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.
Read More Read More[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]
Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Very good copy of this uncommon illustrated history of one of the most famous monasteries of Russia. With two large folding plans.
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Fine example of this celebratory work, in the pleasant publisher's binding.
Read More Read MoreKOZAK, Edvard and Liuboslav HUTSALIUK
Lys Mykyta [WITH] Lys Mykyta. Kalendar na rik 1949 [The Fox Mykyta [WITH] The Fox Mykyta. Calendar for Year 1949].
A striking satirical magazine, published in the US in Ukrainian, remarkable for its Cold-War caricatures covering more than 20 years. An important run of more than 170 issues, with the very first 1949 Almanac.
Read More Read MorePOUCHKINE, Alexandre and Vasily CHOUKHAEFF (artist) [PUSHKIN and SHUKHAEV]
Boris Godounov
One of the great artists' books of the Russian Paris school - here in the deluxe version on Japon Impérial: one of 18 copies only.
Read More Read MoreERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich and Friedrich L. von MAYDELL (artist)
Tsygany [The Gypsies]
Attractive example of this large-format illustrated edition of Pushkin's poem.
Read More Read MoreOSTROGORSKII, Aleksei Nikolaevich
U rabochikh liudei: sbornik rasskazov [Among Working People: Collection of Stories]
Life among 'working people' for young readers - a fresh example.
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Lermontov translated by a friend of Herzen and wife of a Hungarian revolutionary. First edition of this translation.
Read More Read MoreTCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
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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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The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
Read More Read MoreBASHILOV, Boris [pseud. for Boris IURKEVICH]
Istoriia russkogo masonstva [History of Freemasonry in Russia]
First significant work on the Russian masons - biaised as it'd be expected, but extensive. Rarely found complete and in such an attractive condition.
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Excellent photograph of the famous director, beautifully inscribed to a fellow man of theatre.
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Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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