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.
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.
DZHUNKOVSKII, Vasilii Iakovlevich
Nastavleniie o delanii faiansovoi posudy, po preporucheniiu Volnago Ekonomicheskogo obshchestva, iz dostovernykh opytnykh sochinenii [Instruction on Making Faience Ware, by Assignment of the Free Economic Society, from Reliable Experimental Works, Collected by a Member of the Society]
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.
EPIKTIT [EPICTETUS], Kevit Fiveiskii [CEBES of Thebes] and Grigorii POLETIKA (translator)
Epiktita stoicheskago filosofa Enkhiridion i Apofoegmy i Kevita Fiveiskago Kartina ili Izobrazhenie zhitiia chelovecheskago [Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher's Enchiridion and Apothegms; and The Picture, or a Representation of the Life of Man, by Cebes of Thebes]
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.
CHAPPE D’AUTEROCHE, Jean-Baptiste and Stepan Petrovich KRASHENINNIKOV
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance [and] contenant la description du Kamchatka
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.
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DEL., C. F. P. [Charles-François-Paul DELANGLARD or Charlotte de LATOUR]
Oracles de Flore
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.
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.
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.
GENKEL, German and Nikolai SUETIN (artist)
Ford i fordizm: vpechatleniia [Ford and Fordism: Impressions]
Fine cover for one of the great Russian books on the influential American industrialist. Uncommon, and here in a pleasant example.
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.
MALTUS [Thomas Robert MALTHUS] and P. A. BIBIKOV (transl.)
Opyt o zakone narodonaseleniia ili izlozhenie proshedshago i nastoiashchago deistviia etogo zakona na blagodenstvie chelovecheskago roda […] [Essay on the Law of Population]
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.
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.
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.
LINSKII, Mikhail, Mikhail DRIZO (pseud. MAD), Arkadii AVERCHENKO and others
Bich. Bitche [Whip]
Complete set of this scarce satirical periodical of the Russophone community in Paris. With a wealth of caricatural drawings and wide-ranging texts.
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.
KOZAK, Edvard and Liuboslav HUTSALIUK
Lys Mykyta [WITH] Lys Mykyta. Kalendar na rik 1949 [The Fox Mykyta [WITH] The Fox Mykyta. Calendar for Year 1949].
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.
Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.