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Placzewnaja recz na pogrebenie […] ghossudarja Karolusa odinatsetogho. [Oration in Russian on the Occasion of the Death of Charles XI of Sweden]
Published/created in: 1697
£4,750
An extremely rare and very intriguing publication, mixing Russian language, Latin types and Swedish political agenda at the end of the 17th century - just before the wars of Peter the Great and Charles XII. Apparently no copy in Russia; this being the second or third copy traced. A fine example.
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Russia, Mongolia, China.
Published/created in: 1919
£4,750
Impressive example of the first edition, with a signed binding featuring two 1767 Russian coins. One of the greatest 20th-c. books on Eastern Russia, Siberia, and the historical relations with their neighbours. A fascinating and beautiful production.
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Iter in Moschoviam...
Published/created in: [ca. 1665]
£3,950
Exceptionnally fine example of this important travel account, which includes the first printing out of Russia of Tsar Alexis famous 'Ulozhenie'. A very attractive copy in a lovely if later binding.
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The Present Condition of the Muscovite Empire, till the Year 1699. In Two Letters: the First from a Gentleman, Who Was Conversant with the Muscovite Ambassadour in Holland: the Second from a Person of Quality at Vienna, Concerning the Late Muscovite Embassy, His Present Czarish Majesty; the Russian Empire; and Great-Tartary. With the Life of the Present Emperour of China.
Published/created in: 1699
£3,750
Russian and China at the end of the 17th century, in a lovely binding with deer tools. A fine example of the first edition, the Macclesfield copy.
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[HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund] Sigizmund GERBERSHTEIN and I. N. ANONIMOV (transl.)
Zapiski o Moskovii. (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii) [Notes about Muscovy]
Zapiski o Moskovii. (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii). [Notes about Muscovy]
Published/created in: 1866
£1,750
Finally available in Russia, more than 300 years after the first edition: this is the first book edition of Herberstein's groundbreaking travel account. A pleasant copy, with provenance, and showing a remarkable censor's afterthought, resulting in an interesting pagination feature.
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Noveishii polnyi pismovnik ili vseobshchyi sekretar. [The Newest Complete Letter-Writing Manual, or General Secretary]
Published/created in: 1820
£1,750
A great resource for any Russian writing letters at the beginning of the 19th century: from love letters in verses to business and administrative correspondance, or official letters to the highest-ranked people, everything is included in this rare work. No copy of this edition traced outside Russia.
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HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von, Paulo GIOVIO, Paul ODERBORN and others
Rerum Moscoviticarum auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti
Rerum Moscoviticarum auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti.
Published/created in: 1600
£6,500
Important edition gathering Herberstein's famous description of early Russia together with other related works, to give a wide-ranging understanding of Muscovy. With aristocratic provenance, in contemporary binding, and complete with its famous illustrations and maps, including Moscow's first printed plan.
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Reysen durch die Marck Brandenburg, Preussen, Churland, Liefland, Peßcovien, Groß-Naugardien, Tweerien und Moskovien […] anbey Eine Seltsame und sehr Anmerckliche Beschreibung von Siberien […].
Published/created in: 1702
£4,250
A very rich and overlooked 17th-c. travel account, with quantity of original material on Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Siberia, including music and songs in the vernacular, as well as many engraved plates, especially on amber mining, sable hunting on ski and Easter celebrations in Moscow. A rare Rossica.
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Regni Muschovitici sciographia. Thet är: een wiss och egenteligh beskriffning om Rydzland. [History of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. That is, a knowledgeable and accurate description of Russia]
Published/created in: 1614-15
£2,750
Wide-ranging observations on Russia under and after Ivan the Terrible, including one of the first accounts of Siberian exile. The Macclesfield copy of the first edition.
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Currus triumphales ad adventum clarissimorum Moschoviae principum Pauli Petrovitz et Mariae Theodorownae conjugis regali orandum spectaculo in Divi Marci venetiarum foro die 22 Januarii anno MDCCLXXXI.
Published/created in: [1782]
£22,500
Fine and scarce Italian "livre de fêtes" with beautiful contemporary colour - with an added suite of prints related to the same event, the Venitian reception of the future Tsar of Russia.
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O gosudarstve russkom, ili Obraz pravleniia russkago tsaria (obyknovenno nazyvaemago tsarem moskovskim). S opisaniiem nravov i obychaev zhitelei etoi strany. [Of the Rvsse Common Wealth: Of the Russian State, or the Manner of Government of the Russian Emperor]
Published/created in: 1867
£6,750
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.
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Koronovanie Imperatora Aleksandra II 26 Avgusta 1856 goda. Podrobnoe opisanie tseremoniiala. [The Coronation of Emperor Alexander II on August 26, 1856. Detailed Description of the Ceremony]
Published/created in: 1856
£1,250
A lovely booklet detailing one of the most luxurious coronation festivities, this work especially remarkable for the comments the anonymous author added about some prominent people attenting the ceremony. Rare.
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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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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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Beschreibung der Chinesischen Reise : welche vermittelst einer zaaris. Gesandschaft durch dero Ambassadeur, Herrn Isbrand, Ao. 1693, 94 und 95 von Moscau über Groß-Ustiga... und durch die Mongolische Tartarey verrichtet worden.
Published/created in: 1698
£8,500
A rich diminutive volume, with much new material on Eastern Russia and China, including Ludolf's first descriptions of Russia - scarce first edition, the Macclesfield copy.
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Moscovia, et alia opera, de statu huius seculi, adversus Catholicae Ecclesiae hostes. Nunc primo in unum volumen collecta, atq. ab ipsomet auctore emendate & aucta.
Published/created in: 1587
£3,250
Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia.
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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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