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
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.
Rare account describing the first 50 years of an innovative hospital for childen based in St. Pertersburg, and the first in the world focusing on very early age (< 3 y-old). With a wealth of statistics and graphs. A pleasant copy, retaining most of its first, luxury binding.
Lovely copy of the first edition of the definitive treaty on cod liver oil and its medical properties. Attractively bound in red morocco with the arms of Russia.
Scarce scientific work with detailed maps of the area between the two seas, now in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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.
A pair of lovely and scarce early Soviet postcards encouraging neglecting parents to take care of their child's health. Great message with great imagery, away from the contemporary avant-garde and constructivism.
Fine example of this rare study published in Tbilisi and focusing on the health of young Georgian people. With more than 40 illustrations.
[DARWIN, Charles] Charlz DARVIN
O vyrazhenii oshchiushchenii u cheloveka i zhivotnykh [The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]
Darwin's third part of his trilogy, here in the first Russian edition, translated by a very interesting team of young, innovative Russian scientists. Rare in the West.
SANCHES, António Nuñes Ribeiro
O parnykh rossiiskikh baniakh … perevedeno s Franktsuzskago v polzu Obshchestva [Of Russian steam baths … translated from the French for the benefit of society]
Attractive copy of this important and very interesting work on the famous Russian baths - by a Portuguese and very European scholar. Rare - only one copy in WorldCat.
Very rare first edition of this study covering many aspects, with few taboos and much nuance - a surprisingly complete, scholarly and cultured work on the subject. Of great rarity: no other copy traced.
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.
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.
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).