Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
A lovely example of this famous edition of Catherine's celebrated Great Instructions, much inspired by important European philosophers of the Englightenment.
[LENIN, pseud.:] Vladimir ILIN [pseud. for Vladimir Ilyich ULIANOV]
Razvitie kapitalizma v Rossii. Protsess obrazovaniia vnutrenniago rynka dlia krupnoi promyshlennosti [The Development of Capitalism in Russia. The Process of Formation of a Home Market for Large-Scale Industry]
First edition of Lenin's first substantial work, and one of his first two books published in 1899. A landmark economic analysis.
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.
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.
Very rare and innovative contribution to the efforts to understand malaria. A great booklet.
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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.
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.
A strking poster calling to save the historical monuments and works of art in the midst of a bloody and damaging civil war.
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.
FISCHER, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, and Carl Anton von MEYER
Sertum Petropolitanum seu icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae in horto botanico Petropolitano floruerunt Jardin de Saint-Pétersbourg
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.
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.
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[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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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!