[Rarebooks] FS: Two Works on the Buriat People

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for sale:

1. Kulakov, P.E.  Olkhon. Domestic economy and everyday life of the 
Buriat people in the Elatsinski and Kutulski Regions (former Olkhonsk 
Region) Verkholinski Region of Irkutsk Province.

2. Chitinskim Otdeleniem Imperatorskago. Work of the Aga Expedition, 
Materials for the Study of the Aga Steppe of the Transbaikal Oblast, 
Collected in 1908 by the Chita Branch of the Imperial Russian 
Geographic Society.

(1) Kulakov, P.E. (Petr Efimovich). OL'KHON', KHOZIAISTVO I BYT 
BURIAT: ELANTSINSKAGO I  KUTUL'SKAGO VIEDOMSTV (BYVSHAGO OL'KHONSKAGO 
VIEDOMSTVA) VERKHOLENSKAGO  OKRUGA IRKUTSKOI GUBERNII. S.-Peterburg 
[St. Petersburg]: V. Kirshbaum, 1898. iii, 245 pp. Map. Sm. 4to. 
Paper wrappers (paperback). First edition. Zapiski Imperatorskago 
russkago geograficheskago obshchestva po Otdieleniiu  statistiki, 
tom. 8, vyp. 1. Olkhon. Domestic economy and everyday life of the 
Buriat people in the Elatsinski and Kutulski Regions (former Olkhonsk 
Region) Verkholinski Region of Irkutsk  Province. OCLC and RLIN show 
a single copy in Leiden. In Russian. Wrapper and first leaf with a 
small chip to corner, spine with a few tears, otherwise a very good 
unopened (uncut) copy.     [30539] $150.00

(2) Chitinskim Otdeleniem Imperatorskago russkago geograficheskago 
obshchestva. TRUDY AGINSKOI  EKSPEDITSII. MATERIALY PO IZSLEDOVANIIU 
AGINSKOI STEPI ZABAIKAL'SKOI  OBLASTI,  PROIZVEDENNOMU V 1908 G. 
CHITINSKIM OTDELENIEM IMPERATORSKAGO RUSSKAGO  GEOGRAFICHESKAGO 
OBSHCHESTVA. VYP. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 [FIVE VOLUMES]. Irkutsk / S.Peterburg 
/ Chita: Makushina i Posokhina; Parovaia tip. Zab., 1910-1913. I: 54; 
II: 49; III: 182; IV: 80; VII: 366 pp. Illus. with 5 b/w photos, 5 
plans (2 folding), and 1 folding map (28.5 x 19 inches). Sm. 4to. 
Paper wrappers (paperback).  Rodionoff: Soviet Geography 362. First 
edition. Work of the Aga Expedition, Materials for the Study of the 
Aga Steppe of the  Transbaikal Oblast, Collected in 1908 by the Chita 
Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society.

Issue I: M. P. Grigor'ev, Oro-gidrograficheskill ocherk Aginskoi 
Stepi [Orohydrographic sketch of the Aga Steppe] (Irkutsk, 1913); 
Issue II: M. P. Grigor'ev, Kilmat  [Climate] (Irkutsk, 1913); Issue 
III: M.P. Gigor'ev, Pochvennyi pokrov i materinskiya porody  [Soil 
cover and Matrices] (Irkutsk, 1913); Issue IV: G. Stukov, 
Rastitel'nyi mir [Plant Kingdom]  (S.-Peterburg, 1910); Issue VII: 
L.M. Golovachev, Naselenie [Population]; and V.V. Soldatov, 
Khozyaistvennyi byt [Economic Way of Life] (Chita, 1911). An 
exceptionally thorough and  valuable work on this important Buriat 
area neat Chita which was undertaken at the urging of  Batu-dalai 
Ochirov, a Buriat political leader and educator. No copies in OCLC, 
RLIN, Copac,  BL, BN. LOC has vol. 7 only. Library of Polar 
Commission (St. Petersburg) has vol. 2. Volumes IIV with wrappers 
browned, owner's signature and small stamp on front wrapper, some 
minor  tears, stain to upper edge of one volume, some paper loss on 
spines, three of four volumes  unopened (uncut), volume VII lacking 
wrappers and spine, nearly disbound into signatures, map  crisp 
without tears, but some offsetting to inner edges. Good or better. 
[30561] $500.00


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