The Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby... The Former (now First Published) Exhibiting a View of the Governments and Society in the Principal States and Courts of Europe, during the Time of Cromwell's Usurpation; the Latter Containing Anecdotes, and Secret History of the Courts of Charles II. and James II.
Published/created in: 1813
£1,450
The preferred, large-paper issue attractively bound in full red morocco richly gilt. This edition contains the very first publication of the Travels; and the first illustrated edition of the Memoirs: overall with almost 40 plates including 11 hand-coloured, some with gilt highlights. A great example.
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POE, Edgar Allan, and OUYDA [pseud. for Maria Louise RAME]
Izbrannye Razskazy [i] Dozhdlivyy Iyun [Selected Short Stories, and A Rainy June]
Izbrannye Razskazy [i] Dozhdlivyy Iyun. [Selected Short Stories, and A Rainy June]
Published/created in: 1912
£1,150
Very rare Poe curiosity, showing on the cover a portrait of....somebody completely different! Together with a short story by a female author.
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Slovar Russkikh sueverii. [The Dictionary of Russian Superstitions].
Published/created in: 1782
£8,500
An important and very rare work on superstitions and beliefs of the peoples of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. With captivating paragraphs and descriptions. An attractive example of the first edition.
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Basni...v vosmi knigakh. [Fables…in eight books].
Published/created in: 1835
£4,950
Famous edition of the best Russian fabulist, and probably the first small-format book in Russia. A lovely example in full green morocco.
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Russische Miscellen, zur genauern Kenntniss Russlands und seiner Bewohner.
Published/created in: 1829-32
£6,750
A rare St. Petersburg imprint, complete with exotic views and maps: first edition of these 4 volumes giving a taste of Pushkin's Russia for German-speaking readers. From St. Petersburg to Petrozavodsk, the Urals and the extreme north-eastern Siberia, through Russian literature, the Empress Maria Fedorovna and the famous fair of Nizhnii-Novgorod.
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[A Sammelband of Five Manuscript Works].
Published/created in: [c. 1782-1815]
£8,500
Very rare manuscript collection of theological and philosophical texts, including some forbidden by Catherine the Great's government in the 1780s. Very well preserved in its contemporary binding. With a poem authored most likely by the compiler of the manuscript and dedicated to the opening of the bronze horseman, the celebrated monument to Peter the Great inaugurated by Catherine in St. Petersburg.
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Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec Celles de Philelphe.
Published/created in: 1773
£4,500
Aesop's fables in red morocco with the arms of the Russian Empress: a fine imperial copy of this lovely edition, illustrated with 60 engraved plates.
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HERVEY, James, and Elizaveta NILOVA (transl.)
Nadgrobnyia razmyshlenia [Meditations among the Tombs]
Nadgrobnyia razmyshlenia. [Meditations among the Tombs]
Published/created in: 1782
£1,950
First Russian edition of an English 'graveyard' literary work: by a female translator, dedicated to a woman, and later confiscated by Catherine the Great. Very rare.
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Pisma o Frantsii v 1815 godu Sira Valtera Skotta pod imenem Pavla. [Letters about France in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott under the name Pavel]
Published/created in: 1827
£3,250
Very rare first Russian edition of Walter Scott's Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk in Russian, published at the height of Pushkin's fame. No copy traced in the UK nor the USA.
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Akh, kak vy glupy gospoda frantsuzy. [Oh, How Stupid You Are Mr Frenchmen]
Published/created in: 1793
£1,450
Attractive example of this scarce anti-revolutionary tract, published when Catherine the Great was distancing herself from some consequences of the French philosophers' thoughts. In contemporary binding ith zig-zag Russian endpapers.
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PLATON [Petr LEVSHIN, later Metropolitan of Moscow]
Pravoslavnoe uchenie ili sokhrashchennaia khristianskaia bogosloviia, dlia Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva … Tsesarevicha i Velikago Kniazia Pavla Petrovich.. [Orthodox Teaching, or Christian Theology Abridged, for His Imperial Highness…the Tsarevich and Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich].
Pravoslavnoe uchenie ili sokhrashchennaia khristianskaia bogosloviia, dlia Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva … Tsesarevicha i Velikago Kniazia Pavla Petrovich... [Orthodox Teaching, or Christian Theology Abridged, for His Imperial Highness…the Tsarevich and Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich].
Published/created in: [1765]
£6,850
First edition of this Catechism for Tsarevich Pavel, the "first textbook of Orthodox theology in Russia" by an important religious figure of 18th-c. Russia, whom Voltaire called "the Russian Plato". Very rare: no copy at auction and only 3 copies in libraries outside Russia.
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L'hippodrome au coin du feu.
Published/created in: [c. 1840]
£2,250
Complete in publisher's boards: rare so. An attractive work presenting plates of horse racing and other activities, in particular remarkable for its depictions of ladies racing.
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BERDIAEV, Nikolai Alexandrovich
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli. [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Published/created in: 1926
£250
An excellent, unopened example, in original wrappers, of the first edition of this work where two important Russian thinkers meet.
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SKITALETS [pseud. of Stepan Gavrilovich PETROV]
O znamenitykh russkikh liudiakh [On Famous Russian People]
O znamenitykh russkikh liudiakh. [On Famous Russian People]
Published/created in: 1927
£750
Very rare Russian book published in Japan, presenting short sketches of important Russian contemporaries, such as Tolstoy, Lenin, Gorky and Pleakhanov.
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Khabarovskii grafa Muraviova-Amurskogo kadetskii korpus: Istoricheskii ocherk. [Count Muraviov-Amurskii Khabarovsk Military School: Historical Essay]
Published/created in: 1977
£375
An excellent example of this scarce émigré publication on the pre-Revolution Siberian military school. A fine Californian production, richly illustrated.
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Sobor Sv. Kniazia Vladimira v Kieve. [The Cathedral of Prince Vladimir the Saint in Kyiv]
Published/created in: 1898
£2,950
First edition of this attractive production of Kiyv's leading publisher at the time, and fine study of the architecture and decorations of the recent cathedral.
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Posledovanie tserkovnogo peniia i vseletnago sobraniia ot mesiatsa septevriia do mesiatsa avgusta po ustavu, izhe vo Ierusalime sviatyia Lavry prepodobnago i bogonosnago ottsa nashego Savvy Osviashchennago. [Liturgy for the months September through August following the Typicon of Saint Sabas].
Published/created in:
£4,750
A lovely example of a tiny manuscript Menologium in Church Slavonic, a liturgical calendar with hymns celebrating the saints for each month of the year. In attractive, fresh condition, with the ornaments in bright colours, bound in its first binding of red morocco over wooden boards. A great example of an Old Believers' miniature production.
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