Uncommon luxurious full cream calf binding for the wedding of two first cousins of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II - together with three other ceremonials detailing important events in the close family of Alexander III. A fine group.
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Sergey LIFAR and Prof. M. L. GOFMAN (editors)
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda [Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, one of 50 'ad nominem' copies only, this one for Valerian Svetlov.
First Russian book edition -banned- of Fletcher's famous -and banned- description of Russia which first appeared in 1591. A very rare edition, printed in Geneva by Russian revolutionaries, in a fine, fresh example.
FIDLER, Konstantin [also FIEDLER]
Slovo pokhvalnoe velikomu gosudariu Borisu Fedorovichu Godunovu [Eulogy to the Great Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov]
Very rare first edition in Russian of this praise of Boris Godunov, with great and unusual provenance: possibly Catherine the Great and then Smirdin's famous lending library. A lovely example.
ESENIN, Sergei, with Boris PASTERNAK, Andrei BELII et al
Iav. Stikhi [Reality. Poems]
Exceptional association copy of these scandalous Russian imaginist poems, extensively inscribed by three co-authors – including Esenin - to a fourth one, Alexander Olenin. With Aristarkh Lentulov's striking cover bound in a very unusual cloth-and-wicker binding of the time. One of the best, if not the best example of this famous book of Russian poetry.
First edition of Kruzenshtern's important study of North Pacific languages, in a superb, very unusual example: very crisp, uncut, in plain temporary wrappers and printed on thicker woven paper. We were unable to trace other such large-paper copies. A rare book on the market: only two copies at auction.
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'News' from the East for a Western European readership of the 1560s - a very rare edition from Northern France.
TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Natan VENGROV
Khvoi [Conifers]
An attractive avant-garde Russian children book, here in the preferred version with original colour, one of only 125 copies.
GENBACH, Jean [pseud. of Ernest de GENGENBACH] and Alexandre ALEXEIEFF (artist)
Satan à Paris
Avec envoi de l'auteur à Alexandre Alexeieff, qui avait dessiné la couverture. Exemplaire de tête, fort désirable, de l'édition originale de roman semi-autobiographique.
LEBEDEV, Ivan (illustrator) and Ilia ERENBURG (translator)
O trekh rytsariakh i o rubakhe [The Three Knights and the Shirt]
First edition of this scarce production, an unusual, very interesting Russian publication by two émigrés based in France during WW1. Fine example, from the "tirage de tête" of only 25 copies on Japon paper
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
An excellent example from the 25 copies on china paper ('tirage de tête'), in a binding by one of the best French binders. First edition of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova.
Loti's most celebrated novel: a fine example of the first edition, here with a record number of states of the plates, bound in full green morocco retaining the original bright orange publisher's wrappers.
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Appealing small-format religious manuscript, probably written by Russian women scribes, while they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding, with fresh colours and gilt decorations.
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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.
One of the two most important floras of Russia, an impressive publication, here in a fine example with desirable Russian provenances: the Kushelev-Bezborodko - Polovtsev - Krylov copy. First edition, complete of both parts.