Religiosae Kijovienses cryptae, sive Kijovia subterranea: in quibus labyrinthus sub terra, et in eo emortua, à sexcentis annis, divorum atque heroum Graeco-Ruthenorum... corpora.
Published/created in: 1675
£5,500
An important work on the Kiev Lavra Cave monastery, the first non-religious book looking at its history and practices - as well as at Ukrainians at large. Particularly interesting for its tolerant point of view, and its striking illustrations. A complete, fresh copy; rarely found.
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Russia, Mongolia, China.
Published/created in: 1919
£4,750
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.
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LEVCHINE, Alexis de [Aleksei Iraklevich LEVSHIN, also LIOVSHIN]
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks
Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks.
Published/created in: 1840
£2,750
The first extensive study of the people of Kazakhstan: first French edition, with the same illustrations as the original Russian edition; including a folding map of the area, which was very rare at the time. This is the copy which belonged to 'Le Baron de Barante', the dedicatee of the translation.
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Iter in Moschoviam...
Published/created in: [ca. 1665]
£3,950
Exceptionnally fine example of this important travel account, which includes the first printing out of Russia of Tsar Alexis famous 'Ulozhenie'. A very attractive copy in a lovely if later binding.
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Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia, Performed in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Command of the Russian Government.
Published/created in: 1814
£2,850
Lovely copy, in contemporary binding, of this major work on the Caucasus region and its people. First English edition.
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PLESCHEEF, Sergey (also Sergei MESHKOV-PLESHCHEEV) and James SMIRNOVE (transl.)
Survey of the Russian Empire
Survey of the Russian Empire.
Published/created in: 1792
£2,750
Fine, unusual copy of this first english edition of the most accurate description of the Russian empire at the end of Catherine the Great's reign. Usually black & white: but this copy with bold, vivid contemporary hand-colour.
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Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten.
Published/created in: 1714
£7,500
One of the great accounts of Russia under Peter the Great, as well as Persia, especially remarkable for the wealth of illustrations. Here in a beautifully fresh example of this Dutch edition.
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A Group of Four Confidential Reports of British, American and Australian Diplomats in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
Published/created in: July 21-27, 1960; February 12-22, 1962; August 29 - September 9 [c. 1965]; August 8-12 [c. 1965-67]
£1,250
About 40 pp. of fantastic and confidential reading giving a detailed and open description of Siberia during the USSR, to Irkutsk, Khabarovsk and Yakutsk. A rare find, apparently unpublished.
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CHAPPE D’AUTEROCHE, Jean-Baptiste and Stepan Petrovich KRASHENINNIKOV
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance [and] contenant la description du Kamchatka
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761; contenant les moeurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance [and] contenant la description du Kamchatka.
Published/created in: 1768
£9,750
A very fresh copy of the first edition of one of the great French travels abroad, and a classic representative of French 18th-century publishing, with many artistic illustrations, engraved maps, and high quality printing. With a wealth of details on Russian, Siberia, the Russian Far East, including Kamchatka and the Northern Pacific.
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[PUSHKIN] – Alexandre POUCHKINE, Véra STARKOFF (transl.) and Marie EGOROFF (artist)
Rouslane et Ludmile
Rouslane et Ludmile.
Published/created in: 1898
£2,450
The first complete poetic French translation of Pushkin's celebrated work. Strikingly illustrated by an original Russian female artist, and this copy inscribed by the translator: a politically-engaged playwright and one of the main figures of the feminist theatre movement in France. Rarely found, and only 500 copies printed.
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Notes on the Boats of Siberia.
Published/created in: [1920]
£395
Fine essay on Siberian boats, their history, construction, use etc., with illustrations. Very rare offprint.
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The Seat of War in the East.
Published/created in: 1855-56
£17,500
A most famous plate book on the Crimean War. First edition, a very good example complete of the deluxe version, with the smaller text volume.
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Lwów and the Lwów Region.
Published/created in: May 1945
£1,450
May 1945: World War II comes to an end, the Soviet are in Poland and Ukraine. It is time for the anti-Soviet Polish exiled to lobby the world's powers to restructure Poland as they wish to - that is including all its former regions, such as Eastern Galicia and Lvyv... This booklet is their detailed argumentation, with a wealth of explanations and statistics, and three maps. A fascinating read. Scarce: only 3 copies traced in the US.
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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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Grand manifeste d'Alexandre 1er, Empereur et Autocrate de toutes les Russies.
Published/created in: 1816
£350
First edition in French of this political speech by the Tsar who vanquished Napoleon. Attractively bound.
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GEISSLER, [Christian Gottfried Heinrich], J.G. GRUBER and J. RICHTER
Russische Volke-Vergnügungen [Russian Folk Amusements]
Russische Volke-Vergnügungen. [Russian Folk Amusements]
Published/created in: [1801]
£5,750
Very rare large-format plates in striking colours, by a master of the genre. Last copy traced on the market: in 1931, incomplete.
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The Present Condition of the Muscovite Empire, till the Year 1699. In Two Letters: the First from a Gentleman, Who Was Conversant with the Muscovite Ambassadour in Holland: the Second from a Person of Quality at Vienna, Concerning the Late Muscovite Embassy, His Present Czarish Majesty; the Russian Empire; and Great-Tartary. With the Life of the Present Emperour of China.
Published/created in: 1699
£3,750
Russian and China at the end of the 17th century, in a lovely binding with deer tools. A fine example of the first edition, the Macclesfield copy.
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A Picture of St. Petersburg,. represented in a Collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People. Taken on the Spot, at the twelve different Months of the Year: and accompanied with an Historical and Descriptive Account
Published/created in: 1815
£14,500
A finely bound copy of this cornerstone of any Russian, or indeed colour-plate collection, showing the Northern Capital in colours and in all seasons, as Napoleon would have seen it if....
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