Rukavichka. Repka. Russkiia Skazki. [Russian Tales: The Mitten. The Turnip]
Published/created in: 1919
£475
A lovely, fragile production of this short-lived publishing house from Kishinev and Odessa. Very rare as we could locate onoly two copies outside Russia. Published in 1919 - a tormented year for Odessa.
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Religiosae Kijovienses cryptae, sive Kijovia subterranea: in quibus labyrinthus sub terra, et in eo emortua, à sexcentis annis, divorum atque heroum Graeco-Ruthenorum... corpora.
Published/created in: 1675
£5,500
An important work on the Kiev Lavra Cave monastery, the first non-religious book looking at its history and practices - as well as at Ukrainians at large. Particularly interesting for its tolerant point of view, and its striking illustrations. A complete, fresh copy; rarely found.
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Pêcheur d'Islande.
Published/created in: 1886
£1,250
Loti's most celebrated novel: a fine example of the first edition, here with a record number of states of the plates, bound in full green morocco retaining the original bright orange publisher's wrappers.
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[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia. [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Published/created in: 1802
£3,950
Excellent copy of this very rare first Russian edition of Bossuet's 'Politique'. No copies traced oustide Russia, including in French or American institutions.
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Russia, Mongolia, China.
Published/created in: 1919
£4,750
Impressive example of the first edition, with a signed binding featuring two 1767 Russian coins. One of the greatest 20th-c. books on Eastern Russia, Siberia, and the historical relations with their neighbours. A fascinating and beautiful production.
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VASCONCELOS GUEDES DE CARVALHO, José de (translator and editor)
Leis de Manú, primeiro legislador da India [Laws of Manu, India's First Legislator]
Leis de Manú, primeiro legislador da India. [Laws of Manu, India's First Legislator]
Published/created in: 1859
£2,250
Scarce first edition of this major legal text of ancient India, here in its first Portuguese edition, printed in Nova Goa.
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Siluety G.I. Narbuta. [Silhouettes of G. I. Narbut]
Published/created in: 1926
£250
Fin, fresh example of this booklet on one of Ukraine most famous 20th-c. artists and illustrators. One of only 300 copies.
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MILTONI, Ioani [John MILTON] and Vartan Bagdasarovich AVAKOV (translator)
Dakarguli samotkhe: pirveli tsol-kmris tskhovreba samotkheshi [Paradise Lost. The Life of the First Husband and Wife in Paradise].
Dakarguli samotkhe: pirveli tsol-kmris tskhovreba samotkheshi. [Paradise Lost. The Life of the First Husband and Wife in Paradise].
£950
Very rare first edition in Georgian of Milton's masterpiece. No other copies traced outside Georgia. A very good example in wrappers.
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Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones.
Published/created in: 1739
£1,950
Fresh example of this important Russian flora, one of the very first published in Russia, showing and describing many species for the first time. First edition.
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LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks.
Published/created in: 1840
£2,750
The first extensive study of the people of Kazakhstan: first French edition, with the same illustrations as the original Russian edition; including a folding map of the area, which was very rare at the time. This is the copy which belonged to 'Le Baron de Barante', the dedicatee of the translation.
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Ego Imperatorskoe Vysochestvo Velikii Kniaz Sergei Mikhailovich... [His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich [...] Reminiscences about His Life and Work, and about the Development of Artillery during His Lifetime]
Published/created in: 1934
£375
Scarce émigré work commemorating a prominent member of the Romanov family, active during WWI and shot by the Bolsheviks; first edition, published in Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
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English penmanship. Angliiskaia kalligrafiia.
Published/created in: early 1960s]
£750
How to write English in the USSR, by a Jewish American teacher, produced in Ukraine and very rare such.
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Iter in Moschoviam...
Published/created in: [ca. 1665]
£3,950
Exceptionnally fine example of this important travel account, which includes the first printing out of Russia of Tsar Alexis famous 'Ulozhenie'. A very attractive copy in a lovely if later binding.
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SHEKSPIR [William SHAKESPEARE] and Apollon GRIGORIEV (translator)
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid. [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Published/created in: 1860
£1,950
Very rare translation into Russian of Shakespeare 'Merchant of Venice'. An appealing example.
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Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia, Performed in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Command of the Russian Government.
Published/created in: 1814
£2,850
Lovely copy, in contemporary binding, of this major work on the Caucasus region and its people. First English edition.
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PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)
Survey of the Russian Empire
Survey of the Russian Empire.
Published/created in: 1792
£2,750
Fine, unusual copy of this first english edition of the most accurate description of the Russian empire at the end of Catherine the Great's reign. Usually black & white: but this copy with bold, vivid contemporary hand-colour.
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BEREZIN, Ilia and Georgii GOGENFELDEN (artist)
Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkaziu [Journey through Dagestan and Transcaucasia]
Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkaziu. [Journey through Dagestan and Transcaucasia]
Published/created in: 1850
£3,750
Important, detailed account of nowadays Dagestan and Azerbaijan, with fine observations and 14 plates, published in Kazan. Scarce: no copy at auction and only 4 in institutions.
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VASNETSOV, Viktor (artist) and Aleksandr PUSHKIN
Pesn o Veshchem Olege [The Song of Wise Oleg]
Pesn o Veshchem Olege. [The Song of Wise Oleg]
Published/created in: [1914]
£2,950
A famous work, here in the unusual large, folio format, rarer than the first edition (which was a quarto).
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