Chtenie – odna iz obiazannostei cheloveka. [Reading is one of a Person's Duties]
Published/created in: [1920]
£1,750
Fine copy of this uncommon propaganda poster from the Soviet Union's early days and showing a stack of books which could well be antiquarian ones!
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Panorama of Tuapse.
Published/created in: ca. 1911]
£1,950
A small Russian port on the Black Sea with railway works and development: an informative and very rare photographic panorama, impressively long: almost 1.9 metre!
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GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne.
Published/created in: 1919
£10,000
Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.
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Sobranie 24-kh portretov imperatorskoi familii. Collection de vingt-quatre portraits de la famille impériale.
Published/created in: [1817]
£12,500
Attractive example of these famous portraits, kept here in their original portfolio and complete with both titles and subscribers' lists. Possibly from the Duchesse de Berry collection.
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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.
Read More Read More![Image for N.B. [BOGATOV] and PEROV. Russian Types. Chromolithographs, first edition; Moscow, 1889. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/728_1-300x207.jpg)
N.B. [presumably Nikolai Alekseevich BOGATOV] and Vasilii PEROV (artists)
Russkie tipy [Russian types]
Russkie tipy. [Russian types]
Published/created in: [ca. 1889]
£375
Lovely set of depictions of various peoples of the Rusisan empire, most probably published for the Paris 'Exposition Universelle'. Of great rarity, as we couldn't find any other example. With (most of) the original printed envelope.
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Sbornik vizantiiskikh i drevne-russkikh ornamentov.
Published/created in: 1887
£1,500
The luxuriously crafted first edition of Prince Gagarin's study of medieval Russian and Byzantine ornaments, mostly taken from manuscripts and architectural landmarks. A complete copy.
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SARYKULOVA, Gul-Chara [Abutalipovna]
Grafika Kazakhstana [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]
Grafika Kazakhstana. [Graphic art of Kazakhstan]
Published/created in: 1967
£1,750
A groundbreaking work on art from Kazakhstan, written by a major female figure of Kazakh art history - this copy with great artistic provenance. First edition, uncommon, a choice copy.
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Smert Marii Stuart, korolevy Shotlandskoi... [The Death of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots […]: historical description illustrated with seven prints engraved after English originals […]]
Published/created in: 1803
£4,750
Complete copy of this bibliographical rarity, a charming book with skilfully engraved plates, and a great witness of cultural exchanges in Europe and Russia in the early 19th century. No copies traced in libraries outside Russia.
Read More Read More![Image for [TRETYAKOV GALLERY] Very rare portfolio, Geneva, 1890s. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1932_1-300x233.jpg)
Khudozhestvennaia galereia P. i S. Tretiakovykh. [The Art Gallery of P. and S. Tretyakov]
Published/created in: [early 1890s]
£1,500
Fine, high-quality production showing some of the most famous Russian paintings. An extremely rare Geneva publication.
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Currus triumphales ad adventum clarissimorum Moschoviae principum Pauli Petrovitz et Mariae Theodorownae conjugis regali orandum spectaculo in Divi Marci venetiarum foro die 22 Januarii anno MDCCLXXXI.
Published/created in: [1782]
£22,500
Fine and scarce Italian "livre de fêtes" with beautiful contemporary colour - with an added suite of prints related to the same event, the Venitian reception of the future Tsar of Russia.
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Images et dessins populaires russes jusqu'a 1860 [Title on cover].
Published/created in: 1887-89
£4,750
Some great imagery in a rare volume of 85 plates - mostly military but only, with many themes strikingly depicted. A rare item of Russian folk art, here in fine condition.
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S. Chekhonin. A Master of the Soviet Empire Style [and] On the Art of Chekhonin.
Published/created in: 1923
£1,450
Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers.
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Beregite rebenka!... [with] Ne zabyvaite vo vremia zhary poit rebenka…. [Protect the child!... [with] Don't forget to give your child boiled water without sugar during the heatwave!]
Published/created in: [1920s]
£275
A pair of lovely and scarce early Soviet postcards encouraging neglecting parents to take care of their child's health. Great message with great imagery, away from the contemporary avant-garde and constructivism.
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Knigi istochnik znaniia. Grazhdane beregite biblioteki. [Books are the Source of Knowledge. Citizens, Save the Libraries]
Published/created in: 1919
£2,250
A great poster we like especially, for its design and its message of course, in particular in a country where libraries have suffered so much, with books destroyed, stolen, badly stamped or stored... Published in the midst of the civil war. One of our favorites!
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![Image for Procession funèbre [...] du corps de feu l'Empereur Alexandre I. Lithographed roll, first edition, 1826. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2459_1-300x400.jpg)
Procession funèbre qui doit avoir lieu lors de la translation du corps de feu l'Empereur Alexandre I, de glorieuse mémoire, de la barrière de St Petersbourg à l'Eglise cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Cazan et le jour son inhumation dans l'Eglise cathédrale de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul.
Published/created in: 1826]
£2,500
A great, very unusual printed artefact: an early example of Russian lithography in form of a long roll, giving extensive illustrated details on the future funeral of the tsar. Very rare.
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