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Grand manifeste d'Alexandre 1er, Empereur et Autocrate de toutes les Russies.
Published/created in: 1816
£350
First edition in French of this political speech by the Tsar who vanquished Napoleon. Attractively bound.
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ROMANOV, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich
General-Adiutanty Imeratora Aleksandra I [Adjutants-Generals of the Emperor Alexander I]
General-Adiutanty Imeratora Aleksandra I. [Adjutants-Generals of the Emperor Alexander I]
Published/created in: 1913
£2,750
Attractive example of this fine production of Russian military history.
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ERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda. [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Published/created in: 1863
£1,250
Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.
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Historical Sketch of Moscow illustrated by Twelve Views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, etc.
Published/created in: 1813
£6,750
The first colour-plate book on Moscow: a lovely example, uncut in original publisher's boards, with the 12 plates in fine original hand-colour. Published in the wake of Napoleon's catastrophic Campagne de Russie.
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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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[TOLSTOY] – NOROV, Avraam Sergeevich
Voina i mir (1805-1812). S istoricheskoi tochki zrenia i po vospominaniam sovremennika. Po povodu sochinenia L.N.Tolstogo "Voina i mir" [War and Peace (1805-1812). From an Historical Perspective and Following Memories of a Contemporary. About the work of Count L.N. Tolstoy, "War and Peace"]
Voina i mir (1805-1812). S istoricheskoi tochki zrenia i po vospominaniam sovremennika. Po povodu sochinenia L.N.Tolstogo "Voina i mir". [War and Peace (1805-1812). From an Historical Perspective and Following Memories of a Contemporary. About the work of Count L.N. Tolstoy, "War and Peace"]
Published/created in: 1868
£850
A very rare extensive review and analysis of Tolstoy's masterpiece, published by a writer and book collector immediately when War and Peace's first edition was being brought out.
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Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu. [A Collection of Poems Related to the Unforgettable Year of 1812]
Published/created in: 1814
£10,850
A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes.
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Basni...v vosmi knigakh. [Fables…in eight books].
Published/created in: 1835
£4,950
Famous edition of the best Russian fabulist, and probably the first small-format book in Russia. A lovely example in full green morocco.
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Drawings of Napoleon's Imperial Guard AND Regiments of the Line.
Published/created in: 1909-11]
£1,850
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.
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Lettere scritte di Pietroburgo correndo gli anni 1810 e 1811.
Published/created in: 1815
£2,500
Saint Petersburg before Napoleon's campaign: a superb example in red morocco, very fresh and exempt of any foxing, of the expanded second edition (published the year of Waterloo), containing sixteen more letters in addition to the six published in the original edition of 1812. A scarce Italian book on Russia.
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