GEISSLER, [Christian Gottfried Heinrich], J.G. GRUBER and J. RICHTER
Russische Volke-Vergnügungen [Russian Folk Amusements]
Russische Volke-Vergnügungen. [Russian Folk Amusements]
Published/created in: [1801]
£5,750
Very rare large-format plates in striking colours, by a master of the genre. Last copy traced on the market: in 1931, incomplete.
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TRAUBERG, Il[ia] and V[alentina] KHODASEVICH (artist)
Akter amerikanskogo kino [The Actor in American Cinema]
Akter amerikanskogo kino. [The Actor in American Cinema]
Published/created in: 1927
£750
First edition of this scarce, developed study of American cinema in the 1920s. A pleasant copy, in its original photomontage wrappers.
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LARIONOV, M[ikhail], Nataliia GONCHAROVA, Ilia ZDANEVICH, [Pablo] PICASSO and others
Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill]
Grand Bal Travesti / Transmental [Programme, Ticket and Handbill].
Published/created in: 1923
£1,950
Lovely gathering of three 'ephemera' items produced for the first Russian ball of the avant-garde in Paris - an eclectic show with music and dances in newly designed costumes. With Larionov's ticket, Goncharova's handbill and the famous programme with many artistic contributions.
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[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] – TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri. [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
Published/created in: [8 November] 1888
£8,750
An interesting compilation of various international and Russian music, all manuscript, with a lovely watercolour title page and all kept in a refined master binding: a very attractive imperial portfolio made for the Grand Duke. Very rare.
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Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina [BOUND WITH] The Art of Lydia Lopokova [BOUND WITH] Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Published/created in: 1914, 1920 and 1913
£12,500
Scarce gathering of Yorke's beautiful and rare publication and both Barbier's 'albums', all bound at the time in a fine blue calf signed binding - a fine volume indeed.
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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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Mekhanicheskii Teatr Sveta. Obiavlenie. [Mechanical Theatre of Light. Announcement]
Published/created in: 1833
£500
Rare broadside for series of entertainments in Moscow, including an optical theatre of animated figures by a versatile performer and craftsman.
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Kinetozograficheskie vidy. Obiavlenie. [Kinetozographic Views. Announcement]
Published/created in: 1834
£650
Rare broadside for an impressive Russian kinetozographic theatre of 400 animated figures in Pushkin's Moscow, by a hot-air balloon enthusiast now in the Guinness World Records.
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Pervyi vinokur ili kak chertenok kraiushku zasluzhil. Komediia. [The First Distiller, or How the Little Devil Earned his Crust. A Comedy]
Published/created in: 1886
£1,750
First edition of Tolstoy's successful play on wine and some of its effects... Lovely example in wrappers. Scarce.
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Dzhazovye perevody [...]: Leroi Dzhenkins, "Kompani", Devid Murrei, Dzhorzh Liuis, Giunter Khampel. [Jazzy Translations [...]: Leroy Jenkins, "Company", David Murray, George Lewis, Gunter Hampel]
Published/created in: ca. 1976-80]
£475
Rare thick Soviet samizdat on Western jazz, giving a glimpse of the material circulated in innovative, underground circles of the late USSR.
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L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst.
Published/created in: 1913
£3,950
The earliest, largest and most impressive work on Bakst's striking art. A fine, fresh example, in its great art-déco binding.
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