Rare first edition of this little book giving the London impressions of a keen Russian observer, just after Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. A fascinating read on many various themes. With interesting aristocratic provenance.
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A great resource for any Russian writing letters at the beginning of the 19th century: from love letters in verses to business and administrative correspondance, or official letters to the highest-ranked people, everything is included in this rare work. No copy of this edition traced outside Russia.
Read More Read MoreKOK, Pol de [Charles Paul de KOCK]
Monfermelskaia molochnitsa [La Laitière de Montfermeil]
First Russian edition, rare, in an attractive copy. A great example of cross-cultural literary exchange at the time of some of the best Russian literature.
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Interesting historical sketch by and of important statesmen, here inscribed by the translator to Napoleon III. A rare essay.
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The first significant work on the Greek antiquities on the Black Sea shores. A complete copy of this famous archeological book finely produced in Odessa, here in a luxurious binding. With unusual provenance.
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Attractive example of this rare dictionary, finely printed the year of Napoelon's demise, and here with excellent provenance.
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First complete edition of Dostoevsky's famous work, here in a contemporary Russian binding and good condition.
Read More Read MoreKOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist)
Eneida [Aeneid]
"The father of modern Ukrainian literature" in a very visual interpretation during Soviet times, by an important Ukrainian artist. Very rare in the West.
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A fundamental work at the source of a clarification and homogenisation of the laws of the Russian empire at the turn of the 19th century. An excellent copy of this very rare publication: only one copy traced of this French issue of the first edition (Göttingen).
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Very rare first edition of this study covering many aspects, with few taboos and much nuance - a surprisingly complete, scholarly and cultured work on the subject. Of great rarity: no other copy traced.
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An exceptionnally rare French publication in Russia at the heart of the Golden Age and a few years before Custine's famous travel, with a long preface expressing the author's political views. With great provenance and finely bound.
Read More Read MoreZICHY, Eugene [Jenő], Dr. Jean [Janos] JANKO and Dr. Bela POSTA
Kaukaìzuri eìs Közeìpaìzsiai utazaìsai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale : La Migration de la race Hongroise [et] La Description des collections
Fine copy of this great scholarly work on the population of the Caucasus, richly illustrated. First edition.
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Rare booklet of 'great Russian patriotism', covering one of the favorite themes of a part of the émigré community. Printed in China by Russians with Nazi sympathies.
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[GORCHAKOV, M.K., Prince (publisher)]
Sionskie protokoly [The Protocols of Zion]
Paris edition of these famous 'protocols', here with its cover showing a "forbidden" photography of the "Jewish government in Russia", with Trotsky and Sverdlov in the front row.
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