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Smoking in Pushkin's Russia

Obiavlenie [Announcement]

Mosk. Vedomosti, Mosk. Universitet, Moskva, 1834. £575

Detailed price list of tobacco products offered in Moscow during Pushkin's time, showing a broad and very international range. A rare, unusual ephemera in excellent, fresh condition.

Chinese tea in Pushkin's Russia

[GASTRONOMY]

Preis-courant neuerhaltener, ausgesuchter, bester Chinesischer Thee die zu haben sind in den Magazinen der Kaufmanns Gregorius Marinin, in St. Petersburg

[Skt. Peterburg], 1843. £2,750

Extremely rare broadside boasting "the all-best" teas from China available at a merchant's in St. Petersburg. The poster contains much interesting information and is illustrated with many Asian scenes. Very fragile but in very good condition.

Image for L.-J. de JONGH. L'Huile de foie de morue... First edition, red morocco bound for the Tsar, Paris, 1853. #2

Disgusting, but so healthy!...

JONGH, Lodewijk Joseph, de

L'Huile de foie de morue envisagée sous tous les rapports comme moyen thérapeutique

Paris, L. Martinet pour Victor Masson, 1853. £1,850

Lovely copy of the first edition of the definitive treaty on cod liver oil and its medical properties. Attractively bound in red morocco with the arms of Russia.

Image for J.G. KOHL. Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen. Dresden & Leipzig, 1841. First edition. #2

Russia and Saint Petersburg in Gogol's time

KOHL, J[ohann] G[eorg]

Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnold, 1841. £425

Attractive example of this unusually wide-ranging description of Russia and its northern capital, from food to libraries and many other subject matters. First edition, with its fine folding map of the city.

Tolstoy the playwright

TOLSTOY, Lev

Pervyi vinokur ili kak chertenok kraiushku zasluzhil. Komediia [The First Distiller, or How the Little Devil Earned his Crust. A Comedy]

I.D. Sytin for Posrednik, Moskva, 1886. £1,750

First edition of Tolstoy's successful play on wine and some of its effects... Lovely example in wrappers. Scarce.

Image for [RUSSIANS in CHINA]. Two Menus in Russian. Warsaw and Yingkou, 1900. #2

Out of stock

Gastronomical joys of the Russian military in the midst of the Boxer Uprising in China

[GASTRONOMY – RUSSIAN CHINA]

Two Menus

[Warsaw and Yingkou, 1900].

Lovely menus related to Dmitrii Oznobishin and his assigmnments in China. One menu is fully watercoloured (not printed), the other a fine chromolithograph - abundantly inscribed and signed by Oznobishin's friends and colleagues.

Image for BILIBIN. Menu for an imperial military dinner, St. Petersburg, 1910. #2

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Bilibin works for the Tsar and his dinner

BILIBIN, Ivan (artist)

Uzhin 28 Marta 1910 [Dinner on 28 March 1910]

[Skt. Peterburg, 1910].

Fine example of this very rare Russian imperial menu, drawn by one o fthe greatest illustrators and artists of the time in Russia.

Image for BARSKIY Y. Anti-Alcohol pamphlet in Ukrainian. Kharkiv, 1930. #2

Out of stock

Half their wages into alcohol

BARSKIY, Y. A

Chi dodae sili alkogol? [Does Alcohol Give Strength?]

Kharkiv, Naukova Dumka, 1930.

Great example of Soviet health propaganda, trying to make Ukrainians more sober. Very rare.

Image for Living standards in the Pale of Settlement, complete atlas of 55 plates #1

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Fascinating statistics and maps regarding the Russian Jewish population

BLIOKH, Ivan Stanislavovich [also Jan Gotlib BLOCH]

Sravnenie materialnogo byta i nravstvennogo sostoianiia naseleniia v cherte osedlosti evreev i vne ee: tsifrovyia dannyia i izsledovaniia po otnosheniiu k evreiskomu voprosu [Comparison of the Living Standards and Moral State of the Population within the Pale of Settlement and Outside: Digital Data and Research in Relation to the Jewish Question]

Faians, Varshava, [for Efron, Skt. Peterburg, 1889 or 1901].

The condition of the Jewish settlements in the Russian empire: a fascinating analysis -and defence- through a wealth of data and their visual representation. An exceptionally rare Russian book of statistics with a political angle.

Image for Botkin's teas and cloth in 1830s Pushkin's Moscow #1

Out of stock

On blue paper

[TEA] – BOTKIN, Petr

Obiavlenie. Magazin sukon i kitaiskikh chaev [Announcement. Fabrics and Chinese Tea Shop].

Mosk. Vedomosti, Mosk. Universitet, Moskva, 1833.

Rare broadside by the pioneer of the Russian tea industry, advertising teas and fabrics from international origins, available in 1830s Pushkin's Moscow.

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