Literature: European languages
BONAPARTE-WYSE, William Charles.
On occasion of Roumania constituting herself a kingdom. An ode. With a French version by Constant Hennion.
An inscribed copy of this rare and unusual provincial publication, in original wrappers and with wide margins, the half-title bearing "With the author's compliments". The poem was written on the setting up of the Transylvanian principalities as an independent kingdom at the Treaty of Berlin... Read more
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Costumes, Fashion & Military
[POLAND] – ZIENKOWICZ, Leon Józef.
Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque.
BEAUTIFUL WORK ILLUSTRATING THE TRADITIONAL COSTUME AS POLITICAL REVENDICATION AND MANIFESTATION OF THE NATIONAL IDENTITY. ALSO ONE OF THE VERY FEW BOOKS ON POLISH COSTUME
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Travels & History: Eastern Europe, Poland, Ukraine
[LASICKI, Jan, also LASICIUS].
De Russorum, Moscovitarum et Tartarorum Religione, Sacrificiis, Nuptiarum, Funerum Ritu.
First edition of these early observations on Slavic peoples from Poland to Muscovy, their rites, religion, politics and customs.
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Sciences, Economics, Politics, Philosophy
BLIOKH, Ivan Stanislavovich [also Jan Gotlib BLOCH].
Sravnenie materialnogo byta i nravstvennogo sostoianiia naseleniia v cherte osedlosti evreev i vne ee: tsifrovyia dannyia i izsledovaniia po otnosheniiu k evreiskomu voprosu. [Comparison of the Living Standards and Moral State of the Population within the Pale of Settlement and Outside: Digital Data and Research in Relation to the Jewish Question].
An exceptionally rare statistical analysis and defence of the Jewish settlements of the Russian empire a volume which serves as a testimony to the groundless bias behind the anti-Semitic policies of Alexander III
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