Manuductio ad coelum... [Guide to Heaven]
Published/created in: 1801
£1,850
First and only edition in Latin printed in Russia, of this important guide to a pretty strict religoious, and indeed Catholic, life in anticipation of death: unusual in the landscape of printing in Orthodox Russia. A well preserved copy of this rare book: no copies found outside Russia.
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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
Sertum Petropolitanum seu icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae in horto botanico Petropolitano floruerunt. Jardin de Saint-Pétersbourg
Published/created in: 1846 and 1852
£4,500
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.
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VASCONCELOS GUEDES DE CARVALHO, José de (translator and editor)
Leis de Manú, primeiro legislador da India [Laws of Manu, India's First Legislator]
Leis de Manú, primeiro legislador da India. [Laws of Manu, India's First Legislator]
Published/created in: 1859
£2,250
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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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]
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]
Published/created in: 1814
£3,950
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.
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Caratteri Orientali Esistenti nella Tipografia della R. Accad. dei Lincei.
Published/created in: 1889
£1,250
Extremely rare catalogue of oriental types used by the press of one of the most important scientific academy. In great condition - and only one other copy traced (in California).
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DEL., C. F. P. [Charles-François-Paul DELANGLARD or Charlotte de LATOUR]
Oracles de Flore
Oracles de Flore.
Published/created in: 1825
£1,950
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.
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Notes on the Boats of Siberia.
Published/created in: [1920]
£395
Fine essay on Siberian boats, their history, construction, use etc., with illustrations. Very rare offprint.
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Sobranie M.P. Botkina. [The Collection of M.P. Botkin]
Published/created in: [1911]
£3,950
Lavish catalogue of this amazing art collection, now in the best museums of Russia. With more than 100 plates showing items from Byzantine, French, Italian, Caucasian cultures among others. A pleasant example of this volume, now very rarely seen on the market.
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Turetskie legendy o sviatoi Sofii i o drugikh vizantiiskikh drevnostiakh. [The Turkish Legends of St. Sophia and Other Byzantine Antiquities]
Published/created in: 1897
£950
Fine copy of this large-format scholarly publication, bringing to the public for the first time an Ottoman manuscript kept in the then British Museum, especially remarkable for its detailed account of Constantinople.
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BABKIN K., M. NEKRASOV, A. ALEKSANDROV, V. SVETLISHIN and others
Nash Vestnik. Literaturno-sportivnyi zhurnal Kruzhka Fizicheskogo Razvitiia KFR [Our Newsletter. Literary and Sports Magazine of the Physical Development Club]
Nash Vestnik. Literaturno-sportivnyi zhurnal Kruzhka Fizicheskogo Razvitiia KFR. [Our Newsletter. Literary and Sports Magazine of the Physical Development Club]
Published/created in: 1921-23
£13,500
Exceptional manuscript describing sporting and other recreative activities in a small town of Russia immediately after the Civil War. A very entertaining read, mixing much information with humour and many illustrations.
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Ezhednevnyia zapiski v Londone. [A Daily London Notebook]
Published/created in: 1817
£4,750
Rare first edition of this little book giving the London impressions of a keen Russian observer, just after Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. A fascinating read on many various themes. With interesting aristocratic provenance.
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Noveishii polnyi pismovnik ili vseobshchyi sekretar. [The Newest Complete Letter-Writing Manual, or General Secretary]
Published/created in: 1820
£1,750
A great resource for any Russian writing letters at the beginning of the 19th century: from love letters in verses to business and administrative correspondance, or official letters to the highest-ranked people, everything is included in this rare work. No copy of this edition traced outside Russia.
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Mémoire Presenté par le Ministère de la Justice Relativement à L'Organisation de la Comission des Lois [...] Suivi d'un Extrait des Rapports [...] sur les Travaux de Cette Commission. Première Partie [All published].
Published/created in: 1804
£5,750
A fundamental work at the source of a clarification and homogenisation of the laws of the Russian empire at the turn of the 19th century. An excellent copy of this very rare publication: only one copy traced of this French issue of the first edition (Göttingen).
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[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] – TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri. [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
Published/created in: [8 November] 1888
£8,750
An interesting compilation of various international and Russian music, all manuscript, with a lovely watercolour title page and all kept in a refined master binding: a very attractive imperial portfolio made for the Grand Duke. Very rare.
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Smert Marii Stuart, korolevy Shotlandskoi... [The Death of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots […]: historical description illustrated with seven prints engraved after English originals […]]
Published/created in: 1803
£4,750
Complete copy of this bibliographical rarity, a charming book with skilfully engraved plates, and a great witness of cultural exchanges in Europe and Russia in the early 19th century. No copies traced in libraries outside Russia.
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Sionizm. Nauchno-populiarnoe izlozhenie sushchnosti i istorii sionisticheskago dvizheniia. [Zionism. A Scientifico-Popular Study of the Essence and History of the Zionist Movement]
Published/created in: 1903
£950
Fine summary of the Zionist question at an important time for the movement. A very good copy of the true first edition.
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'Chto nam v nikh ne nravitsia...' Ob Antisemitizme v Rossii. ['What We Do Not Like About Them...' On the Antisemitism in Russia]
Published/created in: 1929
£375
"Political anti-Semitism', to be distinguished from a racial one: first edition of this scarce work, which also gives an account of the situation of the Jews in Russia.
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Currus triumphales ad adventum clarissimorum Moschoviae principum Pauli Petrovitz et Mariae Theodorownae conjugis regali orandum spectaculo in Divi Marci venetiarum foro die 22 Januarii anno MDCCLXXXI.
Published/created in: [1782]
£22,500
Fine and scarce Italian "livre de fêtes" with beautiful contemporary colour - with an added suite of prints related to the same event, the Venitian reception of the future Tsar of Russia.
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