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SIBERIA – NAVAL STAFF INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT. A Handbook of Siberia and Arctic Russia . London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1918. The first edition of The British Naval Intelligence Department handbook on Siberia. These confidential reports were originally forbidden from being communicated to “the Press, or to any person not holding an official position in H. M. Services.” They are a relic of the persistence of the “Great Game” between Britain and Russia into the twentieth century, as the two powers continued to jockey for resources and control in Eurasia. Three volumes, octavo (187 x 118mm). 12 plates of maps and plans; 5 folding maps in rear pockets, one of which in 2 sheets. Publisher’s original navy blue cloth. Provenance : H. M. Stationery Office (deaccession stamp) – Meridian Rare Books.