Excellent example of this detailed account of the forces in presence during the 1768-74 war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Read More Read More
One of the most beautiful and impressive British works on Russia, with many great plates in fine colouring. Here unusually bound in a luxury full red morocco gilt signed.
Read More Read More
Two issues of a very rare, almost home-made magazine for Russian émigrés in the US.
Read More Read More
Early account in English of the Ukrainian Cossacks uprising, told by one of their leaders. Uncommon first edition in English, with fine provenance.
Read More Read MoreKHOLMSTON-SMYSLOVSKII, [Boris]
Izbrannye stati i rechi [Selected Articles and Speeches]
A volume of essays by a Russian anti-communist general, published in South America, where he advised the Argentinian president.
Read More Read More
Some great imagery in a rare volume of 85 plates - mostly military but only, with many themes strikingly depicted. A rare item of Russian folk art, here in fine condition.
Read More Read MoreROMANOV, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich
General-Adiutanty Imeratora Aleksandra I [Adjutants-Generals of the Emperor Alexander I]
Attractive example of this fine production of Russian military history.
Read More Read More
Scarce émigré work commemorating a prominent member of the Romanov family, active during WWI and shot by the Bolsheviks; first edition, published in Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
Read More Read MoreVIGO ROUSSILLON, Francois-Paul, trans. Stankevich and Vitmer
Voennye sily Severo-Amerikanskikh Shtatov. Voina za nerazdelnost Soiuza (1861 - 1865) [The Military Forces of the North American States. War for the Integrity of the Union 1861-1865]
Very rare first book in Russian dealing with the American Civil War, illustrated with large folding maps. Apparently no copy in the USA of this first edition, only one outside Russia (in Rome).
Read More Read MoreERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.
Read More Read More
The Balkans, Southern Eastern Europe and Western Turkey in two fascinating folio volumes detailing all events of the 1877-78 war. Very richly illustrated and rarely found in such an attractive example, here in the original publisher's binding.
Read More Read More
The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
Read More Read More
Great denunciation of the catastrophy for Russia of the war against Japan. A pre-revolutionary publication banned in tsarist Russia.
Read More Read More
More than 60 watercolours of Napoleonic uniforms, drawn by a Nopoleon fan who initiated a museum in the house where Napoleon stayed before the final battle of Waterloo. An historical object, finely bound.
Read More Read MoreBOZHOVSKII, Vasliii Konstantinovich
Vystavka 1812 goda: illiustrirovanoe izdanie [Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].
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.
Read More Read More