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STRUVE, Burkhard Gotthelf (ed.)

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Russian law for Germans

STRUVE, Burkhard Gotthelf (ed.)

Allgemeines russisches Land-Recht : wie solches auf Befehl Ihr. Czaar. Majest. Alexei Michailowicz [General Russian Land Law. As compiled by order of his Royal Majesty Aleksei Mikhailovich]

Dantzig, 1723.

First German translation of the famous 'Ulozhenie', an important edition considering the prime role of Germans in the Russian Empire during the 18th century. In contemporary binding.

Image for [BAKST]. L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst. First edition, Paris, 1913. In excellent condition #2

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Exceptionally clean copy in its striking binding

[BAKST] – ALEXANDRE, Arsène and Jean COCTEAU

L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst

De la More Press, Londres, for Maurice de Brunoff, Paris, 1913.

The most impressive of the "Bakst books", published at an early date and here in a beauticul copy.

Image for S. COLLINS. Present State of Russia. First edition, London, 1671. #2

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Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms

[COLLINS, Samuel]

The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years

John Winter for Dorman Newman, London, 1671.

Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, with an important portrait of Tsar Alexei and a famous chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Attractive example of the first edition.

Image for J.B. SCHERER. Annales de la Petite-Russie, ou histoire des Cosaques de l'Ukraine... First edition, Paris, 1788. #2

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With aristocratic provenance

SCHERER, Jean Benoît

Annales de la Petite-Russie, ou histoire des Cosaques de l'Ukraine, ou de la Petite-Russie, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; suivie d'un abrégé de l'Histoire des Hettmans des Cosaques

Paris, Cuchet, 1788.

First edition of a significant work on Ukraine and its famous Cossacks - but not only, covering also many other aspects of the country's history and geography. A lovely copy, in a nicely decorated binding.

Image for J.G. KOHL. Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen. Dresden & Leipzig, 1841. First edition. #2

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Russia and Saint Petersburg in Gogol's time

KOHL, J[ohann] G[eorg]

Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen

Dresden und Leipzig, Arnold, 1841.

Attractive example of this unusually wide-ranging description of Russia and its northern capital, from food to libraries and many other subject matters. First edition, with its fine folding map of the city.

Image for G. HAMONIERE. Vocabulaire français et russe. First edition, Paris, 1815. #2

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Great copy with great provenance

Frantsuzskoi i rossiiskoi slovar. Vocabulaire français et russe

Paris, Théophile Barrois fils, 1815.

Attractive example of this rare dictionary, finely printed the year of Napoelon's demise, and here with excellent provenance.

Image for G. ELLIS. Memoir of a Map... First edition, London, 1788. Complete. #2

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The Caucasus: topography and languages

[ELLIS, George]

Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended Between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an Account of the Caucasian Nations, and Vocabularies of their Languages

J.Edwards, London, 1788.

A great work on the Caucasus and its peoples, from Chechnya to Georgia, detailing their customs and, more originally, their languages, next to a large map of the region. First edition, in very good condition.

Image for J.G. GEORGI. Description de toutes les nations... First edition. St. Petersbourg, 1776-80. #2

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An empire of many peoples

GEORGI, Johan Gottlieb

Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie. Beschreibung aller Nationen des Rußischen Reichs (part 4)

J.C. Schnoor, with Weitrecht (part 3-4), for Carl Wilhelm Müller, St. Petersbourg, 1776, 76, 77 & 1780.

A complete copy of this groundbreaking work. First edition.

Image for GEISSLER, HEMPEL and RICHTER. Mahlerische Darstellungen... First edition, Leipzig, 1804. #2

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With 40 full-page hand-coloured plates

GEISSLER, C[hristian] G[ottfried] H[einrich] (artist), Frederic HEMPEL, [and Johann RICHTER.]

Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebräuche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tatarischen, Mongolischen und andern Volkern im Russischen Reich

Baumgärtnerischen Buchhandlung, Leipzig, [c.1804].

First edition of one of Geissler's productions on Russia's inhabitants, their customs, costumes and way of life. With great aquatint plates finely coloured.

Image for Procession funèbre [...] du corps de feu l'Empereur Alexandre I. Lithographed roll, first edition, 1826. #2

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Unexpected early use of lithography in Russia - for an "an extremely tedious enterprise"

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

[Saint Pétersbourg?, 1826].

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.

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.

Image for [CATHERINE II] C.G. ARNDT. Russisch-Kaiserliche Ordnung... First edition in German; St. Petersburg, 1781-82. #2

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Part of Catherine's legislative effort

[CATHERINE THE GREAT] – ARNDT, Christian Gottlieb (translator)

Rußisch-kaiserliche Ordnung der Handels-Schiffahrt auf Flüßen, Seen und Meeren [Russian Imperial Statute of Merchant Shipping on Rivers, Lakes and Seas]

St. Petersburg, Weitbrecht und Schnoor, 1781-82.

First developped legislative corpus for maritime trade and merchant shipping. First edition in German, Catherine's native language, printed in Saint Petersburg.

Image for PEYSSONEL, C. Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire. Paris, 1787, first edition. #2

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Production, trade and customs in Southern Eastern Europe

PEYSSONEL, Charles de

Traité sur le commerce de la Mer Noire

Laporte for Cuchet, Paris, 1787.

Attractive example of the first edition of this major work on 18th-century trade from Bulgaria and Romania to Georgia and the Caucasus, through Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. With a fantastic panorama of the products produced and traded.

Image for CHEVALIER & BROWNE. Discourse...of the Cossacks. First edition in English; London, 1672. #2

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With fine contemporary Welsh provenance

[CHEVALIER, Pierre] and Edward BROWN[E] (translator)

A Discourse of the Original, Countrey, Manners, Government and Religion of the Cossacks, with another of the Precopian Tartars. And the History of the Wars of the Cossacks against Poland

London, T. N. for Hobart Kemp, 1672.

Early account in English of the Ukrainian Cossacks uprising, told by one of their leaders. Uncommon first edition in English, with fine provenance.

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Important early eyewitness description of Siberia and China

Beschreibung der Chinesischen Reise : welche vermittelst einer zaaris. Gesandschaft durch dero Ambassadeur, Herrn Isbrand, Ao. 1693, 94 und 95 von Moscau über Groß-Ustiga... und durch die Mongolische Tartarey verrichtet worden

Hamburg, Greflinger fur Schiller, 1698.

A rich diminutive volume, with much new material on Eastern Russia and China, including Ludolf's first descriptions of Russia - scarce first edition, the Macclesfield copy.

Image for ODERBORN, P. Wunderbare...Geschichte...Joan Basilidis. Gorlitz, 1596. #2

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The birth of Ivan the Terrible's literary features

Wunderbare, Erschreckliche, Unerhörte Geschichte, und wahrhaffte Historien: Nemlich, des nechst gewesenen Großfürsten in der Moschkaw Joan Basilidis, (auff ire Sprach Iwan Basilowitz genandt) Leben [Unusual, Terrifying, Extraordinary Story and Realistic Tales: Namely, the Life of Recently Deceased Grand Duke of Moscow Joan Basilidis (Called Ivan Vasilievich in Their Language)]

Gorlitz, Johan Rhambaw, 1596.

A rare but important 'russica' title, being the first biography of Ivan the Terrible. Pleasant example of an early edition.

Image for POSSEVINO, A. Moscovia. Cologne, 1587. #2

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Ivan the Terrible's Russia

POSSEVINO, Antonio

Moscovia, et alia opera, de statu huius seculi, adversus Catholicae Ecclesiae hostes. Nunc primo in unum volumen collecta, atq. ab ipsomet auctore emendate & aucta

Birckmann, for A. Mylius, [Cologne], 1587.

Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia.

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