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## Products
- [PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/piranesi-cammini-first-edition-tsarskoe-selo-copy-3432/) - Exceptional copy of this impressive book of engravings by the genius of the genre: the Russian imperial copy from Tsarskoe Selo. Read More
- [SCHLATTER, Daniel](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/schlatter-south-russia-south-east-ukraine-coloured-first-edition-3474/) - First edition of this account of the area comprised between Perekop and Mariopol, on the shores of the Sea of Azov; with a particular focus on the nomadic Nogai Tatars, and the local German colonies. Complete, with the fine plates here in bright, bold original watercolours. Read More
- [[HELBIG, Georg Adolf Wilhelm von, attrib.]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/helbig-russische-gunstlinge-first-edition-3449/) - From Peter to Catherine, an interesting history of the right-hand men close to the Tsar. First edition; the text was partly censored in Russia up to the 20th century. Read More
- [KUZMIN, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kuzmin-extraordinary-evenings-first-edition-russian-limited-ad-nominem-3443/) - First edition of Kuzmin's eight poetry collection. This copy particularly attractive for its condition - and its provenance: one of only 62 'ad nominem'. Read More
- [GOLDE, Iu[lii]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/golde-jewish-farmers-crimea-soviet-project-first-edition-3442/) - Rare first edition of this pamphlet on an interesting Soviet project of the late 1920s to develop a Jewish settlement in Crimea. Read More
- [GULBENKIAN, Calouste](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gulbenkian-transcaucasie-inscribed-turkish-ambassador-3423/) - Scarce travel account in the Caucasus, and nowadays Azerbaijan in particular, by the founder of the Iraq Petroleum Company. A choice copy, presented to the Turkish ambassador to the UK. Read More
- [SAKHAROV, N[ikolai]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sakharov-malaria-photography-first-edition-3396/) - Very rare and innovative contribution to the efforts to understand malaria. A great booklet. Read More
- [MUKHLINSKII, Anton Osipovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ottoman-language-turkish-articles-translation-russian-first-edition-3395/) - Interesting and rare St. Petersburg edition on Ottoman Turkish, with impressive plates of Ottoman documents. Only 2 copies traced outside Russia. Read More
- [[GONCHAROVA, Natalia and Mikhail LARIONOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharova-larionov-avant-garde-lithographs-manuscript-mayakovsky-3384/) - Fine group of important illustrations by Goncharova and Larionov, from the earliest days of Russian avant-garde, later used as scrap paper in Mayakovsky's circles. Read More
- [LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (designer)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lissitzky-ussr-construction-soviet-arctic-3383/) - The famous Arctic issue of the main propaganda magazine from Soviet Union, designed by Lissitzky. A superb production, here in its English version and in fresh condition. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-zhivago-real-first-edition-russian-original-cloth-3382/) - One of the most famous first editions of 20th-c. Russian literature: published by the CIA under a false imprint - or literature as a political weapon. A pleasant copy. Read More
- [CHEKHOV, Anton, Ivan BUNIN, Maksim GORKY and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhov-cherry-orchard-first-publication-znanie-bunin-gorky-kuprin-3381/) - Fine example of this literary almanac, rarer with both parts of 1903, including the very first publication of Chekhov's famous play. With other first publications by leading Russian authors of the time. Read More
- [PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pirogov-crimean-war-letters-medicine-first-edition-3368/) - First edition of these Crimean War letters from a Russian surgeon. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/angliia-rare-first-edition-booklet-3367/) - A lovely, illustrated booklet presenting England as an ally at the beginning of WWI. First edition, in appealing condition, from a reading library with the matching label - and very rare with no copies traced worlwide. Read More
- [KEUN, Odette](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/keun-prince-tariel-story-georgia-rare-first-edition-3352/) - Suppressed and very rare first edition of this novel, written by an adventurous woman travelling in troubled times. Great book by a fascinating woman and a nice copy of it! Read More
- [SAN, Shan-fei and N[ikolai] KOCHERGIN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/soviet-chinese-children-books-nenets-even-3342/) - A pair of translations of a popular Chinese children story, into two rare, minority languages of the Soviet Union, now considered endangered. Attractive, large-format editions, in fine condition. Very rare, with only one or two other copies traced worlwide (including Russia). Read More
- [CHEPIGOVSKII, Ivan Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chepigovskii-ossetian-bible-old-testament-very-rare-first-edition-3336/) - First edition of this very first 'old testament' in Ossetian. A fine example, in wrappers and inscribed by the author to an important local missionary. Very rare, with only one other copy traced (Denmark). Read More
- [[BIBLE, Armenian]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/armenian-gospels-venice-fine-binding-3332/) - Lovely example of these Gospels in Armenian, printed in Venice by Bortoli in 1759, with a new set of plates, and here in a richly gilt binding. Read More
- [PALCHEAN, Agheksandr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/palchean-armenian-calligraphy-vienna-very-rare-first-edition-3331/) - Attractive volume showing fine Armenian calligraphy made to celebrate the new Armenian monastery in Vienna - to be built when the book was published. Very rare edition, with no copies traced in Armenia nor the Americas. Read More
- [KRAFFT, Hugues](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krafft-turkestan-central-asian-photographs-first-edition-3329/) - Remarkable photographic record of nowadays Uzbekistan and neighbouring regions - a beautiful, luxury production, and a fine example of the deluxe version, in beautiful, fresh condition. Read More
- [VANANDETSI, Ghukas](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vanandetsi-measures-weights-currencies-world-armenian-merchants-first-edition-annotated-3322/) - Great copy of this small-format book: used by Armenian merchants around the world, including Africa, this copy replete with annotations in Armenian linked with numerology and prayers. Very rare first edition by a leading Armenian printed in Amsterdam; only a copy traced in Oxford and one in Pisa - none in the Americas. Read More
- [AMADUTIUS, Iohannes Christophorus [Giovanni Cristoforo AMADUZZI]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/armenian-alphabet-propaganda-fide-rome-3317/) - Fine example of this attractive Armenian alphabet for missionaries, the first edition with the lovely animal-shaped letters. Read More
- [HRUSHEVSKY, Mykhailo Serhiiovych](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hrushevsky-first-editions-ukrainism-free-ukraine-3309/) - A rare gathering of essays and articles considering which future Ukraine should reach, written by a major figure of newly created Ukrainian state, published in the famous year of 1917. Rarely found, and here in fantastic condition in spite of their fragility. Read More
- [KULISH, Panteleimon](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kulish-ukrainian-folk-legends-first-edition-3305/) - First edition of this collection of Ukrainian folklore following Kulish's travels through the Kyiv province. Banned soon after publication, now scarce. With fine bibliophile provenance. Read More
- [SINIAKOVA, M[ariia] (artist) and S[ofia] FEDORCHENKO](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/siniakova-fedorchenko-rare-children-book-first-edition-3301/) - Very rare first edition of this children book: no copies traced outside Russia. A fine collaboration of two women active in circles of the Russian avant-garde. Read More
- [KUPREIANOV, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kupreianov-russian-poster-works-art-historical-monuments-3299/) - A strking poster calling to save the historical monuments and works of art in the midst of a bloody and damaging civil war. Read More
- [[MILITARY - WATERCOLOURS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-army-military-uniforms-insignia-fine-manuscript-watercolours-3297/) - Superb set of very rare military tables in fine manuscript and gouache with gold and silver highlights. Of probable imperial provenance. Read More
- [GOLOVIN, N. N., General](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/golovin-voennye-usiliia-rossii-first-world-war-russian-edition-3291/) - Comprehensive research on Russia's role in the First Wolrd War; an influential work, here in fine condition. Read More
- [GOLIKOV, Ivan (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/golikov-slovo-polku-igoreve-academia-first-edition-palekh-3286/) - First edition with these striking illustrations, printed with a beautiful technique rendering perfectly the Palekh style of folk art. An impressive, artistic edition in folio format; this copy in excellent condition, with the original wrapper and box. Read More
- [LOMONOSSOW, Michael [Mikhail LOMONOSOV] and Johann Lorenz STAVENHAGEN (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lomonossow-russische-grammatick-first-edition-german-lomonosov-russian-grammar-3284/) - Attractive example of this celebrated, landmark grammar of the Russian language, here in its important first German translation, and the first foreign translation overall. No copies traced at auction in the last 40 years, and only 5 in libraries (1 only in USA). Read More
- [ALEKSIEVICH, Svetlana](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/aleksievich-voiny-ne-zhenskoe-litso-unwomanly-face-war-first-edition-inscribed-3274/) - First edition, first issue, an inscribed copy, of Aleksievich's important first book. She would go on and win the Nobel Prize of LIterature 30 years later, in 2015. Read More
- [ZHIGANOV - JIGANOFF, Vladimir](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zhiganov-russkie-shankhaie-jiganoff-russians-shanghai-first-edition-3260/) - Fantastic publication on the important Russian community in 1920s-30s Shanghai. Wide-ranging, very richly illustrated, with a wealth of fascinating details. A lovely copy of the first edition, scarce. Read More
- [GUMILEV, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gumilev-shater-first-complete-edition-3256/) - Gumilev's poetry inspired by his African travels, with a finely designed cover - pleasant copy of the fragile first complete, definitive edition. Read More
- [TAHIROFF, F[aik] (artist), John KASHKEEN (compiler), John REED, John DOS PASSOS and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tagirov-new-york-first-edition-photomontage-3252/) - "The price paid by American people": a fine Soviet book pulished in English in the wake of the Great Depression. With extensive photomontage; a very good copy of the first edition, rare complete with both supplements. Read More
- [ORWELL, George, György ANTAL (transl.) and Zoltán SZABÓ (introduction)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/orwell-1984-hungarian-first-translation-3249/) - Pleasant copy of the first Hungarian edition with extensive notes on Orwell - the second overall, both in the same, first translation, both published in 1984 and both rare outside Hungary. Read More
- [BOROVYKOVSKY, Levko [and Amvrosy METLINSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/borovykovsky-metlinsky-baiky-prybaiutky-fables-proverbs-first-edition-ukrainian-3248/) - A book as we like them: with many varied interesting aspects! First edition of very early fables & proverbs in Ukrainian, with an important preface defending the Ukrainian language; one of only 16 books in Ukrainian published during 7 years, and the only lifetime collection of the author. A beautiful copy, withb fine provenance. And very rare, with only 2 instutitional copies outside Russia/Ukraine. Read More
- [ZHANG, Leping, Vladimir SUTEEV and other artists, Ia. AKIM (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/veselye-kartinki-children-magazine-soviet-china-3241/) - Lovely issue of this famous Soviet children's magazine, focuing on Chinese artists just a year before the decline of the collaboration between the USSR and China. Read More
- [[ZHANG, Tianyi] CHZHAN, Tiani and Nikolai KOCHERGIN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pioneer-friends-children-book-china-ussr-3240/) - Very rare first edition, with no copies traced in Americas or Europe. Read More
- [YAN WENJING, LIU JIYOU (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/udivitelnoe-puteshestvie-children-book-first-edition-beijing-ussr-china-3239/) - A lovely Beijing production in the frame of USSR-China friendship, with full-page colour illustrations. Very rare with no copies traced in USA or Europe. Read More
- [TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Natan VENGROV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vengrov-turova-khvoi-first-edition-original-hand-colouring-3238/) - An attractive avant-garde Russian children book, here in the preferred version with original colour, one of only 125 copies. Read More
- [SOKOLOV, [Ilia], [Aleksandr] ZUGRIN, [Fedor] SMIRNOV, and other artists](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/proletkult-graphic-art-soviet-avant-garde-first-edition-3236/) - 10 artists and 20 linocuts for this only issue of the works of an important early Soviet artistic organisation. Very rare, with only 2 other copies traced, none in institutions. Read More
- [SNEGIREV, Gennadii and Ivan BRUNI (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/snegirev-golubaia-tuva-rare-soviet-children-book-3235/) - Lovely Soviet children book about life in the taiga. Rare edition. Read More
- [SHESTALOV, Iuvan, Mai MITURICH and Ivan BRUNI (artists)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shestalov-bruni-miturich-russian-children-book-soviet-siberian-people-3234/) - Rare edition of this lovely Soviet children book about Khanty and Mansi people, living in Western Siberia. Read More
- [TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Aleksei REMIZOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/remizov-turova-snezhok-first-edition-original-hand-colouring-3232/) - Fine example of this rare, fragile edition of the Russian avant-garde, in the preferred version with original hand-colouring. Read More
- [SIMEON, Novyi Bogoslov [SYMEON, the New Theologian]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/symeon-theologian-manuscript-female-provenance-3231/) - Lovely manuscript of 'Words' still unpublished at the time. In unusually fresh condition on fine blue paper and presented to a Russian business woman. Read More
- [MIRZO, Gaffar, Marianna FOFANOVA (translator), Vladlen BUDNYI (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tajik-children-book-russian-dushanbe-3230/) - Very rare Russian edition of this Tajik poem for children, published in Tajikistan's capital. Only one other copy traced, in Berlin. Read More
- [MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir, A. BREI and A. KRYLOV (artists)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mayakovsky-azerbaijani-children-book-3229/) - Mayakovsky for Azeris: a scarce edition of this children book in Azerbaijani language, published in 1940. Read More
- [TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Mikhail KUZMIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kuzmin-turova-dvum-first-edition-original-hand-colouring-3227/) - First edition, with Turova's striking cover in fine original colour - one of 125 copies only. Kuzmin's only children book. Read More
- [KUCHERIAVENKO, Vasilii and Iu. MAKAROV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/korean-tales-in-ussr-first-edition-3226/) - Early provincial publication of Korean tales in the USSR - extremely rare outside Russia with no copies found in institutions. Read More
- [KALMA, N. (pseud of Anna KALMANOK), V. LOSIN and E. MONIN (illustrators)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kalma-congolese-boys-rare-russian-children-book-africa-3225/) - A fascinating critique of the Congo pavillion in Brussels' World Fair, aimed at Russian children - and a beautiful book. Very rare. Read More
- [FREIBERG, Evgenii and Nikolai KOCHERGIN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/freiberg-boie-polar-russian-children-book-3224/) - Fine Soviet children book written by a noted polar explorer. Rare first edition with these illustrations. Read More
- [ANNENKOV, Iurii (author and artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/annenkov-quarter-past-eight-first-edition-3223/) - Fresh example of this innovative Russian children book, wholly conceived and created by Annenkov. Scarce first edition. Read More
- [VONZBLEIN, Iu. and M. SHAMANOVA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vonzblein-shamanova-athletics-for-women-soviet-sport-first-edition-3217/) - Lovely booklet on Soviet female athletes, written by a 22-y old champion, the first Soviet woman to obtain international success. Very rare first edition, with no copies traced in the Americas nor Europe. Read More
- [DOSTOEVSKII, Fedor [DOSTOEVSKY], Nikolai NEKRASOV, Vissarion BELINSKII, ISKANDER [pseud. for Aleksandr HERZEN], Ivan TURGENEV, et al](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dostoevsky-bednye-liudi-poor-folk-first-publication-nekrasov-peterburgskii-sbornik-3214/) - A landmark in Russian literature history: one of the most important compilations of classic Russian literature, featuring the first and life-changing publication of Dostoevsky's debut novel as well as contributions from major writers and critics such as Turgenev, Nekrasov, Belinskii, and Herzen. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-master-margarita-full-text-dust-jacket-1971-edition-3209/) - Bulgakov's masterpiece in its entirety, complete with the famous dust-jacket. A very good copy, fresh internally. This is the 1971 second printing. Read More
- [GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgi-bemerkungen-reise-siberia-first-edition-3207/) - First edition of Georgi's observations in Siberia, printed in St. Petersburg. With descriptions of the local peoples and the first account of Japan published in Russia. An excellent copy; rare, with no copies traced on the market in the last 40 years. Read More
- [MURAVEV, Nikolai Nikolaevich and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/muravev-russian-missions-central-asia-first-edition-3196/) - Important booklet showing the British interest in new Russian 'missions' in Central Asia, with the first translation of Russian accounts of the region. A lovely copy. Read More
- [GOLITSYN, V](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/golitsyn-dachas-near-batumi-georgia-first-edition-3195/) - A detailed publication advertising the dacha-lifestyle on the Georgian coast, a relatively recently conquered region - richly illustrated, with the folding map and much practical information. Very rare, with no copied traced in the West. Read More
- [SORINE, Savely [Savelii Abramovich SORIN] (artist) and André SALMON](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sorine-portraits-first-edition-luxurious-binding-3191/) - A large, famous publication showing the rich and famous of the roaring twenties: an attractive example of this uncommon publication, coming from a descendant of some of the people portrayed. With the maximum number of plates. Read More
- [GENBACH, Jean [pseud. of Ernest de GENGENBACH] and Alexandre ALEXEIEFF (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/genbach-inscribed-to-alexeieff-first-edition-tirage-de-tete-3190/) - Avec envoi de l'auteur à Alexandre Alexeieff, qui avait dessiné la couverture. Exemplaire de tête, fort désirable, de l'édition originale de roman semi-autobiographique. Read More
- [GEREBTZOFF, Nicolas de [Nikolai Arsenevich ZHEREBTSOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gerebtzoff-history-russia-first-edition-signed-binding-3181/) - A fine example of the very first edition, originally published in French; fresh, in a master binding. Scarce, as we couldn't trace any copies at auction in many decades. An extensive work covering the history of Russia and the Russian empire, with a slavophile accent. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/moscow-monastery-bookkeeping-ledger-very-rare-3177/) - Caviar, wine, Venetian cobalt and icon wood for a major monastery near Moscow before the reigh of Peter the Great: a very rare manuscript ledger from 1674, with a wealth of details and fascinating information. No other similar example traced outside Russia. Read More
- [BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barbier-vaudoyer-karsavina-ballets-russes-bound-marbled-paper-3168/) - Fine example of the first edition. Barbier, a great art-deco artist and illustrator, celebrates here one of the star dancers of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - a beautiful production in appealing condition. Read More
- [[BELLARMINO, Roberto and] Pietro PAOLO (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bellarmino-dottrina-christiana-first-armenian-edition-rome-borghese-copy-3165/) - The Borghese copy of an important book: the first translation into Armenian of this major text of the Catholic Church. This is the first complete edition in Armenian and the second book printed in Armenian by the Propaganda Fide. Scarce, with only 3 copies traced in the US. Read More
- [MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir [MAYAKOVSKY] and David BURLIUK (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mayakovsky-burliuk-amerika-first-edition-3160/) - Rare first edition of Mayakovsky's poem, illustrated by Burliuk and published in the USA. A little pamphlet, here in a fine copy. Read More
- [[DALI] - ARRABAL, Fernando and Julius BALTAZAR [pseud. for Hervé LAMBION] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/arrabal-baltazar-dali-cinco-sonetos-unique-copy-leroux-binding-3156/) - Excellent, unique copy of this rare livre d'artiste, warmly inscribed to Dali, with much added material and in a fine Leroux binding. "Let us suppress all the excesses / murderers tyrants and alligators" (colophon) Read More
- [[BIBLE, RUSSIAN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/first-edition-bible-russian-epistles-3150/) - First edition in Russian of the Pauline Epistles, with the first translation of the Gospels into Russian. An important, politically charged project of the late 1810s in Russia. Very rare, with no copy traced in America. Read More
- [[GASTRONOMY - RUSSIAN CHINA]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/menus-russian-china-oznobishin-gastronomy-3149/) - Lovely menus related to Dmitrii Oznobishin and his assigmnments in China. One menu is fully watercoloured (not printed), the other a fine chromolithograph - abundantly inscribed and signed by Oznobishin's friends and colleagues. Read More
- [SHOPEN, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shopen-caucasus-history-languages-first-edition-3142/) - Pleasant copy of this scarce work; first edition. A deep analysis of the ancient chronicles and of the languages of the peoples of the Caucasus, mostly Gergians, Armenians and Azeris, but not only. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ivan-terrible-report-douai-printing-very-rare-3141/) - 'News' from the East for a Western European readership of the 1560s - a very rare edition from Northern France. Read More
- [V. W. [ie. Wilhelm van der VILET]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-poetry-in-german-deutsch-inscribed-imperial-provenance-3140/) - Imperial copy of this scarce anthology of Russian poems in a German translation, inscribed to a Grand Duchess of Russia and granddaughter of Russia's greatest poet. Acquired from the Grand Duke's descent. Read More
- [KLAPROTH, Julius](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/klaproth-asia-polyglotta-caucasus-and-asian-languages-3139/) - Impressive work on all languages from the Caucasus to the North Pacific through Central Asia, Siberia, China and the Far East. Very rare on the market. Read More
- [[SPARWENFELD, Johan Gabriel]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sparwenfeld-placzewnaja-recz-first-edition-very-rare-russian-transliteration-3138/) - An extremely rare and very intriguing publication, mixing Russian language, Latin types and Swedish political agenda at the end of the 17th century - just before the wars of Peter the Great and Charles XII. Apparently no copy in Russia; this being the second or third copy traced. A fine example. Read More
- [RAZIN, Aleksei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/razin-discovery-america-kamchatka-aleutian-islands-original-boards-3135/) - Very rare and fascinating children book on the discovery of America and North Pacific, illustrated, with great comments on the conquest of America and other parts of the world. A lovely copy in original publisher's boards. Read More
- [BRODSKY, Iosif [Joseph BRODSKII] and Jamie FULLER (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brodsky-stop-desert-poster-signed-early-ardis-edition-3133/) - One of the earliest US publications by Brodsky and one of the first collaborations between him and Ardis, initiating a long-lasting and fruitful publishing history. Scarce poetical poster, with Brodsky's original signature. Read More
- [GLADKY, Serge (artist) and Maurice RAYNAL](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gladky-compositions-ornementales-pochoirs-first-edition-3129/) - Fine copy of this first edition, rarely found as no copies traced at auction. The first publication by the talented Ukrainian artist, mixing abstract and cubism in the beautiful and striking pochoir technique integrating shining silver. Read More
- [MARR, N[ikolai]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/marr-tables-georgian-language-first-edition-3128/) - First edition of this remarkable study of Georgian, published to support Marr's celebrated 'Japhetic theory'. Fresh internally with almost 30 folding tables. Rare. Read More
- [GERSTENBERG, Johann Daniel (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gerstenberg-karmannaia-kniga-muzyki-music-almanac-3120/) - A great rarity: the first edition of the first year of this short-living and wide-ranging almanac, the first music almanac in Russia. Only one copy traced outside Russia (Geneva) - a fine example in contemporary binding. Read More
- [POLANCUS, Joannes [Juan Alfonso de POLANCO] and Sime BUDINIC (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/polancus-ispravnik-za-erei-croatian-glagolitic-propagada-fide-3117/) - Fresh example of this Propaganda Fide edition in Croatian Glagolitic of an important Jesuit text for priests. Uncommon. Read More
- [GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharova-rubakin-gorod-cite-first-edition-miguet-binding-3104/) - Fine exampe of this great avant-garde production, strikingly illustrated by Goncharova and here housed in a Miguet binding. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sviattsy-slavonic-manuscript-illuminated-3100/) - Appealing small-format religious manuscript, probably written by Russian women scribes, while they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding, with fresh colours and gilt decorations. Read More
- [ORVELL, Dzhordzh [George ORWELL]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/orwell-homage-catalonia-first-russian-edition-3094/) - Clandestine, CIA-funded first edition in Russian of Orwell's memoirs about the Spanish Civil War. An important edition with a secret publication history. Read More
- [HERBINIUS, M. Johannes](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/herbinius-kyiv-lavra-cave-monastery-first-edition-3090/) - An important work on the Kiev Lavra Cave monastery, the first non-religious book looking at its history and practices - as well as at Ukrainians at large. Particularly interesting for its tolerant point of view, and its striking illustrations. A complete, fresh copy; rarely found. Read More
- [BRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brodsky-ostanovka-pustyne-halt-wilderness-first-edition-inscribed-yossman-3085/) - First edition of this important poetry collection by "the most popular Russian poet of the second half of the 20th century" (Shubinskii). A fine example of the first issue, boldly inscribed. Read More
- [PÄTS, Voldemar](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pats-estonian-costume-ornaments-designs-first-edition-chromolithography-3082/) - Fine example of this large, uncommon book, presenting beautiful ornaments in chromolithography. Read More
- [REND, Ain [Ayn RAND; pseud. for Alisa ROZENBAUM] and D[mitrii] KOSTYGIN (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ayn-rand-fountainhead-first-edition-russian-ain-rend-istochnik-3069/) - Very rare first edition of 'The Fountainhead' in Rand's native language, Russian. No copies traced at auction, even in Russia; only two in libraries, none in America. A beautiful example. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Alexander and Henry SPALDING (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-onegin-first-edition-english-inscribed-3066/) - Desirable copy of this landmark translation, the first into English and here inscribed by the translator. Read More
- [MAYERBERG [also MEYERBERG], Baron Augustin von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mayerberg-iter-moschoviam-first-edition-calf-gilt-3064/) - Exceptionnally fine example of this important travel account, which includes the first printing out of Russia of Tsar Alexis famous 'Ulozhenie'. A very attractive copy in a lovely if later binding. Read More
- [STORCH Heinrich and Daniel CHODOWIECKI (engr.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/storch-gemaehlde-st-petersburg-first-edition-complete-3063/) - First edition of this important, wide-ranging and intelligent account of St. Petersburg at the end of Catherine the Great's reign. Ucnommon, especially with all plates. This copy fresh and crisp internally. Read More
- [BEREZIN, Ilia and Georgii GOGENFELDEN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/berezin-dagestan-transcaucasia-illustrated-kazan-3057/) - Important, detailed account of nowadays Dagestan and Azerbaijan, with fine observations and 14 plates, published in Kazan. Scarce: no copy at auction and only 4 in institutions. Read More
- [AMMAN, Johann](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/amman-stirpium-russian-flora-first-edition-3052/) - Fresh example of this important Russian flora, one of the very first published in Russia, showing and describing many species for the first time. First edition. Read More
- [ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zaitsev-colour-russian-tales-children-books-harbin-3038/) - Attractive Russian children books produced in Kharbin, all three in the colour version and in fine condition. Read More
- [DEL., C. F. P. [Charles-François-Paul DELANGLARD or Charlotte de LATOUR]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/oracles-flore-flowers-game-russian-imperial-provenance-tsarskoe-selo-3036/) - A fine example of this lovely edition, here in fresh, attractive condition with Russian imperial provenance. With 36 flowers on 6 plates, with original hand-colour. Read More
- [STRUVE, Burkhard Gotthelf (ed.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ulozhenie-first-german-edition-allgemeines-landrecht-russian-law-3033/) - First German translation of the famous 'Ulozhenie', an important edition considering the prime role of Germans in the Russian Empire during the 18th century. In contemporary binding. Read More
- [PALLAS, Peter Simon](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pallas-travels-south-russia-ukraine-handcoloured-3032/) - Fresh example of this classic travel account through Southern Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea - richly illustrated with original hand-colour. In a sturdy modern binding. Read More
- [KLAPROTH, Julius von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/klaproth-travels-caucasus-georgia-first-english-edition-3030/) - Lovely copy, in contemporary binding, of this major work on the Caucasus region and its people. First English edition. Read More
- [SCHUBERT, Franz](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/schubert-winterreise-first-edition-two-parts-3028/) - First edition of this celebrated songs cycle, here complete with both parts. Read More
- [[RODCHENKO, Aleksandr (artist)] and Aleksei KRUCHENYKH](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rodchenko-kruchenykh-miatezh-9-russian-avant-garde-3024/) - Extremely rare work of the Russian avant-garde, with a unique collage by Rodchenko and Kruchenykh's surrealist poem-tale of "the American Goat". One of about 10 copies only, with just another one traced, in Moscow's State Library. Read More
- [MONTFERRAND, Auguste RICARD de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/montferrand-description-grande-cloche-first-edition-inscribed-3022/) - One of the great books on Moscow, this one focusing on the enormous bell in the Kremlin. A beautiful production of Parisian presses, this particular copy inscribed by the celebrated French architect who worked in Russia and, inter alia, built the St. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Read More
- [KOMAROV, Mikhail Fedorovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/komarov-nova-zbirka-ukrainian-proverbs-first-edition-3017/) - Lovely copy of this first edition, rare as only 1 copy in the US. An important work gathering Ukrainian proverbs and other phrases never published before or in another form. A fine scientific work with very good provenance. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-rekviem-first-edition-3010/) - First edition of one of Akhmatova's most famous works, considered by many to be her finest. An important tamizdat of one of the best Russian poets; one of 500 copies only. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-master-margarita-first-complete-edition-dust-jacket-3007/) - Very attractive copy of one of the most important editions of this fantastic novel: the first complete edition, by the CIA-backed publisher Posev. Rarely found, here complete with its dust-jacket. Read More
- [GERTSEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich [Alexander HERZEN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/herzen-gertsen-byloe-dumy-first-complete-edition-3003/) - First complete edition of Herzen's main work, containing "the broadest, most truthful and most penetrating overview of the Russian social and cultural history of the first half of the nineteenth century". A scarce edition, in five small volumes. Read More
- [ASMODEUS [pseud. for Abbé Pierre QUESNEL]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/quesnel-almanach-diable-manuscript-satire-3002/) - A lovely object, the holograph copy of a blasphemous text written by a priest and suppressed in France upon publication in the late 1730s. The Devil's Almanac! Read More
- [HAMONIERE, G](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hamoniere-french-russian-grammar-first-edition-3001/) - Fine, uncut example of the first edition if this important but scarce Russian grammar, finely printed at the Imprimerie Royale. Read More
- [PUNIN, Nikolai and P[etr] MITURICH (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/punin-miturich-russian-children-book-skaz-detiam-first-edition-inscribed-2993/) - A book like we love them: with many different interesting aspects, from the beautiful gold illlustrations, and the research principle at their source, to the 'missed propaganga' theme of the tale and the tragic fate of his author, Akhmatova's husband, who here added a fine handwritten inscription to the copy. Just fantastic. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS] - BALLMANN, W](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pavel-aleksandrovich-romanov-olga-paley-photograph-2987/) - Rare photograph of this celebrated family, part of the Romanovs, before the tragedy of the Russian revolution. Read More
- [SIKHARULIDZE I., P. METREVELI, Salomon GOGLICHIDZE and David GVELESIANI (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgian-for-foreigners-rare-language-booklet-2982/) - A fascinating, pioneering booklet, whose fragility is witness to printing in early Soviet Georgia. For Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, it seems to be the first such textbook for foreigners. Of extraordinary rarity, with only one other copy traced outside Georgia and 6 copies there; no copy in Russia and none in the Americas. Read More
- [KUPREIANOV, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kupreianov-russian-poster-books-knowledge-save-libraries-2981/) - A great poster we like especially, for its design and its message of course, in particular in a country where libraries have suffered so much, with books destroyed, stolen, badly stamped or stored... Published in the midst of the civil war. One of our favorites! Read More
- [KONASHEVICH, Vladimir (artist) and Evgeniia SOLOVEVA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/konashevich-abc-rozovaia-azbuka-soloveva-first-edition-2974/) - Only edition of this fine, large-format primer detailing the new Soviet orthography of Russian, illustrated by a master of the genre. A fragile production just after the Russian revolution, and a rare edition. Read More
- [ZVORYKIN Boris (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zvorykin-mariia-morevna-tale-children-book-russian-first-edition-2970/) - An attractive example of this pre-revolutionary Russian children book, with beautiful illustrations by a master of the genre and contemporary of Bilibin. In great condition, difficult to find such. Read More
- [LISSNER, Ernest (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lissner-lisichka-volk-russian-children-book-first-edition-2969/) - Scarce, large-format Russian children book of Bilibin's time; a lovely copy in attractive condition. Read More
- [TIMUR [also TAMERLAN] and N[ikolai] OSTROUMOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/code-timur-tamerlan-first-russian-edition-2967/) - A very good copy of this rare first Russian edition of Tamerlan's legal code. No copy traced in the US, only 2 in Europe, both in the UK. Read More
- [MARCHENKOV, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/marchenkov-plan-moscow-first-edition-contemporary-colour-2966/) - An important and decorative plan of the Russian capital, printed the year of the French Revolution. A fine hand-coloured example. Very rare. Read More
- [KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krylov-russian-fables-miniature-edition-1848-2961/) - A 'miniature' edition, uncommon, of the most celebrated Russian fabulist: a lovely copy, in its first binding, fragile but here in appealing condition. Read More
- [BRINDLEY, Harold Hulme](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brindley-notes-boats-siberia-2960/) - Fine essay on Siberian boats, their history, construction, use etc., with illustrations. Very rare offprint. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS - ALEXANDER II] - SHVETSOV, Gordei Mikhaïlovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shvetsov-poems-tsar-inscribed-olga-aleksandrovna-2958/) - A fascinating volume concentrating various aspects of Tsar Alexander's II legacy, with poems celebrating his achievements, written by a former, freed serf and inscribed to the tsar's daughter with his mistress. An exceptional copy. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-anna-karenina-first-edition-contemporary-binding-2956/) - One of the best-known novels of Russian literature, here in first edition and in its first binding. A very good copy of this masterpiece, without major condition problem nor important restoration. Read More
- [[MEDICINE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/medicine-paediatry-russia-50-years-elisavetinskaia-bolnitsa-detei-2952/) - Rare account describing the first 50 years of an innovative hospital for childen based in St. Pertersburg, and the first in the world focusing on very early age (< 3 y-old). With a wealth of statistics and graphs. A pleasant copy, retaining most of its first, luxury binding. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ukraine-lavra-printing-binding-dormition-virgin-sluzhba-2951/) - A beautiful production of the Kyiv Lavra, here in its fine first binding. First edition, illustrated with delicate ornaments and elaborate initials. Very rare, as no copy traced outside Russian and Ukraine. Read More
- [VIGNOLA [pseud. for BAROZZI, Giacomo] and Carlo ANTONINI (engraver)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vignola-illustrato-dedicatee-prince-gagarin-copy-2949/) - Prince Gagarin's copy, in a beautful Italian binding: he was Russia's ambassador in Rome at the time and a noted patron of the arts; the edition was dedicated to him. A beautiful illustrated work of architecture. Read More
- [GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharova-larionov-art-decoratif-theatral-moderne-avant-garde-pochoirs-2936/) - Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful. Read More
- [KARNOVICH, Evgenii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/karnovich-wealth-of-russians-2933/) - Fresh example, in contemporary binding, of this extensive, high-quality, and very unusual study of private wealth in tsarist Russia. A fascinating and very informative read, curiously authorised by the censors. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sviattsy-slavonic-manuscript-illuminated-complete-2928/) - Appealing small-format religious manuscript, most probably written by Russian women scribes, before they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding and with near-contemporary annotations. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/manila-printed-philippines-guide-to-japan-china-india-2927/) - A small guide packed with information and of utmost rarity: no other copy traced. Printed in the Philippines. Read More
- [I[VANOV, Sergei] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ivanov-chtenie-soviet-reading-poster-2926/) - Fine copy of this uncommon propaganda poster from the Soviet Union's early days and showing a stack of books which could well be antiquarian ones! Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/confidential-reports-soviet-siberia-far-east-unpublished-2924/) - About 40 pp. of fantastic and confidential reading giving a detailed and open description of Siberia during the USSR, to Irkutsk, Khabarovsk and Yakutsk. A rare find, apparently unpublished. Read More
- [KRUCHININ, Valentin (composer) and E. GOLSHTEIN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kruchinin-foxtrot-music-in-soviet-union-2923/) - Great, large-format cover design for this rare foxtrot music composed by a Russian composer in the early years of the Soviet Union. Read More
- [PUSHKIN Aleksandr and Elena SAMOKISH-SUDKOVSKAIA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/puhskin-onegin-samokish-sudkovskaia-1911-2908/) - Attractive example of this illustrated edition, one of the most famous of Pushkin's great work. Not common in this condition. Read More
- [LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/levchine-kazakhstan-dedicatee-copy-barante-2907/) - 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. This is the copy which belonged to 'Le Baron de Barante', the dedicatee of the translation. Read More
- [KOMAROV, Aleksei (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/komarov-postcards-soviet-propaganda-children-health-2903/) - A pair of lovely and scarce early Soviet postcards encouraging neglecting parents to take care of their child's health. Great message with great imagery, away from the contemporary avant-garde and constructivism. Read More
- [BRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brodsky-verses-poems-first-edition-russian-2895/) - First edition of an important start: the future nobel prize winner's first collection of poems that had to be published abroad after he was sentenced to five years of hard labor for "social parasitism" in 1964. Read More
- [GENKEL, German and Nikolai SUETIN (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/suetin-ford-fordizm-russian-suprematist-2890/) - Fine cover for one of the great Russian books on the influential American industrialist. Uncommon, and here in a pleasant example. Read More
- [ORWELL, George and Ivan CHERNIATYNSKYI (transl.; pseud. for Ihor SHEVCHENKO)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/orwell-ukrainian-animal-farm-2889/) - Pleasant copy, in the pictorial original wrappers, of this celebrated and important edition, the first Ukrainian translation of Orwell's masterpiece. Read More
- [MEKSIN, Iakov, Nina SAKULINA, and Aleksandr MOGILEVSKII (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/japanese-children-books-in-ussr-early-exhibition-2888/) - Uncommon booklet presenting a very early cultural exchange between Japan and the USSR, centred on children books. A lovely item, here in very good condition in spite of its fragility. Read More
- [YAROSLAVENKO, Ya[roslav]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/yaroslavenko-ukrainian-marches-music-score-first-edition-extremely-rare-2887/) - Exceedingly rare edition, with no other copies found. An interesting production from a music publisher in early 20th-century Western Ukraine, then in Poland. Read More
- [[UKRAINE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ukraine-vporiad-drill-military-instructions-upa-2886/) - Extremely rare book explaining Ukrainian nationalists how to fight in the 1940s. Only one other copy traced. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-50-poems-paris-large-format-2885/) - Fine copy, in its original printed wrappers, of this large-format edition of some of the poems of Russia's great poetess. Printed with a mimeograph machine. Read More
- [TRAUBERG, Il[ia] and V[alentina] KHODASEVICH (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akter-amerikanskogo-kino-american-cinema-2884/) - First edition of this scarce, developed study of American cinema in the 1920s. A pleasant copy, in its original photomontage wrappers. Read More
- [SAKHAROV, G[ennadii] (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/soviet-jazz-ussr-perevody-samizdat-coda-canada-2883/) - Rare thick Soviet samizdat on Western jazz, giving a glimpse of the material circulated in innovative, underground circles of the late USSR. Read More
- [PIROSMANI, Niko, Kirill ZDANEVICH, Lado GUDIASHVILI and other artists](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zdanevich-pirosmani-gudiashvili-tbilisi-exhibition-catalogue-2882/) - Bilingual catalogue (Georgian Russian) of the largest exhibition of Georgian and Russian avant-garde artists in Tbilisi, listing almost 50 artists. Extremely rare with only 3 other copies traced. Read More
- [BILIBIN, Ivan (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bilibin-skazki-tales-first-editions-complete-set-2878/) - Fine, complete set of the six children books which made Bilibin's fame so long lasting. All in first edition, beautifully preserved. Read More
- [ZHITLOVSKII, Chaim and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/serp-socialist-jewish-labour-party-russia-first-edition-2876/) - Very interesting articles by some of the main Russian and Ukrainian Jewish thinkers, revolutionaries and socialists. A complete copy of the first edition, rarely found. Read More
- [K. R. [pseud. for Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich ROMANOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kr-stikhotvoreniia-two-editions-one-binding-2874/) - Two volumes in one of the lyrics of Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov. A friend of Tchaikovsky and key patron of the arts in the last decades of the Russian Empire, the Grand Duke concealed his poetical activities behind the initials "K. R.". A fine example of these rare editions. Read More
- [SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/solzhenitsyn-archipelago-first-edition-russian-inscribed-yossman-2873/) - First edition of Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus on the prison camp system and his best work, here in a choice copy inscribed to a leading broadcaster for the BBC Russian service in London. Read More
- [SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/solzhenitsyn-archipelago-first-edition-russian-inscribed-yossman-2873/) - First edition of Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus on the prison camp system and his best work, here in a choice copy inscribed to a leading broadcaster for the BBC Russian service in London. Read More
- [DMITRIEV-MAMONOV, A.I., A.F. ZDZIARSKII and John MARSHALL (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/siberian-railway-guide-first-english-edition-blue-cloth-2872/) - Fine example of the first edition in English. A volume with a wealth of information on Russia, Siberia and the Russian Far East under Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Richly illustrated, with foloding maps and city plans. Read More
- [[BIBLE, Slavonic] - Vailei IKONNIKOV (engraver) and Semen VTOROV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/evangelie-slavonic-catherine-the-great-illustrated-2868/) - Very rare, with no copy traced outside Russia, and only two there. First separate edition of the Church Slavonic Gospels published under Catherine's reign, illustrated, complete and in a lovely, fragile velvet binding. Read More
- [ABRAMSKY, Chimen](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/abramsky-judaica-rare-books-catalogue-2867/) - Lovely group of Abramsky's wide-ranging production, including a great rare-book catalogue with some stunning pieces. Read More
- [RYCHKOV, Petr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rychkov-istoriia-kazan-history-tatars-first-edition-2865/) - A major work in Catherine the Great's active discovery of her empire: the first printed book on Kazan, its history and the Tatar region. First edition, in contemporary binding. Rare: the last copy at auction in the West was 50 years ago. Read More
- [BORANETSKII, Petr, Nikolai KLEPININ and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tretia-rossiia-third-russia-complete-periodical-2864/) - Complete set of this scarce magazine of Russian émigrés in Paris, dealing or, rather, reflecting on some important international political issues of the 1930s, and trying to elaborate a new philosophy, rejecting at the same time the Communists, Democrats, Conservatives and Christians. An excellent copy in publisher's wrappers. Read More
- [POZNER, Solomon Vladimirovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pozner-jews-schools-russia-first-edition-2859/) - First edition of this important work of sociology, focusing on the discrimination which Jews were suffering in the Russian empire at the school and university level. An extensive, detailed work, with much useful statistics. Uncommon. Read More
- [GAGARIN, Prince Grigorii Grigorevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gagarin-byzantine-ornaments-first-edition-bound-2854/) - The luxuriously crafted first edition of Prince Gagarin's study of medieval Russian and Byzantine ornaments, mostly taken from manuscripts and architectural landmarks. A complete copy. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-hadji-murad-first-book-edition-2852/) - Likely the first separate edition of this important novella, telling the tragic story of a Caucasian leader in the midst of Russia's conquest. A very rare edition, with only one other copy located. Read More
- [PASHINO, Petr, Dmitrii VELEZHEV (artist) and Mikhail PRIOROV (photographer)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pashino-turkestan-uzbekistan-central-asia-illustrated-first-edition-2849/) - Fine copy of the first edition of this important account of, mostly, nowadays Uzbekistan. With plates and a map of the region. Read More
- [PEYSSONEL, Charles de, and Ernst CUHN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/peyssonel-black-sea-trade-german-kuris-copy-2847/) - Very rare first German edition of this major work, with much added material showing a geopolitical angle chosen by the translator, a civil servant for the Prussian 'external affairs'. A beautiful copy, in full morocco with prestigious local provenance. Read More
- [[WEGIERSKI, Andrzej, also WENGIERSKI] Adrianus REGENVOLSCIUS](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/wengierski-polish-protestants-macclesfield-first-edition-2846/) - Uncommon history of Polish Calvinists in Central and Eastern Europe, written in the 17th century. A very good copy of the first edition, from the Macclesfied library, with unusually abundant lettering to the spine. Read More
- [[BEARDSLEY] - Mikhail LIKIARDOPULO (editor and translator) and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/beardsley-drawings-literature-russian-likiardopulo-first-edition-2845/) - One of the first major works on Beardsley, with a wealth of illustrations and other material, literary as well as bio-bibliographical. A rare edition in the West, here in a pleasant press copy. Read More
- [[SIRET, Pierre Louis]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/siret-chelovek-latin-first-russian-edition-2843/) - First Russian edition of this 'philosophical' tale very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Rare - no copy traced outside Russia. An attractive copy, in a lovely binding. Read More
- [KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kruchenykh-risunki-detei-children-book-first-edition-2840/) - Pleasant example of this curious work, gathering children's texts and drawings within the frame of the buoyant Russian avant-garde. A delicate production, fragile, here is fresh internal condition. First edition. Read More
- [RANKE, Léopold von and Mrs. Alexander KERR (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ranke-kerr-serbia-first-edition-inscribed-2832/) - A much desirable copy of this first edition in English, here inscribed by the translator and in a luxury binding with the arms of Serbia. A fundamental work on the history of the country. Read More
- [NARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/narbut-krylov-tri-basni-fables-russian-2818/) - Three fables by the most famous Russian fabulist, here illustrated by the leading Ukrainian artist. Scarce in this attractive condition. Read More
- [NARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/narbut-krylov-basni-fables-russian-2817/) - Some of the most famous Russian fables here illustrated by the leading Ukrainian artist. Scarce in this lovely condition. Read More
- [DOSTOEVSKII, Fedor [also DOSTOEVSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dostoevsky-idiot-wrappers-2812/) - An early edition of Dostoesvky's great novel, in superb condition: a very rare case in any example of Russian literature of the 19th century. Read More
- [BROSSET, Marie-Félicité (Jeune)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brosset-georgian-grammar-first-edition-2811/) - Very attractive copy of this significant grammar of the Georgian language, the third such grammar to appear in the West. First edition, complete with its two folding plates, finely produced by the French State press. Uncommon. Read More
- [[DARWIN, Charles] Charlz DARVIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/darwin-expression-emotions-first-edition-translated-russian-2810/) - Darwin's third part of his trilogy, here in the first Russian edition, translated by a very interesting team of young, innovative Russian scientists. Rare in the West. Read More
- [[LANGE, Joachim]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lange-scholastic-dialogues-russian-greek-multilingual-edition-2809/) - Great multilingual school book with dialogues covering all aspects of life. An adaptation of Lange's influential work, here in a scarce edition at the dawn of Russia's Golden Age. This copy with contemporary provenance. Read More
- [SCHERER, Jean Benoît](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/scherer-ukraine-first-edition-2800/) - First edition of a significant work on Ukraine and its famous Cossacks - but not only, covering also many other aspects of the country's history and geography. A lovely copy, in a nicely decorated binding. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Pavel SOKOLOV (artist), among others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-evgenii-onegin-first-sokolov-edition-2798/) - The first edition of Pushkin's celebrated text with Sokolov's drawings, praised by contemporaries and collectors - a fine edition, here in an attractive example. Scarce. Read More
- [[BULGARIA & OTTOMAN EMPIRE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/statut-roumelie-ottoman-signed-first-printing-2796/) - An exceptional example of these regulations negotiated with the Ottoman Empire for one of its regions. This copy is signed twice by all negotiators, and belonged to one of their secretaries. Very rare. Read More
- [GAUTIER, Théophile](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gautier-russia-fine-binding-red-cloth-2793/) - Impressive American publication, here in fantastic condition, bringing to the English-speaking reader an account of Russia by one of the great French authors. Read More
- [GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharova-gorod-russian-avant-garde-mathieu-binding-2787/) - An excellent example from the 25 copies on china paper ('tirage de tête'), in a binding by one of the best French binders. First edition of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. Read More
- [GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgi-versuch-beschreibung-st-petersburg-fine-copy-2785/) - Crisp, attractive example of this important and very detailed description of the Russian northern capital and its region. Complete with both maps, on thick paper. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-rekviem-first-edition-2783/) - First edition of one of Akhmatova's greatest works.. An important tamizdat of one of the best Russian poets; one of 500 copies only. Read More
- [[HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund] Sigizmund GERBERSHTEIN and I. N. ANONIMOV (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/herberstein-moscovy-zapiski-first-russian-book-edition-2776/) - Finally available in Russia, more than 300 years after the first edition: this is the first book edition of Herberstein's groundbreaking travel account. A pleasant copy, with provenance, and showing a remarkable censor's afterthought, resulting in an interesting pagination feature. Read More
- [DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dostoevsky-house-dead-first-edition-russian-2775/) - First complete edition of Dostoevsky's famous work, here in a contemporary Russian binding and good condition. Read More
- [EROFEEV, Venedikt](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/erofeev-moskva-petushki-first-edition-paris-ymca-2771/) - First book edition of one of the most famous Russian novels of the last century and a celebrated 'tamizdat'. Uncommon on the market, here in attractive condition. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanovs-miniature-photographs-enamelled-binding-2763/) - Lovely 'book' boasting a luxurious binding with, inside, portraits of all rulers of the Romanov dynasty of Russia. Very unusual, especially complete. Read More
- [[BIBLE, Russian]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/evangelie-russian-gospels-miniature-tishchenko-2760/) - Appealing set of this first miniature edition of the Gospels in Russian, a typographic feat as the text is perfectly readable. Bound in full morocco and in excellent condition, from Vera Tishchenko's collection - a fine collector's provenance. Scarce outside Russia. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-three-volumes-1923-2759/) - Most of Akhmatova's pre-1923 poetry in three matching volumes, including some new publications. Rarely found together in satisfying condition without restoration. With continuous bibliophile provenance and poems added in manuscript. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-anno-domini-1923-2758/) - Akhmatova's poetry during the Civil War, here in the first expanded edition. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-white-flock-1922-2757/) - Fresh example of this uncommon, early edition of Akhmatova's third book. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-white-flock-edge-sea-1923-2756/) - The third collection of poetry of Russia's great poetess, here in the first edition to be printed abroad. Read More
- [[ELLIS, George]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ellis-memoir-map-caucasus-2755/) - A great work on the Caucasus and its peoples, from Chechnya to Georgia, detailing their customs and, more originally, their languages, next to a large map of the region. First edition, in very good condition. Read More
- [BASTIN, F[erdinand] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bastin-russian-imperial-guard-army-costumes-coloured-lithographs-first-edition-2752/) - Extremely rare lithographed plates with original hand-colour, mostly showing officers' costumes of the Russian Imperial Guard. A complete copy, in attractive condition. Read More
- [[QUR'AN] - SALE, George (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sale-english-quran-first-edition-2749/) - Probably the most successful translation of the Qur'an in English - first edition of this translation. Read More
- [VASCONCELOS GUEDES DE CARVALHO, José de (translator and editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/india-legal-text-leis-manu-nova-goa-imprint-first-edition-2748/) - Scarce first edition of this major legal text of ancient India, here in its first Portuguese edition, printed in Nova Goa. Read More
- [IUZHAKOV, S. N. [ed.]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/iuzhakov-great-encyclopedia-first-edition-2746/) - First edition of this important encyclopedia, here in attractive condition. Read More
- [BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakhchanian-zerkalo-art-booklet-2740/) - A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-poema-samizdat-dress-2739/) - An interesting and very unusual item: a samizdat copy of Akhmatova's masterpiece, bound in the poetess' dress, with a lengthy inscription detailing part of the provenance. Read More
- [MILLS, Edwin (compiler, photographer)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/unrra-camp-displaced-persons-photo-album-2737/) - Extensive photographic documentation of the life of a UNRRA camp officer in the aftermath of WW2 in Germany - with other ephemera and documents. Read More
- [BISSINGER, Edgar](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tainy-masonstva-freemasonry-2727/) - A fine if macabre cover design for this first Russian edition of a, anti-semitic and anti-mason (as expected) Nazi pamphlet translated for the Russian fascists. No copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [SAVVAITOV, Pavel](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/savvaitov-tsars-clothes-first-book-edition-2719/) - A detailed research on the royal dresses of Russia before Peter the Great, especially during the 17th century, with extensive scholarly remarks and definitions. Finely illustrated, complete first edition; this copy interleaved. Scarce - no copies traced in the USA nor at auction outside Russia. Read More
- [WARNERY, [Charles-Emmanuel] de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/warnery-russia-turkey-2713/) - Excellent example of this detailed account of the forces in presence during the 1768-74 war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nat-pinkerton-russian-detective-story-2711/) - Very unusual: a pulp fiction booklet, in very good condition, telling the adventures in NYC of the most famous figure in Russian detective literature. Read More
- [BADDELEY, John F](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/baddeley-russia-mongolia-china-first-edition-mitrophanow-binding-2708/) - Impressive example of the first edition, with a signed binding featuring two 1767 Russian coins. One of the greatest 20th-c. books on Eastern Russia, Siberia, and the historical relations with their neighbours. A fascinating and beautiful production. Read More
- [PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/plescheef-survey-russian-empire-first-edition-coloured-2705/) - Fine, unusual copy of this first english edition of the most accurate description of the Russian empire at the end of Catherine the Great's reign. Usually black & white: but this copy with bold, vivid contemporary hand-colour. Read More
- [[COURTOIS Alfred de]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/courtois-russian-society-luxurious-binding-2694/) - An intelligent analysis of Alexander II's famous reform and emancipation of the serfs. Uncommon, and here in a fantastic example from the author. Read More
- [[ARTAUD, attributed]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dictionaire-halles-rare-language-book-2687/) - Lovely copy of this scarce book, fascinating for the low-class language and expressions in France during Louis 14th's reign. With provenance. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-edge-sea-first-edition-2686/) - The first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship. Read More
- [[CATHERINE THE GREAT] - ARNDT, Christian Gottlieb (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/maritime-trade-statute-russia-german-2685/) - First developped legislative corpus for maritime trade and merchant shipping. First edition in German, Catherine's native language, printed in Saint Petersburg. Read More
- [[COLLINS, Samuel]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/collins-russia-lending-library-2684/) - Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, here in an unusual, uncut copy of the first French edition, from a private lending library with the label detailing its lending conditions. Includes the famous illustrated chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Read More
- [SHEKSPIR [William SHAKESPEARE] and Apollon GRIGORIEV (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shakespeare-sheilok-merchant-venice-translation-russian-2676/) - Very rare translation into Russian of Shakespeare 'Merchant of Venice'. An appealing example. Read More
- [CHERNYSHEVSKII, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chernishevskii-chto-delat-first-edition-2674/) - First book edition of this groundbreaking novel, a cornerstone of Russian literature and, by its influence, political thought. A pleasant example in contemporary binding. Very rare. Read More
- [KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kotliarevsky-bazylevych-ukrainian-aeneid-2673/) - "The father of modern Ukrainian literature" in a very visual interpretation during Soviet times, by an important Ukrainian artist. Very rare in the West. Read More
- [STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von and Johan Anton von MATERN (cartographer)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/strahlenberg-map-russia-siberia-first-edition-2665/) - Fine example of this celebrated, large map; first edition, here in its separately-published version. A very important cartographic document for Russian history and Siberia in particular. Uncommon. Read More
- [IAKOBZON, Liudvig Iakovlevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/iakobzon-sexual-disorders-men-russian-2664/) - Very rare first edition of this study covering many aspects, with few taboos and much nuance - a surprisingly complete, scholarly and cultured work on the subject. Of great rarity: no other copy traced. Read More
- [TKACHEV, Petr Nikitich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tkachev-anarkhiia-mysli-anarchist-essays-2661/) - Important little book announcing Lenin and the Russian Revolution. First separate edition, scarce, and here in an attractive binding, rather unusual for this type of text. Read More
- [GEISSLER, [Christian Gottfried Heinrich], J.G. GRUBER and J. RICHTER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/geissler-russian-amusements-russische-vergnugungen-colour-plates-2657/) - Very rare large-format plates in striking colours, by a master of the genre. Last copy traced on the market: in 1931, incomplete. Read More
- [CHERESHNEV, V. V. (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kubanets-magazine-philadelphia-2654/) - Two issues of a very rare, almost home-made magazine for Russian émigrés in the US. Read More
- [Protoierei V. DEMIDOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krivoe-zerkalo-inostrantsev-2653/) - Against Western - but also Soviet - anti-Russian propaganda. By a military priest who first emigrated to Kharbin before the USA. Read More
- [PRUTKOV, Kozma, Dmitrii MINAEV, Anna BARYKOVA, Stepan RUDANSKYI and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-humour-america-2652/) - Small-format émigré edition to make the Russophones in America laugh. Extremely rare: no copy traced except one in St. Petersburg. Read More
- [GONCHAROV, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharov-obryv-russian-novel-first-edition-2651/) - First edition in book form of this novel, Goncharov's last. A fresh, crisp example. Read More
- [SIRIN, V. [pseud. for Vladimir NABOKOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nabokov-korol-king-first-edition-2648/) - Early Nabokov: a pleasant example of the novel's first edition, in the original Russian. Read More
- [[COLLINS, Samuel]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/collins-state-russia-2647/) - Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, with an important portrait of Tsar Alexei and a famous chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Attractive example of the first edition. Read More
- [WEIZMANN Chaim](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/weizmann-israel-inscribed-2646/) - Rare first edition of this speech, finely inscribed by Weizmann. Read More
- [[RIZHSKII, Ivan (translator)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/novikov-muslim-faith-first-edition-russian-2641/) - Fine example, with interesting contemporary provenance, of this work on Muslim faith published by one of the most dynamic figures of Russian printing history. Very rare first edition. Read More
- [[BIBLE, Slavonic] -](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/evangelie-gospels-metallic-binding-2638/) - Large-format Moscow-printed Gospels in an impressive binding, very well preserved and probably from Ukraine/Western Russia. The binding is especially remarkable for its intricate design on both covers, its detailed contemporary provenance, and its appealing condition. Read More
- [BRAND, Johann Arnold von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brand-reysen-moskovien-travels-baltic-russia-first-edition-2637/) - A very rich and overlooked 17th-c. travel account, with quantity of original material on Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Siberia, including music and songs in the vernacular, as well as many engraved plates, especially on amber mining, sable hunting on ski and Easter celebrations in Moscow. A rare Rossica. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-razluka-first-edition-grey-2631/) - An attractive example of this fragile production, Tsvetaeva's first poetry collection published abroad. First edition. Read More
- [PALLAS, P[eter] S[imon]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pallas-flora-rossica-first-edition-polovtsev-krylov-copy-2627/) - One of the two most important floras of Russia, an impressive publication, here in a fine example with desirable Russian provenances: the Kushelev-Bezborodko - Polovtsev - Krylov copy. First edition, complete of both parts. Read More
- [RASKOLNIKOV, Fedor](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/raskolnikov-open-letter-2620/) - Samizdat copy of a sharp criticism of Stalin's regim. Rare and dangerous in the USSR. Read More
- [[PUSHKIN and STALIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lukomore-stalin-samizdat-2619/) - A small leaf containing a funny parody which could send you to a GULAG camp. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-zhivago-pamphlet-2618/) - A scarce, very early pamphlet with important excerpts from Pasternak's celebrated novel - banned in the USSR and published here with help of the CIA. Read More
- [[ORWELL, George] Georg ORVELL](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/orwell-skotskii-khutor-animarl-farm-second-russian-edition-2617/) - The first and highly symbolic translation into Russian of George Orwell's satirical allegory on Stalinism: the very rare second edition. Read More
- [KHANENKO, Bogdan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/khanenko-antiquites-dniepre-ukraine-complete-first-edition-2613/) - Major study of ancient artefacts found in central Ukraine and down to the Black Sea. An impressive production, both scientific and beautiful, and very rare complete of all issues. Read More
- [HALL, Mr and Mrs [ie. Samuel Carter and Anna Maria]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/book-thames-tsarina-alexandra-fedorovna-2607/) - Not only an imperial copy from the Tsarina's library, but possibly a book she had while still in England - since she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. A fine example of this bestseller. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-samizdat-adam-eve-2604/) - The very first, Bulgakov's own version of his dystopian play, here in an attractive, unusual samizdat. Read More
- [TEFFI, Nadezhda and Natalia PAREN [PARAIN] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/baba-yaga-first-russian-edition-2603/) - Fine example of this famous children book, in the original Russian by the great Russian female author Teffi. With striking illustrations by a student from VKhUTEMAS. Read More
- [YERMILOV, Vasyl (also Wassul JERMILOW) and Valerian POLISHCHUK](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/yermilov-ukrainskaia-zhivopis-2602/) - Great monograph of a leading avant-garde artist, written by his close friend, later executed by Stalin. First edition, very richly illustrated. Scarce. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-stikhi-first-edition-excellent-copy-2600/) - Superb copy of this early collection of Pasternak's poems. First edition, scarce outside Russia. Read More
- [VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/voloshin-samizdat-inscribed-2599/) - Lovely collection of Voloshin's poems, inscribed by his widow to a fellow writer. Read More
- [BARSKIY, Y. A](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/alcoholism-ukraine-pamphlet-2592/) - Great example of Soviet health propaganda, trying to make Ukrainians more sober. Very rare. Read More
- [[SHANKOVSKY, Lev]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shankovsky-upa-ukraine-early-soviet-edition-2590/) - Rare 'publication' -or samizdat- focusing on the history of its now famous Ukrainian resistance group. No other copy traced outside Ukraine. Read More
- [VERBYTSKYI, M](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/verbitskyi-holod-london-2589/) - A striking cover for a striking book: the first extensive study of the 1930s Great Famine in Ukraine. First edition, published in London. Read More
- [KHOLODNY, Petro (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ukrainska-abetka-kholodny-2588/) - Very attractive and remarkably rare ABC, created by a son of the Ukrainian Minister of Education. A fine example. Read More
- [SHKLOVSKII, Viktor and El LISITSKII [LISSITZKY] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shklovskii-lissitzky-zoo-2584/) - Cover design by El Lissitzky for this depiction of the Russian emigration in Berlin in the Golden Twenties. The preferred first edition, rarer than the Russian one published shortly afterwards. Read More
- [BOGDANOVICH, Ippolit](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bogdanovich-russian-proverbs-first-edition-2583/) - Early and daring gathering of Russian proverbs, at Catherine's request. Later destroyed, but present in Pushkin's library. Scarce first edition. Read More
- [GEFTER, Avgust Vilgelm [August Wilhelm HEFFTER] and Konstantin TAUBE (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/heffter-taube-inscribed-2582/) - Important legal treatise, here in a fine example of its first Russian edition, inscribed by the translator to his wife, and later to his son. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/artikul-voinskii-1755-2581/) - Attractive example of these important legal and military texts, rarely found. Read More
- [PETREJUS, Petrus](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/petrejus-regni-macclesfield-2580/) - Wide-ranging observations on Russia under and after Ivan the Terrible, including one of the first accounts of Siberian exile. The Macclesfield copy of the first edition. Read More
- [ODERBORN, Paul](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/oderborn-ivan-terrible-1596-2579/) - A rare but important 'russica' title, being the first biography of Ivan the Terrible. Pleasant example of an early edition. Read More
- [POSSEVINO, Antonio](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/possevino-muscovy-cologne-2578/) - Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia. Read More
- [BEAUPLAN, Wilhelm [Guillaume] le VASSEUR de, and Johann Wilhelm MOELLER (transl. and editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/beauplan-description-ukraine-first-edition-german-2576/) - First German edition, and first separate edition of a translation, of the first book dedicated to Ukraine and Crimea. A fine copy of this edition rarely found on the market, complete with its engraved illustrations. Read More
- [MANDELSHTAM, Osip and Abram TERTS [pseud. Andrei SINIAVSKII]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mandelshtam-fourth-prose-terts-literary-process-samizdat-2567/) - A fine samizdat gathering two banned texts from two repressed authors - a dangerous artifact indeed. Very rare, as we couldn't trace other Soviet-time samizdats of these works. Read More
- [[GLINKA] - VALTER, Viktor Grigorievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/glinka-ruslan-ludmila-grand-duke-konstantin-romanov-2565/) - Excellent copy, with fine, desirable Romanov provenance, of this very rare study of one of the great Russian operas. Read More
- [PROTASOV, Nikolai Petrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/protasov-siberian-music-2564/) - Rare etnographic musical work, a record of popular songs from Siberia, with the attractively decorated wrapper. First edition. Read More
- [MORNAY (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mornay-saint-petersburg-hand-colour-2562/) - A finely bound copy of this cornerstone of any Russian, or indeed colour-plate collection, showing the Northern Capital in colours and in all seasons, as Napoleon would have seen it if.... Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/old-believers-manuscript-sinodik-watercolour-scenes-2561/) - The Afterllife and its wonders in original watercolours: a wealthy visual catalogue for Russian Old Believers, remarkable for the large quantity of full-page images - one on every leaf. Read More
- [F. J. E. de R***](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fables-vers-petersburg-barante-2555/) - An exceptionnally rare French publication in Russia at the heart of the Golden Age and a few years before Custine's famous travel, with a long preface expressing the author's political views. With great provenance and finely bound. Read More
- [GELLERT, Christian Fürchtegott](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gellert-briefe-maria-fedorovna-copy-2553/) - Lovely imperial copy from the Pavlovsk library, with a touching and informative handwritten note. In fine condition. Read More
- [SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris PASTERNAK (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hamlet-pasternak-2552/) - First separate edition of Shakespeare's famous tragedy in Pasternak's fine translation. A pleasant example of this scarce edition. Read More
- [ALEXEIEFF, Alexandre (artist) and Philippe SOUPAULT](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/slovo-polku-igoreve-alexeieff-china-paper-2550/) - A beautiful work with superb colours. One of only 6 copies on papier de Chine, with an additional print signed by Alexeieff and complete with its suites, kept in the original box. First edition of the plates and of this translation of this important text of Russian literature. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS] - MIATELKOV, Fedor Petrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/miatelkov-illuminated-almanac-2543/) - Complete with bold miniatures and ornaments: a fine Old-Believer manuscript, signed by the scribe and artist. With contemporary provenance. Read More
- [GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gogol-sochineniia-marks-one-volume-fine-binding-2541/) - One of the greatest Ukrainian and Russian authors in one volume, pretty dense but here in fantastic condition, with a lovely, unusual cloth binding. Read More
- [SMIRNOV, Vasilii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/smirnov-ottoman-description-constantinople-first-edition-russian-2540/) - Fine copy of this large-format scholarly publication, bringing to the public for the first time an Ottoman manuscript kept in the then British Museum, especially remarkable for its detailed account of Constantinople. Read More
- [[BELLARMINO, Roberto and David TLUK'AANT [also TLUKAANTI], David (translator)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bellarmino-catechism-georgian-first-edition-2539/) - Fresh example of this small book, printed by the Catholiocs in Rome for missions in Georgia. First edition in Georgian, rare. Read More
- [GUBAREV, [Petr Kirillovich (artist)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gubarev-gusary-colour-costumes-russian-military-hussars-complete-first-edition-2534/) - First edition, very rare, of these large chromolithographed plates of Russian military costumes. No other copy traced on the market in recent decades; only 5 copies in institutions, including Russia. Read More
- [PEYSSONEL, Charles de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/peyssonel-commerce-mer-noire-2533/) - Fascinating account of the trade and business in Southern Russia and the Black Sea in the 18th century - with a wealth of details and personal comments. First edition, not common. Read More
- [BRODSKII, Iosif [also Joseph BRODSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brodsky-konets-epokhi-chast-rechi-poetry-inscribed-first-editions-2532/) - Great gathering of both volumes, in first editions, both inscribed to Vandelos-Legkaia, a figure of the Russian community in the USA. Read More
- [DOVLATOV, Sergei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dovlatov-nashi-short-stories-first-edition-inscribed-vandelos-legkaia-2530/) - First edition of this collection of short stories by the famous Russian author. An appealing example, inscribed by Dovlatov to a figure of the US Russian emigration. Read More
- [DOVLATOV, Sergei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dovlatov-march-lonely-first-edition-inscribed-2528/) - First edition thus, inscribed to a fellow journalist and author. Read More
- [GROSSMAN, Vasilii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grossman-vse-techet-1974-2527/) - Grossman's first novel being published abroad, and banned in Soviet Union until 1989. Pleasant example of this larger format edition. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-war-peace-first-edition-original-russian-2524/) - First edition of this great classic of Russian, and indeed world literature. A fine set, in fresh condition. Read More
- [[GORCHAKOV, M.K., Prince (publisher)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sionskie-protokoly-gorchakov-2522/) - Paris edition of these famous 'protocols', here with its cover showing a "forbidden" photography of the "Jewish government in Russia", with Trotsky and Sverdlov in the front row. Read More
- [BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/borisov-samoedy-2521/) - An artist-explorer gives his impressions of his polar trip to Northern Russia. Read More
- [GRIGORIEV, Vasilii Vasilievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grigoriev-petersburg-university-2513/) - Yudin's copy of this important early work on the history of one of the country's most important universities. Read More
- [ALAJALOV, Constantin (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fortune-magazine-alajalov-cover-2511/) - Fine issue of this famous large-format magazine, here in appealing condition with its artistic cover by the Armenian-American artist. Covering many various subjects in 1932, from Mussolini and US construction workers to horse racing and Toscanini in NYC. Read More
- [LINSKII, Mikhail, Mikhail DRIZO (pseud. MAD), Arkadii AVERCHENKO and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bich-bitche-complete-2510/) - Complete set of this scarce satirical periodical of the Russophone community in Paris. With a wealth of caricatural drawings and wide-ranging texts. Read More
- [BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/borisov-krainii-sever-inscribed-2509/) - Great images due to an artist-explorer discovering the Arctic regions of Russia. Scarce, and this copy inscribed by a leading Soviet explorer. Read More
- [KITTLE, Samuel](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kittle-cossacks-first-edition-edinburgh-2508/) - A very rare and unusual publication during the Cossack enthusiasm in the UK following Napoleon's failure in Russia. Apparently no copies in America, only 3 in the British Isles and none at auction in the past 50 years. Read More
- [HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von, Paulo GIOVIO, Paul ODERBORN and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/herberstein-1600-edition-2502/) - Important edition gathering Herberstein's famous description of early Russia together with other related works, to give a wide-ranging understanding of Muscovy. With aristocratic provenance, in contemporary binding, and complete with its famous illustrations and maps, including Moscow's first printed plan. Read More
- [CASTELNAU, Gabriel de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/castelnau-essai-ukraine-first-edition-2491/) - First edition of this major, relatively early work on southern Ukraine, Odessa and Crimea; complete with engraved views and maps. A pleasant copy in attractive condition. Read More
- [[CHEVALIER, Pierre] and Edward BROWN[E] (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chevalier-discourse-cossacks-ukraine-2490/) - Early account in English of the Ukrainian Cossacks uprising, told by one of their leaders. Uncommon first edition in English, with fine provenance. Read More
- [NIKOLAEV, A.M](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nikolaev-pol-veka-2489/) - An account of Russian diplomatic missions to the West during WWI. Fine example. Read More
- [SOLLOGUB, Apollon](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sollogub-russia-2vols-2487/) - A take on Russian history, with a large quantity of illustrations and in fine condition. Read More
- [GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgi-merkwurdigkeiten-siberia-2486/) - Some of the first systematic ethnographic observations of peoples of Russia, here focusing on Siberian and Far Eastern peoples. An edition rarely found, with plates and a map. Lovely copy in fine condition. Read More
- [PEYSSONEL, Charles de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/peyssonel-traite-commerce-2484/) - Attractive example of the first edition of this major work on 18th-century trade from Bulgaria and Romania to Georgia and the Caucasus, through Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. With a fantastic panorama of the products produced and traded. Read More
- [[UKRAINE - POLAND]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lwow-and-region-lvyv-polish-ww2-politics-2483/) - May 1945: World War II comes to an end, the Soviet are in Poland and Ukraine. It is time for the anti-Soviet Polish exiled to lobby the world's powers to restructure Poland as they wish to - that is including all its former regions, such as Eastern Galicia and Lvyv... This booklet is their detailed argumentation, with a wealth of explanations and statistics, and three maps. A fascinating read. Scarce: only 3 copies traced in the US. Read More
- [KRASINSKI, Count Henry](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krasinski-cossacks-ukraine-gonta-first-editions-2482/) - Two scarce and interesting works on the Ukrainian and Polish struggle against Russia, at the height of the Great Game. No copy traced in the last 20 years. Read More
- [SHULGIN, Vasilii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shulgin-antisemitizm-first-edition-2481/) - "Political anti-Semitism', to be distinguished from a racial one: first edition of this scarce work, which also gives an account of the situation of the Jews in Russia. Read More
- [LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lomonosov-poetry-in-russian-marks-edition-2480/) - A lovely small volume with Lomonosov's poetical production. The binding remained fresh, which is unusual. Read More
- [TUMANSKII, Fedor](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tumanskii-petr-velikii-2474/) - An early Russian biography of Peter the Great, illustrated and noted for its rarity. Pleasant example in contemporary binding. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-zhivago-two-volumes-cia-pocket-paris-edition-2466/) - Fine example of this edition, specially made for smuggling into the USSR - one of the early editions of the great novel, which saw light in just a couple of years. Read More
- [[NARBUT] - GOLLERBAKH, Erikh](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/silhouettes-narbut-first-edition-2465/) - Fin, fresh example of this booklet on one of Ukraine most famous 20th-c. artists and illustrators. One of only 300 copies. Read More
- [FOSSATI, Giorgio and Domenico, [with] Antonio BARATTI](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fossati-currus-russian-duke-2464/) - Fine and scarce Italian "livre de fêtes" with beautiful contemporary colour - with an added suite of prints related to the same event, the Venitian reception of the future Tsar of Russia. Read More
- [[ALEXANDER I]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/funeral-procession-alexander-romanov-roll-2459/) - A great, very unusual printed artefact: an early example of Russian lithography in form of a long roll, giving extensive illustrated details on the future funeral of the tsar. Very rare. Read More
- [BILIBIN, Ivan (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/biblibin-menu-regiment-2458/) - Fine example of this very rare Russian imperial menu, drawn by one o fthe greatest illustrators and artists of the time in Russia. Read More
- [ESENIN, Sergei (also Sergei YESENIN)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/esenin-stikhi-skandalista-first-edition-2454/) - Pleasant example of the frst edition of this important collection. With a famous cycle, banned in the USSR. Published in Berlin but scarce on the market outside Russia. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-samizdat-poetry-post-1965-2451/) - Poems of Russia's great poetess in a fine samizdat volume, in excellent condition. Based an an edition which contained many newly published poems. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-bloku-podruga-2449/) - Tsvetaeva's second poetry cycle published in exile, dedicated to a major Russian poet who died the year before, with the first publication of Tsvetaeva's 'Podruga' dedicated to Blok's lover. Lovely copy of this first edition. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna, et al](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-antologiia-2447/) - The young Tsvetaeva among other greats: Blok, Belyi, Solovev, Voloshin etc. Her second appearance in print, and the first of two poems of hers. With the original printed wrappers. Read More
- [VATAGIN, Vasilii Alekseevich (artist) and Nikolai SHESTAKOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vatagin-durov-corner-russian-children-book-first-edition-2446/) - An interesting children book with various aspects, taking inspiration from a real animal theatre but also adding Soviet messages. Fine copy of the first edition, very rare: no other copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [EPIKTIT [EPICTETUS], Kevit Fiveiskii [CEBES of Thebes] and Grigorii POLETIKA (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/epictetus-first-russian-edition-2442/) - An important edition: the first of Epictetus and Cebes in Russia, and one of the first translations of Greek into Russian. Very rare: no copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [BABKIN K., M. NEKRASOV, A. ALEKSANDROV, V. SVETLISHIN and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nash-vestnik-manuscript-magazine-2439/) - Exceptional manuscript describing sporting and other recreative activities in a small town of Russia immediately after the Civil War. A very entertaining read, mixing much information with humour and many illustrations. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Aleksandr BENUA [BENOIS] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-benois-queen-spades-2438/) - A novella masterpiece of Russian literature here in a celebrated edition finely illustrated by a major Russian artist and art historian. A beautiful production too, and this is an attractive example. Read More
- [GEKKER, Naum Leontevich [HECKER]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gekker-iakuty-siberian-ethnography-2436/) - A shot in the head, gold mining in Siberia, ethnography of the locals, and the use of photography: an interesting and unsual work on these people of deep Siberia. Scarce first edition of the original Russian, complete with its photographic plate. Read More
- [POLIKARPOV-ORLOV, Fedor Polikarpovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/polikarpov-dictionary-first-edition-2434/) - Crisp, fresh example, in contemporary binding, of the first dictionary printed in Russia, a beautiful achievement wih an important introduction. A major production of Eastern Europe and early Russia. Read More
- [CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean-Baptiste and Stepan Petrovich KRASHENINNIKOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chappe-auteroche-voyage-siberie-first-edition-tree-calf-2433/) - A very fresh copy of the first edition of one of the great French travels abroad, and a classic representative of French 18th-century publishing, with many artistic illustrations, engraved maps, and high quality printing. With a wealth of details on Russian, Siberia, the Russian Far East, including Kamchatka and the Northern Pacific. Read More
- [BUTMI, N.A](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/butmi-secret-societies-jews-shanghai-2432/) - Rare booklet of 'great Russian patriotism', covering one of the favorite themes of a part of the émigré community. Printed in China by Russians with Nazi sympathies. Read More
- [[BEILIS AFFAIR]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/beilis-shanghai-printing-2430/) - A rare work of historical manipulation, printed in China by Russian émigrés with Nazi sympathies. Read More
- [ROSIMOV, Georgii [pseud. of Iurii OFROSIMOV, and Alfred ZANGERL (artist)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rosimov-petrushka-na-lune-2429/) - A rare and finely illustrated children book, with an interesting original story related to the fate of the Russian émigrés in Berlin (and elsewhere). A very good example of the first edition. Read More
- [HUNTER, George W](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hunter-turki-dialects-2428/) - An unusual book: produced by a Scottish protestant in Western China, printed in mimeography and detailing and translating many Central Asian dialects related to Turkish. First edition of this remarkable item, here in appealing condition. Read More
- [CHERNYI, Sasha (pseud. for Aleksandr Mikhailovich GLIKBERG) and Boris GRIGORIEV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grigoriev-detskii-ostrov-2424/) - Grigoriev's famous children book, in the original publisher's binding; a very good example. Read More
- [BARBIER, George, and Arabella YORKE (artists), Jean-Louis VAUDOYER, Francis de MIOMANDRE and Cyril BEAUMONT](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barbier-yorke-ballets-russes-pochoirs-2415/) - Scarce gathering of Yorke's beautiful and rare publication and both Barbier's 'albums', all bound at the time in a fine blue calf signed binding - a fine volume indeed. Read More
- [POLEVOI, Petr Nikolaevich (editor) and Ivan PANOV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/polevoi-panov-rodnye-otgoloski-first-edition-russian-poetry-2409/) - Beautifully fresh example of a fine production for young Russian readers, gathering great Russian poems together with many illustrations - a lovely, charming piece of book design. Rare without any foxing like here. Read More
- [ZAITSEV, M. V. [publisher]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kharbin-zaitsev-liagushka-2408/) - Lovely children book produced in Harbin/Kharbin, in an interesting variant. Read More
- [GONCHAROV, I.E](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharov-russian-emigre-california-2405/) - Another émigré work with a wide variety of texts, articles, memoirs about the good old Russia before the Bolsheviks. Read More
- [SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shin-roshia-2404/) - Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set. Read More
- [ZICHY, Eugene [Jenő], Dr. Jean [Janos] JANKO and Dr. Bela POSTA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zichy-voyages-caucase-red-binding-2398/) - Fine copy of this great scholarly work on the population of the Caucasus, richly illustrated. First edition. Read More
- [[BAKST] - REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/reau-inedited-bakst-ballets-russes-first-edition-pochoir-2387/) - Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, especially remarkable for its pochoir technique. A lovely copy of the first edition. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-moria-first-edition-2386/) - A fine example of the first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship. Read More
- [[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] - TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanov-binding-music-popuri-2382/) - An interesting compilation of various international and Russian music, all manuscript, with a lovely watercolour title page and all kept in a refined master binding: a very attractive imperial portfolio made for the Grand Duke. Very rare. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-zhivago-michigan-2381/) - First printing of the first "legal" Russian edition of this famous Nobel Prize winner. A lovely copy of Pasternak's masterpiece. Read More
- [KOFF-LAIF, Rakhil Iosifovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/koff-laif-english-penmanship-rotaprint-2375/) - How to write English in the USSR, by a Jewish American teacher, produced in Ukraine and very rare such. Read More
- [SHCHERBATOVA, Olga Aleksandrovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shcherbatova-india-2374/) - 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. Read More
- [VIAZMENSKII, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/soviet-propaganda-postcard-avant-garde-design-2371/) - Great design for a postcard of typical economic propaganda, by a Communist enthusiast and victim of Stalin. Read More
- [NABOKOV, Vladimir](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nabokov-poetry-samizdat-2369/) - Some of Nabokov's most scandalous poems, of course banned in Soviet Union and here in an illegal "edition" home-made in Brezhnev's USSR. Very rare. Read More
- [PEVZNER, Teodor (artist) and Evgenii SHVARTS [Evgeny SHWARTZ]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pevzner-shvarts-children-book-2368/) - Celebrated Soviet children book with beautiful full-page images. First edition, in excellent condition. Read More
- [BARTO, Agniia and Georgii ECHEISTOV, Georgii (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barto-bratishki-2367/) - A fine, fresh example of this great internationalist children book. Read More
- [KHOLMSTON-SMYSLOVSKII, [Boris]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kholmston-smyslovskii-articles-2364/) - A volume of essays by a Russian anti-communist general, published in South America, where he advised the Argentinian president. Read More
- [PARNOK, Sofiia](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/parnok-vpolgolosa-inscribed-2362/) - An inscribed copy of Parnok's last collection of verses: a very rare work by a Russian woman standing out in the literary landscape of the country. Read More
- [POTOTSKII, N[ikolai] [pseud. for Nikolai SHAPOVALENKO]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/propaganda-russian-monarchy-first-edition-2358/) - First edition of this anti-USSR and anti-communist work, focusing on the right speech to have to spread monarchist views for Russia. An uncommon South-American imprint. Read More
- [MESSNER, Eugenio [Evgenii]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/messner-miatezhevoina-2354/) - The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition. Read More
- [KAFKA, Frants](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kafka-trial-protsess-samizdat-2352/) - 'The Trial' in fine samizdat: a very rare example of Kafka's circulation in the USSR, when his works were banned there. In fine condition. Read More
- [BASHILOV, Boris [pseud. for Boris IURKEVICH]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bashilov-istoriia-masonstva-2351/) - First significant work on the Russian masons - biaised as it'd be expected, but extensive. Rarely found complete and in such an attractive condition. Read More
- [GRINEV, P](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grinev-kak-umiraiut-2349/) - Fine example of this rare NY-printed pamphlet against the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular. Read More
- [LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lavrovskii-geografiia-2348/) - 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. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich, Anna SEIRON [SEURON] and Nadezhda ZHIVAGO (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-nikolai-palkin-sammelband-2346/) - Banned works, illustrated tales, and memoirs of his household: a fine group of works by and about Tolstoy, most in first editions in Russian. Read More
- [[AKHMATOVA] - ALTMANN, Nathan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/postcard-akhmatova-altmann-2345/) - The poetess' beautiful portrait by a prominent member of the Russian and Jewish avant-garde; one of his most famous works, published just two years after its creation. Read More
- [[CHAPPE d'AUTEROCHE] - [CATHERINE II, The Great]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chappe-catherine-great-antidote-first-english-edition-2344/) - First English edition of this uncommon work, organised and partly written by Catherine the Great to refute Chappe d'Auteroche's comments on Russia and its people. Read More
- [[NABOKOV, Vladimir, A. BLOK, TEFFI, A. REMIZOV and others]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rodnaia-zemlia-nabokov-2341/) - Possibly the earliest appearance of Nabokov in the West - together with several works many other important authors. A fine example in original wrappers. Read More
- [NARBUT, Georgii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/narbut-abetka-azbuka-abc-first-edition-2337/) - Great example of possibly the greatest Ukrainian ABC. Read More
- [[BARANSHCHIKOV, Vasilii Iakovlevich] - S. K. R](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/baranshchikov-adventures-first-edition-2335/) - What a story! Incredible (but true) adventures of a Russian throughout the world, and as a result an innovative book, probably the first Russian account of South America and the Caribbean, with a wealth of great details. Very rare first edition, with only one copy in the US. Read More
- [POHLIG, Emil](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pohlig-manuscript-travel-russia-2334/) - Unusual extensive manuscript travel account of a German going through Russia and recording his many observations - richly illustrated with a variety of added material. Only partly published in contemporary newspapers. Read More
- [STRAUSS, Leo](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/strauss-spinoza-2331/) - First edition of the philosopher's first book. Read More
- [STRAUSS, Leo](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/strauss-hobbes-2330/) - Attractive example of the first edition of Strauss' third work, with the dust-jacket. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS] - P. LEBEDEV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lebedev-portraits-tsars-romanovs-first-edition-2328/) - Very rare: no copy traced on the Russian market, no copy traced oustide Russia. A luxury celebration of the Russian rulers, with the use of photography, and fine chomolithography. In an impressive full-leather binding. Read More
- [SHAKESPEARE, William and I. GOLDBERG (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shakespeare-romeo-juliet-first-edition-yiddish-2321/) - Lovely example of a rare book: the first 'Romeo and Juliet' published in Yiddish, here in fine condition and inscribed by the translator to a famous Yiddish author and professor. Read More
- [MITKIN, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mitkin-yalta-crimea-photo-panorama-2318/) - Fine and scarce photographic view of the famous Crimean coastal town. In an attractive binding of the time. Read More
- [PAJOL, Charles Pierre, Comte de (Lieut.-colonel)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pajole-armee-russe-complete-first-edition-russian-military-uniforms-2316/) - A remarkable visual record of Russian military uniforms just before the Crimean War. With beautiful full-page plates. Scarce, especially complete as here. With fine provenance: from the French Bibliothèque Impériale. Read More
- [BELL, John](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bell-travels-first-2311/) - The preferred first edition in the Quarto format; with the folding map of Siberia up to China. Read More
- [ORZHIKH, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/albom-bortsov-2309/) - Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers. Read More
- [LEBEDEV, Vladimir Lvovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lebedev-antarktika-inscribed-2308/) - Important study of the Antarctic by a leading Soviet oceanographer: a first edition, inscribed by the author to a distinguished hydrologist and engineer. Illustrated, in particular with maps. Read More
- [BRAND, Adam](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brand-reise-china-erste-ausgabe-2307/) - A rich diminutive volume, with much new material on Eastern Russia and China, including Ludolf's first descriptions of Russia - scarce first edition, the Macclesfield copy. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/japanese-sakhalin-photobook-2303/) - Great visual record of South Sakhalin in the 1920s-30s: wide-ranging, artistic - and scarce. A beautifully fresh example. Read More
- [BONA, Giovanni](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bona-guide-heaven-manuductio-printed-in-moscow-russia-2300/) - First and only edition in Latin printed in Russia, of this important guide to a pretty strict religoious, and indeed Catholic, life in anticipation of death: unusual in the landscape of printing in Orthodox Russia. A well preserved copy of this rare book: no copies found outside Russia. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/onegin-pushkin-miniature-wrappers-2291/) - One of Russia's greatest masterpieces, here in a lovely 'miniature' edition - the last one published during Pushkin's lifetime - and in an attractive example with the rare wrappers. Read More
- [[KUGUSHEV, Nikolai (ed.)] - Anna BUNINA, Gavrila DERZHAVIN, Nikolai KARAMZIN, Vasilii ZHUKOVSKII and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-poems-1812-2289/) - A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-razluka-first-edition-lavender-2281/) - A very attractive example of this fragile production, Tsvetaeva's first poetry collection published abroad. First edition. Read More
- [GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/griboedov-gore-uma-1854-small-format-2271/) - Rare small-format edition of this famous masterpiece of Russian theatre, a lovely copy with its original wrappers. No copy traced in WorldCat. Read More
- [MORRIS, Roland](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/morris-vladivostok-2266/) - The US Ambassador to Japan recounts his views of Vladivostok, just a year after the Russian Revolution while the Civil War front is moving eastwards: a fine letter on embossed official paper of the Embassy, kept with its signed original envelope. Read More
- [RUF [pseud. for Ruf Sozonovich ANANIN] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ananin-kharbin-cards-2264/) - Witty depictions of the Russian diaspora in Harbin under Japanese occupation. A complete set of these fine postcards, within the printed wrappers: very rare so. Read More
- [VASILI, Count Paul [pseudonym of Catherine RADZIWILL]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sainte-russie-tsars-copy-2262/) - Superb copy n°1 of this classic work - in full morocco signed by Ritter, printed on Japon, with a unique dedication to the Tsar and his ownerships marks. Read More
- [WEISMANN, Erich and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/weismann-leksikon-deutsch-russisch-2261/) - Fresh example of this rare, imposing and early German-Latin-Russian dictionary, one of only 11 Russian works printed in Russia that year. One of the earliest works in German printed in Russia. Read More
- [FOX, Gustavus Vasa](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fox-mission-russia-2260/) - Fine example, in full red morocco, of the account of this official American mission to Russia, just 6 months before the sale of Alaska. Read More
- [COUTÉPOFF, Nicolas [KUPEPOV, Nikolay Ivanovich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/coutepoff-chasse-reliure-2259/) - '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. Read More
- [MARIN-DARBEL, Gustave Efranor, Mikhail MARKUS, Dr. JAEHNICHEN, Vasilii ZUBKOV and Christian LODER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/cholera-moscow-2255/) - Very rare pamphlets, all on the cholera in Moscow, bound together at the time: a lovely volume bringing together French, German and Russian, and witnessing the activity of the international medical community in Moscow in front of this new deadly threat. Read More
- [KOVARSKAIA, Evgeniia (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kovarskaia-pro-lisu-kolobok-2252/) - Lovely small fragile book for children drawn by a child. In fine condition in the publisher's wrappers. Read More
- [GOGOL, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gogol-mertvye-dushi-wrapper-2250/) - A pinacle of humour and Russia's second great novel (after Lermontov's 'Hero of our Times'), here in a fine example of the first edition, with the very rare and famous upper wrapper. Read More
- [BURTSOV, Vasilii (also BURTSEV)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/burtsev-bukvar-moskva-1634-2248/) - The first primer printed in Russia, first edition, in a great, complete example almost without restoration, and in its contemporary binding allowing generous margins showing an extremely rare typographic sign. A great rarity, with only one copy in public libraries outside Russia. Read More
- [NOROV, Avraam Sergeevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/norov-holy-land-first-edition-2247/) - A great copy of this major Russian account of the Holy Land: in full red morocco with fantastic provenances. Rare first edition. Read More
- [SIRIN, V. [pseud. for Vladimir NABOKOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sirin-nabokov-invitation-beheading-priglashenie-kazn-first-edition-2245/) - First ediion of Nabokov's last Russian novel printed in Paris, a work chosen by Radio Liberty to distribute clandestinely in USSR. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/old-believer-manuscript-life-basil-younger-theodora-2243/) - Beautiful, richly illustrated Old-Believer manuscript, with an unusual style and unusual pinholes in the images. A fine item in its first binding. Read More
- [SHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shafonskii-plague-gatchina-2237/) - The first Russian scientific work on the plague : an Imperial copy of a major work, in fresh condition. Read More
- [ATKINSON, John Augustus (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/atkinson-representation-russians-folio-red-morocco-2227/) - One of the most beautiful and impressive British works on Russia, with many great plates in fine colouring. Here unusually bound in a luxury full red morocco gilt signed. Read More
- [STASOV - STASSOFF, V[ladimir Vasilievich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/stasov-russkii-nardonyi-ornament-complete-2223/) - The first significant study of Russian textile ornaments, richly illustrated, and still one of the most remarkable such works. First edition, complete. Read More
- [HOLMAN, James](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/holman-travels-cloth-2222/) - The first circumnavigation by a blind person: first edition, illustrated with more than 20 plates, and very rare in the original cloth. Read More
- [STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/strahlenberg-english-2221/) - 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. Read More
- [SAINT-JULIEN, Charles de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bellizard-saint-julien-guide-st-petersbourg-first-edition-2215/) - Excellent example of the first touristic guide devoted to the Russian northern capital, an important publication, here in a fine binding. Complete with its folding map and views of the city. Read More
- [LORENS, D. G. [D. H. LAWRENCE] and Tatiana LESHCHENKO (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lawrence-chatterley-russian-2214/) - First edition in Russian of Lawrence's famous scandalous work, banned in the UK, USA and Soviet Union. An early translation by a talented Russian woman who went from Moscow to New York and to the GULAG (in that order), and inspired Solzhenitsyn. A lovely example, and very rare: no copy in Russian libraries, none in the UK, only two traced in WorldCat (Princeton and Syracuse). Read More
- [[CUSTINE] - M[ikhail ERMOLOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/custine-la-russie-en-1839-ermolov-2212/) - First edition of this 'comment' on Custine's celebrated description of Russia, part of a counter-propaganda campaign by the Russian empire. Very rare: no copy traced on the market nor in Americas. Read More
- [[DICKENS] - PLESHCHEEV, Aleksei Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dickens-pleshcheev-2211/) - Rare first significant biography of the great Victorian author in Russian, written by an active (and politically engaged) man of letters. First book edition. Apparently no copy in Britain, only at the NYPL and in Sidney outside Russia. Read More
- [[NABOKOV, Vladimir Dmitrievich, as:] SIRIN, V](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nabokov-mashenka-first-edition-2210/) - First edition of Nabokov's first novel, in the original Russian: a great example of this important edition, in the original publisher's wrappers in very good condition. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-belaia-gvardiia-1971-2208/) - An attractive example, with the rare original dustjacket, of the second complete 'tamizdat' edition of the Bulgakov's first novel. Read More
- [[SCHLEISSING, Georg Adam]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/religion-moscovites-1705-2207/) - 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
- [[BAKST] - REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/reau-bakst-dust-jacket-2203/) - Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, here with the rare dust-jacket in very good condition. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-versty-1922-2199/) - Tsvetaeva's first post-war and post-Revolution collection of poetry, here in its most important edition. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pasternak-sestra-zhizn-sister-life-annenkov-edition-2198/) - Lovely second edition of this important cycle of poetry by the future Nobel Prize winner. The first edition with Annekov's portrait, in the original wrappers. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-plantain-first-edition-2195/) - First edition of this celebrated poetry collection by one of Russia's best poets. A fresh example of the rare issue of only 60 nominal copies. Read More
- [HARDINGE, Charles Stewart](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hardinge-sebastopol-crimean-war-first-edition-2193/) - Attractive and quite rare lithograph work showing scarce scenes of the Crimean War. First edition, in its first binding. Read More
- [[GERNING] - SCHÜTZ, Christian Georg (artist) and Jose Joaquin MORA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gerning-south-america-2189/) - Exceptionally rare edition in Spanish of one of the most successful illustrated books of the time, specifically conceived for the South American market. A beautiful copy. Read More
- [LIUBAVINA, Nadezhda Ivanova (artist) and Sofiia DUBNOVA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/liubavina-dubovna-mother-children-book-original-colour-2179/) - Fine Russian children book from the avant-garde publisher, here in the preferred version with original hand-colour: one of only 125 copies. Read More
- [RUSTAVELI, Shota](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rustaveli-knight-panther-georgian-1943-2173/) - The main national epic of Georgia in a very unusual, small-format production, in Georgian, for the Third Reich's "Georgian Legion". An extremely rare edition of Rustaveli's masterpiece, and a fantastic example from the 50 deluxe copies, here in a luxurious binding. Read More
- [[PUSHKIN] - Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-ruslan-french-inscribed-2169/) - 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. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanovs-ceremonials-baptism-wedding-2168/) - 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. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nikolai-2-coronation-ceremonials-2167/) - 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
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-voina-mir-6vols-2166/) - A bibliophile set of the first edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of world literature. Very rare in contemporary, 6-volume binding. Read More
- [MILLER, Genri [Henry] and Georgii EGOROV (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/miller-cancer-russian-2156/) - First Russian edition, initiated by Miller himself as soon as 1964, of this most transgressive work, banned in the USA and in Soviet Union. Published by Rosset in New York, limited to 200 copies, and now very rare on the market. Read More
- [KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir, R. IVNEV, S. SPASSKIY and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/khlebnikov-ivnev-bez-muz-avant-garde-poetry-2153/) - Large-format poetry collection published in Nizhnii-Novgorod and including a first appearance of Khlebnikov, together with many avant-gardist poets. Very rare outside Russia. Read More
- [RODCHENKO Aleksandr, Varvara STEPANOVA et al. (artists)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rodchenko-stepanova-novyi-lef-russian-avant-garde-first-edition-2151/) - A rare complete set of the celebrated 'Novyi LEF' journal, complete with wrappers by Rodchenko. Read More
- [DANTE ALIGHIERI, Gustave DORE (illustrator) and D.D. MINAEV (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dante-dore-3volsin2-red-2150/) - Lovely copy, in the impressive original binding, of the first complete translation of Dante in Russia. With Doré's celebrated illustrations. Read More
- [BURNETT, Frances Hodgson](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/burnett-lord-fauntleroy-1886-2147/) - A very attractive example of the first edition of this celebrated children novel: in the original cloth, very bright. Read More
- [[BLACK SEA]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/black-sea-map-steam-boats-odessa-2145/) - A fascinating and extremely rare map, in excellent condition, showing the steam-boats routes on the Black Sea just a year before the outbreak of the Crimean War. Read More
- [ROZANOVA, Olga and Iosif SHKOLNIK (artists), David BURLIUK, Velimir KHLEBNIKOV and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/avant-garde-rozanova-soiuz-molodezhi-2137/) - With 11 plates by Rozanova and Shkolnik: A pleasant example of the main issue of this great 'magazine', a famous publication of the first Russian avant-garde association. Read More
- [BURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/burliuk-inscribed-2136/) - First edition of this collection of futurist poetry, inscribed by Burliuk to "the best customer" Lev Grinkrug. A lovely book, finely illustrated with plates by Burliuk and two famous Russian avant-garde female artists: Exter and Vasilieva. Read More
- [STANISLAVSKII, Konstantin Sergeevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/stanislavskii-photo-2133/) - Excellent photograph of the famous director, beautifully inscribed to a fellow man of theatre. Read More
- [SAMOKISH, N.S. and S.I. VASILKOVSKII (artists), text by D.I. EVARNITSKII](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/samokish-ukrainskaia-starina-2131/) - 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. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-serdtse-first-edition-2130/) - Uncommon first book edition in Russian of Bulgakov's suppressed satirical masterpiece. A lovely copy in its original wrappers by Annenkov. Read More
- [BLOK, Aleksandr and Iurii ANNENKOV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/blok-annenkov-twelve-first-edition-2128/) - Rare first edition of one of the best modernist books and a Russian 'livre d'artiste', published in the aftermath of the Revolution and WW1. One of 300 copies only, this one kept in its original printed wrappers. Read More
- [[RUMOVSKII-KRASNOPEVKOV, Veniamin]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/histoire-sacree-6-languages-2127/) - Six languages with 5 different fonts: a rare introduction to biblical story for children, printed on blue paper a lovely copy. Read More
- [ONCHUKOV, Nikolai Evgenevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/severnye-skazki-arkhangelsk-folk-tales-2121/) - More than 300 traditional tales are gathered here, in the local dialects: a fine work of ethnographic material on the northern regions of Russia. Read More
- [EPSTEIN, Mark (artist) and David ROIKHEL](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/epstein-kultur-lige-yiddish-children-book-2118/) - One of the great productions of the Russo-Jewish avant-garde group 'Kultur Liga', in its early Kyiv's days. Rare children book in Yiddish with many cubist illustrations. Read More
- [TCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tchaikov-kelbl-2117/) - A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration. Read More
- [LISSITZKY, El [Eliezer Lazar Markovich] (artist) and Peter Ben Zion RASKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lissitzky-der-ber-kiev-1919-2116/) - A scarce Yiddish children's book by a major figure of the Russian and Jewish avant-garde: an early Kiev production of the important Kultur Lige, illustrated on every page by Lissitzky. Read More
- [VASNETSOV, Viktor (artist) and Aleksandr PUSHKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/puhskin-vasnetsov-oleg-folio-format-2114/) - A famous work, here in the unusual large, folio format, rarer than the first edition (which was a quarto). Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-lebedinyi-stan-samizdat-2112/) - A computer-printed samizdat of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, An interesting illegal production of a text banned in Soviet Union and not published in Russia until 1991. One of the major texts by Russia's great poetess. Read More
- [MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir [MAYAKOVSKY] and Aleksandr RODCHENKO (illustrator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mayakovsky-rodchenko-discovery-america-2110/) - Mayakovsky travelling to and photographed in the USA: first edition, in fine condition, with Rochenko's original wrappers. Read More
- [BURTSEV, Vladimir Lvovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/burtsev-russo-japanese-war-2109/) - Great denunciation of the catastrophy for Russia of the war against Japan. A pre-revolutionary publication banned in tsarist Russia. Read More
- [LAUDY, Lucien](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/laudy-watercolours-uniforms-napoleon-2108/) - 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. Read More
- [ALTMAN, Natan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/altman-lenin-2107/) - A pleasant example of this work, with its famous avant-garde cover design by Altman. Read More
- [RALSTON, William Ralston Shedden](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ralston-russian-songs-imperial-2105/) - The Tsarskoe Selo copy, bound in red morocco, of this ground-breaking study written by a scholar, at some point librarian at the British Museum and famous for its interest in Russia. Read More
- [BLIOKH, Ivan Stanislavovich [also Jan Gotlib BLOCH]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/jewish-pale-settlement-russian-atlas-2092/) - The condition of the Jewish settlements in the Russian empire: a fascinating analysis -and defence- through a wealth of data and their visual representation. An exceptionally rare Russian book of statistics with a political angle. Read More
- [TILLO, Aleksei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tillo-caspian-aral-2091/) - Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Read More
- [KRAFFT, Hugues](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krafft-turkestan-inscribed-2087/) - Remarkable photographic record of nowadays Uzbekistan and neighbouring regions - a beautiful, luxury production, and a fine example, inscribed by the photographer and author. Read More
- [ILF i PETROV [ie. Ilya ILF and Evgeny PETROV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ilf-petrov-ostap-bender-1931-2082/) - After "The Twelve Chairs": rare first edition of the second part of "The Golden Calf", Ilf and Petrov's beloved masterpiece of Soviet satire. A lovely example in original wrappers and published outside the Soviet Union. Read More
- [KOK, Pol de [Charles Paul de KOCK]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kock-french-novel-in-russia-2080/) - First Russian edition, rare, in an attractive copy. A great example of cross-cultural literary exchange at the time of some of the best Russian literature. Read More
- [[ODESSA - BINDING]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/odessa-portfolio-ukrainian-binding-silver-2078/) - Odessa's Chief Prosecutor receives a fine leather portfolio with silver plaque - with the original documents preserved. Read More
- [Pavel LEONTOVICH and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ukrainian-literature-almanac-lervak-2072/) - An extremely rare and fascinating book related to the national identity of Western Ukraine, through language and literature. Read More
- [LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/levchine-kazakhstan-2055/) - 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
- [PETROV-ROPET, Ivan (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/petrov-ropet-coronation-tsar-nikolai-2048/) - Beautiful broadside for the coronation of Russia's last tsar, very decorative and in very good condition. Read More
- [I[VANOV, Sergei] (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ivanov-soviet-russian-literacy-poster-book-themed-2033/) - A fine, large book-themed poster from the young USSR, with slogans such as "Reading is needed to know how to beat the ennemies of the working class". In superb condition. Read More
- [MONTESKE [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/montesquieu-lettres-persanes-russe-2006/) - Rare first illustrated edition of the 'Lettres persanes' in Russian, in contemporary binding with lovely Russian endpapers. Read More
- [BRUIN [BRUYN], Cornelis de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/de-bruyn-le-brun-reizen-moskovie-fresh-dutch-edition-2005/) - One of the great accounts of Russia under Peter the Great, as well as Persia, especially remarkable for the wealth of illustrations. Here in a beautifully fresh example of this Dutch edition. Read More
- [SIMPSON, William](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/simpson-seat-war-east-crimean-deluxe-copy-text-volume-1990/) - A most famous plate book on the Crimean War. First edition, a very good example complete of the deluxe version, with the smaller text volume. Read More
- [OUVAROFF, Count [Sergei Semenovich UVAROV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ouvaroff-stein-pozzo-borgo-signed-1983/) - Interesting historical sketch by and of important statesmen, here inscribed by the translator to Napoleon III. A rare essay. Read More
- [NAKHIMOV, Akim Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nakhimov-sochineniia-ukrainian-fables-1982/) - Early Russian fables (and other poetical works) at the dawn of Russia's Golden Age of Literature - the authors only book, written and printed in Kharkov, nowadays Ukraine. No copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [[SRNEC, Jakub] and Franciscus Andreas HORNY [bound with] CATO, Dionysius (?) and John Amos COMENIUS (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/czech-proverbs-prislovi-ceska-adagia-bohemica-1969/) - Attractive small volume, in fine condition, of these two very rare editions focusing on Czech proverbs, theatre, poetry and language. With fine provenances. Read More
- [DEMIDOFF, Anatole de [Anatolii DEMIDOV], and Denis Auguste RAFFET (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/demidoff-raffet-folio-ney-1965/) - An unusual and attractive copy of this classic plate book, here with plates in various states and with contemporary provenance. Read More
- [[UKRAINE - TEXTILE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ukrainian-folk-art-lace-textile-1938/) - An excellent set of this series on the Ukrainian art of lace and textile decoration, richly illustrated. Very rare, on the market like in libraries. With fine literary and artistic provenance. Read More
- [[RUSSIAN ART] -](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tretyakov-russian-paintings-rare-portfolio-1932/) - Fine, high-quality production showing some of the most famous Russian paintings. An extremely rare Geneva publication. Read More
- [ZIENKOWICZ, Leon Józef](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zienkowicz-costumes-poland-1930/) - 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. Read More
- [[BAIRD, Charles] - SUHR, Peter (artist, attrib. to)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/baird-suhr-large-lithograph-first-russian-steamboat-1925/) - Large representation of this innovative boat, one of the first passengers steamboats in the world with regular sea voyages. Very rare lithograph, before the letter and with contemporary hand-colouring, with no other copies traced in institutions. Read More
- [GEORGI, Johan Gottlieb](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgi-description-nations-russia-first-edition-complete-1923/) - First edition of this fundamental work on the Russian empire and its peoples, the result of a multi-year field trip by Georgi. The first work published in Russia with plates coloured by hand. Rare complete as here. Read More
- [[SAINT-PETERSBURG]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/saint-petersburg-otchet-upravleniia-1922/) - Excellent copy of this extensive report, with many fascinating details on the administration of Saint Petersburg under Tsar Alexander III. Very rarely found outside Russia; and such in an appealing condition. Read More
- [ASHIK, Anton Baltazarovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ashik-greek-bosphorus-red-morocco-1921/) - The first significant work on the Greek antiquities on the Black Sea shores. A complete copy of this famous archeological book finely produced in Odessa, here in a luxurious binding. With unusual provenance. Read More
- [JERVIS, Thomas Best](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/jervis-wall-map-crimea-first-edition-presentation-copy-1914/) - Very detailed, large map of Crimea, with much information and produced in time for the Criman War. First edition, here a rare presentation copy inscribed by Jervis, with further provenance. Read More
- [[SAINT-PETERSBURG] –](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/peterburg-adresnaia-kniga-birzhy-1912/) - Fine example, in the original boards, of this very rare inventory of the main business actors in Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital, under Tsar Alexander II. No other copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [[OPERA COSTUMES IN UKRAINE AND AZERBAIJAN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/opera-costumes-ukraine-1904/) - From Ukraine to Azerbaijan: a rich and unusual group of watercolour costumes for various operas given in theatres of these countries. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS] - BLINOV, Ivan Gavrilovich (scribe)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/blinov-illuminated-religious-manuscript-1860/) - Beautiful illuminated manuscript produced by one of the best scribes of the early 20th-century Russia; very fresh and in its original binding. Read More
- [[PALLAS, Peter Simon]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pallas-voyage-siberie-1857/) - The great German polymath in an uncommon lifetime edition, often overlooked. A pleasant example of these accounts of Pallas' wide-ranging descriptions of Western and Central Siberia. Read More
- [[BIBLE, Slavonic] -](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/slavonic-apocalypse-old-believers-1846/) - A luxury production of the Old Believers' printing press, with gold highlights, very much imitating their richly illustrated manuscripts. Read More
- [[CATHERINE II, the Great]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/catherine-great-russia-nakaz-quadrilingual-1845/) - A lovely example of this famous edition of Catherine's celebrated Great Instructions, much inspired by important European philosophers of the Englightenment. Read More
- [GEORGI, Johan Gottlieb](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgi-description-nations-complete-first-edition-1841/) - A complete copy of this groundbreaking work. First edition. Read More
- [WEYDEMEYER, Alexandre de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/weydemeyer-russian-empire-maps-1836/) - First edition of this impressive wide-ranging work, finely printed by Pluchart in St. Petersburg. A scarce publication, with a wealth of information on the Russian empire up to Pushkin's time. Read More
- [CHEREPANOV, V. (publisher)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/views-solovetskii-monastery-1830/) - A lovely work showing many views of a great Orthodox monastery, and future Soviet camp. Printed in a major port of the White Sea. Read More
- [JOHNSTON, Robert](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/johnston-travels-red-morocco-1826/) - First edition of this classic travel account, here in attractive example in red morocco. Read More
- [BOZHERIANOV, Ivan Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bozherianov-nashestvie-napoleon-invasion-russia-first-edition-1816/) - First edition of this extensive artistic record of Napoleon's catastrophic Russian campaign. A fine production, with imperial provenance. Read More
- [VISHNEVSKII, Stepan Mikhailovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vishnevskii-tatar-people-original-photography-1814/) - Fine portraits of three people from Tatarstan, in traditional dress. Rare to find such early photographs of Tatar people, and in such fresh condition. Read More
- [LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilievich, Vasilii Kirillovich TREDIAKOVSKII and Alexander Petrovich SUMAROKOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/choix-litterature-russe-russian-literature-anthology-1811/) - Attractive example of the first French anthology of Russian literature, with some of the best authors of the 18th century. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Sergey LIFAR and Prof. M. L. GOFMAN (editors)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-lifar-arzrum-one-of-50-1797/) - Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, one of 50 'ad nominem' copies only, this one for Valerian Svetlov. Read More
- [TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/turgenev-nov-first-1795/) - Pleasant example of this scarce and important Russian novel - first edition, printed outside Russia. Read More
- [SUMAROKOFF, Paul](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sumarokov-crimea-swedish-1769/) - Early Russian work on the Crimea, here translated in Swedish. Uncommon. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/atlas-germans-in-russia-1760/) - The Russian Germans mapped: very rare early statistical atlas of these famous communities. Read More
- [KUPRIN, Aleksandr and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kuprin-duel-poedinok-first-edition-znanie-bunin-gorky-1755/) - Scarce first publication of Kuprin's most famous work, together with texts by Bunin and Gorky. A pleasant example. Read More
- [SEBAH, Pascal](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sebah-photography-georgian-man-1744/) - Lovely carte-de-visite portrait by the leading photographer based in Constantinople. Read More
- [[ALMANAC] - RUMOVSKII, Sergei (editor), Login BAKMEISTER and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mesiatsoslov-rare-russian-almanac-1782-1722/) - An attractive example of this extremely rare almanac, unusually preserving its gilt floral wrappers and presenting notes of its contemporary Russian female owner. With an overview of national and international events, including American ones in the aftermath of the independence. Read More
- [[TYPOGRAPHY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/caratteri-orientali-accademia-lincei-oriental-types-catalogue-1670/) - Extremely rare catalogue of oriental types used by the press of one of the most important scientific academy. In great condition - and only one other copy traced (in California). Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-posle-rossii-1650/) - The last poetry of Russia's great poetess, banned in the USSR: a fine example of the first edition, in the original wrappers. Includes one of Tsvetaeva's most famous poems. Read More
- [BONAPARTE-WYSE, William Charles](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bonaparte-wyse-romania-1640/) - A fascinating multi-cultural work, from Ireland and the UK to France and Romania - in a fine, large-paper example inscribed by the author, a relative of Napoleon. Very rare. Read More
- [[EVREINOV, Nikolai] - KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kamenskii-evreinov-1618/) - Avant-garde theatre - including Wilde and Beardsley - through the eyes of an avant-garde poet, artist and aviator. Published the year of the Revolution, by an important theatre woman. Read More
- [FLETCHER, Dzhails [Giles]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fletcher-russe-commonwealth-first-russian-edition-geneva-1611/) - First Russian book edition -banned- of Fletcher's famous -and banned- description of Russia which first appeared in 1591. A very rare edition, printed in Geneva by Russian revolutionaries, in a fine, fresh example. Read More
- [LA BARTHE, Gérard de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/la-barthe-four-engravings-moscow-1607/) - A fine group of these famous views of Moscow, the best drawn in the 18th century. Read More
- [BAKST, Leon](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakst-feia-kukol-ballet-costumes-1604/) - A complete set of these lovely postcards showing ballet costumes by the master of the genre, who would later be central to Diaghilev's 'Ballets Russes'. Read More
- [KARAZIN, Nikolai Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/karazin-orenburg-tashkent-central-asia-first-edition-1590/) - Fine illustrated record of Central Asia, by a leading Russian artist and book illustrator. First edition, rare outside Russia, with no copy in the UK. Read More
- [[BARRIÉRA]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barriera-manuscrit-tablettes-1588/) - A lovely manuscript booklet finely bound, showing all important events of Russia's history up to 1784 - very unusual, attractive and informative, possibly connected to Tsar Nicholas I. Read More
- [LEBEDEV, Ivan (illustrator) and Ilia ERENBURG (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lebedeff-erenburg-three-knights-first-edition-tirage-tete-japon-paper-1587/) - First edition of this scarce production, an unusual, very interesting Russian publication by two émigrés based in France during WW1. Fine example, from the "tirage de tête" of only 25 copies on Japon paper Read More
- [DOVLATOV, Sergei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dovlatov-zona-first-edition-inscribed-vandelos-legkaia-1584/) - First edition Dovlatov's famous work, inscribed to a figure of the Russian emigration in the US. Read More
- [[BRUCE'S CALENDAR]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bruce-calendar-early-edition-1574/) - Complete example of an early, fully engraved edition of this famous, richly illustrated civil calendar, with predictions to the 20th century. A fine example with provenance charmingly handwritten. "A great rarity" writes Bitovt. Read More
- [[LEIMAN (attributed to)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/leiman-photographic-panorama-tuapse-black-sea-1555/) - A small Russian port on the Black Sea with railway works and development: an informative and very rare photographic panorama, impressively long: almost 1.9 metre! Read More
- [SHEKSPIR, Uilliam [William SHAKESPEARE] and Aleksandr SOKOLOVSKII (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shakespeare-russian-midsummer-julius-1554/) - Two first editions in one volume, by the man who translated all Shakespeare's significant plays for the first time. A pleasant example of this rarity: no other copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [FISCHER, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, and Carl Anton von MEYER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fischer-meyer-petersburg-palm-house-russian-natural-history-first-edition-1539/) - Unusual work of Russian natural history, finely produced in Saint Petersburg and focusing on the Botanical Garden's Palm House there. In large format and with hand-coloured plates. First edition, rare. Read More
- [[TEA] - BOTKIN, Petr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/botkin-russian-teas-broadside-1537/) - Rare broadside by the pioneer of the Russian tea industry, advertising teas and fabrics from international origins, available in 1830s Pushkin's Moscow. Read More
- [[MARBAULT, M. de, also MARBEAU]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/marbault-commerce-alaska-1534/) - Lovely, crisp copy of this classic work on Russian trade, esp. interesting for its description of the North Pacific and Alaska - but also of the Black Sea and Ukraine. With German royal provenance. Read More
- [SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/solzhenitsyn-ivan-denisovich-first-edition-watchtower-1530/) - First edition of Solzhenitsyn's first book - here with the very rare variant of the cover showing a watchtower. A fine example of this great novel. Read More
- [GROSSMAN, Vasilii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grossman-vse-techet-1973-pocket-1525/) - Grossman's first novel being published abroad, and banned in Soviet Union until 1989. A fine example of this pocket-size edition, aimed at being smuggled into the USSR. Read More
- [GEISSLER, C[hristian] G[ottfried] H[einrich] (artist), Frederic HEMPEL, [and Johann RICHTER.]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/geissler-mahlerische-darstellungen-1521/) - First edition of one of Geissler's productions on Russia's inhabitants, their customs, costumes and way of life. With great aquatint plates finely coloured. Read More
- [OBRUCHEV, Sergei Vladimirovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/obruchev-iakutiia-1507/) - First edition of this important expedition exploring the last unknown region of Russia, and discovering there an impressive mountain: the Chersky Range. Complete with illustrations and the first map of the area, in north-east Siberia. Read More
- [[HOSER, Joseph Carl Eduard]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hoser-teplitz-czech-first-edition-1506/) - A scarce description of Central Europe's oldest spa town, now in Czech Republic, with a fine double-page view with original hand-colour. Attractive example with royal provenance. Read More
- [BUNIN, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bunin-two-first-editions-inscribed-1504/) - A lovely volume with two first editions, including one inscribed by Bunin. Both works are rarely found. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Boris TOMASHEVSKII (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-gabrieliad-1922-1478/) - Pushkin's most famous censored work, here in a lovely and important scholarly edition, finely produced. Read More
- [[STALIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/soviet-texts-praising-stalin-first-edition-propaganda-1473/) - A remarkable compendium of texts praising Stalin for his 70th jubilee - with translations into Russian from many various languages and dialects of the USSR. A fine production of the Soviet propaganda machine. Read More
- [DZHUNKOVSKII, Vasilii Iakovlevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/first-russian-book-on-faience-wedgwood-1441/) - Extremely rare work, with no copy traced outside Russia. The first Russian book on faience, with an overview of the internatial state of knowledge in the field. Illustrated with a plate of an English oven. An attractive example, with contemporary provenance. Read More
- [HAMONIÈRE, G](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hamoniere-russian-french-dictionary-barante-1431/) - Attractive example of this rare dictionary, finely printed the year of Napoelon's demise, and here with excellent provenance. Read More
- [KANT, Immanuel](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kant-kritik-praktischen-vernunft-first-edition-1424/) - Kant's famous second Critique in a lovely example of the first edition. Read More
- [DAVIDENKOV, Iurii (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russkii-avstralii-novemb1957-1423/) - A 1957 issue of the magazine of the Russian community in Australia, with news, comments, literature and religious, military and anti-Soviet pieces. Read More
- [LOTI, Pierre](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/loti-pecheur-islande-edition-originale-first-edition-1422/) - Loti's most celebrated novel: a fine example of the first edition, here with a record number of states of the plates, bound in full green morocco retaining the original bright orange publisher's wrappers. Read More
- [SVITKOV, Nikolai [pseud. for Nikolai STEPANOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/svitkov-masonstvo-masonry-second-edition-1414/) - Uncommon second edition of Svitkov's main work on Russian Masonry, published in Brazil. Read More
- [MISHO, Genrikh](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/teatr-sveta-obiavlenie-1412/) - Rare broadside for series of entertainments in Moscow, including an optical theatre of animated figures by a versatile performer and craftsman. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-lebedinyi-stan-1381/) - First edition of this important cycle about the Revolution and the Civil War, impossible to publish in the USSR and even abroad for several decades. A very good copy. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-kantes-kazanovy-1380/) - Tsvetaeva's play in verses and 'declaration of love for Casanova'. The only life-time book edition - with the original decorated wrappers. Read More
- [TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsvetaeva-poet-vremia-1378/) - Scarce first publication of Tsvetaeva's important essay on poetry. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-power-darkness-frist-edition-banned-play-eden-martin-copy-1375/) - First edition of Tolstoy's play, forbidden for the stage during some years. A very good example in contemporary binding. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna, Isaac BABEL, Iosif BRODSKII, Osip MANDELSHTAM, Vladimir NABOKOV, Boris PASTERNAK, Marina TSVETAEVA et al](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-brodsky-airways-complete-1354/) - The first publication of Akhmatova's 'Poem Without a Hero' [Poem bez geroia] - as well as many other works by some of the best Russian poets and authors of the 20th century: a complete set of this important literary almanac, rare so. Read More
- [CHEKHOV, Anton](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhov-vishnevyi-cherry-orchard-second-edition-1351/) - Uncommon edition of Chekhov's masterpiece, with only the publisher's wrappers different from the first edition. A pleasant example. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-serdtse-student-flegon-first-publication-heart-dog-1350/) - First publication in Russian of Bulgakov's suppressed satirical masterpiece, banned in Soviet Union until 20 years later. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail Afanasevich and Michael GLENNY (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-master-margarita-first-edition-english-unabridged-1348/) - The first unabridged English translation of Bulgakov's satirical fantasy and one of the best novels of Russian literature. A fine example of the first edition, first issue, in the original dust-jacket. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-master-margarita-first-edition-russian-1347/) - Pleasant example, in the original wrappers, of the first edition of this amazing novel, one of the best ever written in Russia. Banned in Soviet Union. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail (and others)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-khanskii-ogon-1345/) - 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. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-tarasov-letter-signed-1337/) - 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. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-khoziain-rabotnik-first-1334/) - Pleasant example, finely bound with the original wrappers, of this important short story by one of the greatest Russian authors. First issue of the first edition. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-kritika-bogosloviia-critique-theology-first-edition-1333/) - Rare first edition of Tolstoy's important critical religious text, published in Geneva as it was impossible to have it authorised in the Russian empire. No copy traced on the market in recent decades - this one a pleasant example. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Leo](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-poslednie-rasskazy-1331/) - Tolstoy the Wise and the Experienced, here in a series of writings difficult to publish in full in Tsarist Russia. A very rare edition, here in its original wrappers. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-first-distiller-1330/) - First edition of Tolstoy's successful play on wine and some of its effects... Lovely example in wrappers. Scarce. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-novella-ivan-durak-banned-edition-1329/) - Tolstoy banned in Russia: a rare edition of this novella, kept in its fragile wrappers. Printed in Leipzig; and also an unusual example of decorative wrappers on a Russian literary work. Read More
- [REMIZOV, Aleksei Mikhailovich and Leon BAKST (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/remizov-bakst-tsar-dodon-first-edition-1328/) - Fine example of the first edition of this Russian erotica, this copy with a printed limitation statement. Rare outside Russia and in such nice condition. Read More
- [KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kuzmin-vtornik-meri-first-edition-1320/) - One of 100 numbered copies, in lovely condition: an attractive example of this diminutive edition. Read More
- [ESENIN, Sergei Aleksandrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/esenin-radunitsa-russian-poetry-first-edition-1310/) - First edition of this important book of poetry, Esenin's first offered for sale. In the original wrappers. Scarce: no copy traced in public institutions outside Russia. Read More
- [ERENBURG, Ilia Grigorevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/erenburg-stikhi-poems-first-edition-review-copy-1309/) - An interesting, annotated example of this first edition of Erenburg's first book, here in its original wrappers. Rarely found - one of 100 copies only. Read More
- [CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhov-three-sisters-first-edition-russian-1305/) - First separate edition of this major play, very rare. Read More
- [[RYCAUT, Paul] RYKOT](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/rycaut-turkish-polish-1295/) - First edition of this new translation in Polish (second edition overall) of this great account of the Ottoman empire. Very rare: only two copies traced in public libraries. Read More
- [KUPARENKO, Iordakii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-optical-theatre-moscow-1293/) - Rare broadside for an impressive Russian kinetozographic theatre of 400 animated figures in Pushkin's Moscow, by a hot-air balloon enthusiast now in the Guinness World Records. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Sergey LIFAR (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-lifar-arzrum-1935-1291/) - Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, with the first publication of his draft. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-1805g-1287/) - The very first publication of any part of Tolstoy's masterpiece 'War and Peace'. Read More
- [SANTALOV, A[rsenii] A[lexeevich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/santalov-oil-cold-war-1286/) - "The struggle for oil between England and the USA", "US oil monopolies go on the offensive" and "The role of oil in the Second World War" - among the 7 parts of Santalov's lecture on oil, the West and the Soviet Union. Uncommon. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-beg-vremeni-first-1285/) - First edition of Akhmatova's last book published during her lifetime, and the most complete collection of her poems to that date, with many published here for the first time. Complete with the dust-jacket illustrated with Modigliani's portrait of the great Russian poetess. Read More
- [SKRINNIKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/skrinnikov-ippologiia-1283/) - First edition of this influential Russian work on horse education and hippiatry, illustrated with 3 plates. Very rare: no copy traced on the market nor in libraries. Read More
- [[TOBACCO] - ARTO, Amedei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tobacco-russian-broadside-moscow-1830s-1282/) - Detailed price list of tobacco products offered in Moscow during Pushkin's time, showing a broad and very international range. A rare, unusual ephemera in excellent, fresh condition. Read More
- [[BAITING DOGS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/broadside-baiting-dogs-moscow-1281/) - Two consecutive illustrated Russia broadsides announcing different rounds of large wild animal baiting in Pushkin's 1830s Moscow, involving the now-extinct Medelyan dogs. Read More
- [GROSZ, George](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grosz-hintergrund-caricatures-first-edition-inscribed-1278/) - First edition of these excellent and uncompromising caricatures of war, by the great provocative German artist. A fine example, with the original fragile envelope and inscribed by Grosz to an important anarchist and collector. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-samogo-moria-first-edition-1277/) - A fine example of the first edition of this important autobiographical poem by one of the best Russian poets, and a victim of Soviet censorship. Read More
- [BARBIER, George and Francis de MIOMANDRE](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barbier-nijinsky-1913-1273/) - Beautiful art-deco interpretations of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, seen here through the combined geniuses of Barbier and Nijinsky, in the early and most successful years of Diaghilev's entreprise. A rare book in such a lovely condition. Read More
- [IRIBE, Paul (artist) and Jean COCTEAU](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/cocteau-iribe-nijinsky-1258/) - Excellent example of this classic celebration of the star of Diaghilev's Ballets russes. First edition. Read More
- [NOS, Andrei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nos-russian-fleet-fine-binding-first-edition-1252/) - A diplomatic gift from Nikolay II to the French President Felix Faure, in a great, striking binidng boasting the Russian flag. First edition of this fine illustrated work, very rare as only one other copy traced worldwide. Read More
- [FRANKLAND, Robert](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/frankland-shooting-1249/) - Lovely humourous plates with original hand-colour, in a Sangorski binding. Read More
- [[WICHSELL, Jöran]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/wichsell-ryssland-unbound-1247/) - An exceptionnal example, uncut, unopened and unbound, of a banned and later destroyed account of Peter the Great's Russia. First edition, rare. Read More
- [BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/barbier-karsavina-inscribed-scheikevitch-1240/) - A classic Ballets-Russes work inscribed to a Russian-born Parisian lady, while she was helping Proust publishing the beginning of his 'Recherche': a fine example of the first edition of this famous work. Read More
- [KAMPE [CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich; and Aleksandr Semenovich SHISHKOV, translator]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kampe-shishkov-children-library-very-rare-russian-edition-1228/) - More than a translation, an original adaptation, dedicated to Princess Dahskova, the first woman head of an Academy of Sciences and first female member of the American Philosophical Society. A very rare early edition of this important book for Russian children - and a lovely example with a sewn translation label! Read More
- [ACKERMANN, Rudolph](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ackermann-moscow-in-colour-1227/) - The first colour-plate book on Moscow: a lovely example, uncut in original publisher's boards, with the 12 plates in fine original hand-colour. Published in the wake of Napoleon's catastrophic Campagne de Russie. Read More
- [[BEARDSLEY] - Nikolai Nikolaevich EVREINOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/evreinov-beardsley-1912-1225/) - 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. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/morskoi-ustav-tariff-dictionary-russian-german-1211/) - An exceptional sammelband for Russo-German sea trade under the Germanophile Tsarina Anna Ivanovna, containing three rare and early Russian publications: the first bilingual editions of the new duty statute and of the customs tariff, together with a trilingual dictionary. A lovely, fresh example in contemporary binding. Read More
- [KARNOVICH, Evgenii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/wealth-tsarist-russians-1210/) - Fresh example of this extensive, high-quality, and very unusual study of private wealth in tsarist Russia. A fascinating and very informative read, curiously authorised by the censors. Read More
- [GONCHAROV, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharov-fregat-pallada-first-edition-1207/) - One of the best travel accounts by a Russian literary author: Goncharov's travel to Japan, Hong Kong and Africa. An excellent example of the first edition. Read More
- [BOZHOVSKII, Vasliii Konstantinovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vystavka-1812-napoleonica-1202/) - The impressive, thick and richly illustrated catalogue of the centenary exhibition celebrating the Patriotic War against Napoleon. Very rare in wrappers, complete with all plates. Read More
- [[NAPOLEON] - ALEXANDRE I](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanov-alexander-first-manifesto-post-napoleon-1201/) - First edition in French of this political speech by the Tsar who vanquished Napoleon. Attractively bound. Read More
- [CHAGALL, Marc (artist) and Der NISTER [pseud. for Pinchus KAHANOVICH]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chagall-nister-first-edition-1195/) - Chagall's first illustrated book, his only children book, and a landmark of Yiddish book illustration, published the year of the Russian revolution. Very rare, especially in this very good condition: about 5 other copies known. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/traktat-commerce-russian-ottoman-1783-1189/) - Uncommon treatise between Catherine's Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and inbetween two Russo-Turkish wars of the 18th century. Read More
- [[ROMANIA]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romania-constitution-regulamentul-organik-first-edition-1188/) - Pleasant, crisp copy of this important legal text of modern Romania, published by a major literary figure. First edition, scarce. Read More
- [THOMPSON, James](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/eisen-illustrated-thompson-maria-fedorovna-imperial-provenance-1184/) - A Russian Imperial copy of Eisen's charming plates to illustrate a best-seller of the 18th century. Read More
- [EFREMOV, Filipp](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/efremov-bukhara-khiva-persia-1172/) - Very rare fiist editoion of this travel to areas "almost completely closed to Europeans" (Vigasin): the first significant Russian publication on Central Asia, "the first geographic exploration of Uzbekistan" (Lebedev) with a detailed description of silk production, and most probably the first printed Russian-Persian vocabulary. Read More
- [SITINE [Ivan SYTIN] (publisher)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sytin-lubok-85plates-1163/) - Some great imagery in a rare volume of 85 plates - mostly military but only, with many themes strikingly depicted. A rare item of Russian folk art, here in fine condition. Read More
- [SANCHES, António Nuñes Ribeiro](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sanches-russian-banya-rare-edition-1161/) - Attractive copy of this important and very interesting work on the famous Russian baths - by a Portuguese and very European scholar. Rare - only one copy in WorldCat. Read More
- [AZOULAI Abraham ben Mordechaï](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/azoulai-abraham-1802-1160/) - Rare edition of this important cabalistic treatise, a lovely production of a provincial Ukrainian city. Read More
- [FIDLER, Konstantin [also FIEDLER]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fidler-slovo-godunovu-1158/) - Very rare first edition in Russian of this praise of Boris Godunov, with great and unusual provenance: possibly Catherine the Great and then Smirdin's famous lending library. A lovely example. Read More
- [KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan Petrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kotliarevskii-eneida-1809-1149/) - The first literary work wholly written in modern Ukrainian: a important edition of the main book written by "the father of modern Ukrainian literature" (Encycl. Britannica). This is the first edition authorised by the author and the first to include 4 parts, with a dictionnary of more than 1000 Ukrainian words. A very rare book: only two copies in WorldCat and no copy traced outside Russia and Ukraine in recent decades. Read More
- [LIFAR, Serge](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lifar-diagilev-large-1142/) - A bibliophile's pleasure (and definitely Lifar was one!): an extra-large paper copy of his standard work on Diaghilev, one of 15 ad nominem copies, warmly inscribed to the wife of a leading Russian publisher and bookdealer in Paris. An exceptional example. Read More
- [SHAFONSKII, Afanasiy Filimonovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shafonskii-plague-imperial-1131/) - A rare case of a Russian 18th-c. book in Mariia Fedorovna's library: the first Russian scientific work on the plague. An exceptional copy of a major work. Read More
- [SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shalamov-kolyma-dolberg-1116/) - First edition of this classic of "GULAG literature", with literary provenance. Read More
- [PASTERNAK, Boris](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zhivago-feltrinelli-dolberg-1115/) - A very good example of this important edition of the Nobel Prize laureate, with literary provenance. Read More
- [[BAKST] - LEVINSON, André](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakst-story-levinson-copy1-1109/) - The most celebrated artist of the Ballets Russes, celebrated here in this beautiful production - of which it is the copy num. 1 out of only 315 printed for the UK. Read More
- [CHEKHOV, Anton Pavlovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhov-povesti-siniagin-1103/) - Some of the best short stories of the great Russian author (such as 'The Black Monk'), here in an attractive example with fine bibliophilic provenance. Read More
- [BULGAKOV, Mikhail](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bulgakov-sobache-fresh-samizdat-1075/) - Bulgakov's short masterpiece here in 'samizdat' version, ie. typed at home illegally - an unusually fresh example. Read More
- [OSTROVSKII, Aleksandr Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ostrovskii-collected-works-6vols-1074/) - Collected works of one of the most important Russian playwrights - the first posthumous edition. Read More
- [GOPPE, German (publisher)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/khronika-voiny-russo-turkish-1072/) - 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. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Mstislav DOBUZHINSKY (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-onegin-dobuzhinskii-1066/) - Pushkin's novel in verses in the original Russian, here illustrated by Dobuzhinsky: the first edition of the full set of illustrations. Read More
- [VATAGIN, Vasilii Alekseevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vatagin-azbuka-1058/) - 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). Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich [TOLSTOI]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-zhivoi-trup-1054/) - First separate edition of Tolstoy's play, a large-format quality production, with illustrations. A lovely example, unopened in the charming art-nouveau wrappers.Tolstoy wrote in his diary, "that in A Living Corpse there are notes inspired by Chekhov's work. Such is the secret of artistic creativeness". Read More
- [[THORY, C.-A.]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/thory-grand-orient-1037/) - Edition originale de la première histoire de la principale loge française - une rareté reconnue, ici bien complète de ses planches et avec provenance maçonnique. Read More
- [AKHMATOVA, Anna [translator]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akhmatova-korean-chinese-poetry-first-editions-association-copies-inscribed-1026/) - Excellent association copies of these two works, both inscribed by the great Russian poetess to her fellow translator A. Kholodovich. Read More
- [GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/goncharova-gorod-russian-avant-garde-1023/) - An excellent example of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. First edition. Read More
- [[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/istoriia-solovetskogo-991/) - Very good copy of this uncommon illustrated history of one of the most famous monasteries of Russia. With two large folding plans. Read More
- [POUCHKINE, Alexandre and Boris ZWORYKINE (artist) [PUSHKIN and ZVORYKIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-zvorykin-watercolour-988/) - One of the great productions of the Parisian Russian artists - this one from the "tirage de tête" on Japon with a watercolour by Zworykine. Read More
- [NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO, Vasilii Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nemirovich-d-tsarskoe-selo-copy-987/) - First edition of these great realistic Russian novellas: the Tsarskoe Selo copy. Read More
- [[LENIN, pseud.:] Vladimir ILIN [pseud. for Vladimir Ilyich ULIANOV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lenin-razvitie-kapitalizma-development-capitalism-russia-first-edition-986/) - First edition of Lenin's first substantial work, and one of his first two books published in 1899. A landmark economic analysis. Read More
- [KONDAKOV, Nikodim Pavlovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russkie-klady-imperial-copy-982/) - Grand Duke Alexey's copy of the first scholarly work on ancient Russian jewelry: an excellent example of the first edition, finely illustrated. Read More
- [BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/blok-o-liubvi-981/) - Very good example of this first separate edition of Blok's thoughts on a wide range of themes. Read More
- [BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/blok-vozmezdie-first-980/) - First edition of this epic by the great Russian poet, the result of more than 10 years of work. With long introduction and bibliography. Read More
- [MOSER, Henri](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/moser-central-asia-journey-henri-cordier-first-edition-979/) - An excellent example of the first edition of this travel account in nowadays Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - inscribed by the author to Henri Cordier. Richly illustrated, with a folding map of the region. Read More
- [MELGUNOV, Sergei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/melgunov-putiakh-k-perevorotu-1917-975/) - Rather objective historical analysis of the Russian political plots around Tsar Nicholas II before the revolution. A fine example of the first edition. Read More
- [GORBUNOV, Ivan Fedorovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gorbunov-works-bibliophile-edition-965/) - A famous edition among 20th-c. Russian collectors, here in a pleasant example, complete and beautifully fresh internally. A luxurious production, uncommon outside Russia. Read More
- [KONI, Anataolii Fedorovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/koni-judicial-reform-963/) - Fine example of this celebratory work, in the pleasant publisher's binding. Read More
- [BRIKNER, Aleksandr Gustavovich [also BRUCKNER]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brikner-istoriia-petra-velikago-first-edition-history-peter-great-russia-961/) - Pleasant copy of this standard work on the history of Tsar Peter I. Richly illustrated. Read More
- [LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lukomskii-kremlin-959/) - A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums. Read More
- [RYNKIEWICZ, Efim and family](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/szlachta-manuscripts-polish-russian-lithuania-954/) - Striking official documents in manuscript, related to the Rynkiewicz family and its nobility status, in Polish and Russian with fresh watercolour illustrations. A fine item of heraldry, very well preserved its red-morocco binding and large brass seal: rare so. Read More
- [RERESBY, Sir John, Bt](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/reresby-travels-memoirs-949/) - 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. Read More
- [KAULBARS, Aleksandr Vasilevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kaulbars-uzbekistan-river-amu-darya-first-edition-with-map-943/) - First edition, very rare, of this geographical and historical study of the Western part of present-day Uzbekistan. Complete with its impressive map of the region. Read More
- [TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tolstoy-detstvo-1876-wrappers-932/) - Tolstoy's own editing of his first novel: a lovely example, rare in original wrappers, of this second edition, specially adapted for children's reading and showing for the first time a different version from the standard text. Read More
- [GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/grigoriev-faces-russia-931/) - A lovely, clean copy of this great book of artistic portraits of Russians. First English edition, copy num. 7. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS] - Henri BENNER](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/benner-portraits-complete-portfolio-duchesse-berry-930/) - Attractive example of these famous portraits, kept here in their original portfolio and complete with both titles and subscribers' lists. Possibly from the Duchesse de Berry collection. Read More
- [LAGARP and SEN-LAMBERT [LA HARPE, Jean-François de, and Jean-François de SAINT-LAMBERT]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/la-harpe-lagarp-first-russian-edition-epistle-to-shuvalov-original-wrappers-919/) - Fine example, uncut, with wrappers, and with bibliophile provenance, of this text of literary criticism written for, and dedicated to, Count Shuvalov by one of the major French writers of the time. Rare, with no copy traced on the market in recent decades (including in Russia). Read More
- [[BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, Arsène and Jean COCTEAU](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakst-cocteau-1913-913/) - The earliest, largest and most impressive work on Bakst's striking art. A fine, fresh example, in its great art-déco binding. Read More
- [POE, Edgar Allan, and OUYDA [pseud. for Maria Louise RAME]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/edgar-allan-poe-in-russian-1912-910/) - Very rare Poe curiosity, showing on the cover a portrait of....somebody completely different! Together with a short story by a female author. Read More
- [GEIER, Ivan Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/geier-tashkent-gava-russian-central-asian-imprint-first-edition-inscribed-904/) - 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. Read More
- [GAGARINE, Prince Grégoire - Kniaz Grigorii Grigorevich GAGARIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gagarin-risunki-885/) - Gagarin's artistic record of Turkish and Caucasian types, among other sketches reproduced, including portraits of Russian aristocrats in the Caucasus, Gypsies in Moscow and views of Egypt and Greece. A beautiful, large format production of one of the best Russian presses of the time. A fine example with contemporary provenance. Read More
- [VERESHCHAGIN, Vasilii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vereshchagin-turkestan-883/) - 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. Read More
- [GLADKY, Serge (artist, also Serhii HLADKY) and André SALMON](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gladky-costume-first-edition-879/) - One of only 170 copies of this beautiful album of fresh and striking plates. In a fine modern binding. Read More
- [ESENIN, Sergei, with Boris PASTERNAK, Andrei BELII et al](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/esenin-iav-association-copy-first-edition-inscribed-875/) - Exceptional association copy of these scandalous Russian imaginist poems, extensively inscribed by three co-authors – including Esenin - to a fourth one, Alexander Olenin. With Aristarkh Lentulov's striking cover bound in a very unusual cloth-and-wicker binding of the time. One of the best, if not the best example of this famous book of Russian poetry. Read More
- [ZIABLOVSKII, Evdokim](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/statistics-russia-during-golden-age-862/) - Fascinating read about Russia under Tsar Alexander I, the Russia which saw Napoleon, Krylov, Griboedov, Pushkin... Atrractive example of the first edition, with a wealth of information on all themes. Very rare in the West. Read More
- [GOGOL, Nikolai](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gogol-complete-works-beautiful-set-860/) - Gogol's main works in a splendid set, rarely found in such an attractive condition and presentation. Read More
- [DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor Mikhailovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dostoevsky-devils-wrappers-856/) - The best example we've handled of the first edition of this important Russian novel. Read More
- [SHAKESPEARE, William and Charles KNIGHT (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shakespeare-works-imperial-844/) - One of the most impressive editions of Shakespeare in an unusual example, fresh and bound in striking full red morocco richly gilt. Read More
- [PLUMMER, Mary Wright and Sergei I. POVARNIN (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/plummer-libraries-843/) - Unusual Russian guidebooks for libraries, translated from the American work of a prominent female librarian. Fine example of the first edition, very rare: no copy traced outside Russia. Read More
- [[CHEKHONIN] - EPHROS, Abram and Nikolai PUNIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/efros-chekhonin-english-842/) - Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers. Read More
- [CHULKOV, Mikhail Dmitrievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chulkov-abevega-first-edition-841/) - 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. Read More
- [[VUIANOVSKII, Stefan]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/arifmetika-tsarina-maria-fedorovna-839/) - Empress Mariia Fedorovna's copy of an important Russian textbook for arithmetic. First edition, in a lovely example finely bound in green silk with attractive endpapers. Read More
- [KOHL, J[ohann] G[eorg]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kohl-german-st-petersburg-russia-first-edition-833/) - Attractive example of this unusually wide-ranging description of Russia and its northern capital, from food to libraries and many other subject matters. First edition, with its fine folding map of the city. Read More
- [BYRON, George Gordon Lord](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/byron-works-bauzonnet-832/) - Fine Didot edition of Byron in a Bauzonnet binding, 'doublée', with the binder's receipt bound in. Read More
- [[PUSHKIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/puhskin-illustrated-album-exhibition-first-edition-830/) - A relatively large-format publication with hundreds of illustrations showing Pushkin's creations, personality, friends, contemporaries, as well as later interpretations. From N. Turoverov's collection, an important Cossack officer, poet and collector. Read More
- [[BYRON, George Gordon] Dzh.-G. BAIRON and Ivan KOZLOV (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/byron-bride-abydos-russian-first-kozlov-edition-829/) - Very attractive copy of this rare work, the first translation in verse of Byron's 'Eastern poem'. Praised by contemporaries and influential, here retaining its original wrappers. Only 3 copies traced in WorldCat. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Alexandr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pushkin-captain-daughter-illustrated-edition-in-russian-816/) - Very attractive copy of this typical example of Russian "artistic literature", finely produced almost a century after Pushkin's birth. Read More
- [ROMANOV, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nikolai-mikh-general-adiutanty-807/) - Attractive example of this fine production of Russian military history. Read More
- [ERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/ermolov-zapiski-london-799/) - Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia. Read More
- [[ALASKA]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akt-russian-american-company-alaska-795/) - An exceptional document pertaining to the history of Alaska, of greatest rarity and here in fantastic condition. Read More
- [KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krylov-basni-smirdin-1835-789/) - Famous edition of the best Russian fabulist, and probably the first small-format book in Russia. A lovely example in full green morocco. Read More
- [Ivan BILIBIN, Viktor VASNETSOV (artists) and Alexander PUSHKIN](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bilibin-skazki-pushkin-oleg-786/) - All of Bilibin's famous portrait illustrations for Pushkin's tales bound in one single volume - very unusual, and in lovely condition. Read More
- [ENGELHARDT, Georg von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russische-miscellen-784/) - 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. Read More
- [BLOCH, Jean [also Ivan Stanislavovich BLIOKH]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bloch-railway-russia-visual-data-representation-777/) - A superb, innovative and fascinating publication, detailing and representing the statistics of what was becoming the largest railway network in the world. With 16 large flow maps, the first in the Russian empire. Extremely rare first edition, with no copies traced in Russia nor in the USA. Read More
- [Chekhov, Anton](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhov-pesy-1897-755/) - Fine example of this important book in Russian literature, with some of Chekhov's most famous plays. Read More
- [N.B. [presumably Nikolai Alekseevich BOGATOV] and Vasilii PEROV (artists)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bogatov-perov-russian-types-chromolithograph-cards-very-rare-728/) - Lovely set of depictions of various peoples of the Rusisan empire, most probably published for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle'. Of great rarity, as we couldn't find any other example. With (most of) the original printed envelope. Read More
- [HARDING, E[dward] (publisher) [and William ALEXANDER]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/harding-costume-dark-blue-727/) - 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
- [MANDELSHTAM, Osip Emilevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mandelshtam-kamen-first-edition-717/) - First edition of the first book by one of Russia's greatest 20th-century poets. A very good example of this rare edition. Read More
- [MIKHAILOV, Kozma Afanasievich and other authors](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/forbidden-manuscript-texts-1780s-702/) - 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. Read More
- [RIVERA, Diego (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/riviera-fortune-russia-699/) - A superb cover for a richly illustrated and interesting content: the Fortune Magazine issue focusing on the 'Soviet miracle'. Read More
- [AESOP, PHILELPHUS and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/aesop-fables-russian-imperial-binding-692/) - 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. Read More
- [DEMIDOFF, Anatole de, and Auguste RAFFET (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/demidoff-voyage-boutigny-binding-691/) - Appealing copy of this classic travel account, here in first edition. Read More
- [KOZAK, Edvard and Liuboslav HUTSALIUK](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lys-mykyta-ukrainian-periodical-671/) - 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
- [French school of the 19th century](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/khadzhi-murad-portrait-640/) - Extremely rare contemporary portrait of a famous Caucasian rebel - described by Gagarin and Tolstoy. Read More
- [JONGH, Lodewijk Joseph, de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/jongh-cod-liver-oil-treaty-medicine-first-edition-russian-tsar-639/) - Lovely copy of the first edition of the definitive treaty on cod liver oil and its medical properties. Attractively bound in red morocco with the arms of Russia. Read More
- [NIZAMI GANGAWI, Ilyas Ibn-Yusuf, Louis SPITZNAGEL and François-Bernard CHARMOY](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nizami-spitznagel-charmoy-alexander-great-638/) - Lovely work resulting from, and representative of, an international cooperation in early 19th-c. Russia. First edition, with provenance. Read More
- [BOTKIN, Mikhail Petrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/botkin-sobranie-art-collection-catalogue-first-edition-629/) - Lavish catalogue of this amazing art collection, now in the best museums of Russia. With more than 100 plates showing items from Byzantine, French, Italian, Caucasian cultures among others. A pleasant example of this volume, now very rarely seen on the market. Read More
- [[LEBEDEFF, Jean] - Jean-Paul DUBRAY](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/lebedeff-ymaigier-624/) - A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff. Read More
- [ZAMIATIN, Evgenii [also ZAMYATIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zamyatin-faces-first-edition-613/) - First edition of these articles and memoirs by one of the great anti-Soviet writers. Read More
- [KRUSENSTERN, Ivan Fedorovich [KRUZENSHTERN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krusenstern-woerter-sammlungen-1813-612/) - First edition of Kruzenshtern's important study of North Pacific languages, in a superb, very unusual example: very crisp, uncut, in plain temporary wrappers and printed on thicker woven paper. We were unable to trace other such large-paper copies. A rare book on the market: only two copies at auction. Read More
- [POUCHKINE, Alexandre and Vasily CHOUKHAEFF (artist) [PUSHKIN and SHUKHAEV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/choukhaeff-godounov-deluxe-608/) - 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
- [IAKINF [ie. Nikita Iakovlevich BICHURIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bichurin-zapiski-mongolia-607/) - 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. Read More
- [NORDSTET, Ivan](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/18-century-russian-dictionary-569/) - A thick and uncommon dictionary explaning in German and French the Russian language used during Catherine the Great. A very good copy in contemporary binding. Read More
- [HERVEY, James, and Elizaveta NILOVA (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hervey-meditations-russian-novikov-1782-568/) - 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. Read More
- [MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/mayakovsky-cloud-trousers-1918-548/) - One of the great poems of Mayakovsky, here in its full version without cut-outs. A fine copy, in the original wrappers. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, A[leksandr Sergeevich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/puhskin-razboiniki-second-546/) - The most affordable Pushkin's lifetime edition, here in a stunning uncut, unopened and unbound single sheet. A great example of Russia's golden age of poetry. Read More
- [ZICHY, Michael von](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zichy-liebe-1913-536/) - The last edition of these celebrated erotic illustrations before the destruction of the original plates, rarer than the previous, 1911 edition. One of 300 copies only. In excellent condition. Read More
- [PANTIUKHOV, I[van] I](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pantiukhov-medicine-caucasus-georgia-520/) - Fine example of this rare study published in Tbilisi and focusing on the health of young Georgian people. With more than 40 illustrations. Read More
- [PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich and Friedrich L. von MAYDELL (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/tsygany-pushkin-maydell-513/) - Attractive example of this large-format illustrated edition of Pushkin's poem. Read More
- [BAKHAREV V. [pseud. for Vladimir Petrovich MAKHNOVETS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/how-to-answer-interrogations-512/) - A practical handbook for revolutionaries caught by the tsarist authorities - pretty unusual theme and rare on the market. Attractive example of the first edition, with provenance. Read More
- [TEFFI, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/teffi-autograph-letter-translation-510/) - A fine letter by Teffi about her works' translation into French, with some explanations of certain Russian words. Read More
- [USPENSKII, Vasilii Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/uspenskii-letopisets-509/) - Complete set of this unusual war satire, written and illustrated in ancient Russian style. Rare when handcoloured, as here. Only 3 complete copies traced in institutions outside Russia. Read More
- [FAMIN, César](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/famin-1857-502/) - A famous work, here in the expanded edition with 60 plates with original hand-colour. Read More
- [SHPERK, Franz](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/shperk-far-east-siberia-501/) - Extensive description of Eastern Siberia and the region near China. A rare work in very good condition. Read More
- [CHEKANOVSKII, Aleksandr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekanovsky-diary-expeditions-siberia-500/) - First edition of this rare account of exploring expeditions in central and northern Siberia. With map and illustrations. Read More
- [BELZEN, Ia. Ia. (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/belzen-geroi-smutnogo-vremeni-495/) - Very rare album of full-page satirical illustrations of the situation in Russia during the turbulent years of the Civil War. Published in Berlin in 1921, and particularly remarkbale for its even-handed swipe at all participants in the War. Only three copies traced in Western public institutions. Read More
- [SKOTT, Valter [Walter SCOTT]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/scott-pisma-frantsii-489/) - 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. Read More
- [KARAZIN, Nikolai Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/karazin-skazki-illustrated-484/) - Lovely copy of this popular work by the writer-artist Karazin, famous for his book illustrations, among others. Read More
- [OSTROGORSKII, Aleksei Nikolaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/u-rabochikh-liudei-483/) - Life among 'working people' for young readers - a fresh example. Read More
- [SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/solzhenitsyn-iva-denisovich-beard-first-edition-468/) - 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. Read More
- [[UKRAINE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/postcard-ukraine-new-york-461/) - Great and unusual US-printed postcard for Ukrainian independance from the Soviet Union, shown as an extension of the Russian empire. Read More
- [[D'AGOULT, Charles (Attrib.)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/akh-vy-glupy-460/) - 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. Read More
- [SARYKULOVA, Gul-Chara [Abutalipovna]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sarykulova-grafika-kazakhstana-antoshchenko-olenev-449/) - A groundbreaking work on art from Kazakhstan, written by a major female figure of Kazakh art history - this copy with great artistic provenance. First edition, uncommon, a choice copy. Read More
- [USLAR, Petr Karlovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/georgia-caucasus-svanetia-abc-440/) - A fascinating primer from Georgia, very rare and of great importance, with many interesting aspects. Read More
- [SVININ, Pavel Petrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/svinin-london-first-edition-439/) - Rare first edition of this little book giving the London impressions of a keen Russian observer, just after Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. A fascinating read on many various themes. With interesting aristocratic provenance. Read More
- [PLATON [Petr LEVSHIN, later Metropolitan of Moscow]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/platon-russian-catechism-438/) - 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. Read More
- [GAMEL, I. [Joseph Christian HAMEL]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gamel-english-in-early-russia-first-edition-436/) - A theme rarely researched: the relations between Russia and Great Britain, and here more specifically early English travellers to Russia before Peter the Great. First edition of this scarce study. Read More
- [[ZIDE, Iogann Khristoforovich [Johann Christian SIEDE] and Gleb GROMOV (translator)]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/zide-nezhnye-obiatiia-v-brake-first-edition-428/) - A risqué book for Russian readers of the 1800s onwards, celebrated as a rarity by many bibliographers. A lovely copy of the first edition, in contemporary binding and fine condition. Read More
- [BOGOLIUBOV - BOGOLUBOW, Andrei](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/central-asian-tapestries-416/) - 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. Read More
- [GAMBA, Jacques Francois, Chevalier de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gamba-caucasus-georgia-first-edition-publishers-binding-398/) - 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. Read More
- [ADAM, Victor](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/adam-hippodrome-boards-397/) - 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. Read More
- [BERDIAEV, Nikolai Alexandrovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/berdiaev-leontiev-first-edition-1926-394/) - An excellent, unopened example, in original wrappers, of the first edition of this work where two important Russian thinkers meet. Read More
- [DZHANASHVILI, Mose](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dzhanashvili-georgia-history-antiquities-first-edition-inscribed-390/) - A desirable copy of this historical booklet with an agenda: showing that Georgia and Russia haven been naturally linked for centuries. Covering also other, more unexpected regions. First edition, inscribed and with émigré provenance. Read More
- [[ALEXANDER II]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/koronovanie-tsar-aleksander-2-rare-description-389/) - A lovely booklet detailing one of the most luxurious coronation festivities, this work especially remarkable for the comments the anonymous author added about some prominent people attenting the ceremony. Rare. Read More
- [GOGOL, N[ikolai] V[asilevich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gogol-dead-souls-marks-green-377/) - An imposing volume: attractive example of the most lavish illustrated edition of Gogol's masterpiece, in its original binding. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/letter-writing-manual-russian-376/) - A great resource for any Russian writing letters at the beginning of the 19th century: from love letters in verses to business and administrative correspondance, or official letters to the highest-ranked people, everything is included in this rare work. No copy of this edition traced outside Russia. Read More
- [BRETON [de la MARTINIERE, Jean-Baptiste Joseph]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/breton-russian-costumes-rossica-hand-coloured-360/) - 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. Read More
- [LANGUEN, Jacques](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/languen-manuel-russe-358/) - How to get by in St. Petersburg in (phonetic) Russian during Pushkin's time: a great guide for the higher society. Uncommon. Read More
- [[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bossuet-politique-first-russian-edition-politika-356/) - Excellent copy of this very rare first Russian edition of Bossuet's 'Politique'. No copies traced oustide Russia, including in French or American institutions. Read More
- [ALEXEIEFF, Alexandre et Alexandre POUCHKINE [PUSHKIN]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/puhskin-pouchkine-alexeieff-recits-bielkine-first-edition-351/) - Pleasant example, fresh internally, of this famous production of Alexeieff illustrating Pushkin. First edition with these illustrations. One of the "few copies" not for sale. Read More
- [FILIPOVSKII, Efrem](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/filipovskii-beketov-mary-stuart-331/) - Complete copy of this bibliographical rarity, a charming book with skilfully engraved plates, and a great witness of cultural exchanges in Europe and Russia in the early 19th century. No copies traced in libraries outside Russia. Read More
- [KRYLOV - KRILOFF, Ivan Andreevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/krylov-didot-orlov-green-morocco-329/) - Attractive example of this famous edition of Russia's greatest fabulist, in Russian, French and Italian, with engraved plates. A luxury lifetime production, here particularly fresh. Read More
- [BRODSKY, Joseph](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/brodsky-ostanovka-pustyne-halt-desert-sviet-samizdat-russian-320/) - Fine example of a Brdosky's poetry in Soviet samizdat - rare. Read More
- [LASHKOV, S.I](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanov-sergey-mikhailovich-sbornik-318/) - Scarce émigré work commemorating a prominent member of the Romanov family, active during WWI and shot by the Bolsheviks; first edition, published in Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Read More
- [SKITALETS [pseud. of Stepan Gavrilovich PETROV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/skitalets-rare-japan-imprint-317/) - Very rare Russian book published in Japan, presenting short sketches of important Russian contemporaries, such as Tolstoy, Lenin, Gorky and Pleakhanov. Read More
- [MURZIN, Nikolai, and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/khabarovskii-korpus-316/) - An excellent example of this scarce émigré publication on the pre-Revolution Siberian military school. A fine Californian production, richly illustrated. Read More
- [[ROMANOVS] - Ivan Nikolaevich BOZHERIANOV](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/romanovs-bozherianov-detstvo-russkikh-imperatorov-314/) - Pleasant and attractive example of this great book, a luxurious, richly illustrated production presenting the childhood of the Romanov tsars over 200 years. First edition, scarce in such condition. Read More
- [[UKRAINE]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sobor-kieva-kulzhenko-308/) - 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. Read More
- [[GASTRONOMY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chinese-teas-marinin-petersburg-307/) - Extremely rare broadside boasting "the all-best" teas from China available at a merchant's in St. Petersburg. The poster contains much interesting information and is illustrated with many Asian scenes. Very fragile but in very good condition. Read More
- [[OLD BELIEVERS LITURGY] -](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/old-believers-manuscript-miniature-301/) - 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. Read More
- [LERMONTOV, Mikhail Iurievitch](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/hero-our-days-pulszky-298/) - Lermontov translated by a friend of Herzen and wife of a Hungarian revolutionary. First edition of this translation. Read More
- [MALINOVSKII, A](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/pozharsky-early-romanovs-288/) - First edition of this historical book on one of the early heroes of Russia. Rarely found oustide Russia, complete with its portrait frontispiece. Read More
- [[TOLSTOY] - NOROV, Avraam Sergeevich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/norov-tolstoy-voina-mir-277/) - A very rare extensive review and analysis of Tolstoy's masterpiece, published by a writer and book collector immediately when War and Peace's first edition was being brought out. Read More
- [[LOPUKHIN, Prince Petr, and Nikolai NOVOSILTSEV]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/memoire-law-commission-274/) - A fundamental work at the source of a clarification and homogenisation of the laws of the Russian empire at the turn of the 19th century. An excellent copy of this very rare publication: only one copy traced of this French issue of the first edition (Göttingen). Read More
- [BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bourke-white-portraits-266/) - The variety of peoples of the USSR in fine photographic portraits by a great photographer, possibly the most significant woman photographer of her time. Read More
- [STASOV - STASOFF, Vladimir Vasilievich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/stasov-ornement-slave-oriental-first-edition-complete-chromolithograph-plates-265/) - A complete copy of this magnificent production of high-level Russian art history, here focusing on manuscript decorations over centuries and many various regions, with many superb examples, from Central Europe, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Central Asia etc. Read More
- [FORBIN, Auguste, comte de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/forbin-voyage-text-257/) - Forbin's text volumes describing his celebrated travel to the Middle East; in very good condition. Read More
- [CHAKIROV, Nikita (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chakirov-tsarskie-koronatsii-coronations-russian-empire-253/) - Fine, fresh example of this luxurious book, which covers the Romanovs' dynasty with an impressive array of illustrations. First edition. Read More
- [FAGNANI, Federigo](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/fagnani-pietroburgo-1815-251/) - 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. Read More
- [DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor Mikhailovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dostoevsky-besy-possessed-first-1873-245/) - Dostoevsky's most political novel: a very good example of the first edition, in contemporary Russian binding. Read More
- [IAZVINSKII, Aleksandr [actually Anton] Feliksovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russian-teaching-method-1840-234/) - Very rare 'atlas' teaching world history without words, purely with images and visual memory: a very innovative teaching method in 19th-c. Russia, Poland, and Europe. Read More
- [NOMYS, Matvii](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/nomys-ukrainian-proverbs-228/) - First edition of this compendium of more than 14,000 Ukrainian proverbs, sayings and riddles - published in Russia before the Ukrainian language was partly banned. Censored again in Soviet Union. Read More
- [LARIONOV, M[ikhail], Nataliia GONCHAROVA, Ilia ZDANEVICH, [Pablo] PICASSO and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/picasso-goncharova-larionov-bal-travesti-programme-ticket-handbill-212/) - Lovely gathering of three 'ephemera' items produced for the first Russian ball of the avant-garde in Paris - an eclectic show with music and dances in newly designed costumes. With Larionov's ticket, Goncharova's handbill and the famous programme with many artistic contributions. Read More
- [](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/russkie-skazki-rukavichka-repka-odessa-first-edition-204/) - A lovely, fragile production of this short-lived publishing house from Kishinev and Odessa. Very rare as we could locate onoly two copies outside Russia. Published in 1919 - a tormented year for Odessa. Read More
- [CHEKHONIN, S. (artist) and M. MORAVSKAIA](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chekhonin-korki-191/) - Scarce émigré edition illustrated by one of the most famous Russian book illustrators and designers of the early 20th century. With an attractive cover design. Read More
- [EVANGULOV, Gerogii, G. A[STAKHOV], Liudmila BERIDZE, Riurik IVNEV, Konst. IUST, and Ivan IVANOV (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/evangulov-ivnev-ivanov-koster-first-edition-inscribed-coloured-187/) - Extremely rare provincial publication in the aftermath of the Civil War - a choice copy with the striking cover coloured and a double inscription to its artist. Read More
- [MALTUS [Thomas Robert MALTHUS] and P. A. BIBIKOV (transl.)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/malthus-bibikov-essay-population-178/) - Scarce first Russian edition of a major landmark of economic literature, the Essay on the Principle of Population, first published in English in 1798. An interesting edition with much material added by the translator Bibikov. Read More
- [KALINOVSKII, A](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/kalinovskii-chasses-caucase-163/) - First edition of this impressive visual record of imperial hunting parties in the Caucasus - one of the greatest Russian hunting books, in French and Russian, conceived and produced specifically to promote the Caucasian region at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. With 100 leaves of illustrations. A good example in the publisher's binding. Read More
- [DIAGHILEV, Serge](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/diaghilev-letter-signed-156/) - Very good autograph letter by Diaghilev, the celebrated founder of the Ballets Russes. With his bold signature, which is rarely found. Read More
- [HOVYN DE TRANCHÈRE, Jules-Auguste](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/statistics-of-russian-railways-inscribed-133/) - Rare statistical book on the Russian Railways, at a relatively early stage of development, complete with its detailed folding map. Printed in St. Petersburg. A lovely example, inscribed by the author. Read More
- [ZHABOTINSKII, V. (ALTALENA) [also JABOTINSKY]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/jabotinsky-piatero-first-edition-131/) - Very rare first edition of Jabotinsky's best novel: one of 75 copies on papier Japon, out of a total printrun of only 125 copies. A fine novel about Jabotinsky's native city in Ukraine, Odessa, far from his important Zionist militant activities. In original Russian. Read More
- [LARMESSIN, Nicolas de and other engravers, after Pierre-Denis MARTIN LE JEUNE (artist)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/larmessin-martin-jeune-peter-great-battles-russian-engravings-126/) - A fine example of these celebrated large-format engravings showing Peter the Great and his victories against Sweden in the early 18th century. In attractive condition, complete with the Russian text. Read More
- [IAZYKOV, Dmitrii Ivanovich (editor and translator)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/iazykov-central-asia-125/) - 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. Read More
- [MARTOS, Aleksei [Ivanovich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/martos-siberia-china-124/) - A fine, uncut copy of the first edition of this uncommon Russian book on Siberia and the Chinese border, illustrated, and giving an account of the second British mission in Russia. Praised by Gogol among others. Read More
- [[CRULL, Jodocus] (editor) and J[oachim] BOUVET](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/crull-bouvet-moscovy-china-123/) - Russian and China at the end of the 17th century, in a lovely binding with deer tools. A fine example of the first edition, the Macclesfield copy. Read More
- [CHAUDOIR, Baron Stanislas de](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/chaudoir-kitaiskie-monety-atlas-122/) - The attractive catalogue of Asian, esp. Chinese numismatics compiled by one of the greatest coin collectors of the early 19th century. A lovely example of the rarer first Russian issue, in a fine Russian binding - a rare book indeed, with more than 60 plates. Read More
- [SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/solzhenitsyn-gulag-archipelago-first-edition-russian-3-volumes-113/) - First edition of Solzhenitsyn's best work, an extensive account of the Soviet camps. Read More
- [[BAKST] - LEVINSON, André](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakst-sleeping-princess-clean-110/) - One of the great books on Bakst's talent - the only one devoted to a specific ballet. A copy remarkable for its cleanliness, especially of the fragile original binding. Read More
- [TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/turoverov-papers-107/) - Fine group of letters and other documents relating to the émigré literary activity before and during WWII - from Kharbin to Paris and its surroundings. Read More
- [THOMAS de THOMON, Jean-François](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/thomon-architecture-106/) - Scarce architectural work by one of the leading architects of the Russian empire under Tsar Paul 1st, and responsible for some of the most famous buildings in St. Petersburg and Odessa. Read More
- [GOGOL, Nicolas](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/gogol-ames-mortes-francais-charriere-103/) - Un des meilleurs romans de la littérature russe traduit en français - un bon exemplaire en chemise d'éditeur de la première édition de cette importante traduction. Read More
- [[BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, Arsène and Jean COCTEAU](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bakst-art-decoratif-ballets-russes-excellent-binding-100/) - The most impressive of the "Bakst books", published at an early date and here in a beauticul copy. Read More
- [SAPIR, I[osif] B[erkovich]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/sapir-sionizm-first-edition-92/) - Fine summary of the Zionist question at an important time for the movement. A very good copy of the true first edition. Read More
- [SKALKOVSKII, Konstantin](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/skalkovskii-foreign-policy-56/) - 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, related modern provenance. Read More
- [BARTENEV, Petr (editor)](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bartenev-first-edition-tsar-alexey-letters-falcon-hunting-treatise-55/) - First edition of about all writings of Tsar Alexey, an important Romanov and the father of Peter the Great. Includes his falcon hunting instructions, the first such Russian book. The letters touch a wide range of important political matters in pre-petrine Russia. Read More
- [EINERLING, Ivan Fedorovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/einerling-school-atlas-russian-empire-very-rare-first-edition-53/) - Very rare small-format school atlas showing the development of the Russian Empire during 1000 years, and its extent at its height. With original hand-colour. No other physical copies traced, including in Russia. Read More
- [[DECEMBRISTS]](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/decembrists-warsaw-52/) - Very rare first edition of this important report on the Decembrists' revoltof the end of 1825. A lovely copy with contemporary provenance. Only one example traced outside Russia. Read More
- [VIGO ROUSSILLON, Francois-Paul, trans. Stankevich and Vitmer](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/vigo-roussillon-american-civial-war-first-russian-42/) - Exceedingly rare first book in Russian dealing with the American Civil War, illustrated with large folding maps. Apparently no copy in the USA of this first edition, only one outside Russia (in Rome). Read More
- [Raphael BERNOVILLE](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/bernoville-souanetie-wrappers-33/) - Attractive and uncommon account of southern Caucasus, illustrated with large plates and missing in the usual bibliographies. First edition; a pleasant example in the original printed wrappers. Read More
- [SAMOKISH Nikolai (artist) and Lev Al. MEY](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/izbavitel-8/) - A hunting poem beautifully decorated by one of the leading book illustrators of the time. Separately published from Kutepov's celebrated and monumental 'Imperial Hunt'. Read More
- [DILTEI Filipp Genrikh - Philippe Henry DILTHEY](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/dilthey-russian-history-geography-7/) - Detailed and wide-ranging description of the history, peoples and geography of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. Very rare: only four copies outside Russia, one only in the US. Read More
- [LEITSINGER, Jakob Ivanovich](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/rare-book/photographic-views-arkhangelsk-russian-people-5/) - A lovely group of rare Russian photographs, showing Northern indigenous peoples and local trades by one of the main photographers of the Russian North, and future mayor of Arkhangelsk. Read More
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