Caucasus (55 results)
Seller: Museum Without Walls, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.Museum Without Walls
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated boards. 1987. Minimal wear, looks near new. Firmly bound. Crisp, bright, unmarked pages. Many illustrations. Very Good condition.
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus Kaplan, Robert D.
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus Kaplan, Robert D.
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Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory Karny, Yo'Av
Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory Karny, Yo'Av
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Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1869
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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. Abich briefly reports on remarkable hailstones recently observed in Georgia (then within the Russian Empire), describing their size, form, and meteorological context. 2 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an orig…inal work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington 1906
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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. A naturalâ'history account of Caucasian bison, describing their physical characteristics, range, habits, and the pressures affecting their survival, with two plates. 9 pages, 2 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, bu…t an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Condition: New. KlappentextThe BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democ.
Balancing Military Assistance and Support for Human Rights in Central Asia. Hearing, June 27, 2002
U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Central Asia and South Caucasus
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Balancing Military Assistance and Support for Human Rights in Central Asia. Hearing, June 27, 2002
U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Central Asia and South Caucasus
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Published by Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala University ; Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Uppsala, Washington, D.C. 2007
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 107 pages.
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. 4to., cloth, 203pp. Profusely illustrated. Fine in d/w. Second volume in a trilogy; in this volume the author transports us to the vast mountain barrier of the Caucasus, with its towering snow capped peaks and precipitous abysses, and beyond it to the mellow, sunlit uplands of Geor…gia and Armenia.
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8°, Softcover. Condition: Gut. first Edition. 100 S. little Paperlable on Spine, apart from that a good condition Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.
Map of Caucasus - Fine Detailed Map - an Original Engraving
MAP OF CAUCASUS - an Antique Original Hand Coloured Engraving
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraving - printed circa 1850. Mounted and ready to frame. Hand colouring not contemporary, but delicately and expertly executed. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraving - Map of Caucasus.
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraving - printed circa 1850. Mounted and ready to frame. Hand colouring not contemporary, but delicately and expertly executed. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraving - Caucasus - Fine Detailed Map.
Published by Shogakukan Inc. 1955
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry
Research Associate in the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus Laurence Broers
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Cornell, S: Small Nations and Great Powers
Svante Cornell (Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, UK and Uppsala University, Swede)
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Gebunden. Condition: New. Svante CornellIntroduces the geographical, historical and ethno-linguistic framework of the Caucasus, focusing on the Russian incorporation of the region, the root most conflicts analyses individual conflicts, from their origins to the attempts at res.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Little, Brown 1976. Jacket is Good with some wear, nicks and scratches. Book is VG with moderate wear, pages lightly yellowed with an occasional bit of foxing, binding firm.
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Condition: VG. Moscow 1969. In Russian. Hardcover. large octavo., 198p. A few photo illustrations. Text lightly evenly toned. Some writing in Russian on front end paper. near VG. binding secure.
Published by Glogau, Flemming, um 1860. 1860
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circa 41 x 63 cm. 1 Karte, hier in 8 Segmenten auf Leinen aufgezogen und gefaltet Landkarte mit dem Schwarzen Meer, Georgien, Armenien etc bis zum Kaspischen Meer. - Nur geringfügig angestaubt, sonst gut erhalten.
More imagesSiberia and the Exile System in Two Volumes | Volume One (1 | I) and Volume Two (2 | II) (Two Volumes Complete)
Kennan, George [George Kennan (February 16, 1845 - May 10, 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Siberia, Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire].
Published by Published by James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 45 Albemarle Street, London First UK Edition . 1891. 1891
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Condition: Very Good. First British edition from US sheets. Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original camel brown cloth covered boards, faded blocked and lettered gilt backs, olivine top edges. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6¼''. In May 1885, Kennan began this voyage across Siberia. He had been very publicly positive about the Ts…arist Russian government and its policies and his journey was approved by the Russian government. However, in the course of his meetings with exiled dissidents during his travel, notably Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev, he changed his mind about the Russian imperial system. On his return to the United States in August 1886, he became an ardent critic of the Russian autocracy and began to espouse the cause of Russian democracy. Kennan devoted much of the next twenty years to promoting the cause of a Russian revolution, mainly by lecturing. Contents | Volume 1: frontispiece, (xv)-blank, 409 pp with 4 maps and 90 illustrations | Volume 2: frontispiece, (x)-blank, 575 pp with 3 maps and 104 illustrations. In Very Good condition. Heavy volume pair weighing 3 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the United Kingdom. Member of the P.B.F.A. SIBERIA (Sibir, Siberian).
More imagesPublished by Follett, Foster And Company, Columbus, Ohio 1860
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Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, [6], 232pp, [2]. Pebbled brown cloth, title in gilt on the spine. Previous ownership stamp on the title page and preface, blindstamp on the front free endpaper. Includes an ownership inscription on the front free endpaper, dated 1860. A few marginalia notes in pencil. Solid tex…t block, text generally clean. Rubbing to cloth, wear at head of the spine. (Sabin 29924) (Howes H-102). Murat Halstead's The Caucuses of 1860, published in Columbus by Follett, Foster and Company in 1860, provides a detailed, eyewitness narrative of the major party conventions that shaped the outcome of the pivotal presidential election. As a reporter and editor for the Cincinnati Commercial, Halstead attended the Democratic conventions in Charleston (April) and Baltimore (June), where the party split over the issue of slavery-ultimately nominating two different candidates, Stephen A. Douglas for the Northern Democrats and John C. Breckinridge for the Southern faction. He also covered the Republican convention in Chicago (May), describing the nomination of Abraham Lincoln over front-runner William H. Seward in day-by-day reports. The book includes transcriptions of key speeches, roll-call votes, delegate maneuverings, and even floor plans of the convention halls. First edition of Caucasus of 1860: A History of the National Political Conventions of the Current Presidential Campaign by Murat Halstead, published in 1860. (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Paris Chamerot 1884
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First edition; folio (38.5 x 16 cm); 111p., 55 partly coloured lithographed plates, some double page, large geological coloured map; contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards, label and gilt tooling to spine, a fine copy. A rare and interesting work on the spa towns of the Caucasus. The plates show plans for fountains…, bathing houses and pumping stations of in Piatigorsk, Zheleznovodsk, Yessentuki and Kislovodsk, all of which were popular destinations for 19th century Russians to visit. Aristocracy, musicians and artists were drawn to these four towns due to the famous healing powers of the mineral waters.
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c.120 matt silver gelatin photographs, c.90 by 120mm. Oblong 4to. Mostly housed in window mounted album leaves, four windows per leaf recto and verso, the majority neatly captioned in ink below. Plus a few loose snaps. Maroon cloth covered commercial album with gilt lettering. [Russia and Central Asia, A fine album of documentar…y photographs taken and collected by French travellers on an unusual journey through Central Asia, with many candid shots of local people indigenous to the Caucasus, Armenia, and Georgia. The final two images in the album are of a man and woman seated alternately in a horse and trap, and it feels plausible that they are the couple whose travels are recorded. In chronological order, the album opens in the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw and proceeds via a "Relais de Poste" to Finland, showing the Imatra rapids, then on to Moscow where there are 20 or so images of sights and views including the Kremlin, "Cathedral de l'Annonciation, Grand Palais", "Canon du Tsar" and the "Convent fe Troïtsa". There are different types and professions captured, including a "Baptisme Russe", "Police Russe" and a "Prisonnier Russe". From there they travel to Nizhny Novogrod and Kazan, where the photographer comments on the veils worn by Muslim Tatar women: "une tatarese voile pour ne pas être photographie". In Orenbourg they see nomads shearing camels for wool, and Bashkir camel caravans crossing the Ural River. In Saratov an enormous fish caught in the Volga is proudly presented to the camera in a market, and at the Astrakhan Kalmytsky Bazar, we see gathered "types de Kalmouks et de Turcomans et de Kirgisses" as well as another shot of "Prètres Kalmouls devant leur tente". Following scenes of religious pilgrimage in Vladikavkaz, there are a series of dramatic Caucasus mountain views, including the "gorge du David", the Georgian Military Road ("Route de Georgie") with the distinctive mountain villages of the Ossetians in the foothills of the Kazbek mountain, noted as being 5044 ft. Their route was not for the fainthearted, taking them down winding mountain paths with local guides, encountering nomadic tribesmen driving their livestock. There is also a large Russian studio photograph of Mount Elbus, and a few other fine professional mountain views. In Tiflis there are beautiful candid snapshots of the Cathedral of St Michael, the Russian market, the Armenian quarter, Cossack regiments, and the Persian Mosque. Armenian scenes include "Lac de Gohtchai 2170m - Tombes armeniennes" as well as a boat trip to the monastery at Sévanga, described as one of the oldest Armenian churches. Also depicted is the green mosque of the Persians at Erivan, and "Akhty, dernier relais avant Erivan. Silhouette de Joseph Daird (notre interpréte Caldéen)". Erivan also yields photos of the interior and exterior of the palace of Sardars, and an Armenian Bishop. There are two very strong pictures of Armenian snake charmers performing in the market, in front of the fortified city walls and gates to Etchmiadzin. There a handful of picturesque shots of ruins and camel trains. Returning to the Caucasus at Koutais, there are several scenes of mountain people in the market, the "Relais de Poste" in the Rion valley, and other mountain vistas. They cross the Terek on the chain ferry, visit the spa town of Kislovodsk, where there is a good snapshot of a Circassian horseman and his dog. From Bermamyt Plateau there are beautiful landscapes including Mount Elbrus. There are about a dozen views of Ukraine, mostly in Kiev, notably the Place de St Sophie, and shots of the Pont Nicolas over the Dniepr. French travellers in Russia in this period usually stuck to the well trodden routes through Moscow and St Petersburg. As such, it is uncommon to find such an extensive collection of amateur images documenting the mountain people of Southern Russia and Central Asia.
Published by TbilisiCompiled and Lithographed at the Military Topographical Department of the Caucasus Military District with corrections to August 1896. 1870
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Original large-format colour-lithographed map of the Caucasus (132 x 151 cm), dissected into 24 panels and backed onto linen, text in Cyrillic script, folding down to 33.5 x 27 cm. With an extensive key, decorative title cartouche, and table showing the divisions of the Caucasus. The linen backing is in places dust-soiled and st…ained, some tiny holes in the edges (from former wall mounting) that have been repaired, somewhat browned overall and with a few minor brown spots, a few small marginal tears (not affecting map) repaired with contemporary strips of paper, linen edges are slightly frayed in places, withal a very good example of this scarce and impressive map. A rare and large-format wall map of the Caucasus region in Russian. The map covers the modern territories of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Chechnya, Kalmykia, etc. The map extends south to Tehran and north to Astrakhan. The eastern Black Sea is on the left and the western Caspian Sea is on the right. Beneath the title is a depiction of a railway winding through the mountains, and opposite it, a galloping horse with a cart crossing the mountains. Later editions were published at least until 1883 and 1903. The later edition is mentioned in 20th-century works dealing with international border disputes in the Caucasus. At the time of its creation, it was almost certainly the finest map of the Caucasus produced in the Russian Empire.
More imagesPublished by [Caucasus region, possibly Dagestan, 19th century CE].
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Folio (240 x 335 mm). 239 ff. (wanting 2 ff.). Arabic manuscript on watermarked paper. Bold black script with surah markers, titles, ruled in red and green, important words and phrases in red, green, or yellow, or in black with red dots on top of each stroke. Watermark is a six-pointed star with text in the center and letters or… numbers at four corners of the image. Modern marbled wrappers. Bright, bold, and distinctive, this Qur'an was likely created in the Caucasus, quite probably in Dagestan, where colour palettes dominated by greens, yellows, and reds dominate Muslim manuscripts to beautiful effect. The British Library, which holds a small ten-manuscript collection of Qur'ans from Dagestan, describes them as hailing from the "impressive but little-known manuscript tradition" of the Caucasus. While this example's exact point of origin is obscure, it certainly shares many similarities with Dagestan Qur'ans, including what the head curator of Southeast Asia at the British Library, Annabel Teh Gallop, calls "especially distinctive and rare feature of Daghistani manuscripts"; that is, "petalled floral verse markers are often stamped in black ink, and then hand-coloured". - What is certain is the artistic attention with which the scribe handled the holy text. Important words are picked out not only in red, but green, and with particularly large black-ink calligraphy, which is then decorated with a series of red dots on top of each stroke. Other phrases have the background of the text filled in with minty greens and warm yellows. In Daghistani calligraphy, "the Qur'anic text is generally written in a large, bold, confident and widely-spaced hand, tending towards the monumental. In Daghistani Qur'ans, the index of artistry is clearly the calibre of the calligraphy rather than the decoration, but perhaps the most unusual feature is the sense of scribal bravado or even swagger". The text itself comprises a substantial part of the second half of the Qur'an, beginning with Surah 19 (Maryam) and ending with Surah 84 (al-Inshiqaaq), with the caption of Surah 85 present. - Fore-edge waterstained, paper repairs, soiling, a few pencilled marks (on one leaf, a child's hand is learning the letters of the Arabic abjad in the margins). - From the private collection of R. G. Michel (1880-1963), and descendants. - Annabel Teh Gallop, "Daghistani Qur'an manuscripts in the British Library", in The British Library Asian and African Studies Blog (2019).
[An impressive photo album documenting a mining machinist and his wife's travels while working for the Day Mining Co. and Harriman's Georgian Manganese Company in and around Tchiatouri (Ciat'ural) Georgia, and other areas of the Caucasus during the 1920's. The hundreds of well-annotated photos reveal street life, villages, mountain ruins, Armenian refugees, Kurdish villages, along with trips to Moscow a decade after the Russian Revolution, France, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Hong Kong, and Japan following World War I.]
[CAUCASUS, GEORGIA, SOVIET UNION, TURKEY & EGYPT -- PHOTO ALBUM]. [POWERS, John "Jack" Albert & FITZGERALD POWERS, Ruth M.?].
Published by Georgian Manganese Mining Co., Day Mining Co., ca. 1925-1929]., [Tchiatouri, Georgia & Wallace, ID: 1925
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Contact seller5-star sellerThick oblong 4to. 11.75 x 8.25 x 2.25 in. [168 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper stock. With 635 silver gelatin photographs sized from 2 x 3 in. up to 8 x 10 in., with the majority sized 3.25 x 5.25 in., nearly all annotated below in neat white ink lettering, some w/ annotations, somew/in negative indicating negative numb…er, those partially lifed from black paper have ink & pencil annotations on versos matching the white ink captions, some are RPPC's w/ captions w/in the negatives at lower fore-edges of image, and also present is an 8 page folded manuscript inventory documenting about 400 of the photos, closely matching most of the captions. Contemporary flexible black calf Badger post-binder, black enamel coated screw-posts (a few leaves loose, others proud, some photos overlapping, occasional closed tears, a few inner joints neatly repaired at gutter), still an outstanding exemplar. This exceptional album provides an essential documentary record of the Soviet era Caucasus of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Abkhazia just a few years after the 11th Red Army invaded Georgia and after a one-week offensive, Georgian Bolsheviks took over the country. The album opens with a composite panoramic photo of Tchiatouri, notably without the rusting overhead tramways installed by Stalin during the 1950's. Following the formation of Georgia SSR, Tchiatouri, and the surrounding regions held some of the largest metallurgical grade manganese in the World, and in the 1920's the Georgian Manganese Company. The subsequent photos depict several of the homes occupied by mine personnel, the surrounding region, and the main company offices. Many of the photos focus on the local peasants, bazaars, markets, Georgian families, fruit markets, animal markets and more. Additional photos depict the foreign ex-patriot life in Batum (Batumi, Adjara) with birds-eye views of the city, Orthodox churches (converted at the time to a Men's Club), as well as tea and banana plantations. Still more photos show Armenian refugees, Jewish cigarette boys, wine merchants carrying wine in pig skins, ox carts, horse-drawn street cars, village blacksmiths, gypsy fortune tellers, trained bears, and even the local kerosene vendor wagon. Mining operations in Seminoff and Karuto are shown with ore being hauled by ox cart, loaded onto rail cars, ore crushing mill, as well as views of Perevisi, Chokruti (Shukrut), and other ore bearing plateaus, their Karuto house. Of additional interest are the photos of the Tchiatouri Monastery, a cliffside still functioning convent known as the Mgviemevi Convent, featuring a 13th-Century two-nave basilica, native village, and connecting ore tramways. A series of photos is also devoted to the old Sachakari (Modinakhe) Castle ruins, both inside, and out, fortifications, and local cave dwellings, all much more severely damaged decades later in the 1991 earthquake. The compiler has also included photos of the market, homes, and street scenes in Tiflis, as well as the old Roman Walls, the local prison, Kurdish homes and camel herds along the railway to Moscow, scenes along the railroad line between Tiflis & Baku, and the Caspian sea port of Russian caviar at Petrovsk. The Harriman Georgian Manganese Co. maintained offices in Moscow, and in fact W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986) himself, negotiated with Leon Trotsky, prior to Lenin's death and the rise of Stalin forcing him into exile in 1929 for the Manganese mining rights. Many of the photos reveal an extended winter trip through Moscow, with a visit to the Kremlin, the newly built Lenin's tomb, Red Square, the Bolshoi Grand Theater, and even a visit to the Polish & Russian Border. After a short trip through France in the midst of rebuilding, and Great Britain, the couple voyage to Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. Photos depict Turkish sailboats, mosques and street views in Samsun, Turkey, Constantinople from the Bosphorus, the Galata Bridge, the Sultan's palace and Seraglio, the Hagia Sophia, as well as the old walls. While traveling by rail through Syria and Palestine, a series of photos is captioned that the railroad was "made famous by Lawrence in the Revolt of the Desert, these pictures taken between Damascus and Tiberius." The visit through Palestine shows farms, Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock, Wailing Wall, street scenes, and the Church of the Nativity. This is followed by tour down the Nile, visits to the Pyramids, as well as later stops in Somalia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Saigon, Indo-China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The album is unsigned, without ownership markings, and has been attributed to Jack Powers and his wife Ruth Fitzgerald Powers (1895-1967) by an unrelated family who held the album. In addition, at the rear of the album there are numerous photos of the Day-Hale Co. hunting trips on the Locksaw River in Idaho, which included Henry Day, Jack Powers, E.L. Hale, and Dr. Max Smith, with Powers clearly identified, and closely matching several of the photos depicted in the other parts of the album. Powers began working as a machinist and mechanic with an auto dealership before World War I, but by the early 1920's was actively working as machinery trouble-shooter for Tamarack Custer Mining Co., ad Day Mining Co. subsidiary, and also worked as a specialist on compressors. Harriman and his younger brother Roland owned mining operations in Soviet Georgia, copper mines in Silesia, oil fields in Iran, and even a power plant in Poland, but after the stock market crash in 1929, they merged with their biggest competitor to become Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He is perhaps best remembered for development of the Sun Valley Lodge and ski resort in Ketchum, Idaho. See: Strishkov & Levine, The Manganese Industry of the U.S.S.R. (1986), pp. 7-10; Day Mines, Inc., Manuscript Group 306, Records, 1921-1985, Univ. of Idaho, Special Collections & Archives; Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The life of W. Averell Harriman, 1891-1986 (1992).
