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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Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten.
Published/created in: 1714
£7,500
One of the great accounts of Russia under Peter the Great, as well as Persia, especially remarkable for the wealth of illustrations. Here in a beautifully fresh example of this Dutch edition.
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Plan stolichnago goroda Moskvy. [Plan of Moscow the Capital City]
Published/created in: 1789
£12,500
An important and decorative plan of the Russian capital, printed the year of the French Revolution. A fine hand-coloured example. Very rare.
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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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The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years.
Published/created in: 1671
£3,000
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. Attractive example of the first edition.
Read More Read More[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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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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Relation curieuse de l'estat present de la Russie.
Published/created in: 1679
£2,000
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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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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Zu Fuss: Kreuz und Quer Durchs das Ganze Russische Reich. [On Foot: Crisscrossing the Whole Russian Empire]
Published/created in: ca. 1897-1903]
£1,250
Unusual extensive manuscript travel account of a German going through Russia and recording his many observations - richly illustrated with a variety of added material. Only partly published in contemporary newspapers.
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Historical Sketch of Moscow illustrated by Twelve Views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, etc.
Published/created in: 1813
£6,750
The first colour-plate book on Moscow: a lovely example, uncut in original publisher's boards, with the 12 plates in fine original hand-colour. Published in the wake of Napoleon's catastrophic Campagne de Russie.
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Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d'art.
Published/created in: [ca. 1927-28]
£250
A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums.
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Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic.
Published/created in: 1815
£1,850
First edition of this classic travel account, here in attractive example in red morocco.
Read More Read MoreSHAFONSKII, 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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La Russie, ou mœurs, usages et costumes des habitants de toutes les provinces de cet empire.
Published/created in: 1813
£2,950
The preferred fully hand-coloured version of this lovely work on Russian costume and customs, here in a decorative binding. With 3 supplementary plates = 111 plates overall, with original colouring.
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