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Image for TILLO, A. Opisanie Aralo-Kaspiiskoi nivellirovki. First edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1877 #2

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Opisanie Aralo-Kaspiiskoi nivellirovki proizvedennoi v 1874 godu [Description of the Aral-Caspian Levelling Conducted in 1874]

£1,950

TILLO, Aleksei, Opisanie Aralo-Kaspiiskoi nivellirovki proizvedennoi v 1874 godu

Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Image for SKRINNIKOV, The Science of the Horse, very rare first edition, in Russian, Warsaw, 1866-67 #2

How to understand horses: no copy traced

SKRINNIKOV, Mikhail

Ippologiia, ili Nauka o loshadi. Chast I-II [Hippology, or The Science of the Horse. Parts I-II]

£1,950

SKRINNIKOV, Mikhail, Ippologiia, ili Nauka o loshadi. Chast I-II

First edition of this influential Russian work on horse education and hippiatry, illustrated with 3 plates. Very rare: no copy traced on the market nor in libraries.

Image for A Groupe of Five Works on the Cholera in Russia and Moscow. First editions, 1831. #2

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MARIN-DARBEL, Gustave Efranor, Mikhail MARKUS, Dr. JAEHNICHEN, Vasilii ZUBKOV and Christian LODER

A Sammelband of Five Works on the Cholera in Russia

MARIN-DARBEL, Gustave Efranor, Mikhail MARKUS, Dr. JAEHNICHEN, Vasilii ZUBKOV and Christian LODER, A Sammelband of Five Works on the Cholera in Russia

Very rare pamphlets, all on the cholera in Moscow, bound together at the time: a lovely volume bringing together French, German and Russian, and witnessing the activity of the international medical community in Moscow in front of this new deadly threat.

Image for Bruce's Calendar fully engraved #1

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Astrology and predictions in Russia

[BRUCE’S CALENDAR]

[The Book, Called Bruce's Calendar] Kniga, imenuemaia Brusovskoi kalendar.

[BRUCE'S CALENDAR], [The Book, Called Bruce's Calendar]

Complete example of an early, fully engraved edition of this famous, richly illustrated civil calendar, with predictions to the 20th century. A fine example with provenance charmingly handwritten. "A great rarity" writes Bitovt.

Image for Vatagin, Alphabet in pictures, rare first edition, 1926 #1

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Very rare ABC by an artist of the Moscow Darwin Museum

VATAGIN, Vasilii Alekseevich

Azbuka v kartinkakh [ABC in Pictures]

VATAGIN, Vasilii Alekseevich, Azbuka v kartinkakh

Charming early Soviet ABC by a noted artist of natural history, in excellent condition and very rare: we could trace only one copy at auction (in Russia) and one in a public library (in Russia too).

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