Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps
Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps Volga Russia Soviet Union Travel Guide 1925 rare tourist info book w/ 25+ maps
$ 850.00

(Old Books, 20th Century Books, Travel, Tourism, Soviet Union, Russia, Volga Region, Trans-Siberian Central Russia, Illustrated Books, Books with Maps).

Volga Region: Nature, Life, Economy. A Guide to the Volga.
Published 1925, Leningrad, Soviet Union by the Volga State Shipping and Transportation Press.
636 pages + 40 pp. ads. Text in Russian. Extensive advertising section at rear. 

Well illustrated throughout with b&w photos and a profusion of approx. 25 folding (mostly color) lithographed maps, including fine large thematic maps relating to industry and agriculture (several single page maps are not counted in these).

There is also a large folding color ethnographic map of the Volga region by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Numerous regional route maps as well as several detailed city plans (Perm, Kazan, Capatova, Uva, Astrakhan, etc.).

Publisher's 1/4 cloth binding, pictorial paper covered boards.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Book is not new or in "new" condition.

Binding well and heavily age worn from browsing and use, text block is shaken and loosened with some cracks within to the text block, several maps detached, one with writing on back, one with loss in bottom blank margin, book remains overall attractive as an object.

Paper is gently toned, still clean, tight, sound internally.

Still attractive on the shelf. The rare book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in overall nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws which may be present seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail showing how this book survives. The asking price reflects the condition based on our examination and 35+ years full time exposure to antiquarian books, maps and printed ephemera of all types and genres. Flaws seen and/ or described have been taken into account.

Book Measures c. 7" H x 5 1/2" W.

[B9420].