The Cossacks of the Ukraine [...] and a Description of the Ukraine [WITH] Gonta. An Historical Drama, in Five Acts.
Published/created in: 1848
£1,250
Two scarce and interesting works on the Ukrainian and Polish struggle against Russia, at the height of the Great Game. No copy traced in the last 20 years.
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SIKHARULIDZE I., P. METREVELI, Salomon GOGLICHIDZE and David GVELESIANI (artist)
Kartuli enis sakhelmdzghvanelo arakartveltatvis: Pirveli Tsigni. Uchebnik gruzinskogo iazyka dlia ne-gruzin. Kniga pervaia… [Textbook of Georgian Language for Non-Georgians: Book One]
Kartuli enis sakhelmdzghvanelo arakartveltatvis: Pirveli Tsigni. Uchebnik gruzinskogo iazyka dlia ne-gruzin. Kniga pervaia…. [Textbook of Georgian Language for Non-Georgians: Book One]
Published/created in: 1925
£1,850
A fascinating, pioneering booklet, whose fragility is witness to printing in early Soviet Georgia. For Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, it seems to be the first such textbook for foreigners. Of extraordinary rarity, with only one other copy traced outside Georgia and 6 copies there; no copy in Russia and none in the Americas.
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Kovrovyia izdeliia Srednei Azii. Tapisseries de l'Asie Centrale.
Published/created in: 1908
£2,950
The first systematic study of the rugs of Central Asia in a very large, impressive format. A beautiful production of the Russian State Press, here in a full red leather binding.
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Statut organique de la Roumélie Orientale.
Published/created in: 1879]
£4,500
An exceptional example of these regulations negotiated with the Ottoman Empire for one of its regions. This copy is signed twice by all negotiators, and belonged to one of their secretaries. Very rare.
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Puteshestvie po Sviatoi Zemle. [A Journey to the Holy Land]
Published/created in: 1838
£8,750
A great copy of this major Russian account of the Holy Land: in full red morocco with fantastic provenances. Rare first edition.
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Examples of the Various Turki Dialects. Turkish Text with English Translation.
Published/created in: 1918
£2,250
An unusual book: produced by a Scottish protestant in Western China, printed in mimeography and detailing and translating many Central Asian dialects related to Turkish. First edition of this remarkable item, here in appealing condition.
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Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire.
Published/created in: 1787
£2,250
Attractive example of the first edition of this major work on 18th-century trade from Bulgaria and Romania to Georgia and the Caucasus, through Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. With a fantastic panorama of the products produced and traded.
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Monarchya Turecka. [The Turkish Monarchy]
Published/created in: 1727
£750
First edition of this new translation in Polish (second edition overall) of this great account of the Ottoman empire. Very rare: only two copies traced in public libraries.
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Ukazatel putei paketbotnykh parokhodov Rossiiskikh i inostrannykh. [Russian and foreign packet boats' pathfinder].
Published/created in: 1852
£4,000
A fascinating and extremely rare map, in excellent condition, showing the steam-boats routes on the Black Sea just a year before the outbreak of the Crimean War.
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DEMIDOFF, Anatole de [Anatolii DEMIDOV], and Denis Auguste RAFFET (artist)
Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie, et la Moldavie
Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie, et la Moldavie.
Published/created in: [1848]
£9,500
An unusual and attractive copy of this classic plate book, here with plates in various states and with contemporary provenance.
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Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny. [The Illustrated Chronicle of War]
Published/created in: 1877-78
£6,750
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.
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Traktat o torgovle mezhdu rossiiskoiu imperieiu i portoiu ottomanskoiu. [Treaty of Commerce between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Porte]
Published/created in: 1783
£2,750
Uncommon treatise between Catherine's Russia and the Ottoman Empire, and inbetween two Russo-Turkish wars of the 18th century.
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Voyage dans la Russie méridionale, et particulièrement dans les provinces situées au-delà du Caucase, fait depuis 1820 jusqu'en 1824.
Published/created in: 1826
£9,500
One of the most famous books on the Caucasus, and Georgia in particular; the first significant work on the region; the first large lithographic view of Tbilisi; with hand-coloured costume plates. A lovely, complete example of the first edition, in contemporary publisher's binding.
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