TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others
Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive
Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive.
Published/created in: 1937-44
£3,950
Fine group of letters and other documents relating to the émigré literary activity before and during WWII - from Kharbin to Paris and its surroundings.
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La Chasse grand-ducale et tsarienne en Russie. Période du Xe au XVIe siècle [with] La Chasse tsarienne en Russie. XVIIe siècle.
Published/created in: 1896-1900
£15,000
'Tsarskaia Okhota': the greatest Russian hunting book in a spectacular and most unusual Belgian binding made of cuir repoussé, incoporating Samokish's design of a falcon with open wings. A great example of this striking luxury book.
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Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny. [The Illustrated Chronicle of War]
Published/created in: 1877-78
£6,750
The Balkans, Southern Eastern Europe and Western Turkey in two fascinating folio volumes detailing all events of the 1877-78 war. Very richly illustrated and rarely found in such an attractive example, here in the original publisher's binding.
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SHCHERBATOVA, Olga Aleksandrovna
Po Indii i Tseilonu. Moi putevyia zametki 1890-91 [Across India and Ceylon. My Travel Notes 1890-91]
Po Indii i Tseilonu. Moi putevyia zametki 1890-91. [Across India and Ceylon. My Travel Notes 1890-91]
Published/created in: 1892
£1,850
Wide-ranging travel account, illustrated with a wealth of photographs, some taken by the author, a remarkable Russian princess fond of travels. A fine example of this scarce first edition.
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Vsemirnaia miatezhevoina. Guerra revolucionaria mundial. [The Worldwide Subversion-War]
Published/created in: 1971
£450
The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
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Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R. [How They Die in the USSR. Issue 1 [and only]]
£175
Fine example of this rare NY-printed pamphlet against the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular.
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LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich]
Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia [Geography of all Russia: Satire. A useful guide for the unconscious]
Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia. [Geography of all Russia: Satire. A useful guide for the unconscious]
Published/created in: [1914]
£225
An early émigré publication, printed in New York before the Revolution, and criticsing Russia's autocracy, with a focus on the conditions of the Jewish people.
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[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER
Inedited Works of Bakst
Inedited Works of Bakst.
Published/created in: 1927
£5,250
Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, here with the rare dust-jacket in very good condition.
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Ivan BILIBIN, Viktor VASNETSOV (artists) and Alexander PUSHKIN
Skazki, bound with Pesn o Veshchem Olege [Folk Tales] and [The Song of the Wise Oleg]
Skazki, bound with Pesn o Veshchem Olege. [Folk Tales] and [The Song of the Wise Oleg]
Published/created in: 1899-1903
£4,950
All of Bilibin's famous portrait illustrations for Pushkin's tales bound in one single volume - very unusual, and in lovely condition.
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Pokhozhdenie Chichikova ili Mertvye dushi: Poema. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls: A Poem]
Published/created in: 1900
£2,500
An imposing volume: attractive example of the most lavish illustrated edition of Gogol's masterpiece, in its original binding.
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BARTO, Agniia and Georgii ECHEISTOV, Georgii (artist)
Bratishki [Little Brothers]
Bratishki. [Little Brothers]
Published/created in: 1931
£950
A fine, fresh example of this great internationalist children book.
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Portrait of Anna Akhmatova.
Published/created in: 1916
£175
The poetess' beautiful portrait by a prominent member of the Russian and Jewish avant-garde; one of his most famous works, published just two years after its creation.
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Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-Politischem Traktat.
Published/created in: 1930
£1,200
First edition of the philosopher's first book.
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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: its Basis and its Genesis.
Published/created in: 1936
£1,360
Attractive example of the first edition of Strauss' third work, with the dust-jacket.
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Albom Bortsov za Svobodu. [Album of Freedom Fighters, Pt.1 [all published]]
Published/created in: 1907
£1,875
Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers.
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Antarktika. [The Antarctic]
Published/created in: 1957
£650
Important study of the Antarctic by a leading Soviet oceanographer: a first edition, inscribed by the author to a distinguished hydrologist and engineer. Illustrated, in particular with maps.
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Karafuto Shashin-cho. [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin]
Published/created in: Showa 11 [ie. 1936]
£950
Great visual record of South Sakhalin in the 1920s-30s: wide-ranging, artistic - and scarce. A beautifully fresh example.
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Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu. [A Collection of Poems Related to the Unforgettable Year of 1812]
Published/created in: 1814
£10,850
A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes.
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