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In stunning colour
Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux Environs de St. Pétersbourg
£65,000
MEYER J[ohann Jacob] (artist), Vues pittoresques des palais et jardins impériaux aux Environs de St. Pétersbourg
One of the best plate books on St. Petersburg, here in a fantastic example in excellent contemporary hand-colour. Beautiful and very rare.
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The first Russian book on the UK and its capital, and the start of Russian anglomania
Ezhednevnyia zapiski v Londone [A Daily London Notebook]
£4,750
SVININ, Pavel Petrovich, Ezhednevnyia zapiski v Londone
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.
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How to write letters about everything
Noveishii polnyi pismovnik ili vseobshchyi sekretar [The Newest Complete Letter-Writing Manual, or General Secretary]
£1,750
, Noveishii polnyi pismovnik ili vseobshchyi sekretar
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.
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French peasants in Russian literature
KOK, Pol de [Charles Paul de KOCK]
Monfermelskaia molochnitsa [La Laitière de Montfermeil]
£1,450
KOK, Pol de [Charles Paul de KOCK], Monfermelskaia molochnitsa
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.
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Foreign aristocrats serving in Russia at the start of the 19th c.
Stein and Pozzo di Borgo as portrayed by His Excellency Count Ouvaroff, Minister of Public Instuction in the Russian Empire
£395
OUVAROFF, Count [Sergei Semenovich UVAROV], Stein and Pozzo di Borgo as portrayed by His Excellency Count Ouvaroff, Minister of Public Instuction in the Russian Empire
Interesting historical sketch by and of important statesmen, here inscribed by the translator to Napoleon III. A rare essay.
Read More Read More![Image for ASHIK, A. Vosporskoe tsarstvo [Bosphorus Kingdom], first edition, Odessa, 1848-9. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1921_1-300x332.jpg)
Crimean Greek antiquities in red morocco
Vosporskoe tsarstvo s ego paleograficheskimi i nadgrobnymi pamiatnikami, raspisnymi vazami, planami, kartami i vidami [The Bosphorus Kingdom and its Palaeographic Monuments and Tombstones, Painted Vases, Plans, Maps and Views]
£4,750
ASHIK, Anton Baltazarovich, Vosporskoe tsarstvo s ego paleograficheskimi i nadgrobnymi pamiatnikami, raspisnymi vazami, planami, kartami i vidami
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.
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Great copy with great provenance
Frantsuzskoi i rossiiskoi slovar. Vocabulaire français et russe
£1,950
HAMONIÈRE, G, Frantsuzskoi i rossiiskoi slovar. Vocabulaire français et russe
Attractive example of this rare dictionary, finely printed the year of Napoelon's demise, and here with excellent provenance.
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An "unsurpassed work of Russian and world literature" (Lenin)
Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]
£6,750
DOSTOEVSKY, Fedor, Zapiski iz mertvago doma
First complete edition of Dostoevsky's famous work, here in a contemporary Russian binding and good condition.
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"The most popular edition [...] by the outstanding Ukrainian artist" (Lebedeva)
KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist)
Eneida [Aeneid]
£195
KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist), Eneida
"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 Read More![Image for [COMMISSION ON LAWS]. Mémoire...à l'organisation de la Commission des Lois... First edition, St. Petersburg, 1804. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/274_1-300x241.jpg)
Reforming the laws of the empire
Mémoire Presenté par le Ministère de la Justice Relativement à L'Organisation de la Comission des Lois [...] Suivi d'un Extrait des Rapports [...] sur les Travaux de Cette Commission. Première Partie [All published]
£5,750
[LOPUKHIN, Prince Petr, and Nikolai NOVOSILTSEV], Mémoire Presenté par le Ministère de la Justice Relativement à L'Organisation de la Comission des Lois [...] Suivi d'un Extrait des Rapports [...] sur les Travaux de Cette Commission. Première Partie [All published]
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).
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Probably the first such work on the subject in Russia and the USSR
Polovye rasstroistva u muzhchin: polovoe bessilie, muzhskoe besplodie, polovye izvrashcheniia [Sexual Disorders in Men: Sexual Impotence, Male Infertility, Sexual Perversions]
£2,250
IAKOBZON, Liudvig Iakovlevich, Polovye rasstroistva u muzhchin: polovoe bessilie, muzhskoe besplodie, polovye izvrashcheniia
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.
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Rare and beautiful
Fables en vers
£3,500
F. J. E. de R***, Fables en vers
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.
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Extensive ethnography of the peoples of the Caucasus
ZICHY, Eugene [Jenő], Dr. Jean [Janos] JANKO and Dr. Bela POSTA
Kaukaìzuri eìs Közeìpaìzsiai utazaìsai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale : La Migration de la race Hongroise [et] La Description des collections
£1,950
ZICHY, Eugene [Jenő], Dr. Jean [Janos] JANKO and Dr. Bela POSTA, Kaukaìzuri eìs Közeìpaìzsiai utazaìsai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale : La Migration de la race Hongroise [et] La Description des collections
Fine copy of this great scholarly work on the population of the Caucasus, richly illustrated. First edition.
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Russian fascist printing in Shanghai
Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei [Secret Societies and the Jews]
£475
BUTMI, N.A, Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei
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.
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The first significant German-Russian dictionary
Teutsch lateinisch und Russisches Lexicon, Samt Denen Anfangs-Gründen der Rußischen Sprache. Nemetsko-Latinskii i Ruskii Leksikon kupno s pervymi nachalami ruskago iazyka
£4,500
WEISMANN, Erich and others, Teutsch lateinisch und Russisches Lexicon, Samt Denen Anfangs-Gründen der Rußischen Sprache. Nemetsko-Latinskii i Ruskii Leksikon kupno s pervymi nachalami ruskago iazyka
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.
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One of the most famous and enduring conspiracy theories
[GORCHAKOV, M.K., Prince (publisher)]
Sionskie protokoly [The Protocols of Zion]
£650
[GORCHAKOV, M.K., Prince (publisher)], Sionskie protokoly
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.
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'South to the Great Steppe' - with his wife
Oriental and Western Siberia: A narrative of seven years' explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia
£850
ATKINSON, Thomas William, Oriental and Western Siberia: A narrative of seven years' explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia
Pleasant copy of the first edition of this famous, extensive description of Central Asia at the heart of the Great Game.
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