Les Récits de Feu Ivan Pétrovitch Bielkine.
Published/created in: 1930 [mais Septembre 1929]
£600
Pleasant example, fresh internally, of this famous production of Alexeieff illustrating Pushkin. First edition with these illustrations. One of the "few copies" not for sale.
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Tainy masonstva. [The Secrets of Freemasonry]
Published/created in: [1930s]
£325
A fine if macabre cover design for this first Russian edition of a, anti-semitic and anti-mason (as expected) Nazi pamphlet translated for the Russian fascists. No copy traced outside Russia.
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Smert Marii Stuart, korolevy Shotlandskoi... [The Death of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots […]: historical description illustrated with seven prints engraved after English originals […]]
Published/created in: 1803
£4,750
Complete copy of this bibliographical rarity, a charming book with skilfully engraved plates, and a great witness of cultural exchanges in Europe and Russia in the early 19th century. No copies traced in libraries outside Russia.
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Naibilshyi zlochyn Kremlia: zaplianovanyi shtuchnyi holod v Ukraini 1932-1933 rokiv. [The Kremlin's Greatest Crime: the Planned Artificial Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933]
Published/created in: 1952
£450
A striking cover for a striking book: the first extensive study of the 1930s Great Famine in Ukraine. First edition, published in London.
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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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La Religion ancienne et moderne des Moscovites.
Published/created in: 1705
£975
Great study of the religious habits and dogmas of Western Russians in th 17th century - finely illustrated with engraved plates by Picart. A fine copy of this uncommon edition.
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Donesenie Varshavskogo komiteta. [Report of the Warsaw Investigation Committee]
Published/created in: 1826
£3,750
Very rare first edition of this important report on the Decembrists' revoltof the end of 1825. A lovely copy with contemporary provenance. Only one example traced outside Russia.
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Hintergrund. 17 Zeichnungen zur Aufführung des "Schwejk" in der Piscator-Bühne.
Published/created in: [1928]
£1,950
First edition of these excellent and uncompromising caricatures of war, by the great provocative German artist. A fine example, with the original fragile envelope and inscribed by Grosz to an important anarchist and collector.
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Procession funèbre qui doit avoir lieu lors de la translation du corps de feu l'Empereur Alexandre I, de glorieuse mémoire, de la barrière de St Petersbourg à l'Eglise cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Cazan et le jour son inhumation dans l'Eglise cathédrale de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul.
Published/created in: 1826]
£2,500
A great, very unusual printed artefact: an early example of Russian lithography in form of a long roll, giving extensive illustrated details on the future funeral of the tsar. Very rare.
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SHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich
Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Opisanie morovoi iazvy…. [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Published/created in: 1775
£19,500
The first Russian scientific work on the plague : an Imperial copy of a major work, in fresh condition.
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The Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby... The Former (now First Published) Exhibiting a View of the Governments and Society in the Principal States and Courts of Europe, during the Time of Cromwell's Usurpation; the Latter Containing Anecdotes, and Secret History of the Courts of Charles II. and James II.
Published/created in: 1813
£1,450
The preferred, large-paper issue attractively bound in full red morocco richly gilt. This edition contains the very first publication of the Travels; and the first illustrated edition of the Memoirs: overall with almost 40 plates including 11 hand-coloured, some with gilt highlights. A great example.
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