[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] – TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
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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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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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. Very good example of the first edition.
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An early Russian biography of Peter the Great, illustrated and noted for its rarity. Pleasant example in contemporary binding.
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Fresh example of this extensive, high-quality, and very unusual study of private wealth in tsarist Russia. A fascinating and very informative read, curiously authorised by the censors.
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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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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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Beautiful broadside, very decorative, in very good condition.
Read More Read MoreROMANOV, Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich
General-Adiutanty Imeratora Aleksandra I [Adjutants-Generals of the Emperor Alexander I]
Attractive example of this fine production of Russian military history.
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Scarce émigré work commemorating a prominent member of the Romanov family, active during WWI and shot by the Bolsheviks; first edition, published in Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
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One of the best plate books on St. Petersburg, here in a fantastic example in excellent contemporary hand-colour. Beautiful and very rare.
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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.
Read More Read MoreSHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich
Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
The first Russian scientific work on the plague : an Imperial copy of a major work, in fresh condition.
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