Exceedingly rare edition, with no other copies found. An interesting production from a music publisher in early 20th-century Western Ukraine, then in Poland.
[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.
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.
GERSTENBERG, Johann Daniel (editor)
Karmannaia kniga dlia liubitelei muzyki. Na 1795 god [Pocket Book for Music Lovers. For the Year 1795]
A great rarity: the first edition of the first year of this short-living and wide-ranging almanac, the first music almanac in Russia. Only one copy traced outside Russia (Geneva) - a fine example in contemporary binding.
First edition of this celebrated songs cycle, here complete with both parts.
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Rare thick Soviet samizdat on Western jazz, giving a glimpse of the material circulated in innovative, underground circles of the late USSR.
[GLINKA] – VALTER, Viktor Grigorievich
Opera M. I. Glinki Ruslan i Liudmila [The Opera 'Ruslan and Ludmila' by Glinka]
Excellent copy, with fine, desirable Romanov provenance, of this very rare study of one of the great Russian operas.
KRUCHININ, Valentin (composer) and E. GOLSHTEIN (artist)
Shokoladnye rebiata. Muzyka fox-trot [Chocolate Kiddies. Fox-Trot Music]
Great, large-format cover design for this rare foxtrot music composed by a Russian composer in the early years of the Soviet Union.
Rare etnographic musical work, a record of popular songs from Siberia, with the attractively decorated wrapper. First edition.
The Tsarskoe Selo copy, bound in red morocco, of this ground-breaking study written by a scholar, at some point librarian at the British Museum and famous for its interest in Russia.
Celebrated book on Polish (and Ukrainian, Lithuanian etc.) costumes, especially interesting for its political text and context, often overlooked. Plates with attractive hand-colour - a fine example of the first edition.