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Image for Watercolour portrait of Hadji Murat. Tbilisi, 1852. #2

Contemporary portrait

French school of the 19^th century

Portrait de Hadji Mourad

Tiflis, 30 January 1852. £4,750

Extremely rare contemporary portrait of a famous Caucasian rebel - described by Gagarin and Tolstoy.

Image for SHAKESPEARE, The Works, Imperial edition, full morocco, London, ca. 1875. #1

Impressive edition superbly bound

SHAKESPEARE, William and Charles KNIGHT (editor)

The Works of William Shakspere, Imperial Edition

Virtue & Co, London, [circa 1875]. £2,750

One of the most impressive editions of Shakespeare in an unusual example, fresh and bound in striking full red morocco richly gilt.

With Bauzonnet's receipt

BYRON, George Gordon Lord

The Works by Lord Byron, including the suppressed poems. Complete in one volume

Didot for Galignani, Paris, 1831. £875

Fine Didot edition of Byron in a Bauzonnet binding, 'doublée', with the binder's receipt bound in.

Image for ROMANOVS. Miniature photo album. 1913. #2

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A jewel of a book

[ROMANOVS]

Miniature Photographic Album

[Moskva or Skt. Peterburg, 1913].

Lovely 'book' boasting a luxurious binding with, inside, portraits of all rulers of the Romanov dynasty of Russia. Very unusual, especially complete.

Image for A. AKHMATOVA. Chetki, Belaia Staia, Anno Domini. 3 volumes, 1923. #2

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The whole series: Akhmatova's first 'collected works'

AKHMATOVA, Anna

Chetki [with] Belaia staia [with] Anno Domini [Beads [with] White Flock [with] Anno Domini]

Zinaburg, Berlin, for Petropolis and Alkonost, Peterburg, 1923 [printed in Oct. and Nov. 1922].

Most of Akhmatova's pre-1923 poetry in three matching volumes, including some new publications. Rarely found together in satisfying condition without restoration. With continuous bibliophile provenance and poems added in manuscript.

Image for DEMIDOV, A. and RAFFET. Voyage dans la Russie méridionale... First edition of the preferred folio format. Paris, 1848. #2

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Extra-illustrated, in a signed binding

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de [Anatolii DEMIDOV], and Denis Auguste RAFFET (artist)

Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie, et la Moldavie

Auguste Bry for Gihaut Frères, Paris, [1848].

An unusual and attractive copy of this classic plate book, here with plates in various states and with contemporary provenance.

Image for Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny [The Illustrated Chronicle of War], Skt. Peterburg, 1877-78. First edition, in publisher's binding. #1

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Fascinating illustrated account

GOPPE, German (publisher)

Illiustrirovannaia khronika voiny [The Illustrated Chronicle of War]

Eduard Goppe, Skt Peterburg, 1877-78.

The Balkans, Southern Eastern Europe and Western Turkey in two fascinating folio volumes detailing all events of the 1877-78 war. Very richly illustrated and rarely found in such an attractive example, here in the original publisher's binding.

Image for RERESBY, Travels and Memoirs, London, 1813. Full red morocco binding. #1

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Large-paper in red morocco

RERESBY, Sir John, Bt

The Travels and Memoirs of Sir John Reresby... The Former (now First Published) Exhibiting a View of the Governments and Society in the Principal States and Courts of Europe, during the Time of Cromwell's Usurpation; the Latter Containing Anecdotes, and Secret History of the Courts of Charles II. and James II

B. McMillan for Edward Jeffery, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and J. Rodwell, London, 1813.

The preferred, large-paper issue attractively bound in full red morocco richly gilt. This edition contains the very first publication of the Travels; and the first illustrated edition of the Memoirs: overall with almost 40 plates including 11 hand-coloured, some with gilt highlights. A great example.

Image for Innovative teaching method in Russia, based on visual memory #1

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An innovative, purely visual teaching method

IAZVINSKII, Aleksandr [actually Anton] Feliksovich

Sinkhronicheskiie tablitsy vseobshchei istorii, ukrashennyie 1500 portretami, sniatymi s medalei, sluzhashchiie k Khronograficheskomu atlasu A. Iazvinskogo [Synchronous Tables of the World History, decorated with 1,500 portraits copied from medals. A supplement to the chronographic atlas by A.Iazvinskii]

E.Prats, Skt Peterburg, 1840.

Very rare 'atlas' teaching world history without words, purely with images and visual memory: a very innovative teaching method in 19th-c. Russia, Poland, and Europe.

Image for LEITSINGER, Photographs of Arkhangelsk and Northern Russian people, late 19th century #1

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Samoyeds, barrels and snow

LEITSINGER, Jakob Ivanovich

Photographic Views of Arkhangelsk and its Region

Arkhangelsk, 1890-1900s.

A lovely group of rare Russian photographs, showing Northern indigenous peoples and local trades by one of the main photographers of the Russian North, and future mayor of Arkhangelsk.

Image for GRIGORIEV, B. Faces of Russia. Berlin, 1924. #1

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In fine condition

GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich

Faces of Russia

Sinaburg, Berlin, for Great Britain and the Colonies, 1924.

A lovely, clean copy of this great book of artistic portraits of Russians. First English edition, copy num. 7.

Image for VERESHCHAGIN, Turkestan, a complete, signed copy of the first edition, St. Petersburg, 1874. #1

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Presentation copy

VERESHCHAGIN, Vasilii

Turkestan: etiudy s natury - Etudes d'après nature - Studien nach der Natur

Beggrov, Skt Peterburg, 1874.

One of the best Russian war artists in Central Asia: a fine example, signed by Vereshchagin and attractively bound, of this rich visual record of nowadays Uzbekistan and the surrounding regions at the height of the Great Game. Uncommon.

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