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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.
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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 Read More[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Excellent copy of this very rare first Russian edition of Bossuet's 'Politique'. No copies traced oustide Russia, including in French or American institutions.
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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 Read MoreVASCONCELOS GUEDES DE CARVALHO, José de (translator and editor)
Leis de Manú, primeiro legislador da India [Laws of Manu, India's First Legislator]
Scarce first edition of this major legal text of ancient India, here in its first Portuguese edition, printed in Nova Goa.
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Fin, fresh example of this booklet on one of Ukraine most famous 20th-c. artists and illustrators. One of only 300 copies.
Read More Read MoreMILTONI, Ioani [John MILTON] and Vartan Bagdasarovich AVAKOV (translator)
Dakarguli samotkhe: pirveli tsol-kmris tskhovreba samotkheshi [Paradise Lost. The Life of the First Husband and Wife in Paradise].
Very rare first edition in Georgian of Milton's masterpiece. No other copies traced outside Georgia. A very good example in wrappers.
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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 Read MoreLEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks
The first extensive study of the people of Kazakhstan: first French edition, with the same illustrations as the original Russian edition; including a folding map of the area, which was very rare at the time. This is the copy which belonged to 'Le Baron de Barante', the dedicatee of the translation.
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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).
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How to write English in the USSR, by a Jewish American teacher, produced in Ukraine and very rare such.
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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 Read MoreSHEKSPIR [William SHAKESPEARE] and Apollon GRIGORIEV (translator)
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Very rare translation into Russian of Shakespeare 'Merchant of Venice'. An appealing example.
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Lovely copy, in contemporary binding, of this major work on the Caucasus region and its people. First English edition.
Read More Read MorePLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)
Survey of the Russian Empire
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 Read MoreBEREZIN, Ilia and Georgii GOGENFELDEN (artist)
Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkaziu [Journey through Dagestan and Transcaucasia]
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 Read MoreVASNETSOV, Viktor (artist) and Aleksandr PUSHKIN
Pesn o Veshchem Olege [The Song of Wise Oleg]
A famous work, here in the unusual large, folio format, rarer than the first edition (which was a quarto).
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Desirable copy of this landmark translation, the first into English and here inscribed by the translator.
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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.
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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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