Ippologiia, ili Nauka o loshadi. Chast I-II
SKRINNIKOV, Mikhail, Ippologiia, ili Nauka o loshadi. Chast I-II,Tip. Varshavskogo voennogo okruga, Varshava [Warsaw military district press, Warsaw] , 1866-67.
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
Les chasses au Caucase. Okhoty Kavkaza
KALINOVSKII, A, Les chasses au Caucase. Okhoty Kavkaza,Vilborg for A. Yakovlev, Skt. Peterburg , 1900.
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
KUPARENKO, Iordakii, Kinetozograficheskie vidy. Obiavlenie,Mosk. Vedomosti, Mosk. Universitet, Moskva , 1834.
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
Reysen durch die Marck Brandenburg, Preussen, Churland, Liefland, Peßcovien, Groß-Naugardien, Tweerien und Moskovien […] anbey Eine Seltsame und sehr Anmerckliche Beschreibung von Siberien […]
BRAND, Johann Arnold von, Reysen durch die Marck Brandenburg, Preussen, Churland, Liefland, Peßcovien, Groß-Naugardien, Tweerien und Moskovien […] anbey Eine Seltsame und sehr Anmerckliche Beschreibung von Siberien […],Duisburg, Johannes Sas, for Jacob von Wesel, Wesel , 1702.
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, especially in contemporary binding. Read More