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Image for BILIBIN. Menu for an imperial military dinner, St. Petersburg, 1910. #2

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Bilibin works for the Tsar and his dinner

Uzhin 28 Marta 1910 [Dinner on 28 March 1910]

[Skt. Peterburg, 1910].

Fine example of this very rare Russian imperial menu, drawn by one o fthe greatest illustrators and artists of the time in Russia.

Image for PEVZNER & SHVARTS. Skotnyi dvor. First edition, Moscow, 1931. #2

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Another Animal Farm - jolly and colourful

PEVZNER, Teodor (artist) and Evgenii SHVARTS [Evgeny SHWARTZ]

Skotnyi dvor [The Farmyard]

Moskva, Molodaia gvardiia, 1931.

Celebrated Soviet children book with beautiful full-page images. First edition, in excellent condition.

Image for ATKINSON. Picturesque Representation...of the Russians. First edition, folio. London, 1804. #2

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In signed full contemporary red morocco

ATKINSON, John Augustus (artist)

A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians

London, Bulmer, 1804.

One of the most beautiful and impressive British works on Russia, with many great plates in fine colouring. Here unusually bound in a luxury full red morocco gilt signed.

Image for R. JOHNSTON. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland... First edition, 1815. #2

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An Englishman in Russia as Napoleon saw it

JOHNSTON, Robert

Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic

J.J. Stockdale, London, 1815.

First edition of this classic travel account, here in attractive example in red morocco.

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Inscribed to Proust's Russian-born friend

BARBIER, George (artist) and Jean-Louis VAUDOYER

Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina

Collections Pierre Corrard, Paris, 1914.

A classic Ballets-Russes work inscribed to a Russian-born Parisian lady, while she was helping Proust publishing the beginning of his 'Recherche': a fine example of the first edition of this famous work.

Image for STASOV-STASSOFF, V. Russkii narodnyi ornament. L'ornement national russe. First edition, 1872. #2

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Striking patterns in colour

STASOV – STASSOFF, V[ladimir Vasilievich]

Russkii narodnyi ornament. Vyp. 1: Shitie, tkani, kruzheva [All published] L'Ornement national russe. Première livraison. Broderies, tissus, dentelles

Tip. Tov. Obshchestvennaia polza, Skt Peterburg, 1872.

The first significant study of Russian textile ornaments, richly illustrated, and still one of the most remarkable such works. First edition, complete.

Image for EPSTEIN & ROIKHEL. Mayselakh/Tales. First edition, Kyiv, 1922. #1

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Yiddish Avant-Garde for children

EPSTEIN, Mark (artist) and David ROIKHEL

Mayselakh [Tales]

Kultur Lige, Kiev, 1922.

One of the great productions of the Russo-Jewish avant-garde group 'Kultur Liga', in its early Kyiv's days. Rare children book in Yiddish with many cubist illustrations.

Image for RYCAUT - RYKOT. Monarchya Turecka, in Polish. Leipzig, 1727. #2

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Polish interest towards the Ottoman empire

[RYCAUT, Paul] RYKOT

Monarchya Turecka [The Turkish Monarchy]

W Drukarni Breytkopfowey, Roku Pańsk, Lipsk [Leipzig], 1727.

First edition of this new translation in Polish (second edition overall) of this great account of the Ottoman empire. Very rare: only two copies traced in public libraries.

Image for P. KHOLODNY. Ukrainska abetka. New York, 1950s-60s. First edition. #2

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Ukrainian in the USA

KHOLODNY, Petro (artist)

Ukrainska abetka [Ukrainian ABC]

Knyhospilka, New York, [1954-60s].

Very attractive and remarkably rare ABC, created by a son of the Ukrainian Minister of Education. A fine example.

Image for [OLD BELIEVERS] - MIATELKOV, F.P. Sviattsy. Manuscript dated 1887. Complete #2

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Finely handwritten and illuminated by a "peasant scribe and artist"

[OLD BELIEVERS] – MIATELKOV, Fedor Petrovich

Sviattsy [Religious Almanac]

Vasilevo-Slobodskaia, Nizhegorod. gub., 1887.

Complete with bold miniatures and ornaments: a fine Old-Believer manuscript, signed by the scribe and artist. With contemporary provenance.

Image for DILTHEY, Ph. Opy rossiskoi geografii - Essay géographique sur la Russie. First edition, Moscow, 1771-72. #2

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From Ukraine to North America, from the origins to Catherine the Great

DILTEI Filipp Genrikh – Philippe Henry DILTHEY

Opyt rossiiskoi geografii s tolkovaniem gerbov i s rodosloviem tsarstvuiushchego doma, sobrannyi iz raznyh avtorov i manuskriptov Essay géographique sur la Russie avec le blason et la généalogie de la maison regnante, compilé de différens auteurs & manuscripts

[Moskva], Imper. Mosk. Univ., 1771[-1772].

Detailed and wide-ranging description of the history, peoples and geography of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. Very rare: only four copies outside Russia, one only in the US.

Image for KRAFFT, H. A Travers le Turkestan russe. First edition, Paris, 1902. #2

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Central Asia in beautifully subtle tones

KRAFFT, Hugues

A Travers le Turkestan Russe

Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1902.

Remarkable photographic record of nowadays Uzbekistan and neighbouring regions - a beautiful, luxury production, and a fine example, inscribed by the photographer and author.

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 SUZUKI, Y. Shin Roshia - New Russia. First edition, Tokyo, 1932-33. #2

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The striking achievements of the young USSR seen from Japan

SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)

Shin Roshia [New Russia]

Tokyo, Nisso Bunka Kyokai, Showa 7-8 [i.e. 1932- 1933].

Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set.

Image for GLADKY, S. & A. SALMON. Synthese du costume theatral. First edition, Paris, 1927. #2

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Cubist theatrical impressions

GLADKY, Serge (artist, also Serhii HLADKY) and André SALMON

Synthèse du costume théâtral

Ducros et Colas for Le Théâtre Mondial, Paris, 1927.

One of only 170 copies of this beautiful album of fresh and striking plates. In a fine modern binding.

Image for PETROV-ROPET, Nikolay II's coronation annoucement, Moscow, 1896. #2

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With gold chromolithography

PETROV-ROPET, Ivan (artist)

Obiavlenie o Koronovanii Nikolaia II i Aleksandry Fedorovny 14 maia 1896g [Announcement of the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna on 14 May 1896]

A.A. Levenson, Moskva, [1896].

Beautiful broadside for the coronation of Russia's last tsar, very decorative and in very good condition.

Image for CHEREPANOV. Vidy Solovetskogo Monateria. Arkhangelsk, 1884. #2

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A future Gulag camp - printed in Arkhangelsk

CHEREPANOV, V. (publisher)

Vidy Mestnostei Solovetskogo Monasteria [Views of the Solovetskii Monastery and its Environs]

V. Cherepanov, Arkhangelsk, 1884.

A lovely work showing many views of a great Orthodox monastery, and future Soviet camp. Printed in a major port of the White Sea.

Image for LEVINSON, A. Bakst: The Story of the Artist's Life. First edition, copy num. 1; Berlin, 1923. #1

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Copy Number 1

[BAKST] – LEVINSON, André

Bakst: the Story of the Artist's Life

Selle, Berlin for Brentano's, New York and A. Kogan, Berlin, 1923.

The most celebrated artist of the Ballets Russes, celebrated here in this beautiful production - of which it is the copy num. 1 out of only 315 printed for the UK.

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