. He proceeded to Petropavlovsk, Suzak, Chimkent (modern Shymkent, all three are now in Kazakhstan), Tashkent and Kokand (both now in Uzbekistan), stayed in the Fergana Valley for about a year, and returned to Russia via Ura-Tube (modern Istaravshan) and Khujand (both now in Tajikistan). His travel notes include detailed and sometimes romantic descriptions of the regions he passed, brief historical overview of the Khanate of Kokand, notes on the administration system, trade, manners and customs, sports, music of the local people et al. Nazarov’s testimony about Kazakh, Uzbek and Tajik people is especially valuable due to his fluency in the Turkic languages.

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BOOKVICA 28 The dedication leaf honors Count Nikolay Rumiantsev (1754- 1826) who sponsored the publication of the Zapiski. Rumyantsev was Russian Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor, a prominent patron of arts, collector and bibliophile. His book and manuscript collection became the nucleus of the future Russian State Library. Rumiantsev sponsored the Krusenstern’s circumnavigation of 1803-1806, and the 1815-1818 circumnavigation under command of Otto von Kotzebue. $4,750

[AMERICA - AUSTRALIA - PACIFIC] 08 Lazarev, A.P. Plavaniye Vokrug Sveta na Shlyupe Ladoge v 1822, 1823 i 1824 godakh. Shlyupom Nachalstvoval Kapitan-Leytenant Andrey Lazarev, Nyne Kapitan I-go Ranga, Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva Fligel-Adyutant. Izdano po Vysochaishemu Poveleniyu [i.e. Voyage Around the World on Sloop Ladoga in 1822, 1823 and 1824. The Sloop was Commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Andrey Lazarev, Now Captain of the 1st Rank and Aide-de-camp of His Imperial Majesty. Published on the Highest Order]. St. Petersburg: Naval Typ., 1832. [2], [4], [2], [6], 275, [1] pp. 21x13,5 cm. Mistake in pagination with p. 96 being followed by p. 98, but no gap in text. With a folding copper engraved map at rear. Remnants of a label of a 19th-century bookshop of Alexander Smirdin on the front pastedown endpaper. Period half leather with marbled papered boards, spine with black sheep gilt title label. Binding with the cracks on hinges neatly recased, map with a tear neatly repaired, but overall a very original,clean copy of this rare book. First and only edition, complete with the map not found in all copies, of this rare account of this early and important Russian circumnavigation, with a description of the first Russian visit to Tasmania, interesting notes on Russian America, California, Tahiti, and an account of a visit to the Rio de Janeiro residence of Georg von Langsdorff, naturalist on the first Russian circumnavigation of 1803- 1806 and Russian Consul in Brazil in 1813-1830. The book was written by the commander of the sloop “Ladoga” Andrey Petrovich Lazarev (1787-1849), navigator and explorer from a notable Russian naval family. His brother Mikhail Lazarev (1788-1851) commanded frigate “Suvorov” during his first circumnavigation (a voyage to New Archangel via Rio de Janeiro, southern Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, with a stop in Port Jackson; on the way to Alaska he discovered the Suvorov atoll in

BOOKVICA 29 No 08 the northern group of the Cook Islands). In 1819-1821 Mikhail Lazarev commanded sloop “Mirny” during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition of Bellingshausen, which resulted in the discovery of the Antarctic continent. Andrey’s younger brother Alexey Lazarev (1793 – after 1851) took part in the Russian circumnavigation of 1819-23 when sloops “Otkrytiye” and “Blagonamerenny” were searching for the Northwest Passage from the west coast of America, navigating Bering Strait and exploring Alaskan coast from Kotzebue Sound to Icy Cape and from Norton Sound to Cape Newenham. During the present circumnavigation“Ladoga”was accompanied by Russian frigate “Kreiser” under command of Andrey’s younger brother Mikhail Lazarev. The ships proceeded to the Pacific via Rio de Janeiro and the southern Indian Ocean, sighting Saint Paul Island, and stayed for a rest in Hobart, Tasmania from 18 May-9 June 1823 – the first stop in Tasmania in the history of the Russian fleet. During a storm in the south Pacific the ships got separated, and met in Tahiti in the Matavai Bay on 15 July. From there “Kreiser” proceeded to Russian America, and “Ladoga”– to Kamchatka (arrived on 10 September). From Petropavlovsk “Ladoga” proceeded to New Archangel (arrived on 9 November) and thence to San Francisco (arrived on 1 December), starting a homebound voyage together with sloop “Apollon” on 12 January 1824. Returned home via Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro and the Faial Island (the Azores). Frigate “Kreiser” left Sitka in October 1824 and proceeded to California

BOOKVICA 30 where she stayed for a month and then proceeded home via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro. Fragments of the account of the “Kreiser’s” voyage were published in the “Proceedings of the State Admiralty Department” (SPb., 1824, part VI, pp. 457-466), thus Andrey Lazarev’s book is the only complete published account of the voyage. Very interesting are the descriptions of the “Mandioka” estate of Georg von Langsdorff near Rio de Janeiro; Tasmania (topography and population of Hobart Town, prices for groceries, life of convicts, mention about a Russian-speaking convict living in Hobart Town, festive dinner organized in honour of “Kreiser” and “Ladoga” et al.);Tahiti (trade with the natives, visit of the Tahitian royal family to theship, including the infant king Pomare III (1820-27), missionaries and their activities, Christian churches, Tahitians’ interest to the Russian priest and Orthodox services, endemic diseases et al.); Kamchatka (new construction in the Petropavlovsk harbor, new custom of the autumn feast with the produce from the native vegetable gardens introduced by Peter Rikord, Kamchadal pagan rite performed by a local shaman, a trip to the nearby Paratunka thermal springs and chemical analysis of the water; meeting with Peter Dobell, former Russian Consul General in Manila who had previously attempted to claim some of the Hawaiian Islands for Russia, et al.); Russian America (New Archangel port, brief history of the Russian-American company, the interior of the Company’s fort in New Archangel; manners, customs and beliefs of Koloshis or Tlingits, Company’s fur trade with the Tlingits and Aleuts, harsh native ways of child upbringing, popularity of polygamy amongst the Tlingits, Tlingit dance and dress, native slaves or “Kalgi,” suggestions on the improvement of the life of Aleuts, et al.); Spanish California (San Francisco harbor, Catholic missions, abuse and oppression of the native population by the missionaries, history and modern life of the San Francisco mission, bull fighting, Mexican War of Independence and the First Mexican Empire, Russian American Company’s trade in California – furs in exchange for grain, beaver hunting in the San Francisco Bay by the RAC’s Aleuts from Fort Ross); Santa Catarina Island off the southern coast of Brazil and its capital Nossa Senhora do Desterro (Florianopolis since 1893: local trade, city architecture, military forces, the establishment of the Empire of Brazil, whaling in the coastal waters); and Rio de Janeiro (port, naval squadron of the Brazilian Empire, Lord Thomas Cochrane and his service for the Brazilian navy, Corpus Domini ceremony in Rio de Janeiro with participation of the Emperor, a visit to the plantation of Russian

BOOKVICA 31 No 08 vice-consul Peter Kelchen). The book is illustrated with a “Map to the Account of the Travel of Captain Lazarev in duration of 1822, 1823 and 1824, the trek of the sloop from Russia to Kamchatka indicated with the solid line, the return voyage – with dotted lines.” ‘‘The Ladoga was first directed to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, subsequently visiting the Russian colonies in America, particularly Sitka. Pp. 126-76 are devoted to the description of this part of the voyage. Pp. 177-99 (December 1823-January 1824) have an interesting description of San Francisco, and descriptions of that country’s flora and fauna. It is worth noting that previously (May 1823) the Kreiser and the Ladoga spent three weeks at Hobart, Tasmania, the first Russian vessels to visit there. They were received most hospitable by the local authorities. In addition to his own observations and remarks, Lazarev often quoted the ship’s doctor Ogievskii, who according to Lazarev was most helpful in the preparation of the present narrative... The chapter on Alaska is, however, entirely of Lazarev’s authorship. Practically all of the narrative on the Ladoga’s stay in California comes from Lazarev’s pen” (Lada- Mocarski, 96). Howes L 160, Wickersham 6253. $45,000

BOOKVICA 32 09 [SIBERIAN ARCTIC]] Belyavsky, F.I. Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]. Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes. Period style full leather with gilt tooled ornamental borders on boards and the spine (spine with gilt lettering). Lithographed title page with a minor chip of lower outer corner restored, title page with expert repair of central blank gutter margin, on verso imprint page with a few letters affected, but overall a very good handsome copy. First edition. Very rare with only four paper copies found in Worldcat. The book has never been translated into other languages, the only reprint edition was published in Tyumen in 2004. Interesting early account of the Siberian Arctic with a description of travels down the Ob River to the Gulf of Ob in the . The author Frants Belyavsky – a Russian doctor of Polish origin - travelled down the Irtysh and Ob Rivers from Tobolsk to Beryozov (nowadays Beryozovo) and Obdorsk (Salekhard) to survey the epidemic of syphilis among the natives and Russian settlers, and try to help its victims. The first cases of syphilis among the Samoyeds (Nenets people) and Ostyaks ( people) in Beryozov were recorded in 1816-1817

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BOOKVICA 33 (Belyavsky, p. 133-141). Starting in 1822 an annual trip by a doctor of the Medical Office of the Tobolsk had been organized, the doctor would report on the spread of the disease and provide necessary medication to the infected people. The treatment was quite effective and if in the early years ‘‘there was not almost anyone among the Ostyaks who would not be infected’’, in early 1828 out of over 21,000 people there were not more than 611 sick ones (Belyavsky, p. 139). Belyavsky took on the annual tour as a doctor in the service of the Tobolsk Medical Office in the early months of 1828. In his book he describes the voyage down the Irtysh and Ob Rivers from Tobolsk to Beryozov, giving interesting notes on the main along the way - Bronnikovo, Uvat, Yurovskoye, Demyanskoye, Denshchikovskoye, Samarovo, and others; separate chapters are dedicated to Beryozov – an important old post on the northern Russian fur trade route – and its historical sites; native settlements on the way to the Obdorsk fort, and the fort itself. Most of the book is dedicated to a thorough description of Ostyaks (Khanty) and Samoyeds (Nenets) – their origin, settlements, dwellings; appearance, physical and mental skills; language, manners and customs, clothes, food, occupations, way of entertainment, riches, state taxes, chiefs, system of justice, religion and shamans, and sicknesses (with a separate chapter on the syphilis epidemic). The book is supplemented with lists

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BOOKVICA 34 of mammals, birds, and plants native to northwestern Siberia ‘‘from Obdorsk to the coast of the Icy Ocean’’; a copy of a letter written by Alexander von Humboldt to the head of Tobolsk Medical Office whom he got to know during his stay in the city in 1829; a Russian-Ostyak dictionary; and an explanation of over twenty local terms. The book is illustrated with four attractive hand coloured lithographed plates showing ‘Ostyak prince Taishin’ with a small view of the Obdorsk fort underneath (frontispiece); ‘Ostyaks during hunting’, ‘Samoyeds. Shaman. Chief Paygol’ (both signed and dated 1832); and a view of a Nenets settlement showing a yurt, an idol in a tree, hunters, , a dog sled, a person playing a musical instrument, and others. Two lithographs are signed ‘Zheren. 1832’ – by a member of the Zheren family - Russian painters and graphic artists, most likely by Ivan Ivanovich Zheren (18th century – after 1850), a watercolour artist and lithographer. There is also an engraved view of different forms of snow crystals from the shores of the ‘Icy Sea’. Overall a very interesting rare and beautiful book on the Russian Arctic. $12,500

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BOOKVICA 35 10 [EAST SIBERIA] [Stepanov], A.P. Yeniseyskaya Guberniya [i.e. Yeniseysk Governorate]. St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Conrad Wingeber, 1835. 2 vols. bound together. [4], ii, [1], 7-276, [2]; [4], ii, 139, xiv pp. 27x17 cm. With two large folding copper engraved plates at rear. Period dark green quarter leather. Gilt lettered initials of a previous owner “P.G.” on the bottom of the spine; narrow silk bookmark bound in. Several faded private library numbers and a few mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy. First and only edition. Rare imprint with nine paper copies found in Worldcat. Valuable description of the East Siberian Yeniseysk Governorate of the Russian Empire (modern-day Krasnoyarsk Kray of Russia), written by its first governor Alexander Stepanov (1781-1837; in office in 1823-31). Formed in 1822 as a part of the Eastern Siberian General Governorship with the centre in Krasnoyarsk, the Yeniseysk Governorate covered the basin of the River, from the Peninsula in the north to the border with a frontier of the Chinese Empire in the south (now Tyva republic of the Russian Federation); and stretched roughly from the Taz River in the west to the Anabar River in the east. One of the major centers of the Siberian exiles since the end of the 18th century, the Governorate became a major attraction for gold prospectors after numerous deposits had been discovered there in the late 1820s; by the middle of the 19th century the region produced almost a half of the world’s gold. Stepanov wrote a comprehensive description of the governorate, basing on his almost ten-year service as its head; eight chapters in two volumes cover the Yeniseysk province’s geography, topography, climate, flora & fauna, administration, industries and agriculture, population(with two chapters specially dedicated to the native Khakas people),trade, history since Yermak’s conquest of Siberia till Stepanov’s times, etc. Pp. 73-74 in vol. 1 mention the first gold discoveries on the banks of the Chulym River, but the author stated that the news was unreliable and couldn’t be verified yet. The second volume contains one of the earliest descriptions of Siberian exiles. The two extensive engraved plates at rear include a “Statistical Table of the Yeniseysk Governorate” which brought Stepanov the Demidov Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the category of “Statistics.” The plate includes twelve special statistical tables dedicated to population quantity and different classes of people, types of lands, grown

BOOKVICA 36 No 10 produce and livestock, internal and external trade, industries, religion, educational institutions, andeven “Moral inclinations of the population” accounting for the cases of suicides, murders, divorces etc.; the tables for the first time take into account the vast population of Siberian exiles. The plate is illustrated with a map of the Yeniseysk Governorate and plans of its major cities (Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseysk, Achinsk, Minusinsk, and Kansk). The second plate contains copper engraved plans of sixteen new settlements built for the exiles on Stepanov’s order, and a plan of a typical house in such a settlement. As a sign of special gratitude for his work, Stepanov was awarded with a diamond ring from the Russian Emperor NikolasI. Overall an early historically significant description of the one of the bigger regions of Eastern Siberia. While a governor of the Yeniseysk province, Stepanov facilitated the inclusion of native Khakas people into the government- supported category of “nomadic inorodtsy [natives]” which gave them privileges of self-governing, exemption from military service, religious independence etc.; established vital social institutions and constructed the buildings for them in Krasnoyarsk (hospital, pharmacy, library, typography,orphanages, schools, dormitories for exiles etc.) In 1823 he founded one of the first Siberian societies of regional studies

BOOKVICA 37 “Conversations about Yeniseysky Region,” which closed in 1827, but led to the publication of the first collection of literary works of Siberian writers. $6,500

11 Admiral M.P. Lazarev [Steel Engraved Portrait]. London: 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 Black Sea 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 Kronstadt and reached Alaska. During this voyage, Lazarev discovered the Suvorov Atoll. As a commander of the ship Mirny and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen’s deputy on his world cruise in 1819–1821 (Bellingshausen commanded Vostok), Lazarev took part in the discovery of Antarctica and numerous islands. On January 28, 1820 the expedition discovered the Antarctic 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 frigate Kreyser, conducting broad research in the fields of meteorology and ethnography’’ (Wikipedia). Later Lazarev took part in the Battle of Navarino (1827, part of the Greek War of Independence, 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 Sevastopol and Nikolayaev (since 1833). $2,750

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12 [PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN ALASKA]

Zagoskin, Lavrenty Alexeyevich. 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 Alaska. Accomplished by Lieutenant L. Zagoskin in 1842, 1843, and 1844. With a Copper Engraved Map on Mercator’s Projection]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Karl Kray, 1847-1848. First edition. 23x15,5 cm. Two vols. bound together. [2 – t.p.], 182, [2]; [2 – t.p.], 120, [2], 43 pp. With a large folding copper engraved map bound at rear. Period half leather with papered boards. Front free endpaper with an ink presentation inscription: “To Edouard Leontievich Blaschke from a colleague and the author. As a sign of memory and sincere respect. Bought by me from <…>?” Ink stamp of the private library of Ivan Nikiforovich Mikhailov under the presentation inscription. Owner’s pencil notes and markings in text.

BOOKVICA 39 Hinges with small cracks, paper age toned, map with a tear neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy of this rare book. Rare Russian imprint with only eight copies found in Worldcat. This copy bears the author’s presentation inscription to “his colleague” Eduard Blaschke (1810-1878), Russian doctor of German origin who worked for the Russian American Company in 1835-40 and was known for campaigns to vaccinate the native population against measles. In 1842 Blaschke published in Saint Petersburg a Latin-language “Dissertatio inauguralis sistens topographiam medicam portus Novi-Archangelscensis, sedis principalis coloniarum rossicarum in septentrionali America” (“Medical Topography of the New Archangel port…”) where above all he described the nature and population around Sitka. The ink library stamp under Zagoskin’s presentation inscription belongs to a Russian cartographer Ivan Mikhailov, Professor of Saint Petersburg Orphan’s Institute of Emperor Nikolas I, and a state councilor (since 1892). “Lieutenant Zagoskin’s expedition was to make an inland exploration of the northern territory of Alaska and to survey the Kvikhpak (Yukon) 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 ½ 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 explorations were confined chiefly to the middle course of the Kuslokwim and the lower course and northern tributaries of the Yukon” (Streeter 3521). 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 mountain range separating the Yukon River from the eastern shore of the Norton Sound, surveyed the basins of the local rivers, found previously unknown Aleut settlement (modern Holy Cross in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska), compiled the first map of

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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). This first full edition of Zagoskin’s travel account was published in two volumes in 1847-1848 and is 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). Arctic Bibliography 19781; Bancroft pp. 553-54; Wickersham 5904. $15,000

13 [GOLOVNIN CAPTURED] [Golovnin, V.M.] Zapiski Vasiliia Mikhailovicha Golovnina v Plenu u Yapontsev d 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. [2], vii-xxxvi, [10], 203; [2], 148; [2], 120 pp. 24,5x17cm. With a steel engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved maps at rear. Period half leather with marbled paper boards and a gilt lettered title on the spine. Frontispiece portrait backed with paper, two leaves in vol. 1 (pp. Xxvii-xxx) with the lower

BOOKVICA 41 No 13 margins trimmed, but not affecting the text; p. 17 in vol. 1 with a weak ink stamp, mild foxing of text in places, 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 Ivan Krusenstern and the activity of the Russian-American Company promoted by Count Nikolai Rezanov (1764- 1807). This is a full description of the notorious diplomatic Incident of Golovnin (1811-1813) which occurred in the very beginning of the Russian-Japanese relations, written by one of its main participants. Count Nikolai Rezanov took part in the Krusenstern’s circumnavigation with the goal to deliver the first Russian embassy to Japan and to establish the diplomatic relations between the countries. The embassy was unsuccessful, and in 1805 the Emperor of Japan prohibited Russian ships and subjects to approach Japanese shores. 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 Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido, robbed and burned the shore settlements, and captured several Japanese people. Although both Kvostov and Davydov were arrested as soon as they arrived to Okhotsk

BOOKVICA 42 and were sent to St. Petersburg to be trialed, the attitude of Japanese to Russians evidently deteriorated; Russia was considering to prepare for a war with Japan. In 1808-1811 Russian sloop “Diana” under command of Vasily Golovnin (1776-1831) and Peter Ricord (second-in-command) was sent on a second official Russian circumnavigation to explore and describe the Russian Far East, 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 Island 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,climate, 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 Sea 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 Bay named so by Captain Rikord after the capture of Captain Golovnin on its shore (the bay is located on the southern part of the Kunashir Island).” This second edition of the book is supplemented with an extensive biography of Golovnin specially written by Russian journalist and publisher Nikolai Gretsch (1787-1867). The biography contains information of Golovnin’s genealogy, education, naval and civil career,including concise descriptions of his service in the British Navy and both of his circumnavigations – on the sloop Diana (1808-11) and on the sloop Kamchatka (1817-19). The text describes Golovnin’s voyage to the New Archangel (Sitka) during the first circumnavigation (in 1810-11) with the cargo of bread, and his next travel to Alaska during his second circumnavigation (in 1819). ‘‘First part of Golovnin’s travel account has especially interesting information about Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Kodiak and California, description of the Sandwich Islands, Manila and an essay

BOOKVICA 43 No 13 on the St. Helena, with detailed description of the precautions used by the Englishmen to make impossible the liberation of their prisoner. In the notes to the account very interesting is the refutation of the report of the committee of the American Congress about Russian colonies in North America” (pp. Xxv-xxvi). Rare Russian imprint with 12 copies found in Worldcat. First edition of the book was published in 1816 under the title “Zapiski of the Captain of the fleet Golovnin about his adventures in the Japanese captivity in 1811, 1812 and 1813” (Saint Petersburg, Morskaya Typ., 3 vols.; 12 copies found in Worldcat). “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). $8,500

BOOKVICA 44 14 [ARCTIC: NORTHEAST PASSAGE] [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 Seas and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the East Indies/ Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry]. St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1854. Second enlarged edition. [4], c, 150 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with marbled papered boards, new endpapers. Papers lightly age toned, barely visible water stain on several leaves at end of text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book. Very rare imprint with only five copies found in Worldcat. Special enlarged edition of ’s (1711-1765) project on the exploration of the Northeast Passage, supplemented with the description of two Russian expeditions to the Arctic and Pacific Oceans which were organized on the basis of this project in 1765-66 under 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 Spitsbergen, 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 Pacific Ocean. Lomonosov succeeded in persuading the Admiralty College to launch two voyages under the command of Vasilii Chichagov. Both attempts were halted by pack ice. Introduction by A. Sokolov” (Christies). “Lomonosov, the versatile scientist and member of the Russian

BOOKVICA 45 Imperial Academy of Sciences, was much interested in an attempt to find the Northeast Passage, 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 India, over the northwestern 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 northern sea route 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 promyshlenniki regarding discoveries of islands belonging to the Aleutian chain which confirmed Lomonosov in his belief of the feasibility of his project” (Lada-Mocarski 128). The preface to the book was written by Alexander Petrovich Sokolov (1816-1858), a noted historian of the Russian fleet, known for “Russian Maritime Library” - the first comprehensive attempt of Russian bibliography on naval and maritime topics (first published in parts in the “Zapiski of the Hydrographical Department,” 1847-1852; first separate edition in 1883), and others. Lada-Mocarski 128 (about the first edition). $4,500

15 [FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Lerch, P.I. Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh, SevernykhKhaldeyakh [i.e. A Research of the Kurds and their Ancestors, Northern Chaldeans]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856-1858. 3 vols. bound together. Vii, 121, [1]; vii, 139, [1- errata]; [6], xxxvii, 113, [1] pp. 24x16 cm. Period style green half morocco. Paper slightly age toned, a couple of mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy. First edition. First special Russian monograph on the Kurds, with an important first publication of several Kurdish texts with Russian translations, and interesting extensive vocabularies of Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) and Zaza-Gorani languages. The book was written

BOOKVICA 46 No 15 by a noted Russian Orientalist, archaeologist and translator Peter Lerch (1827-1884), and was based on his interviews with Kurdish prisoners- of-war who were interned in Roslavl ( region, western Russia) during the . Lerch went to Roslavl on the special assignment of the Russian Academy of Sciences and stayed there for three months in 1856, where about a hundred Kurds were stationed,“mostly from the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates or Western Kurdistan” (Lerch, vol. 2, p. 8). Lerch mentions several localities where the Kurds were from, including Mardin, Al-Jazira, Dersim, Mush, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Birecik, Harput/Elazig, Malatya, Maden, Arapgir and others. Lerch vividly describes the character and national features of the Kurdish prisoners he talked to (and life stories of some of them), their songs and dances, talked about their costumes, manners and customs;the book also includes an overview of the grammar, pronunciation and history of Kurdish languages and the story of Lerch learning them. The texts, recorded by the Standard Alphabet (Lepsius), are the translations into Kurdish of Turkish fables, fairy tales, stories about Nasreddin Hodja,an original Kurdish story about the meeting with General Nikolay Muravyov during his travel from Alexandropol (Gyumri, Armenia) to Kars in 1856, and others. The vocabularies contain about 2000 and 400 words in Kurmanji and Zaza-Gorani languages accordingly. The first volume is

BOOKVICA 47 an overview of the main sources on the history of the Kurdish tribes. Overall an important Russian research of the Kurdish language and ethnography based on the personal interviews with the Kurds who ended up in Russia. It was due to the Crimean War that the interest to Kurds significantly rose in Russia, and Russian Academy of Sciences became an important centre of studies of Kurdish history and language. Just two years later after Lerch’s book, the translation of the famous “Sharafnama” – the main source on the Kurdish history – was published in Saint Petersburg, becoming its first printed edition (Sheref-Hameh ou histoire des kourdes. Vol. 1-2, SPb., 1860-62). $3,750

16 [HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Staniukovich, K.M. Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the World: Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867. [2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library). This is the first book and the first work in the genre of “stories about naval life” written by a prominent Russian writer Konstantin Staniukovich. Published by a small private typography, the “Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea” are very rare and anticipate the later great success of Staniukovich’s “Morskiye Rasskazy” (“Sea Stories”) – which were published in a revised and enlarged form in 1888 and made the author widely popular in the Imperial and later Soviet Russia. The “Sea Stories” are now considered classic literature for youth and four Russian movies based on the book were made in 1950- 2008. The “Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea” were published shortly after Staniukovich’s return from a three-year naval service in Southeast Asia, Russian Far East and North Pacific (1860-63), which he spent on several Russian naval ships (corvette “”, transport ship “Yaponets”, clipper “Gaidamak”, and others). The book includes nine stories, some of which were first published in 1861-1864 (“Morskoy Sbornik” and other Saint Petersburg literary magazines). Very interesting is the chapter describing Staniukovich’s week-long stay in Hong Kong and Canton,

BOOKVICA 48 together with Russian naval corvette “Kalevala.” The author gives a vivid picture of Chinese port merchants, main trade streets, tea and opium trade, beggars and thieves, markets, houses and gardens, children abductions, high level of literacy, religion, wide-spread Catholicism and little influence of Orthodox Christianity, punishments etc. The next chapter contains an extensive essay on Cochinchina (Vietnam) which contains the history of relations between France and the Kingdom of Annam, an eyewitness account of the final stage its conquest by the French in 1862, and description of Saigon where Staniukovich lived for a month and a half. The other chapters describe “Kalevala’s” voyage in October 1860-August 1861: “From Brest to Madeira”, “Madeira and Cape Verde”, “Life [on board] in the tropics” (including crossing the Equator in the Atlantic Ocean); “In the Indian Ocean” (from Cape of Good Hope via Sunda Strait to Batavia); “Abolishment of corporal punishments”; “Kuzka’s love (a short story)”; “Storm (a sketch)”. “The son of an admiral, Staniukovich was born into a family with a long naval tradition. He studied at the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg from 1857 to 1860. In 1860 he completed the voyage described in his first book of sketches, “From a Voyage Around the World” (1867). Staniukovich retired from the navy in 1864 with the rank of lieutenant and taught school in a remote village of Vladimir Province in 1865 and 1866. In 1884, Staniukovich was arrested for his association with revolutionary Populist (i.e. Narodnik) émigrés; after a year of imprisonment he was exiled to Tomsk for three years…” (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. English translation). $2,750

17 [ RIVER: NEW RUSSIAN 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: Obschestvennaya Polza, 1864. [4], 588 pp. Octavo. Contemporary gilt tooled quarter leather with blind stamped 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. This is the first edition of the travel notes by a prominent Russian

BOOKVICA 49 Only seven copies ethnographer made during his journey to the newly annexed Russian found in Worldcat. 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 Treaty of Aigun. Maksimov’s route went through , Ekaterinburg, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and ; from there down the 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 , and to Nikolaevsk located near the Amur liman 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 through the Strait of Tartary, with stops in De Castries Bay (now Chikhachyov Bay), the Emperor’s Harbour (now Sovetskaya Harbour), St. Olga’s Bay, and recently founded Russian settlement in the Posyet Bay. The next chapters describe his subsequent travel through Japan (Hakodate), Manchuria (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 first hand 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. $1,500

18 [HONG KONG & SINGAPORE] Vysheslavtsev, A.V. Ocherki Perom i Karandashom iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya v 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860 godakh [i.e. Sketches in Pen and Pencil from the Circumnavigation in 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860]. St.

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Petersburg-Moscow: M.O. Wolf, 1867. Second corrected edition. [4], iii, 592 pp. Ca. 24,5x18 cm. With a lithographed title page and twenty- three tinted lithographed plates (complete). Contemporary quarter leather with cloth boards; spine with gilt tooled ornaments and gilt lettered title. Mild water stain on the half title, paper slightly age toned, binding slightly rubbed on the spine, but overall a beautiful copy of this rare travel book. Rare Russian imprint with only seven paper copies found in Worldcat. Early interesting Russian circumnavigation account, with the first illustrations drawn by a Russian artist which depicted Singapore and its Chinese and East-Indian inhabitants. The book described the voyage around the world executed by a Russian naval clipper “Plastun” in 1857-1860. “Plastun” was a part of a group of Russian propeller driven naval ships which were sent to visit the newly acquired Russian territories in the Far East (annexed with the signing of the Russian- Chinese Treaty of Aigun in 1858) and to establish Russian presence in Chinese and Japanese ports. Having left Kronstadt, the ship called at the Atlantic Islands (Madeira, Tenerife, Cape Verde, Ascension Island and others), rounded Cape of Good Hope, visited Singapore, Hong Kong, several bays of the new Russian Amur region, and Nikolayevsk; spent almost a year in Japan, and returned to Kronstadt via Hawaii, Tahiti, Strait of Magellan, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. The book was written by “Plastun’s” doctor Alexey Vysheslavtsev (1831-1888). Several chapters (including the essays about Cape of

BOOKVICA 51 Good Hope, Atlantic Ocean, Hong Kong, Edo and others) were first published in the “Russky Vestnik” magazine in 1858-1860, under the general title “Letters from clipper Plastun.” Chapters 3 “The Malay Sea” and 4 “Hong Kong” describe “Plastun’s” voyage to Singapore through the Sunda Strait and Java Sea, and thence to the South-China Sea and Hong Kong. The description of Singapore where “Plastun” stayed for a week in July 1858 is one of the earliest detailed accounts of the city made by a Russian. Vysheslavtsev included a brief history of British colonisation of Singapore, wrote about its economy and trade, city structure, European, Chinese, Indian and Malay quarters, gave a vivid description of everyday life in Singapore – street traders, Chinese house boats on the river, a performance in a native Indian theatre, manners and appearance of Chinese, Indian and Malay inhabitants, including Indian jugglers (illustrated with his original drawings reproduced in the book); noted about the monument to Sir Stamford Raffles which was under renovation at the time of Vysheslavtsev’s visit etc. A special part is dedicated to Vysheslavtsev’s visit to the Whampoa estate near Singapore (modern-day Novena planning area of Singapore’s Central Region), a conversation with the estate’s founder and owner Hoo Ah Kay (1816- 1880), and a side trip to several smaller islands in the Singapore Strait. The chapter about Hong Kong talks about structure and architecture of Victoria City, sampan and junk boats, appearance and costumes of Chinese women, Hong Kong geography and unhealthy climate, history of British colonisation, local police force, frequent attempts by Chinese patriots to kill European residents (often by poisoning), street markets and traders, a dinner with the Governor of Hong Kong John Bowring in his residence (one of Bowring’s daughters told Vysheslavtsev that the whole family had just survived an attempt of poisoning); nearby Whampoa Island (near Canton) where “Plastun” underwent renovation; Chinese rice fields and agriculture; the nature of typhoons and how a ship can survive them; the latest events of the Second Opium War; the beginning of French conquest of Cochinchina; opium smoking and trade; Christian missionaries in China; etc. Chapter 7 of the account titled “The Pacific” contains a captivating description of the visit to Honolulu: city description, Diamond Hill, local society, funerals of a king’s nephew, local police, public prosecution, Waikiki village, Nuuanu Pali lookout, hula hula dance, personality of Kamehameha IV who received the officers of the Russian squadron in his palace; “Tahitian” part talks about Papeete and environs, history of discovery and colonisation of the

BOOKVICA 52 No 18 island, king Pomare I, breadfruit trees, Papeuriri, local school, Fautaua waterfall, Moorea, introduction to the queen Pomare IV, and others. The first edition of the book was published in 1862 by the Russian Naval Ministry which was in charge of publication of a number of important Russian expedition accounts in the 1800-1840s (voyages by Sarychev, Krusenstern and Lisyansky, Golovnin, Kotzebue, Luetke, Bellingshausen, Wrangel, and others). Our second edition of the book was issued five years later by a major commercial Saint Petersburg publisher Mauritius Wolf, this publication included twenty-three lithographed plates (the same amount as in the Russian State Library copy) and is complete, although the title page calls for twenty-seven, like in the first edition. The completeness is confirmed by Forbes 2773. Among the illustrations are the views of Ascension Island, the Whampoa estate near Singapore, Hakodate, several bays in the Russian Far East, the Strait of Magellan, an embankment in Rio de Janeiro; portraits of the natives from the Cape of Good Hope and Singapore, Gilyaks from the Amur Region, Japanese in Edo and Hakodate, and others. The “Pacific” plates include views of the Oahu Island, Pali (Oahu), two group portraits of Tahitian girls and the “kanakas” (meant as native people of the Pacific islands), Fautaua waterfall (Tahiti), portrait of a New Caledonian on Tahiti, and three different views of the Papetoai Bay (Moorea). $6,500

BOOKVICA 53 19 [FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Cherkasov, A.A. Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]. St. Petersburg: S.V. Zvonaryov, 1867. [4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. First edition of this ‘encyclopaedia’ on Siberian hunting written by a Russian mining engineer, hunter, ethnographer and writer Alexander Cherkasov (1834-1895), during his service in 1856-1863 on the gold mines in Dauria ( region). The book contains a captivating description of Eastern Siberian animals and ways of trapping and hunting them: there are 21 sketches about predators (including bear, wolf, fox, lynx, wolverine, marten, sable, stoat, badger, and others) and 12 sketches about ‘edible’ animals (including moose, Manchurian wapiti, Capreolus, deer, , hair, squirrel, and others). There are also characteristics of guns, traps and weapons; descriptions of the use of dogs and horses for hunting, advice on camping in , and interesting ethnographic sketches on manners and customs of hunters in Siberia. Several chapters from the book were first published in the St. Petersburg ‘Sovremennik’ and ‘Delo’ magazines in 1866 and 1867. The book became very popular in Russia and Europe: second Russian enlarged and corrected edition was published in 1884 by A.S. Suvorin; the book was translated into German (Berlin, 1886), and French (Paris, 1896 and 1899). Alexander Cherkasov graduated from the Mining Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg in 1855, and was sent to the Nerchinsk Mining District, where the first private reading of his yet unpublished Notes ofa Hunter from Eastern Siberia took place in 1864. Since 1871 he was the director of the Suzun copper melting factory in the Altai Mountains.

BOOKVICA 54 In the 1880s Cherkasov lived in Barnaul where he was elected the City Golova (head of the municipal legislative branch); in the 1890s he moved to Yekaterinburg and was also elected its City Golova. The Notes of a Hunter was the only book of Cherkasov’s stories published during his life; separate essays were also published in the Priroda i Okhota (i.e. Nature and Hunting) magazine in 1883-87, noteworthy are his memories about hunting with Alfred Brem in 1876 near Barnaul. $2,000

20 [ARCTIC] Maksimov, S.V. God na severe [i.e. A Year in the North]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of A. Transhel, 1871. 3rd enlarged edition. [2], v, [2], 690 pp. 22x16 cm. Contemporary Russian boards rebacked with brown leather, spine with gilt lettered title in Russian. Few library markings and some mild foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Only six paper Very rare Russian imprint. The first book by Sergey Maksimov copies found in Worldcat. (1831-1901), famous Russian ethnographer and traveller, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This is the account of an ethnographic expedition to the Russian Arctic, organized in 1855 by Russian Naval Minister Great Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. Maksimov travelled along the coast of the to the Arctic Ocean, visiting , Mezen, Kanin Peninsula, , Kem, Kola, Solovetsky archipelago with its famous ; sailed along the shores of Karelia, from the Tersky coast of the to the Murman Coast. The second part of the book is dedicated to his travel to the River, and describes the famous exile site , walrus and beluga hunting, life in tundra, Kolguev Island, Kholmogory, local monasteries et al. The book includes ethnographic sketches of colourful locals, , and memoirs about the recent events of the Crimean War when English ships attacked , Kola and Kem. Maksimov’s captivating sketches about Northern Russia and the Arctic were published in several Russian magazines before being published as a separate sedition in 1859; the book became highly successful and was reissued three more times (1864, 1871, 1890). In 1860-61 Maksimov participated in the next expedition organized by the Naval Ministry to the just annexed Amur River territories, and also published an account of his travel (1864). His most

BOOKVICA 55 famous works were related to travel to the Siberian katorga (system of prisons). His book Exiles and Prisons was published in 1862 for state officials only, with stamp ‘Confidentially’ and a print run of only 500 copies. Only several years later a public edition appeared, becoming extremely popular. Maksimov’s books strikingly describing manners and customs of Russians, including beggars, old believers, Cossacks, inhabitants of the Caspian shore, Ural, Amur are still highly popular and are being reissued by modern publishers with enviable permanency. $1,000

21 [ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Severtsov, N.A. Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany Tian-Shania, Sovershennye po Porucheniu Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [i.e. Travels Across Turkestan and Survey of the Mountainous Country of Tian-Shan, Undertaken on the Assignment of Russian Geographical Society]. St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water stains on the lower corners of several leaves at rear, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare imprint with only seven printed copies found in Worldcat. First edition of the major work by the prominent Russian explorer of Central Asia, Nikolai Severtsov (1827-1885), who was described by another famous traveller to Central Asia P. Semenov- Tyan-Shansky as “one of the first Russian travellers who engaged in survey of the interesting, colossal mountainous land of Tian-Shan, one of the pioneers of geographical research in the countries previously unknown and for many centuries not opening themselves to scientific investigations.” The book includes accounts of three of Severtsov’s travels. During the expedition Severtsov was wounded and captured by the armed group from the khanate of Kokand and freed only thanks to a personal involvement of the commander of Russian border guards General Dansas. Two other expeditions were dedicated to the Tian- Shan Mountains: to their northern part in 1864 and to the surroundings of Lake Issyk Kul in 1865, with many areas not visited by a European

BOOKVICA 56 No 21 before. The book contains voluminous material on geology, climatology, soil, hydrography, hydrology and orography, flora and fauna of the Aral Sea and the Tian Shan Mountains, with an extensive description of the travel to the valley of the Aksai and Naryn Rivers in central Tian Shan. Severtsov gained the reputation of an important Russian zoogeographer. The map shows central Tian-Shan and the surroundings of the Issyk- Kul Lake, based on the surveys of Russian military topographers of 1856-1869. It was planned to issue three parts of the book, but only one part, containing general reports of Severtsov’s travels in 1857-1868 was published, the other two not being approved by the author because of the low quality of the maps. The original manuscripts of the next two parts were eventually lost in the archives. Second edition of the first part was issued only in 1947. “Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov was a Russian explorer and naturalist. On an expedition to the Syr Darya, he was captured by bandits and freed after a month. In 1865-68, he explored the Tian Shan mountains and Lake Issyk Kul. In 1877-78, he explored the Pamir Mountains, following a route close to the current Pamir Highway as far as Lake Yashil Kul on the Ghunt River” (Wikipedia). A peak and a glacier in the Pamir Mountains, and a glacier in the Trans-Ili Alatau (Tian Shan Mountains) were named after him. $3,500

BOOKVICA 57 22 [NEW ZEALAND] Novaya Zelandiya i Okeania, ili Ostrova Yuzhnogo Moria [i.e. New Zealand and Oceania, or the Islands of the South Sea]. St. Petersburg-Moscow: Obschestvennaya polza, 1874. 638 pp., ill., 2 folding maps. Modern half-leather binding. Uncut. Front wrapper is preserved in the binding. Illustrated throughout with the steel engravings (in text, full-page and double-page). First book in Russian dedicated to New Zealand. The Russian translation of the book ‘Ozeanien, die Inseln der Südsee: aeltere und neuere Erforschungsreisen im Gebiete der Inselgruppen des Stillen Ozeans / von Fr. Christmann und Richard Oberländer, 1873’. Extremely rare: the only copy according to Worldcat is in Polish National Library; the copy of Russian National Library is lacking text and a map. Both State Library of NSW and Australian National Library have second edition of this book, published in 1875. The book is signed on the wrapper and on the title page by Sergei Markov (1905-1965), dated 1944. He was one of the most important book collectors of Leningrad in 1930-60s. His wife has famously saved his library during the first years of the war, when Markov was in the army and Leningrad was under blockade, by not putting

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23 [RUSSIAN ARCTIC IN 1552] Ogorodnikov, Y.K. Pribrezhya Ledovitogo i Belogo morei s ikh pritokami po knige Bolshogo Chertezha [i.e. Coasts of the Icy and the White Seas with Their Tributaries According to the Book to the Great Map]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of Maikov, 1875. 265 pp. 24,5x15,5 cm. Modern (period style) half leather. Weak old library stamps on the title page and p. 1, mild foxing of the text, last page with the repair of the lower outer margin. Otherwise a very good copy. Only two paper Very rare (only two paper copies found in Worldcat). This is copies found the first edition of the first comprehensive scientific representation of in Worldcat (Columbia the Russian Arctic coast according to the Kniga Bolshomu Chertezhu University and (i.e. The Book to the Great Map) – the first Russian full geographical Wheaton College). description of the country compiled in 1552 on the order of . The book was written to supplement and comment on the ‘Great Map’ – a very large manuscript map of Russia and the nearby countries created for the use of the tsar and his councillors, which was lost in the 17th century because of the active use. In 1852 Russian Geographical Society announced a contest for the recreation of the ancient map of Russia according to the Book to the Great Map. It was a statistician Yevlampy Ogorodnikov (1816-1884) who presented the first comprehensive analysis of geography of the Lapland shore of the Kola peninsula in the Book to the Great Map (1869), and later of the whole Arctic coast of Russia from the Kola Peninsula to the Yugorsky Strait – the ‘Iron Gateway’ into the Kara Sea. His research titled ‘‘Coasts of the Icy and the White Seas…’’ was published in the Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society, Department of Ethnography (vol. VII), and as an offprint the same year.

BOOKVICA 59 The chapters describe the north-eastern parts of the in general, then talk in great detail about various native tribes inhabiting the region: Yam’ (jäämit), , Pechora, the Samoyeds, Perm, Sum’, and the Karelians. Most part of the book is occupied with the description of the Arctic Russia rom coast to coast: Lapland shores, Karelia shore, Dvina River with tributaries (Solovetsky monastery, Yemtsa River, Vaga River, River, Sukhona River, Lake Kubenskoye, Vychegda River, Mezen River, Kara River, Pustozyorsk City, Kanin Peninsula, , Vaygach Island and others). In the end the author briefly analyses the descriptions of the Arctic Russia in the 16th- 17th century western European sources. The book is supplemented with the Index of geographical and ethnographical names. For his research of the Book to the Great Map Ogorodnikov received a golden medal of the Russian Geographical Society and was elected its member. $950

24 [FIRE IN IRKUTSK] Larionov, D.D. Gubernsky Gorod Irkutsk (Pozhary 22-go i 24-go Iyunya 1879) [i.e. Provincial City of Irkutsk: Fires of June 22 and 24, 1879]. Irkutsk: Typ. Of N.N. Sinitsyn, 1880. With a large folding lithographed map at rear. Original publisher’s wrappers. Paper slightly age toned, wrappers with minor creases, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare East Siberian imprint with no paper copies found in Worldcat. First-hand account of the great fire in the main city of the Irkutsk province which happened on June 22- 24, 1879 and destroyed the most part of the old Irkutsk. The account was written by Dmitry Larionov, a cavalry officer, aide-de-camp to the military governor of Irkutsk General Konstantin Shelashnikov, and at the same time a publicist and secretary of Irkutsk Provincial Statistical Committee in 1869 – early 1880s. Larionov authored several books on the statistics of the Irkutsk province; his manuscripts reports about statistics and several censuses in the province are now in the library of Irkutsk University. With a group of about 20 soldiers he took a direct part in the fight with the fire; the account contains his personal impressions and those of the other witnesses interviewed by him, quotes from the government decrees, materials from the archive of the Irkutsk Statistical Committee and the special commission organized to investigate the

BOOKVICA 60 No 24 cause of the fire and to help the victims, contemporary newspapers, printed speech of the Governor General of Eastern Siberia which was hung on the remaining houses, etc. The book includes six chapters: 1) Brief overview of the location and state of Irkutsk before the fire; 2) The fire on the 22nd of June: losses of buildings, human casualties; 3) Actions to help the sufferers, overview of the anti-fire measures; state of the fire stations in Irkutsk before the fire; 4) Meteorological information to the 24th and 25th of June. Second fire. The development of the fire, actions of police, military men and civilians. Statistical information about burned buildings, losses for , typographies and lithographies, pharmacies, telegraph, human casualties; 5) [Government and private help after the fire; establishment of aid services and committees and their actions; one-day census of the inhabitants of Irkutsk after the fire; crimes; epidemics]; 6) Influence of the Irkutsk disaster on the economy of the province, administration and population. The main text is supplemented with a list of government and public buildings and organizations perished in the fire. Large interesting map lithographed in the local typography of N. Sinitsyn shows the modern-day historical core of Irkutsk, on the site where Irkut River flows into Angara, with the Glazkovsk, Znamensk and Remeslennoye suburbs, now all parts of the city centre. The map outlines the two areas burned during the fires on June 22 and 24, and the part of the city which wasn’t affected; marks main streets, buildings (specially emphasizing stone buildings) and the sites where the fires started. The map shows the quarter where stood the office of the Russian American Company (Spaso-Lyuteranskaya, now Surikova Street, 24), this area also suffered

BOOKVICA 61 in the fire on June 24. The insert in the upper left corner contains a brief statistical report about the damage: the fire destroyed 75 city quarters with 856 private estates, which included 86 stone and 1648 houses and 19 stone and 1790 uninhabited structures; five stone and one wooden Orthodox churches, one wooden Lutheran church, one wooden Catholic church, two Jewish synagogues, four stone and one wooden Gostiny dvors (markets), customs house and a meet market. Overall a very rare interesting source on the history of Irkutsk and East Siberia, with a detailed map, preserved in the original publisher’s wrappers. $1,750

25 [GREAT GAME: INNER CHINA] [Pyasetsky/Piasetskii], P.Y. Puteshestvie po Kitayu v 1874-1875 gg. (cherez Sibir, Mongoliyu, Vostochny, Sredny i Severo-Zapadny Kitai): Iz dnevnika chlena ekspeditsii P.Y. Pyasetskogo [i.e. Travel across China in 1874-75 (via Siberia, , Eastern, Central and Northwestern China): From the Diary of the Expedition Member P.Y. Pyasetsky]. St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1880-1881 [With]: Pyasetsky, P.Y. Neudachnaya ekspeditsiya v Kitai 1874-1875 gg. V otvet na xashchitu g. Sosnovskogo po povodu knigi ‘‘Puteshestvie v Kitai’’ [i.e. Unsuccessful expedition to China. In Reply to the Defense of Mr. Sosnovsky about the book ‘‘Travel across China’’]. Three volumes bound in two bindings. [2 – t.p.], 560; [2 – t.p.], iii, 561- 1122, 4, xviii; [2 – t.p.], 298, ii pp. 24x16 cm. With twenty-four tinted lithographed plates and a folding lithographed map at rear. Three volumes bound in two bindings. Private library stamp of D.K. Trenyov on the title page of the ‘‘Neudachnaya Ekspeditsiya’’. Period style half leather with marbled papered boards and gilt lettered titles on the spines. Text with occasional mild foxing, map with a tear neatly repaired, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of a rare Russian imprint with only eight paper copies found in Worldcat. Firsthand account of the 1874-75 Russian surveying expedition to the little-known areas of the northwestern China and the Gobi Desert under command of Captain of Imperial General Staff Yulyan Sosnovsky (1842-?). Amid the intensifying Great Game Russia was looking for the development of diplomatic and trade relations with China, as well

BOOKVICA 62 No 25 as for the investigation of possible routes to Tibet. The 1870s saw several military reconnaissance expeditions organized by the Russian government, including an earlier one, led by Sosnovsky to the upper reaches of the Black Irtysh in northwestern China (1872-73). The 1874-75 ‘scientific and trade’ expedition aimed to ascertain the shortest way from Western Siberia to the Sichuan province in southwestern China; to outline the best sites for prospective Russian trade, and to gather information about the Dugan Revolt in Western China (1862-77). The expedition party numbered nine people, including Yulian Sosnovsky, topographer Captain Zinovy Matusosky (1843-?), doctor and artist Pavel Yakovlevich Pyasetsky (1843-1919), photographer Adolf Boyarsky, translators and guards. The expedition left Russia from the border town of Kyakhta in July 1874 and proceeded to Beijing via Ulan-Bator, Gobi Desert, and Kalgan (Zhangjiakou); went to Tianjin, took a steamer to Shanghai, and went up the Yangtse to Nanjing and Hankou. Then they followed the ancient Silk Road, going to the upper reaches of the Han River where the main survey started; visited Hanzhong and Lanzhou (where they crossed the Yellow River); followed the Great Wall of China to Suzhou (Gansu Province), and went across the western Gobi Desert to the Hami Oasis. Then they crossed Tian Shan Mountains, and proceeded

BOOKVICA 63 northwest via Barkul (Zhenxi Fu) and Guzhen, arriving to the Lake Zaysan Russian border post in October 1875. As a result a new route to China was discovered which was over 2000 versts shorter than the previously known. The book was written by the expedition doctor and artist Pavel Pyasetsky, and is illustrated with twenty-four lithographed plates after his original sketches made during his travels. He was a prolific artist and produced over a thousand sketches during the travel, which became the basis of a unique watercolour panorama ‘‘From the Middle China to Western Siberia’’ which measured 72 m. The main text is supplemented with a ‘List of plants, collected on the way from Fancheng to Zaysan border post (Provinces of Hubei, Shaanxi, and Gansu, and Mongolia)’; ‘List of drawings made during the travel and comprising the exhibition in the in 1876’, and an article by N. Petrovsky ‘Scientific and trade expedition to China in 1874-75’; the folding lithographed map outlines the route of the expedition. Pyasetsky’s book was awarded with the gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society. The book was quickly translated into French and English. The second volume is bound with another work by Pyasetsky shedding light to the controversy which existed between the expedition members. In the main text Pyasetsky on numerous occasions accused the head of the party Sosnovsky in the abuse of power and expedition

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BOOKVICA 64 money; the ‘third’ part of the book is his passionate pamphlet bringing more facts proving Sosnovsky’s misconduct; in some copies it is bound together with the main text. A year later Sosnovsky published his own version of the events, thus continuing the ‘pamphlet war’ (Sosnovsky, Y. Ekspeditsiya v Kitai v 1874-75. St. Petersburg, 1882). Overall an interesting Russian work on the Inner China with relations to the Great Game in Central Asia. $5,250

26 [BAKU] Ganizade, Soltan Majid. Russko-Tatarsky Slovar’, Sostavlenny v poryadke Russkogo Alfavita po Tolkovomu Slovaryu Vladimira Dalya/ Samoychitel Tatarskogo Yazyka Sultan-Mejida Ganiyeva. Chast III [i.e. Russian-Tatar Dictionary, Compiled in the Order of the Russian Alphabet on the Basis of the Explanatory Dictionary of Vladimir Dal/ A Self-Teacher of the Tatar Language by Soltan-Mejid Ganiyev. Part III]. Baku: Typ. of the Administrat. of the province, 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 184 pp. 20,5x14 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with the original publisher’s printed wrappers pasted on the boards. Occasional ink notes and pencil markings on the first few leaves. Wrappers soiled, title page with minor staining, paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good copy. Rare early Baku imprint and important edition of the first Russian-Azerbaijani dictionary compiled by Soltan Majid Ganizade – a noted Azerbaijani linguist, writer, theatre director, teacher, and founder of several Russian-Muslim schools in Baku. An independent work on its own, the dictionary was published in a four-part series of Ganizade’s ‘‘Self Teacher of the Tatar Language’’ (Tatar or Transcaucasian Tatar was a common name of the Azerbaijani Language in the Russian Empire before the revolution of 1917), which also included tutorials on Azerbaijani grammar, reading and speaking, and a phrasebook. First published in 1890-95, the ‘‘Self Teacher’’ became the first comprehensive tutorial of the Azerbaijani language ever printed. This second edition of the dictionary is significantly enlarged in comparison to the first edition of 1891 (124 pp.), and includes about 8000 words. The book became very popular and had six editions up to 1922. A graduate of the Alexandrovsky Teacher’s Institute in Tiflis,

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Soltan Majid Ganizade (1866-1938) became the director of the elementary ‘‘Russian-Muslim’’ school in Baku in 1887, and facilitated opening of nine more by 1901. He was the author of the first tutorial on the Azerbaijani language (1890-95), and of the first textbook on the addressed to the Azerbaijani people (1895). In 1888 he organized the first permanent theatre company in Baku and wrote several plays for it; among his other works are novellas and children’s books. After the revolution of 1917 Ganizade worked in the Folks Enlightenment Committee, taught in the Transcaucasian military school, was a member of the Azerbaijani Writers’ Society, a professor of the newly organized Institute of Oriental Studies in Baku, a language teacher in the Azerbaijani Industrial Institute. He was arrested during the Great Terror of Stalinist repressions in July 1937, and in March 1938 was executed; posthumously fully rehabilitated in 1956. $1,250

27 [EXTREMELY RARE SAMARKAND IMPRINT] Spravochnik i Adres-Kalendar Samarkandskoi Oblasti na 1901/ Izd. Samarkandskogo Oblastnogo Statisticheskogo Komiteta [i.e. Directory and Address Book of the Samarkand Province for 1901: in two parts/ Publication of the Statistical Committee of the Samarkand Province]. Samarkand: Typ. “Tovarishchestvo”, [1901].Ca. 16,5x12,5 cm. Two parts in one. [32 - ads], [6], 102; [2], v, [3], 137, [24 - ads] pp. Original publisher’s

BOOKVICA 66 illustrated wrappers. Pre-revolutionary Russian ink stamp “Price 30 cop.” on the front wrapper. Soviet library stamp on verso of the title page and on p. 17 in part 1. Wrappers slightly soiled, with minor tears, but overall a very good copy of this rare book in its original state. Very rare Russian provincial imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (the “Directory… for 1902” in University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt). A beautiful copy preserved in the original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. This is the official directory and address book of the Samarkand Province of the Russian Empire – a former part of the Khanate of Bukhara which has been annexed during the Russian advance to Central Asia in the 1860s and joined the Imperial Turkestan General Governorship in 1887. After the of 1917 and the formation of the USSR the Samarkand province became a part of the Uzbek SSR and after 1991 – of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The “Directory” was compiled by the Statistical Committee of the Samarkand Province (1887-1919) - the official government centre of statistical and ethnographic studies in the region. The Committee published the “Spavochnaya Knizhka” [Reference Book] of the Samarkand Province in 1893-1907; since 1896 its part titled “Directory and Adress Book” started being issued separately, and its publication continued until the beginning of WW1 in 1914. Apart from these two serial editions, the Statistical Committee issued several separate works on the region, including a pocket Russian-Uzbek dictionary, a list of towns and villages in the province, an overview of local wineries etc., and in 1896 opened the “Samarkand Museum of nature, archaeology, and ethnography” (modern-day Samarkand Museum of History and Art of the Uzbek People). The Committee’s Secretary Mikhail Virsky, who prepared all address books and directories for publication, served as a collegiate councillor (“kollezhsky sovietnik”) under the direct command of the military governor of the Samarkand Province Viktor Medinsky (1837-1908). The book consists of two parts: the “Directory” (part III of the serial publication since 1896) with the general information about the province (geography, administration, districts, population, Russian settlers, agriculture, cotton industries, livestock, fincance, real estate, public health, education, courts etc.), and the “Adress Book” (part VII of the serial publication since 1893) containing the names and addresses of all government officials (in Samarkand and four provincial districts), societies and public organizations, hospitals, clinics and doctors, post

BOOKVICA 67 offices, railway stations, forestries, charities, libraries, shops, artisans, photo studios, bookshops, bazaars and even “Merchant karavan-sarais in the native part of Samarkand.” The first 32 and the last 24 pages are occupies with numerous ads from local businesses. Overall an important reference book on the history of Samarkand and its environs in the early 20th century. $1,500

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BOOKVICA 68 28 [RARE RUSSIAN AFRICAN HUNTING ACCOUNT] Gorodetskii, Vladislav. V Dzhungliakh Afriki: Dnievnik Okhotnika [i.e. In the Jungle of Africa: The Diary of a Hunter]. Kiev: Polskaya typ. 1914. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 30x21,5 cm). [2], 182, [2 - errata] pp. With a photogravure frontispiece, two maps and many photo illustrations in text. Original publisher’s brown quarter sheep with decorative carved ornaments on wooden boards with a gilt lettered title on the front board; decorative endpapers. Binding rubbed on extremities, several pages loose from binding but overall a very good copy.

Only one paper Very rare. Interesting original account of a Russian hunting copy found safari expedition to British East Africa (Kenya) in November 1911 in Worldcat (Northwestern - January 1912. A party of three Russian hunters travelled across the University, IL). “Serengeti Plains” of the Tsavo River basin (modern-day Tsavo West National Park) down to Lake Jipe on the border with German East Africa (Tanzania), and later on hunted in the basin of Mukumba, Machakos and Athi Rivers southwest of Nairobi. The book contains detailed notes on the organization of the trip (lists of necessary supplies and guns, the necessary quantity of servants and guides), describes the travel on the Uganda Railroad to the Voi station; vividly depicts hunting, African landscapes and animals, Mombasa, Nairobi, Swahili villages, notes about the spread of the sleeping sickness near the shores of the Great African Lakes etc. The two maps outline the routes of the hunting party, marking their camps. The author, Vladislav Gorodetskii ( (1863-1930) was a notable Russian architect of Polish origin who became one of the most important contributors to the 19th-century architectural face of Kiev (Gorodetskii designed the , St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Karaite Kenesa, and the modern-day National Art Museum of Ukraine). In 1920 he immigrated to Poland and later on to Persia where he designed the Tehran railway station in 1928-29. The book is illustrated with the reproductions of Gorodetskii’s photographs from the trip and numerous vignettes, headings and endings after his original drawings. His two travel companions were one “M. – a member of the Kiev Russian Society of Proper Hunting <…>, and “R.” – a member of the Kiev Branch of the Imperial Society of Proper Hunting” (V Dzhungliakh Afriki, p. 5). Overall a rare interesting account of a private Russian safari trip to Africa in the early 20th century. $4,500

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BOOKVICA 70 II EARLY SOVIET ART

29 [EROTICA] Bezsal’ko, P. Almazy Vostoka [i.e. Diamonds of the East]. Petrograd: Izd. Petrogradskogo Soveta Rabochikh I Krasnykh Deputatov, 1919. 85, [3] pp.: ill. 23,5x28,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Mostly uncut. Bumped, fragment of the spine lost, it partly detached from block, pale water stain on lower outer corner of front cover and some pages, otherwise very good and clean internally. Only paper copy Second, but first edition published in Russia. Very rare. located in Library Collection of Oriental stories was written by Pavel Bessal’ko of Congress. (1887-1920), one of Proletkult’s leading theoreticians, pioneering writer of proletarian prose, as well as a founder of Proletkult theater. An active revolutionary, Bessal’ko was persecuted by the tsarist police, arrested and imprisoned in 1907. A few years later he escaped from jail, moved to Europe where he worked at fabrics and got close to the local proletariat. In Europe, he had met A. Gastev and A. Lunacharsky who influenced him developing Proletkult ideas.

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BOOKVICA 71 At the same time, Bessal’ko wrote ‘Diamonds of the East’. The book consists of six stories that Lunacharsky called ‘proletarian dreams’ in the foreword, defending the concepts of both proletarian and imaginative literature. Based on the Oriental legends, the text is illustrated with 12 full-page drawings by Latvian artist Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890-1970), known for his wide range of style, especially his erotic art. $1,350

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30 [RUSLAN AND LYUDMILA ILLUSTRATED BY KUSTODIEV] Pushkin, A. Ruslan and Lyudmila. Petersburg: Gosizdat, 1921. 120 pp.: ill. 19,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears with small losses of spine, tears and small losses of blank margin of p. 115-117, stains occasionally. Cover design and 25 illustrations, head-, tail-pieces and a small portrait of Pushkin were produced by well-known artist Worldcat doesn’t (1878-1927). After the 1917 Revolution, he turned to book graphics and, track this edition. in particular, worked on Pushkin’s works. His approach to illustrating Pushkin’s tales was completely different from Bilibin’s style, enormously popular in the pre- revolutionary period. The purpose of a series ‘Narodnaia biblioteka’ (the

BOOKVICA 72 People’s Library) was to give the country an extremely cheap and mass book (the print run was 20 000 copies). With this aim, Kustodiev created black and white illustrations, refused to draw full-page illustrations and focused on producing head- and tailpieces, mixing them with vignettes. $850

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31 [PHOTOMONTAGES ON LENIN HERITAGE] Lenin i Leninskii prizyv [i.e. Lenin and the Lenin Enrolment]. Leningrad: Izdanie ‘Leningradskoi pravdy’, 1924. [16] ll.: ill. 20,5x13 cm. In original printed red-color wrappers. Very good, slightly rubbed. Names of Trotsky and Zinoviev are totally crossed out on l. 13 Worldcat doesn’t track this edition. (under photos of them). Extremely rare. Growing criticism of the Communist party after October 1917 caused the «workers’ opposition», openly challenged Lenin and even revolted in 1920. That was one of the to enroll more members of the proletariat into the Communist party and to encourage them to build a new state. The incredibly active propaganda started after Lenin’s death brought 241 thousand newcomers to the Communist party in several months. The main motif became praising the deceased leader. This small photo album was published for this campaign with a huge print run of 100.000 copies and widespread memory of Lenin.

BOOKVICA 73 It contains photographs of the leader, some dwellings where he lived and proofs of the pervasive cult: Lenin corner in any organization, his mausoleum, his images in art and different printed editions. The album opens with a neat photomontage combining Lenin stood in front of the and a bridge over the Moscow River. It is followed by photomontages of Lenin’s activity, Leninists at factories as well as striking photomontage posters made for Сomintern exhibition and considered as results of Lenin’s work. One of the leaves features delegates of the Fifth Congress of the Comintern, including Zinoviev and (unclear and small) Trotsky. As long as the images of them were in the book, it was banned since the late 1920s. $1,200

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BOOKVICA 74 32 [LUBOK AS AGITATIONAL TOOL] Roginskaia, F. Sovetskii lubok [i.e. Soviet Lubok]. Moscow: Izd-vo Assotsiatsii khudozhnikov revoliutsii, 1929. 89 pp.: ill. 18x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of the spine and edges of oversized wrappers, minor fragments of spine lost, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. According Colored autolithographic cover was created by Konstantin to Worldcat, copies located Molchanov (1906-1980) who studied in VKHUTEAS under P. Miturich and in LoC, Illinois, D. Moor, worked on agitational posters and specialized in lithography. Columbia, Stanford The critical work on Soviet lubok, widespread and simple Universities, Harvard College, propaganda prints. Illustrated with 22 reproductions of pre- Metropolitan revolutionary and Soviet luboks, the book criticized contemporary Museum of Art. works: wartime, historical-revolutionary, daily and ethnographic luboks. Roganovskaia regarded artists Kulikov, Khvostenko, Mikhailov, Ioganson as the main professional lubok designers whose works were printed by AKhR society and Centralizdat. $950

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BOOKVICA 75 33 [TO FORM MASS CULTURE THROUGH WALL NEWSPAPERS] Maslenikov, N. Risunok v stennoi gazete : Posobie dlia gorodskikh i derevenskikh stennykh gazet [i.e. Picture in Wall Newspaper : A Handbook Worldcat locates for City and Village Wall Newspapers]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe copies in LoC (3rd ed., the same year) izdatel’stvo AKhR, 1929. 58 pp. : ill. 17,5X13 cm. In original constructivist and University of wrappers. Tears with losses of edge fragments of oversized covers and Minnesota. spine, otherwise very good and clean internally. Fourth lifetime edition. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. A manual on designing an immensely influential propaganda tool - the wall newspaper. An author, Soviet artist Nikolai Maslennikov (1895-1950) compiled it for artists of the worker’s clubs and reading rooms that were the main cultural centers for the Soviet workers and peasants. The author overviewed common methods of design of the wall newspaper, among them photomontage illustration, sharp caricature, spectacular coloring and catchy constructivist headings. He gave instructions for all of them and presented some exemplary pictures.

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BOOKVICA 76 At the end of the book, a short art course program was published, oriented for beginners and taught all these methods in practice. $1,200

34 [RODCHENKO] Tretyakov, S. Den Shi-Khua : Bio-interv’iu [i.e. Tan Shih-hua : A Bio- Interview]. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1930. 392 pp.: ill. 21,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Good. Tears and small losses of the spine, soiling, some pages detached from block, tears and small fragments of margins lost occasionally, ink note on p. 37. Worldcat shows Second edition. One of 7500 copies. Very rare. copies of 2nd ed. in LoC, Columbia Design was created by Alexander Rodchenko, using mostly and Stanford combinations of lines as well as geometrically cut photographs showing University, Getty Institute and Harvard College.

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BOOKVICA 77 local day-to-day life. The design resembles his experimental ‘liniizm’ (i.e. linearism), occurred in 1919-1920, and thus the book is the point where his constructivist and non-objective conceptions met. This book by futurist poet Sergei Tretyakov (1892-1937) described unrests in Chinese society of the 1920s, as close as possible, and contrasted to official press. It combined an interview with student Tan Shih-hua, that was conducted by Tretyakov in Peking University, and author’s impressions of country. Actually, the interview embraced more than twenty-six years of a man’s life so it was considered the biographical interview. $2,500

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BOOKVICA 78 35 [ROSTA WINDOW] Zemenkov, B. Udarnoe iskusstvo okon satiry [i.e. Striking Art of Satirical Windows]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel’skoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo AKhR, 1930. 104 pp.: ill. 18x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Slightly bumped and chipped, signature on half-title, otherwise very good and clean copy. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Cover design by unknown artist features photomontage compositions of ROSTA ‘Windows’ with geometrical figures and lettering. A book caught a turning point when ROSTA Windows (1918- 1922) were re-evaluated by the public. After seven years of silence Worldcat locates and almost oblivion, critics started to discuss these agitational posters copies in Princeton, Yale, again, the articles on them appeared in the press and exhibitions were Drew Universities held in state galleries. An author, constructivist artist Boris Zemenkov and Harvard deeply appreciated their informational content, methods of widespread College. propaganda and a different approach to each work. The author considered them not posters but rather newspapers. He wrote: “Some of them so relevant that I don’t understand why they are at museums instead of being on streets”.

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BOOKVICA 79 Zemenkov divided the work into chapters ‘Participation in the Civil War’, ‘At Struggle for Production’, ‘At Struggle for Province’, ‘To a New Way of Life’, overviewing how these common topics were embodied by artists. The book includes reproductions of posters of M. Cheremnykh, V. Mayakovsky, V. Lebedev, I. Malyutin, A. Niurenberg and others. $850

36 [HOW GRANDIOSE SOVIET CARNIVAL WAS ORGANISED] Zemenkov, B. Oformlenie sovetskikh karnavalov i demonstratsii : Metodicheskoe posobie dlia izo-kruzhkov goroda i derevni [i.e. Design of Soviet Carnivals and Demonstrations : A Handbook for Art Clubs in Cities and Province]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel’skoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo AKhR, 1930. 94, [2] pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Previous owner’s signature on p. 5, small tear of the spine, otherwise mint. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Constructivist design of both covers and some illustrations were produced by an author, artist Boris Zemenkov (1902-1963), who was at different times inspired by Worldcat shows dada and expressionist art. copies located in University of This is a handbook for designing mass performances by Iowa, Harvard creation transforming platforms, tribunes, marionettes and ‘living’ College, NYPL, Metropolitan puppets, slogans, costumes and masks, illumination, as well as design Museum of Art. of the whole trucks. As exemplary works, VKHUTEIN projects and implemented works for the opening ceremony of Gorky Park (1928) were included. A political carnival, promoting a new place for leisure time, was a grandiose show that Moscow had never seen before. Sharp satirical designs of 54 trucks were shown on Moscow streets, going through Red Square to Gorky Park along the Moskva River. The script was specially written and then it was broughts to life by VKHUTEIN students Khokhlova, Magidson, Kheifets, Starodub, Kozlovskaia and others. They created large figures, realistic volume visualization of the main “enemies” of the world revolution: kulaks, capitalists, clergymen, Imperial colonialists and others. This was the first experiment of this kind and the great start for many young artists who later designed streets for mass celebrations. Apart from students, the book features carnival works by artists Semenova, Martynov, Lakov, Neofitov and Peri. The author assured readers that any art club could organize such shows

BOOKVICA 80 - smaller but still interesting and spectacular. $1,200

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37 [BASICS OF THE VISUAL ARTS] Franketti, V. Elementy khudozhestvennogo izobrazheniia [i.e. Art Image Elements] / V. Franketti, M. Prokhorov. Moscow: Khudozhestvennoe izdatel’skoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo AKhR, 1930. 111 pp.: ill. 17,5x13,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Small tears with lost fragments of oversized covers, signature osn the front cover, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 6000 copies. Rare. Worldcat shows Woodcut cover design was produced by Nikolai Sheverdiaev only copy in University of North (1872-1952) who specialized in engravings and taught etching in Carolina. VKHUTEMAS. He regarded as a pioneer of linocut in Russia. This textbook for beginning artists was compiled by Vladimir Franketti (1887-1969), Soviet Italian modernist artist and art theoretician. In the early USSR, he was an insider in the cultural administration of A. Lunacharsky and taught in methods, close to VKHUTEMAS educational system. This manual, compiled in collaboration with sculptor M. Prokhorov, included a program, explaining the basics of imaging from

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geometric figures to still-life painting. The book is richly illustrated with reproductions and exemplary drawings. $450

38 [DIY LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS] Zhitkov, B. Kamennaia pechat’ [i.e. Stone Print]. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. 75 pp.: ill. + 4 pp. of advertisements, 3 ills. 17,5x12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Uncut. Slightly chipped, ink signature on the front cover. First and only edition. One of 7300 copies. Very rare. Cover design by artist M. Gromnitskii. Not found in Worldcat. This small book for children was a manual on how to produce themselves some number of copies of a laconic colored picture. Lithography as a cheap and mass method of publishing was extremely popular in the USSR. A Soviet writer Boris Zhitkov (1882- 1938) often popularized science and technical achievements for children. Proposing a simplified version, the author wrote how to prepare lithographic limestone cliche at home and to make a print. As more complicated work, the process of creating a multi-color lithographic

BOOKVICA 82 label for an oatmeal package was presented. The book shows results of tidy and sloppy combination of separate impresses into one picture (on plates). Apart from them, pictures of the lithographic press are included with captions. $750

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39 [SOVIET SPA] Kurorty k osenne-zimnemu sezonu 1931-32 goda [i.e. Resorts for Autumn- Winter of 1931-1932]. Moscow: Medgiz, 1931. 56 pp.: ill. 12,5x18,5 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Some stains, small tear of the spine, otherwise very good and clean. One of 5000 copies. Photomontage cover design combining a picture of Sochi spa Only copy locates resort building with a night-sea view. in LoC, according to Worldcat. This is a catalogue of Soviet resorts prepared for the winter season of 1931-1932. Initially, the sanatoriums were much more medical institutions than resorts. Helping to match patient and relevant spa resort, the edition was compiled for selection commissions, dispensaries and trade unions. In the period of the first five-year plan, the winter spa resorts were widespread due to the highest demand in sanatoriums. The catalogue lists 10 spa resort complexes and cities, featuring a photograph, short information of location and natural conditions as

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well as features of sanatoriums and their treatment. At the end of the book, there are the 1931 resort price list, information on how to get to the resorts, healthcare service terms and internal regulations for arrival and treatment. $950

40 [MAVRINA ILLUSTRATING MAYAKOVSKY] Mayakovskiy, V. My vas zhdem, tovarisch ptitsa, otchego vam ne letitsya [i.e. We are waiting for you the comrade bird, why can’t you fly over?]. Moscow: OGIZ, 1931. 16 p. 17x12,5 cm. Original illustrated lithographed wrappers. Near fine condition.

Worldcat locates First edition. Very rare. copies at Princeton One of the early works in the book design by Tatiana Mavrina and the Getty. (1902-1996), the VKHUTEMAS graduate, member of the group ‘Trinadtsat’, and the student of Robert Falk. Mavrina is known as the one of the most productive and recognizable Soviet designer of the children’s books, illustrating over 200 editions in her lifetime (1920- 1990s). In 1976 she was given Hans Christian Andersen Award, which made her the only Soviet writer or illustrator to achieve that. The poem was written for the newly established holiday ‘Den’

BOOKVICA 84 Pionera’ [i.e. The pioneer’s day] in 1927 and originally published in the periodical ‘Pionerskaia ’. This is the first and only separate edition. $2,750

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BOOKVICA 85 41 [DESIGNERS FOR SOCIALIST SCHOOL ACTIVITIES] Izo-brigada v otriade i shkole [i.e. Art Brigade in Group and School] / compiled by S. Glagolev, M. Grebnev. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932. 91, [5] pp.: ill. 19,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers with montage style design. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, otherwise very good and clean copy. Only copy located One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. at The British Library. The manual explained to children how to design club, street demonstration, amateur performance providing socialist slogans and ideas. The author gave detailed instructions for schoolchildren’s art. Some of them are not complicated and basic: how to make glue, to create a stencil for posters, to divide the classroom into scene and backstage by arranging desks or how to produce relevant photomontage for a wall newspaper. Other instructions are trickier: how to create illuminated signboard or papier-mache makeup, how to organize and decorate an agitational Bucket Toss game when children imagine any bourgeois tradition and toss it into a garbage can, etc. The book was published

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BOOKVICA 86 in a series ‘Entertainer’s Library’ and the last pages were devoted to mass activities like theatrical performance and carnival where each experience and decoration was useful. Thus, an author stressed that any activity might promote communist values and the art clubs were responsible for that. $950

42 [CONFESSION OF A FORMER MEMBER OF OCTOBER ART GROUP] Mikhailov, A. Izoiskusstvo rekonstruktivnogo perioda [i.e. Fine Arts of Reconstructive Period]. Moscow: Izogiz, 1932. 208 pp.: ill. Size. In original printed wrappers with constructivist design. Very good. Tears and small losses of the spine, marks occasionally. Worldcat shows One of 5000 copies. Very rare. Cover design was probably copies in Princeton, created by Solomon Telingater whose type-design experiments were Southern California Universities, Getty accepted in both constructivist and social realist periods. Institute, Harvard Collection of 13 sharply critical articles by a former theoretician College, NYPL. of ‘October’ art group, Alexei Mikhailov, written in 1928-1931. He first criticized it in spring 1930 and, in fact, he left the group shortly before the speech. He announced that “October’s attitudes and tactics impede the consolidation of a proletarian front”. He thought that this was a turning point in his personal struggle for proletarian art - and so it was for the whole state. The book was issued a month before the 1932 resolution “On the Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organization” was announced. In these articles, he overviewed works of art societies Proletcult, October, OMKh, OST, AKhR, ROSTA, ARMU, OKhR, Izoram as well as VKUTEIN students. Criticized almost every art society, apart from the contemporary AkhR, the author looked with favor on works of VKUTEIN students. In particular, he included photographs of a mural created in the VKUTEIN restroom. Apart from them, there are a mural by AKhR artists located in workers’ club ‘Proletarian’, reproductions of Izoram posters and caricatures by artists contributed to the magazine ‘Komsomol’skaia Pravda’. $550

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43 [MINIATURE BOOK OF THE INDUSTRIALIZATION RESULTS] Stalin, J. Itogi pervoi piatiletki [i.e. Results of the First Five-Year Plan]. Moscow: Partiinoe izdatel’stvo, 1933. 156, [4] pp., 1 portrait. 5,5x3,8 cm. In original chamois leather with steel lettering; with full-cloth case. Covers and case slightly soiled, front endpaper partly detached from block, otherwise very good. Not found in One 5000 copies. Very rare. Worldcat. Stalin’s Report praising results of the first five-year plan was published in 1933 varying size, page number, typefaces and design. A little part of them was issued as a miniature book with a photomontage

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BOOKVICA 88 portrait of Stalin. It was created by Soviet artist Boris Titov (1897- 1951) who hold the record for the most cover designs and tended to constructivist style in the 1920s works. $950

44 [MONTAGE CERTIFICATE TO SHOCK-WORKER] Po novomu rabotat’ - po novomu rukovodit’ [i.e. New Way to Work - New Way to Lead]. Leningrad: Izogiz, [1935]. 36,5x24,5 cm. Good. Tears and creases, rubbed and repaired. This striking certificate was awarded to A. Milovskii in recognition of his devotion to building and work enthusiasm, bestowing him an honorary title of shock-worker. Signed by a director of Trubchevsk Pedagogical college and local party committee.

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BOOKVICA 89 Design features Palace of Soviets, surrounded by a range of the early 1930s Tupolev’s aircrafts, airships, high-altitude balloon ‘USSR-1’, Krasin, passenger steam locomotive named after J. Stalin, trucks, tractors and Moscow Metro trains. They were depicted in front of DniproHES, ZiL, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and, together with factories, represented some of the highest achievements of the USSR. Although all of them were drawn, the certificate contains a photograph of Stalin inside a gear-shaped frame. There are also slogans “we had no aviation industry - we do have it now”, “we had no automotive industry - we do have it now”, “we had no tractor industry - we do have it now” and finally - a lower line “In reconstruction period, the technology solves everything”. $1,200

45 [THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION] Mouson, D. V strane purgi : Istoriia Avstraliiskoi antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii 1911-1914 gg. [i.e. In Land of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]. Leningrad: Izd-vo Glavsevmorputi, 1935. VIII, 439 pp.: ill., 1 portrait, 3 folding maps. 22,5x16 cm. In original blue cloth with two mounted illustrations, blind lettering on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. Very good, ink inscription on flyleaf, few stains on p. 178-182. Worldcat doesn’t First Russian edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare. locate any copies Cover design was produced by collaborating artists and in USA. architects Boris Piatunin and Boris Smirnov. The latter is primarily known for his innovative approach to art glassmaking that became the base for Leningrad art glass school. Translation of famous Douglas Mawson’s book ‘The Home of the Blizzard’ into Russian was undertaken by E. Karavaeva, due to the Soviet interests in the Arctic zone. The Soviet endeavors to study the North Pole brought forth dreams of Antarctic lands as well. Although that were Russian explorers Bellingshausen and Lazarev who discovered Antarctica in 1820, Russian and Soviet scholars little participated in its research until 1955. The edition includes preface of Antarctic exploration, black-and-white (mostly full-page) photographs, a portrait of Mawson on the frontispiece and three folding maps. The second (1967) and the third (1970) editions hadn’t included the folding

BOOKVICA 90 maps and illustrations on the separate leaves at all. $850

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46 [PHOTOMONTAGES ON SOCIALIST YOUTH OF POLAND] Narodnaia Pol’sha i ee molod’ezh’ [i.e. People’s Poland and its Youth]. Warszawa: Książka i wiedza, 1951. [180] pp.: ill. 28x23 cm. In original red cloth with silver lettering and strips; illustrated endpapers. Rubbed corners, ink inscription on half-title, otherwise very good. Design by Jan Gollander; drawings by well-known illustrator and book designer Jan Marcin Szancer. Photographs were provided by No copies located in USA. S. Dzubinski, V. Gaidzik, Grossvirt, Z. Kosytsazh, Z. Malek, Z. Pezhin’slii, J. Pirotte, V. Slavny, S. and Z. Vdovin’ski, V. Zazhitski. An attractive album features photomontages and photographs (black-and-white and colored) depicting young people of communist Poland. The edition was published in six versions – in French, English, Russian, Chinese, German and Polish languages - on the occasion of the Third World Youth Festival in Berlin. Supported by propaganda, the almost official name of the state

BOOKVICA 91 in 1944-1989 was Polska Ludowa (i.e. People’s Poland). This album promoted that the Soviet way of life was brought to this country as well. New universities and schools, pre-school facilities and manufacturing schools were founded. A man or woman could get whatever profession they wanted. The factories started socialist competitions and some Soviet shock-workers advised their foreign colleagues. Polish organization of young pioneers appeared with summer camps. The new kind of cultural institution was founded spreading amateur theater, art and sports clubs - physical education prepared youth to pass GTO tests. At the same time, numerous competitions were held: football, skiing, motorcycling, box, etc. All of that occurred during the first 6-year plan, based on a Soviet model for economic and industrial development. $650

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47 [SOVIET LEADING STUDY ON CHAPLIN’S FILMS] Avenarius, G. Charl’z Spenser Chaplin : Ocherk rannego perioda tvorchestva [i.e. Charles Spencer Chaplin : A Sketch of the Early Period of Activity]. Worldcat shows Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, [1959]. 266, [1] pp.: ill., 1 copies in LoC, portrait. 27x21 cm. In original cloth with lettering on the front cover Princeton, Illinois, Iowa, and spine. No dust jacket. Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. Kansas, Texas, First and only edition. A foreword by notable film critic Rostislav Ohio, Wisconsin, Northwestern Yurenev. Universities, etc. Book design was produced by a designer Nikolai Sedel’nikov

BOOKVICA 93 (1905-1994). Graduated from VKHUTEMAS, he primarily worked as a master of type design and photomontage compositions. Sedel’nikov illustrated this book with numerous film stills and stacked them along the outer margins, hinting at film shots. This is a monograph by a leading Soviet specialist of Chaplin’s early acting, Georgii Avenarius (1903-1958). He was one of the pioneering film historians in the USSR, an actor of Ukrainian silent films and camera operator. He was interested in Chaplin since the 1930s, at that time he published an article on Chaplin’s acting (Radians’ke Kino, 1936, #8), then wrote a range of other articles and finally presented the monograph. This 1957 dissertation of Chaplin’s early acting was published in two years after submission, containing five chapters, bibliography and filmography up to 1923. The volume of further Chaplin’s activity was never published because of Avenarius’ death. Analyzed movies were included with numbered frame recording that was written on the base of copies at the State Film Fund. Occasionally originally text frames from films are given. $950

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BOOKVICA 94 48 [CONSEPTUALIST BULGAKOV] Bulgakov, M. Zapiski na manzhetakh [i.e. Notes on the Cuffs]. New York: Serebriannyi vek, 1981. 117, [3] p.: ill. 19x12 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Pale stains occasionally, otherwise very good. First separate edition. Design was produced by Vagrich Bakhchianian (1938-2009), Armenian-American conceptualist artist, known for his provocative art, mocking the classical soviet images. He placed the title on the cuff for the front cover design but then he went much further. The back cover features photomontage of Bulgakov’s picture lying on the palm. Each of two half-titles contains the same hand, with the title printed on the card. The autobiographical novel by Bulgakov was written in 1922 and the first part published in German periodical the same year, the second one was published next year in Moscow periodical ‘Rossiia’. This is the first time the two parts appeared together with the preface and the commentary by Lev Losev (1937-2009), one of the most active commentators and adaptors of Akhmatova, Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn. $350

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