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Siluety G.I. Narbuta. [Silhouettes of G. I. Narbut]
Published/created in: 1926
£250
Fin, fresh example of this booklet on one of Ukraine most famous 20th-c. artists and illustrators. One of only 300 copies.
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Chtenie – odna iz obiazannostei cheloveka. [Reading is one of a Person's Duties]
Published/created in: [1920]
£1,750
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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GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne.
Published/created in: 1919
£10,000
Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.
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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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Sbornik vizantiiskikh i drevne-russkikh ornamentov.
Published/created in: 1887
£1,500
The luxuriously crafted first edition of Prince Gagarin's study of medieval Russian and Byzantine ornaments, mostly taken from manuscripts and architectural landmarks. A complete copy.
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SARYKULOVA, Gul-Chara [Abutalipovna]
Grafika Kazakhstana [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]
Grafika Kazakhstana. [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]
Published/created in: 1967
£1,750
A groundbreaking work on art from Kazakhstan, written by a major female figure of Kazakh art history - this copy with great artistic provenance. First edition, uncommon, a choice copy.
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[BEARDSLEY] – Mikhail LIKIARDOPULO (editor and translator) and others
Obri Berdslei. Risunki, povest, stikhi, aforizmy, pisma [Beardsley. Drawings, Novella, Poems, Aphorisms, Letters]
Obri Berdslei. Risunki, povest, stikhi, aforizmy, pisma. [Beardsley. Drawings, Novella, Poems, Aphorisms, Letters]
Published/created in: 1912
£1,450
One of the first major works on Beardsley, with a wealth of illustrations and other material, literary as well as bio-bibliographical. A rare edition in the West, here in a pleasant press copy.
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Khudozhestvennaia galereia P. i S. Tretiakovykh. [The Art Gallery of P. and S. Tretyakov]
Published/created in: [early 1890s]
£1,500
Fine, high-quality production showing some of the most famous Russian paintings. An extremely rare Geneva publication.
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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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S. Chekhonin. A Master of the Soviet Empire Style [and] On the Art of Chekhonin.
Published/created in: 1923
£1,450
Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers.
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Bakst: the Story of the Artist's Life.
Published/created in: 1923
£4,250
The most celebrated artist of the Ballets Russes, celebrated here in this beautiful production - of which it is the copy num. 1 out of only 315 printed for the UK.
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[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]
Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria. [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Published/created in: 1899
£650
Very good copy of this uncommon illustrated history of one of the most famous monasteries of Russia. With two large folding plans.
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Lenin. Risunki Natana Altmana. [Lenin. Sketches by Natan Altman]
Published/created in: 1921
£1,250
A pleasant example of this work, with its famous avant-garde cover design by Altman.
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Meet Some of the Soviet People.
Published/created in: [1941?]
£800
The variety of peoples of the USSR in fine photographic portraits by a great photographer, possibly the most significant woman photographer of her time.
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L'Ymaigier Jean Lebedeff.
Published/created in: 1939
£1,750
A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff.
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BOZHOVSKII, Vasliii Konstantinovich
Vystavka 1812 goda: illiustrirovanoe izdanie [Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].
Vystavka 1812 goda: illiustrirovanoe izdanie. [Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].
Published/created in: 1913
£2,850
The impressive, thick and richly illustrated catalogue of the centenary exhibition celebrating the Patriotic War against Napoleon. Very rare in wrappers, complete with all plates.
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Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d'art.
Published/created in: [ca. 1927-28]
£250
A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums.
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