Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
A lovely example of this famous edition of Catherine's celebrated Great Instructions, much inspired by important European philosophers of the Englightenment.
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Rare edition of this important cabalistic treatise, a lovely production of a provincial Ukrainian city.
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The first systematic study of the rugs of Central Asia in a very large, impressive format. A beautiful production of the Russian State Press, here in a full red leather binding.
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First edition of Tolstoy's successful play on wine and some of its effects... Lovely example in wrappers. Scarce.
Read More Read MorePUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Mstislav DOBUZHINSKY (artist)
Evgenii Onegin. Roman v stikhakh [Eugene Onegin. Novel in verse, ed. by V.F. Khodasevich]
Pushkin's novel in verses in the original Russian, here illustrated by Dobuzhinsky: the first edition of the full set of illustrations.
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A lovely example of this famous hand-coloured costume book showing the wide variety of 'Russian' dresses, from Western Russia to Central and Eastern Siberia.
Read More Read MoreIAKINF [ie. Nikita Iakovlevich BICHURIN]
Zapiski o Mongolii. S Prilozheniem karty Mongolii i raznykh kostiumov [Notes on Mongolia. With a Map of Mongolia and Various Costumes]
Very attractive example of one of the most important Russian works on Mongolia and Northern China - one of the rare early Russian books with hand-coloured plates. With a large folding map.
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Wide-ranging and fascinating analysis of the world powers and their relationships with Russia at the turn of the 20th century - with great comments on China and the USA. First edition, bound in Constantinople and with interesting modern provenance.
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The first circumnavigation by a blind person: first edition, illustrated with more than 20 plates, and very rare in the original cloth.
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Great study of the religious habits and dogmas of Western Russians in th 17th century - finely illustrated with engraved plates by Picart. A fine copy of this uncommon edition.
Read More Read More[PUSHKIN] – Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)
Rouslane et Ludmile
The first complete poetic French translation of Pushkin's celebrated work. Strikingly illustrated by an original Russian female artist, and this copy inscribed by the translator: a politically-engaged playwright and one of the main figures of the feminist theatre movement in France. Rarely found, and only 500 copies printed.
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Uncommon luxurious full cream calf binding for the wedding of two first cousins of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II - together with three other ceremonials detailing important events in the close family of Alexander III. A fine group.
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Details of the processes of the coronation of the last Russian tsar, together with the list of important foreign attendees - including one volume more unusually luxuriously bound in full soft red calf gilt.
Read More Read MoreSAMOKISH, N.S. and S.I. VASILKOVSKII (artists), text by D.I. EVARNITSKII
Iz ukrainskoi stariny. La Petite Russie d'autrefois
Beautiful portfolio showing 20 folio colour plates of Ukrainian Cossacks's scenes, costumes and heroes - with a vibrant text in Russian and French by an important Ukrainian scholar.
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