A scarce, very early pamphlet with important excerpts from Pasternak's celebrated novel - banned in the USSR and published here with help of the CIA.
GEFTER, Avgust Vilgelm [August Wilhelm HEFFTER] and Konstantin TAUBE (translator)
Evropeiskoe mezhdunarodnoe pravo [European International Law]
Important legal treatise, here in a fine example of its first Russian edition, inscribed by the translator to his wife, and later to his son.
A rare but important 'russica' title, being the first biography of Ivan the Terrible. Pleasant example of an early edition.
Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia.
SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris PASTERNAK (translator)
Gamlet. Prints Datskii. Tragediia [The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]
First separate edition of Shakespeare's famous tragedy in Pasternak's fine translation. A pleasant example of this scarce edition.
BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich
U Samoedov. Ot Pingi do Karskogo moria. Putevye ocherki [Among the Samoyeds. From the Pinega river to the sea of Kars. Travel sketches]
An artist-explorer gives his impressions of his polar trip to Northern Russia.
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Boris TOMASHEVSKII (editor)
Gavriiliada [The Gabrieliad]
Pushkin's most famous censored work, here in a lovely and important scholarly edition, finely produced.
First edition of this important cycle about the Revolution and the Civil War, impossible to publish in the USSR and even abroad for several decades. A very good copy.
A bibliophile's pleasure (and definitely Lifar was one!): an extra-large paper copy of his standard work on Diaghilev, one of 15 ad nominem copies, warmly inscribed to the wife of a leading Russian publisher and bookdealer in Paris. An exceptional example.
[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich
Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]
Avant-garde theatre - including Wilde and Beardsley - through the eyes of an avant-garde poet, artist and aviator. Published the year of the Revolution, by an important theatre woman.
Edition originale de la première histoire de la principale loge française - une rareté reconnue, ici bien complète de ses planches et avec provenance maçonnique.
DILTEI Filipp Genrikh – Philippe Henry DILTHEY
Opyt rossiiskoi geografii s tolkovaniem gerbov i s rodosloviem tsarstvuiushchego doma, sobrannyi iz raznyh avtorov i manuskriptov Essay géographique sur la Russie avec le blason et la généalogie de la maison regnante, compilé de différens auteurs & manuscripts
Detailed and wide-ranging description of the history, peoples and geography of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. Very rare: only four copies outside Russia, one only in the US.
