Stebnitsky (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20,5 x 14 cm). In French. 52 p. Slight chippings on the extremities of the corners, and foxing on the covers; overall, a good copy. First French edition of this important work "Ukraina i Ukraintsy" reflecting the anti-colonial character of Ukraine, written by a Ukrainian journalist. Stebnitsky's works are an important part of Ukrainian journalism at the beginning of the twentieth century and the period of the Ukrainian Revolution in 1917-1921 (Inna). After the February Revolution of 1917, Stebnitsky became head of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd, a member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists, and state secretary for Ukrainian affairs in the Russian Provisional Government from July to November 1917. In the spring of 1918, he moved to Kyiv, where he joined a political commission in the Hetman government and later served as deputy leader of the Ukrainian delegation during negotiations with Soviet Russia (August 1918), senator in the administrative division of the State Senate, and minister of education in the cabinet of Fedir Lyzohub (19 October to 14 November 1918) as a representative of the Ukrainian National Union. While in Kyiv in 1918-20, he contributed to Nova Rada (Kyiv), Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk, Knyhar, and Nashe mynule. He also headed the revived Kyiv Prosvita society, served as the chief editor of the Chas publishing house, and sat on the Committee of the National Library of Ukraine (whose Ucrainica section he headed). In 1919 he became director of a commission for the compilation of a biographical dictionary of prominent figures in Ukraine and a member of a commission for preparing a Ukrainian encyclopedic dictionary at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. (Source: Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine). As of 2023 September, OCLC locates numbered copies in the US institutes: Harvard Library, Yale University Library, NYPL, LoC, University of Wisconsin, University of Alberta Library, Indiana University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, KU Library, Stanford University, UCLA.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 8"x 5.5", 52pp. Original wrappers. Good copy. Provenance: the Library of Congress, with their small rubber stamp on front cover and their rubber stamp "surplus" on rear cover. __+__The wrappers are a bit heavy and a little brittle, and has a chip out of the corners here and there. Only 4 copies located in WorldCat--none in the U.S.

One of the earliest detailed maps to be made of the Transcaspian region - the area between the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea - which in the years immediately following the issue of this map, was annexed piecemeal to the Russian Empire following a series of brutal campaigns led by Generals Lomakin, Skobelev, and Annenkov. The map covers the territories of modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, stretching as far as the border with Iran and Afghanistan. It was compiled on the basis of the special survey carried out by the Russian military topographer Ieronym Stebnitsky, the then head of the Caucasian branch of the Department of Military Topography based at Tiflis. Stebnitsky served there 1867-1885, creating a world-class centre for regional topographical intelligence. In 1870 Stebnitsky was attached to the Krasnovodsk detachment of the Imperial Russian army and accompanied it during the 1872-3 military expedition to the Khanate of Khiva under command of Colonel Vasily Markozov (1838-1908). As a result the Khanate became economically and politically dependent of the Russian Empire and lost significant territories on the right bank of the Amu Darya River. Stebnitsky thoroughly surveyed the Turkmenian steppes from Krasnovodsk to the foothills of the Kurren Dagh Mountains, the northern and north-western ranges of the Kopet Dagh Mountains, and followed over 300 kilometres of the dry bed of the Uzboy River - the ancient distributary of the Amu Darya River; he mapped the Chilmamedkum sands on the western part of the Karakum Desert, the Atrek River, and the western ranges of the Turkmenian Khorasan Mountains. In all he traversed 3200 kilometres of territory, over half of which had never been visited by a European. Stebnitsky was a member of the Russian Geographical Society, corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society (from which he received two gold medals), a founding member of the Russian Astronomical Society, and the director of the Department of Military Topography of the General Staff 1885-1896; Charles Marvin reported that Gen. Dmitri Osten-Sacken, who had seen extensive service in the Russo-Persian War, Russo-Turkish War, the Russian conquest of Caucasus, and the Crimean War, considered him the "the best informed man" on the region (The Russian Advance towards India, p.28), and Victor Dingelstadt, an irrigation expert with wide expertise in Central Asia, described him as "as the best living authority on the orography of the Caucasus" ("The Geography of the Caucasus" in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, V (1889), p.356). An excellent copy of this authoritative, and historically important map. Large folding engraved 1:84,000 scale map, (opens 1260 x 1398 mm, longest measurements), dissected into 20 panels and mounted on red-brown linen, shaped with a space equivalent to 4 panels at the lower left, an area occupied by part of the Caspian. Printed in two colours, the hachures being in sepia, seas hand-coloured, ?green now faded to pale brown. Housed in an attractive dark red quarter morocco book-style portfolio, marbled boards, vellum tips, title gilt longitudinally to the spine. Light browning overall, some professional reinforcement on the folds, but overall very good.