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Image for MAYERBERG - MEYERBERG. Iter in Moschoviam... First edition, ca. 1665. #2

One of the best accounts of Russian after Herberstein

MAYERBERG [also MEYERBERG], Baron Augustin von

Iter in Moschoviam..

£3,950

One of the best accounts of Russian after Herberstein
MAYERBERG [also MEYERBERG], Baron Augustin von. 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.

Image for C. de BRUIN [LE BRUN]. Reizen over Moskovie. Amsterdam, 1714. #2

A fresh, crisp example of this celebrated travel account

BRUIN [BRUYN], Cornelis de

Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten

£7,500

A fresh, crisp example of this celebrated travel account
BRUIN [BRUYN], Cornelis de. 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.

Image for I. MARCHENKOV. Plan of Moscow. First printing, 1789. #2

"The first truly modern map of Moscow" - with contemporary hand-colour

MARCHENKOV, Ivan

Plan stolichnago goroda Moskvy [Plan of Moscow the Capital City]

£12,500

"The first truly modern map of Moscow" - with contemporary hand-colour
MARCHENKOV, Ivan. 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.

Image for CRULL & BOUVET, Moscovy and China, first edition. London, 1699. #2

In a binding with deer tools

[CRULL, Jodocus] (editor) and J[oachim] BOUVET

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

£3,750

In a binding with deer tools
[CRULL, Jodocus] (editor) and J[oachim] BOUVET. 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.

Image for S. COLLINS. Present State of Russia. First edition, London, 1671. #2

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms

[COLLINS, Samuel]

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

£3,000

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms
[COLLINS, Samuel]. 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.

Image for HERBERSTEIN. Rerum Moscoviticarum, first book edition in Russian. St. Petersburg, 1866. #2

Authorised, but censored, with three pages in one

[HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund] Sigizmund GERBERSHTEIN and I. N. ANONIMOV (transl.)

Zapiski o Moskovii. (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii) [Notes about Muscovy]

£1,750

Authorised, but censored, with three pages in one
[HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund] Sigizmund GERBERSHTEIN and I. N. ANONIMOV (transl.). 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.

Image for HERBERSTEIN, ODERBORN and others. Rerum Moscoviticarum. Francfort, 1600. In contemporary binding. #3

Russia in the 16th century Russia - with the three maps

HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von, Paulo GIOVIO, Paul ODERBORN and others

Rerum Moscoviticarum auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti

£6,500

Russia in the 16th century Russia - with the three maps
HERBERSTEIN, Sigismund von, Paulo GIOVIO, Paul ODERBORN and others. 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.

Image for COLLINS, S. Estat présent de la Russie. Edition originale en français, Paris, 1679. #2

Account of 17th-c. Russia from a 'cabinet de lecture'

[COLLINS, Samuel]

Relation curieuse de l'estat present de la Russie

£2,000

Account of 17th-c. Russia from a 'cabinet de lecture'
[COLLINS, Samuel]. 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.

From amber mining to sable hunting on ski

BRAND, Johann Arnold von

Reysen durch die Marck Brandenburg, Preussen, Churland, Liefland, Peßcovien, Groß-Naugardien, Tweerien und Moskovien […] anbey Eine Seltsame und sehr Anmerckliche Beschreibung von Siberien […]

£4,250

From amber mining to sable hunting on ski
BRAND, Johann Arnold von. 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.

Image for E. POHLIG. Handschriftliche Reisebeschreibung durch Russland. Reichillustriert. 1897-1903. #2

"Die Reise um die Welt ohne Geld"

Zu Fuss: Kreuz und Quer Durchs das Ganze Russische Reich [On Foot: Crisscrossing the Whole Russian Empire]

£1,250

"Die Reise um die Welt ohne Geld"
POHLIG, Emil. 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.

Image for ACKERMANN? R. Historical Sketch of Moscow, with 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates. First edition, London, 1813. #1

The first colour-plate book on Moscow

ACKERMANN, Rudolph

Historical Sketch of Moscow illustrated by Twelve Views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, etc

£6,750

The first colour-plate book on Moscow
ACKERMANN, Rudolph. 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.

Image for LOUKOMSKI, G. Le Kreml de Moscou. Paris, c. 1927-28. Complete first edition #1

One of the greatest museums of Russia

LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich

Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d'art

£250

One of the greatest museums of Russia
LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich. 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.

Out of stock

Moscow's best views of the 18th century

LA BARTHE, Gérard de

Vues de Moscou. Vidy Moskvy

Moscow's best views of the 18th century
LA BARTHE, Gérard de. Vues de Moscou. Vidy Moskvy.
Published/created in: 1795-96

£17,500

A fine group of these famous views of Moscow, the best drawn in the 18th century.

Image for R. JOHNSTON. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland... First edition, 1815. #2

Out of stock

An Englishman in Russia as Napoleon saw it

JOHNSTON, Robert

Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic

An Englishman in Russia as Napoleon saw it
JOHNSTON, Robert. 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.

Image for TSVETAEVA, M. Versty. Second, expanded edition, Moscow, 1922. #2

Out of stock

With almost 3 times more poems

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Versty [Mileposts]

With almost 3 times more poems
TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna. Versty. [Mileposts]
Published/created in: 1922

£275

Tsvetaeva's first post-war and post-Revolution collection of poetry, here in its most important edition.

Image for SHAFONSKII, Morozovaia iazva [Description of the Plague]. First edition, Moskva 1775, Imperial copy. #2

Out of stock

Pandemic in Catherine's Russia - from an Imperial palace

SHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich

Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]

Pandemic in Catherine's Russia - from an Imperial palace
SHAFONSKII, Afanasii Filimonovich. 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.

Image for BRETON de la MARTINIERE, La Russie..., Paris, 1813 - First edition, all plates hand-coloured #1

Out of stock

All plates hand-coloured

BRETON [de la MARTINIERE, Jean-Baptiste Joseph]

La Russie, ou mœurs, usages et costumes des habitants de toutes les provinces de cet empire

All plates hand-coloured
BRETON [de la MARTINIERE, Jean-Baptiste Joseph]. 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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