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Grand manifeste d'Alexandre 1er, Empereur et Autocrate de toutes les Russies.
Published/created in: 1816
£350
First edition in French of this political speech by the Tsar who vanquished Napoleon. Attractively bound.
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Basni russkiia [...] Fables russes [...] imitées en vers Français et Italiens par divers auteurs.
Published/created in: 1825
£8,750
Attractive example of this famous edition of Russia's greatest fabulist, in Russian, French and Italian, with engraved plates. A luxury lifetime production, here particularly fresh.
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ERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda. [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Published/created in: 1863
£1,250
Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.
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BOZHOVSKII, Vasliii Konstantinovich
Vystavka 1812 goda: illiustrirovanoe izdanie [Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].
Vystavka 1812 goda: illiustrirovanoe izdanie. [Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].
Published/created in: 1913
£2,850
The impressive, thick and richly illustrated catalogue of the centenary exhibition celebrating the Patriotic War against Napoleon. Very rare in wrappers, complete with all plates.
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[TOLSTOY] – NOROV, Avraam Sergeevich
Voina i mir (1805-1812). S istoricheskoi tochki zrenia i po vospominaniam sovremennika. Po povodu sochinenia L.N.Tolstogo "Voina i mir" [War and Peace (1805-1812). From an Historical Perspective and Following Memories of a Contemporary. About the work of Count L.N. Tolstoy, "War and Peace"]
Voina i mir (1805-1812). S istoricheskoi tochki zrenia i po vospominaniam sovremennika. Po povodu sochinenia L.N.Tolstogo "Voina i mir". [War and Peace (1805-1812). From an Historical Perspective and Following Memories of a Contemporary. About the work of Count L.N. Tolstoy, "War and Peace"]
Published/created in: 1868
£850
A very rare extensive review and analysis of Tolstoy's masterpiece, published by a writer and book collector immediately when War and Peace's first edition was being brought out.
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Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu. [A Collection of Poems Related to the Unforgettable Year of 1812]
Published/created in: 1814
£10,850
A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes.
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Basni...v vosmi knigakh. [Fables…in eight books].
Published/created in: 1835
£4,950
Famous edition of the best Russian fabulist, and probably the first small-format book in Russia. A lovely example in full green morocco.
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Pisma o Frantsii v 1815 godu Sira Valtera Skotta pod imenem Pavla. [Letters about France in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott under the name Pavel]
Published/created in: 1827
£3,250
Very rare first Russian edition of Walter Scott's Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk in Russian, published at the height of Pushkin's fame. No copy traced in the UK nor the USA.
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Lettere scritte di Pietroburgo correndo gli anni 1810 e 1811.
Published/created in: 1815
£2,500
Saint Petersburg before Napoleon's campaign: a superb example in red morocco, very fresh and exempt of any foxing, of the expanded second edition (published the year of Waterloo), containing sixteen more letters in addition to the six published in the original edition of 1812. A scarce Italian book on Russia.
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