RUSSIA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

New York: Harper's, 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. This half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly features the Russo-Japanese War, double page War map p464; war images pp967-975; X Ray invention p49; Steamer "General Slocum" on p99; San Juan Hill p955; Walter Travers golf p931; St. Louis World Fair p677; Southern California The Story of… Read more about this item

1910. Very good condition. The famed Russian scene and costume designer worked extensively with Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly colored sets and costumes. The pencil drawing is of a woman dancing, in pantaloons and a flowing peach colored scarf wreathing her head. It was possibly a costume for "Scheherazade" a… Read more about this item

1770. Otherwise very good condition. Seven beautiful watercolors of Eastern Russian folk people in local dress. These are most likely copied from one of Pallas' books, "Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen Reichs" (1771-76), later published in English "Journey Through Various Provinces of the Russian Empire". They all bear penciled numbers in the lower right, possibly correlating with… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. The authors own story of military life during W.W.I, as prisoner of war and his subsequent escape, with his signed presentation to Richard Coke. Edward Keeling, 1883-1954, was an officer in the Indian Army Reserve during the First World War, during which time he was captured by Ottoman… Read more about this item

1790. Otherwise Good.. Early copper engravings of the Death of Cook and Kamtschatka. Two engravings 6 1/4 x 4 1/4" on a sheet 9 1/2 x 7 1/2", toning and foxing in margins.

London: R. Ackermann, 1813. First printing. Print. Otherwise very good condition. Hand colored copper engraving, 6 x 91/2". Some light dusting and marking on plate.

Israel, 1900. Otherwise very good condition. An albumen photograph taken by photographers of the American Colony. The American Colony was founded by the Spafford family in Jerusalem in 1881, with a second wave arriving in 1896, which believed that its work would expedite the Second Coming of Christ. The utopian Christian sect devoted themselves to the people of… Read more about this item

Munich: MacMillan, 1947. Hardcover. A book in 2 parts: the first to analys conditions in post war Europe, the second a description of the United Nations, its purpose, and how current stresses have derailed its original aim, and what is to be done about it. 8vo, 68pp, red cloth, with original grey dj and red title. Dj slt ruffled… Read more about this item

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Author's signed copy to "Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, with the kind regards of his obliged friend, the author. Curtis Guild, Boston Feb 27, 1888". The engraved bookplate of Oliver Wendell Holmes's son with a nautilus shell and motto, "Per Ampliora Ad Altiora" indicating that the book was… Read more about this item

USA: S.C. Platt, 1943. Hardcover. Very good condition. Four complete picture puzzles to push out and assemble on the outlined illustrated pages opposite, including one with an illustration of a kangaroo in boxing gloves sparring with an overweight clown, titled 'The Circus'. Illustrated by Frank Lieberman. Puzzles include "Old MacDonald had a Farm", "The Circus", "The Playground",… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Mass: Japan Club of Harvard University, 1904. First edition. Wraps. Very good + condition. Address delivered at Harvard University under the auspices of the Japan Club of Harvard at Sanders Theatre April 28, 1904. Describes Japan's cause during the Russian occupation of Manchuria as "a battle for Japan's national existence; a struggle for the advancement… Read more about this item

1950. Approximately 250 vernacular snap shots of American military life in Korea, mostly infantry divisions, during the Cold War period in which the Soviet trained North Korean army invaded South Korea. There are many snap shot portraits of individual soldiers (including one of Korean troops), a few with a caption on verso, as well as daily life… Read more about this item

London: J. W. Norie & Co, 1826. Third edition. Pamphlet. Good + overall. An early Norie imprint of these piloting directions, with neither a1st or 2nd recorded on OCLC. Later Norie imprints on OCLC 1836, 39, 45, 49 but none earlier. There is an earlier imprint published by Purdy in 1821 with a different title. (New and accurate… Read more about this item

London: J. W. Norie and Co, 1834. Fourth edition. Pamphlet. Good + overall. A rare piloting guide, with only one copy of this edition on OCLC, at the Peabody Essex Museum, OCLC: 851868960. There are 3 copies of an 1826 edition, 3rd edition at the Peabody Essex and Newberry (64581906) & British Library (497499056). A 5th… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1962. Paperback. Very good overall. Stranded on a polar ice cap, Mike must prevent the Russians from discovering the secret of the Blue Scout rocket!". Paperback Library edition, #6 in a new space adventure series. Illustrated paper wraps with Mike and his NASA emblazoned space ship in Antarctic terrain, with a Russian jet swooping over.… Read more about this item

Florence, Mass: Bryant Printing Co, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Poetry in a patriotic vein, with meditations on the greatness of American freedom, home, and liberty, and the general nastiness of Russian tyranny and its czars, specifically in regard to its conduct in the Napoleonic Wars and the return of Poland to Russian control. The anti-Russian… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, 1607. Very good condition with handsome original color. Looking forward to being able to travel again! Copper engraved map with original color from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", published in 1607. Latin text on verso. Image size: 7.75 x 6.25". Paper size: 9 x 7". Good impression. Very good with ttwo pages of text.

Amsterdam, 1607. Very good condition with handsome original color. Looking forward to being able to travel again! Copper engraved map from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", published in 1607. Latin text on verso. Image size: 7 1/2 wide x 5 1/2". Paper size: 9 x 7". Good impression. References: Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 8050:352.1.

Paris, 1775. Very good condition. Large detailed copper engraved map showing the Kamchatka Peninsula down to the Isles des Kouriles. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages". Bellin (1703 - 1772), one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century, was named the hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy, and later, the Official Hydrographer to… Read more about this item

Paris, 1775. Very good condition. Large detailed copper engraved map showing the first part of the tracks of the voyage of Semyon Deshnev (ca. 1605 - 1673,) the first European to pass through the Bering Strait in 1648, 80 years before Bering did so, confirming European geographers who had thought that the "Strait of Anian" separated Asia and… Read more about this item