Panorama of Tuapse.
Published/created in: ca. 1911]
£1,950
A small Russian port on the Black Sea with railway works and development: an informative and very rare photographic panorama.
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Quadro della storia letteraria di Armenia.
Published/created in: 1829
£600
Pleasant example of this lovely production, presenting an overview of Armenian literature from its origins to the 17th century.
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Collection of Costume Designs for Opera and Ballet.
Published/created in: [1940s]
£3,950
From Ukraine to Azerbaijan: a rich and unusual group of watercolour costumes for various operas given in theatres of these countries.
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The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years.
Published/created in: 1671
£3,000
Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, with an important portrait of Tsar Alexei and a famous chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Attractive example of the first edition.
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ZICHY, Eugene [Jenő], Dr. Jean [Janos] JANKO and Dr. Bela POSTA
Kaukaìzuri eìs Közeìpaìzsiai utazaìsai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale : La Migration de la race Hongroise [et] La Description des collections
Kaukaìzuri eìs Közeìpaìzsiai utazaìsai. Voyages au Caucase et en Asie Centrale : La Migration de la race Hongroise [et] La Description des collections.
Published/created in: 1897
£1,950
Fine copy of this great scholarly work on the population of the Caucasus, richly illustrated. First edition.
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Tableaux historiques, chronologiques, geographiques et statistiques de l'Empire de Russie, avec une carte généalogique.
Published/created in: 1828
£3,250
First edition of this impressive wide-ranging work, finely printed by Pluchart in St. Petersburg. A scarce publication, with a wealth of information on the Russian empire up to Pushkin's time.
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Relation curieuse de l'estat present de la Russie.
Published/created in: 1679
£2,000
Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, here in an unusual, uncut copy of the first French edition, from a private lending library with the label detailing its lending conditions. Includes the famous illustrated chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes.
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Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire.
Published/created in: 1787
£1,950
Fascinating account of the trade and business in Southern Russia and the Black Sea in the 18th century - with a wealth of details and personal comments. First edition, not common.
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Zu Fuss: Kreuz und Quer Durchs das Ganze Russische Reich. [On Foot: Crisscrossing the Whole Russian Empire]
Published/created in: ca. 1897-1903]
£1,250
Unusual extensive manuscript travel account of a German going through Russia and recording his many observations - richly illustrated with a variety of added material. Only partly published in contemporary newspapers.
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Images et dessins populaires russes jusqu'a 1860 [Title on cover].
Published/created in: 1887-89
£4,750
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.
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The Hero of Our Days, from the Russian of Michael Lermontoff, by Theresa Pulszky.
Published/created in: 1854
£1,450
Lermontov translated by a friend of Herzen and wife of a Hungarian revolutionary. First edition of this translation.
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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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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]
Puteshestvie v Arzrum vo vremia pokhoda 1829 goda. [Journey to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829]
Published/created in: 1934
£2,950
Pushkin's best travel account in a fine bibliophilic edition, one of 50 'ad nominem' copies only, this one for Valerian Svetlov.
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GAGARINE, Prince Grégoire – Kniaz Grigorii Grigorevich GAGARIN
Dessins et croquis d'après nature. Risunki i nabroski s natury
Dessins et croquis d'après nature. Risunki i nabroski s natury.
Published/created in: 1902
£4,500
Gagarin's artistic record of Turkish and Caucasian types, among other sketches reproduced, including portraits of Russian aristocrats in the Caucasus, Gypsies in Moscow and views of Egypt and Greece. A beautiful, large format production of one of the best Russian presses of the time. A fine example with contemporary provenance.
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Les chasses au Caucase. Okhoty Kavkaza.
Published/created in: 1900
£6,500
First edition of this impressive visual record of imperial hunting parties in the Caucasus - one of the greatest Russian hunting books, in French and Russian, conceived and produced specifically to promote the Caucasian region at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. With 100 leaves of illustrations. A good example in the publisher's binding.
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Qabardei alyfbei. Kabardinskaia azbuka. [Kabardian ABC]
Published/created in: 1865
£2,950
Beautiful example, unopened with very wide margins, of this first ABC of the Kabardian language, considered also as 'East Circassian', from the North Caucasus. First edition, very rare, with no copy traced in the USA.
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