[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] – TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
An interesting compilation of various international and Russian music, all manuscript, with a lovely watercolour title page and all kept in a refined master binding: a very attractive imperial portfolio made for the Grand Duke. Very rare.
Uncommon luxurious full cream calf binding for the wedding of two first cousins of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II - together with three other ceremonials detailing important events in the close family of Alexander III. A fine group.
FIDLER, Konstantin [also FIEDLER]
Slovo pokhvalnoe velikomu gosudariu Borisu Fedorovichu Godunovu [Eulogy to the Great Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov]
Very rare first edition in Russian of this praise of Boris Godunov, with great and unusual provenance: possibly Catherine the Great and then Smirdin's famous lending library. A lovely example.
Grand Duke Alexey's copy of the first scholarly work on ancient Russian jewelry: an excellent example of the first edition, finely illustrated.
Great multilingual school book with dialogues covering all aspects of life. An adaptation of Lange's influential work, here in a scarce edition at the dawn of Russia's Golden Age. This copy with contemporary provenance.
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Caviar, wine, Venetian cobalt and icon wood for a major monastery near Moscow before the reigh of Peter the Great: a very rare manuscript ledger from 1674, with a wealth of details and fascinating information. No other similar example traced outside Russia.
VIGNOLA [pseud. for BAROZZI, Giacomo] and Carlo ANTONINI (engraver)
ll Vignola illustrato
Prince Gagarin's copy, in a beautful Italian binding: he was Russia's ambassador in Rome at the time and a noted patron of the arts; the edition was dedicated to him. A beautiful illustrated work of architecture.
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Great copy of this small-format book: used by Armenian merchants around the world, including Africa, this copy replete with annotations in Armenian linked with numerology and prayers. Very rare first edition by a leading Armenian printed in Amsterdam; only a copy traced in Oxford and one in Pisa - none in the Americas.
GENBACH, Jean [pseud. of Ernest de GENGENBACH] and Alexandre ALEXEIEFF (artist)
Satan à Paris
Avec envoi de l'auteur à Alexandre Alexeieff, qui avait dessiné la couverture. Exemplaire de tête, fort désirable, de l'édition originale de roman semi-autobiographique.
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Lovely menus related to Dmitrii Oznobishin and his assigmnments in China. One menu is fully watercoloured (not printed), the other a fine chromolithograph - abundantly inscribed and signed by Oznobishin's friends and colleagues.
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PEYSSONEL, Charles de, and Ernst CUHN
Die Verfassung des Handels auf dem Schwarzen Meer [Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire]
Very rare first German edition of this major work, with much added material showing a geopolitical angle chosen by the translator, a civil servant for the Prussian 'external affairs'. A beautiful copy, in full morocco with prestigious local provenance.
Lovely copy of this first edition, rare as only 1 copy in the US. An important work gathering Ukrainian proverbs and other phrases never published before or in another form. A fine scientific work with very good provenance.
One of the two most important floras of Russia, an impressive publication, here in a fine example with desirable Russian provenances: the Kushelev-Bezborodko - Polovtsev - Krylov copy. First edition, complete of both parts.
Fine example, with interesting contemporary provenance, of this work on Muslim faith published by one of the most dynamic figures of Russian printing history. Very rare first edition.
Empress Mariia Fedorovna's copy of an important Russian textbook for arithmetic. First edition, in a lovely example finely bound in green silk with attractive endpapers.