A fascinating multi-cultural work, from Ireland and the UK to France and Romania - in a fine, large-paper example inscribed by the author, a relative of Napoleon. Very rare.
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Pleasant example, in the original wrappers, of the first edition of this amazing novel, one of the best ever written in Russia. Banned in Soviet Union.
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A rare work of historical manipulation, printed in China by Russian émigrés with Nazi sympathies.
Read More Read MoreKOZAK, Edvard and Liuboslav HUTSALIUK
Lys Mykyta [WITH] Lys Mykyta. Kalendar na rik 1949 [The Fox Mykyta [WITH] The Fox Mykyta. Calendar for Year 1949].
A striking satirical magazine, published in the US in Ukrainian, remarkable for its Cold-War caricatures covering more than 20 years. An important run of more than 170 issues, with the very first 1949 Almanac.
Read More Read MoreERMOLOV, Aleksei Petrovich, also YERMOLOV
Zapiski Alekseia Petrovicha Ermolova o voine 1812 goda [Notes of Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov about the war of 1812]
Important eye-witness account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia: scarce first edition published in London because banned in Russia.
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The Cold War and the 1960s analysed by a military theorist. A fine example of the first edition.
Read More Read MoreBASHILOV, Boris [pseud. for Boris IURKEVICH]
Istoriia russkogo masonstva [History of Freemasonry in Russia]
First significant work on the Russian masons - biaised as it'd be expected, but extensive. Rarely found complete and in such an attractive condition.
Read More Read MoreSOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr Isaevich
Odin den Ivana Denisovicha [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]
First edition of Solzhenitsyn's first book - here with the very rare variant of the cover showing a watchtower. A fine example of this great novel.
Read More Read MoreBLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
O liubvi, poezii i gosudarstvennoi sluzhbe [Dialogue About Love, Poetry and Government Service]
Very good example of this first separate edition of Blok's thoughts on a wide range of themes.
Read More Read MoreMONTESKE [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de]
Pisma persidskiia [Lettres persanes] [Persian Letters]
Rare first illustrated edition of the 'Lettres persanes' in Russian, in contemporary binding with lovely Russian endpapers.
Read More Read MoreInstruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
A lovely example of this famous edition of Catherine's celebrated Great Instructions, much inspired by important European philosophers of the Englightenment.
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Wide-ranging and fascinating analysis of the world powers and their relationships with Russia at the turn of the 20th century - with great comments on China and the USA. First edition, bound in Constantinople and with interesting modern provenance.
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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.
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First Russian book edition -banned- of Fletcher's famous -and banned- description of Russia which first appeared in 1591. A very rare edition, printed in Geneva by Russian revolutionaries, in a fine, fresh example.
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