Tsar i vneshniaia politika. Vinovniki russko-iaponskoi voiny. [The Tsar and Foreign Affairs. The Culprits of the Russo-Japanese War]
£65
Great denunciation of the catastrophy for Russia of the war against Japan. A pre-revolutionary publication banned in tsarist Russia.
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Drawings of Napoleon's Imperial Guard AND Regiments of the Line.
Published/created in: 1909-11]
£1,850
More than 60 watercolours of Napoleonic uniforms, drawn by a Nopoleon fan who initiated a museum in the house where Napoleon stayed before the final battle of Waterloo. An historical object, finely bound.
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Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque.
Published/created in: 1841
£4,250
Celebrated book on Polish (and Ukrainian, Lithuanian etc.) costumes, especially interesting for its political text and context, often overlooked. Plates with attractive hand-colour - a fine example of the first edition.
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Khanskii ogon. [Khan's Flame]
Published/created in: 1924
£2,000
First appearance in print of this short story by Bulgakov, the celebrated author of 'Master and Margarita': an early publication of one of Russia's best novelists, before he was banned. Rarely found.
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Typed letter signed ('Anna Akhmatova') to Boris Tarasov ('Dear Boris Aleksandrovich').
Published/created in: 25 November 1962
£2,750
Fine book-related letter signed by Akhmatova, one of Russia's greatest poets, where she lists her recent publications in Russia, after a difficult period of hard censorship.
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PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Sergey LIFAR (editor)
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda [A Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda. [A Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Published/created in: 1935
£495
Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, with the first publication of his draft.
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[BEARDSLEY] – Nikolai Nikolaevich EVREINOV
Berdslei [Beardsley]
Berdslei. [Beardsley]
Published/created in: 1912
£1,750
First edition of the first significant Russian essay on Beardsley, richly illustrated and published by the first female theatrical director in Russia. A rare publication in Western institutions.
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Azbuka v kartinkakh. [ABC in Pictures]
Published/created in: 1926
£2,250
Charming early Soviet ABC by a noted artist of natural history, in excellent condition and very rare: we could trace only one copy at auction (in Russia) and one in a public library (in Russia too).
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Ot Tashkenta do Gavy. [From Tashkent to Gava]
Published/created in: [1895]
£1,950
Very rare early Uzbek publication: a lovely association copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author to an important Russain official in Turkestan. This travel account in the heart of Russian Central Asia contains fascinating details on the economy of the region, especially in the Fergana valley in the Arslanbob mountains, famous for its important walnut forest. No other copy traced.
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Turkestan: etiudy s natury - Etudes d'après nature - Studien nach der Natur.
Published/created in: 1874
£7,500
One of the best Russian war artists in Central Asia: a fine example, signed by Vereshchagin and attractively bound, of this rich visual record of nowadays Uzbekistan and the surrounding regions at the height of the Great Game. Uncommon.
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Musée royal de Naples. Peintures, Bronzes et Statues érotiques du Cabinet secret.
Published/created in: 1857
£675
A famous work, here in the expanded edition with 60 plates with original hand-colour.
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SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich
Odin den Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]
Odin den Ivana Denisovicha. [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]
Published/created in: 1962
£2,500
First edition of the celebrated author's first book § a famous 'pirate' edition published without Solzhenitsyn's consent. A very good copy, with the striking original wrappers.
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Voyage dans la Russie méridionale, et particulièrement dans les provinces situées au-delà du Caucase, fait depuis 1820 jusqu'en 1824.
Published/created in: 1826
£9,500
One of the most famous books on the Caucasus, and Georgia in particular; the first significant work on the region; the first large lithographic view of Tbilisi; with hand-coloured costume plates. A lovely, complete example of the first edition, in contemporary publisher's binding.
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La Russie, ou mœurs, usages et costumes des habitants de toutes les provinces de cet empire.
Published/created in: 1813
£2,950
The preferred fully hand-coloured version of this lovely work on Russian costume and customs, here in a decorative binding. With 3 supplementary plates = 111 plates overall, with original colouring.
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Lettere scritte di Pietroburgo correndo gli anni 1810 e 1811.
Published/created in: 1815
£2,500
Saint Petersburg before Napoleon's campaign: a superb example in red morocco, very fresh and exempt of any foxing, of the expanded second edition (published the year of Waterloo), containing sixteen more letters in addition to the six published in the original edition of 1812. A scarce Italian book on Russia.
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IAZYKOV, Dmitrii Ivanovich (editor and translator)
Sobranie puteshestvii k tataram i drugim vostochnim narodam, v XIII, XIV i XV stoletiakh [Collection of Travels to the Tartars and Other Eastern Peoples in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries]
Sobranie puteshestvii k tataram i drugim vostochnim narodam, v XIII, XIV i XV stoletiakh. [Collection of Travels to the Tartars and Other Eastern Peoples in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries]
Published/created in: 1825
£1,750
A witness of the Russian interest in the eastern parts of its empire and its neighbours. Includes Carpini's 13th-c. travel account, thought to be the earliest significant Western description of Northern and Central Asia, Rus, and the regions of the Mongol dominion. A fresh example of the rare first edition.
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