[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.
First Russian edition of this 'philosophical' tale very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Rare - no copy traced outside Russia. An attractive copy, in a lovely binding.
Probably the most successful translation of the Qur'an in English - first edition of this translation.
DANTE ALIGHIERI, Gustave DORE (illustrator) and D.D. MINAEV (translator)
Bozhestvennaia Komediia [The Divine Comedy]
Lovely copy, in the impressive original binding, of the first complete translation of Dante in Russia. With Doré's celebrated illustrations.
SHAKESPEARE, William and I. GOLDBERG (translator)
Romeo un Zshulyete: tragedya in finf aktn [Romeo and Juliet: the Tragedy in Five Acts]
Lovely example of a rare book: the first 'Romeo and Juliet' published in Yiddish, here in fine condition and inscribed by the translator to a famous Yiddish author and professor.
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[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]
First developped legislative corpus for maritime trade and merchant shipping. First edition in German, Catherine's native language, printed in Saint Petersburg.
First edition of this new translation in Polish (second edition overall) of this great account of the Ottoman empire. Very rare: only two copies traced in public libraries.
Early account in English of the Ukrainian Cossacks uprising, told by one of their leaders. Uncommon first edition in English, with fine provenance.
GEFTER, Avgust Vilgelm [August Wilhelm HEFFTER] and Konstantin TAUBE (translator)
Evropeiskoe mezhdunarodnoe pravo [European International Law]
Important legal treatise, here in a fine example of its first Russian edition, inscribed by the translator to his wife, and later to his son.
SHAKESPEARE, William, and Boris PASTERNAK (translator)
Gamlet. Prints Datskii. Tragediia [The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]
First separate edition of Shakespeare's famous tragedy in Pasternak's fine translation. A pleasant example of this scarce edition.
'Tsarskaia Okhota': the greatest Russian hunting book in a spectacular and most unusual Belgian binding made of cuir repoussé, incoporating Samokish's design of a falcon with open wings. A great example of this striking luxury book.
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Lateinisch-Rußisch und Teutsches Vocabularium. Latino-rossiiskaia i nemetskaia slovesnaia kniga.
[BOUND WITH:]
Poshlinnoi Tarif […]. Zoll-Tarif […]
An exceptional sammelband for Russo-German sea trade under the Germanophile Tsarina Anna Ivanovna, containing three rare and early Russian publications: the first bilingual editions of the new duty statute and of the customs tariff, together with a trilingual dictionary. A lovely, fresh example in contemporary binding.
A rare St. Petersburg imprint, complete with exotic views and maps: first edition of these 4 volumes giving a taste of Pushkin's Russia for German-speaking readers. From St. Petersburg to Petrozavodsk, the Urals and the extreme north-eastern Siberia, through Russian literature, the Empress Maria Fedorovna and the famous fair of Nizhnii-Novgorod.
HERVEY, James, and Elizaveta NILOVA (transl.)
Nadgrobnyia razmyshlenia [Meditations among the Tombs]
First Russian edition of an English 'graveyard' literary work: by a female translator, dedicated to a woman, and later confiscated by Catherine the Great. Very rare.
Very rare first Russian edition of Walter Scott's Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk in Russian, published at the height of Pushkin's fame. No copy traced in the UK nor the USA.
Attractive example of this scarce anti-revolutionary tract, published when Catherine the Great was distancing herself from some consequences of the French philosophers' thoughts. In contemporary binding ith zig-zag Russian endpapers.
LORENS, D. G. [D. H. LAWRENCE] and Tatiana LESHCHENKO (transl.)
Liubovnik ledi Chatterlei [Lady Chatterley's Lover]
First edition in Russian of Lawrence's famous scandalous work, banned in the UK, USA and Soviet Union. An early translation by a talented Russian woman who went from Moscow to New York and to the GULAG (in that order), and inspired Solzhenitsyn. A lovely example, and very rare: no copy in Russian libraries, none in the UK, only two traced in WorldCat (Princeton and Syracuse).
MILLER, Genri [Henry] and Georgii EGOROV (transl.)
Tropik raka [Tropic of Cancer]
First Russian edition, initiated by Miller himself as soon as 1964, of this most transgressive work, banned in the USA and in Soviet Union. Published by Rosset in New York, limited to 200 copies, and now very rare on the market.