More than 300 traditional tales are gathered here, in the local dialects: a fine work of ethnographic material on the northern regions of Russia.
LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks
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.
Fine, fresh example of this famous work, with its impressive map but also with important illustrations and a wide-ranging content on Siberia and other Russian regions.
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich and Friedrich L. von MAYDELL (artist)
Tsygany [The Gypsies]
Attractive example of this large-format illustrated edition of Pushkin's poem.
TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others
Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive
Fine group of letters and other documents relating to the émigré literary activity before and during WWII - from Kharbin to Paris and its surroundings.
'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.
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.
SHCHERBATOVA, Olga Aleksandrovna
Po Indii i Tseilonu. Moi putevyia zametki 1890-91 [Across India and Ceylon. My Travel Notes 1890-91]
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.
The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
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]
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.
[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER
Inedited Works of Bakst
Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, here with the rare dust-jacket in very good condition.
Ivan BILIBIN, Viktor VASNETSOV (artists) and Alexander PUSHKIN
Skazki, bound with Pesn o Veshchem Olege [Folk Tales] and [The Song of the Wise Oleg]
All of Bilibin's famous portrait illustrations for Pushkin's tales bound in one single volume - very unusual, and in lovely condition.
An imposing volume: attractive example of the most lavish illustrated edition of Gogol's masterpiece, in its original binding.
BARTO, Agniia and Georgii ECHEISTOV, Georgii (artist)
Bratishki [Little Brothers]
A fine, fresh example of this great internationalist children book.
