A remarkable visual record of Russian military uniforms just before the Crimean War. With beautiful full-page plates. Scarce, especially complete as here. With fine provenance: from the French Bibliothèque Impériale.
Extremely rare lithographed plates with original hand-colour, mostly showing officers' costumes of the Russian Imperial Guard. A complete copy, in attractive condition.
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NARBUT, Egor (artist) and Ivan Andreevich KRYLOV
Tri basni Krylova [Three Fables by Krylov]
Three fables by the most famous Russian fabulist, here illustrated by the leading Ukrainian artist. Scarce in this attractive condition.
Fine issue of this famous large-format magazine, here in appealing condition with its artistic cover by the Armenian-American artist. Covering many various subjects in 1932, from Mussolini and US construction workers to horse racing and Toscanini in NYC.
Excellent example of the first touristic guide devoted to the Russian northern capital, an important publication, here in a fine binding. Complete with its folding map and views of the city.
A complete copy of this magnificent production of high-level Russian art history, here focusing on manuscript decorations over centuries and many various regions, with many superb examples, from Central Europe, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Central Asia etc.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
Fine exampe of this great avant-garde production, strikingly illustrated by Goncharova and here housed in a Miguet binding.
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Extremely rare broadside boasting "the all-best" teas from China available at a merchant's in St. Petersburg. The poster contains much interesting information and is illustrated with many Asian scenes. Very fragile but in very good condition.
SORINE, Savely [Savelii Abramovich SORIN] (artist) and André SALMON
Portraits
A large, famous publication showing the rich and famous of the roaring twenties: an attractive example of this uncommon publication, coming from a descendant of some of the people portrayed. With the maximum number of plates.
SNEGIREV, Gennadii and Ivan BRUNI (artist)
Golubaia Tuva [Blue Tuva]
Lovely Soviet children book about life in the taiga. Rare edition.
TUROVA, E[katerina] (artist) and Aleksei REMIZOV
Snezhok [Snowball]
Fine example of this rare, fragile edition of the Russian avant-garde, in the preferred version with original hand-colouring.
FISCHER, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von, and Carl Anton von MEYER
Sertum Petropolitanum seu icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae in horto botanico Petropolitano floruerunt Jardin de Saint-Pétersbourg
Unusual work of Russian natural history, finely produced in Saint Petersburg and focusing on the Botanical Garden's Palm House there. In large format and with hand-coloured plates. First edition, rare.
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A relatively large-format publication with hundreds of illustrations showing Pushkin's creations, personality, friends, contemporaries, as well as later interpretations. From N. Turoverov's collection, an important Cossack officer, poet and collector.
Fine example of the first edition. Barbier, a great art-deco artist and illustrator, celebrates here one of the star dancers of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - a beautiful production in appealing condition.
Fresh example of this classic travel account through Southern Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea - richly illustrated with original hand-colour. In a sturdy modern binding.
A beautiful work with superb colours. One of only 6 copies on papier de Chine, with an additional print signed by Alexeieff and complete with its suites, kept in the original box. First edition of the plates and of this translation of this important text of Russian literature.
A diplomatic gift from Nikolay II to the French President Felix Faure, in a great, striking binidng boasting the Russian flag. First edition of this fine illustrated work, very rare as only one other copy traced worldwide.
Impressive example of the first edition, with a signed binding featuring two 1767 Russian coins. One of the greatest 20th-c. books on Eastern Russia, Siberia, and the historical relations with their neighbours. A fascinating and beautiful production.