Ukraine | PY Rare Books

Image for N. GOGOL. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Complete Works]. Fine set. Moscow, 1873-74. #2

Finely bound and beautifully preserved

GOGOL, Nikolai

Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol]

Mamontov, Moskva, 1873-74. £4,250

Gogol's main works in a splendid set, rarely found in such an attractive condition and presentation.

Image for Th. JERVIS. Topographical Map of Crimea. First edition, London, 1854. Presentation copy #2

Presentation copy of this wall-map

JERVIS, Thomas Best

Voennaia topograficheskaia karta poluostrova Kryma [...] Military Topographical Map of the Krima Peninsula [...]

[Williams & Norgate and Petheram (?)], London, 1854. £3,750

Very detailed, large map of Crimea, with much information and produced in time for the Criman War. First edition, here a rare presentation copy inscribed by Jervis, with further provenance.

Image for I.F. EINERLING. Uchebnyi atlas drevnei i novoi Rossii. First edition, very rare. St. Petersburg, 1838-44. #2

Extremely rare - with Russian America and its islands

EINERLING, Ivan Fedorovich

Uchebnyi atlas drevnei i novoi Rossii [Atlas of the Ancient and Modern Russia for Schools]

Voenno-tip. depo, Skt. Peterburg, [1838-1844]. £6,750

Very rare small-format school atlas showing the development of the Russian Empire during 1000 years, and its extent at its height. With original hand-colour. No other physical copies traced, including in Russia.

Image for YAROSLAVENKO. Ukrainski marshi... First edition, Lviv, ca. 1927. #2

Patriotic marches in 1920s Western Ukraine

YAROSLAVENKO, Ya[roslav]

Ukrainski marshi na trubnu orkhestru. Marsh Sichovykiv. Pershi Zaporozhtsi [Ukrainian Marches for Trumpet Orchestra. March of the Sich Riflemen. The First Zaporozhian Cossacks]

Muzychna Nakladnia "Torban", Lviv, [ca. 1927]. £450

Exceedingly rare edition, with no other copies found. An interesting production from a music publisher in early 20th-century Western Ukraine, then in Poland.

Image for U.P.A. Vporiad. The Drill. 1946 edition, probably Germany. #2

How to fight various invaders

[UKRAINE]

Vporiad. Peredruk vydannia U.P.A. 1943 [The Drill. A Reprint of Publications by the UPA. 1943]

[Germany], 1946. £750

Extremely rare book explaining Ukrainian nationalists how to fight in the 1940s. Only one other copy traced.

Image for SHANKOVSKY, L. Istoriia UPA. Ukraine, early 1990s. #2

Pre-Soviet nationalists in post-Soviet Ukraine

[SHANKOVSKY, Lev]

Istoriia UPA [History of the UPA]

[Ukrainian SSR or Ukraine, early 1990s]. £475

Rare 'publication' -or samizdat- focusing on the history of its now famous Ukrainian resistance group. No other copy traced outside Ukraine.

Image for PALLAS & GEISSLER. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire. London, 1812. #2

From the Caspian Sea to Crimea, extensively illustrated

PALLAS, Peter Simon

Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire [Translated from German by F.W.Blagdon].

Stockdale, London, 1812. £1,750

Fresh example of this classic travel account through Southern Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea - richly illustrated with original hand-colour. In a sturdy modern binding.

Image for RUSSIAN TALES: The Mitten; The Turnip. First edition in the original Russian. Odessa, 1919 #2

Children readings in war times

Rukavichka. Repka. Russkiia Skazki [Russian Tales: The Mitten. The Turnip]

T-vo Bessarabskoe knigoizdatelstvo, Odessa, 1919. £550

A lovely, fragile production of this short-lived publishing house from Kishinev and Odessa. Very rare as we could locate onoly two copies outside Russia. Published in 1919 - a tormented year for Odessa.

Image for JABOTINSKY, V. Piatero, rare first edition in original Russian, 1936. #2

Odessa sung by her celebrated Zionist son

ZHABOTINSKII, V. (ALTALENA) [also JABOTINSKY]

Piatero [The Five]

Parizh, Ars, 1936. £4,950

Very rare first edition of Jabotinsky's best novel: one of 75 copies on papier Japon, out of a total printrun of only 125 copies. A fine novel about Jabotinsky's native city in Ukraine, Odessa, far from his important Zionist militant activities. In original Russian.

"It never belonged to Russia" and it was nice to be Polish

[UKRAINE – POLAND]

Lwów and the Lwów Region

Barnard and Westwood Ltd., London, for Polish Ministry of Preparatory Work Concerning the Peace Conference, 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.

Image for KOTLIAREVSKY & BAZYLEVYCH. Eneida. Kyiv, 1971. #2

"The most popular edition [...] by the outstanding Ukrainian artist" (Lebedeva)

KOTLIAREVSKII, Ivan, Anatolii BAZYLEVYCH (artist)

Eneida [Aeneid]

Mystetstvo, Kyiv, 1971. £195

"The father of modern Ukrainian literature" in a very visual interpretation during Soviet times, by an important Ukrainian artist. Very rare in the West.

Image for OPERA & COSTUMES. A Collection of Costume designs. 1940s #2

Glitter, colours and traditions

[OPERA COSTUMES IN UKRAINE AND AZERBAIJAN]

Collection of Costume Designs for Opera and Ballet

USSR, Ukraine and Azerbaijan, [1940s]. £3,950

From Ukraine to Azerbaijan: a rich and unusual group of watercolour costumes for various operas given in theatres of these countries.

Image for C. S. HARDINGE. Sketches in the Camp before Sebastopol. First edition, London, 1855. #2

Uncommon folio views

HARDINGE, Charles Stewart

Sketches in the Camp before Sebastopol

Henry Graves, London, 1855. £2,950

Attractive and quite rare lithograph work showing scarce scenes of the Crimean War. First edition, in its first binding.

Image for P. SUMAROKOV. Travel to Crimea, in Swedish. Stockholm, 1805. #2

Southern Ukraine for Swedes

SUMAROKOFF, Paul

Resa genom Krimm och Bessarabien Öfwersättning af Pehr Olof Gravander

Stockholm, 1805. £375

Early Russian work on the Crimea, here translated in Swedish. Uncommon.

Image for G. de CASTELNAU. Essai sur...la Nouvelle Russie. First edition of this book on southern Ukraine. Paris, 1820. #2

First extensive original French work on Ukraine since Beauplan

CASTELNAU, Gabriel de

Essai sur l'histoire ancienne et moderne de la Nouvelle Russie: Statistique des provinces qui la composent: Fondation d'Odessa, ses progrès, son état actuel, détails sur son commerce: Voyage en Crimée, dans l'intérêt de l'agriculture et du commerce

Crapelet for Rey and Gravier, Paris, 1820. £1,150

First edition of this major, relatively early work on southern Ukraine, Odessa and Crimea; complete with engraved views and maps. A pleasant copy in attractive condition.

Image for MITKIN, M. General View of Yalta. Photographic panorama. Yalta, 1890s. #2

Yalta's bay on a 1.5m panorama

MITKIN, Mikhail

Obshchii vid Ialty [General View of Yalta]

[Yalta, 1890s]. £8,500

Fine and scarce photographic view of the famous Crimean coastal town. In an attractive binding of the time.

Image for WEYDEMEYER. Tableaux...de l'Empire de Russie. First edition, St. Petersburg, 1828. #2

Mapping Russia's history and development for an international audience

WEYDEMEYER, Alexandre de

Tableaux historiques, chronologiques, geographiques et statistiques de l'Empire de Russie, avec une carte généalogique

Pluchart for Bellizard and others, St. Petersbourg, 1828. £3,250

First edition of this impressive wide-ranging work, finely printed by Pluchart in St. Petersburg. A scarce publication, with a wealth of information on the Russian empire up to Pushkin's time.

Image for RAFFET and DEMIDOFF. Voyage dans la Russie méridionale... First edition, Paris, 1840. #2

Southeastern Europe in a signed full-morocco binding

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de, and Auguste RAFFET (artist)

Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécutée en 1837

Paris, E. Bourdin, 1840. £2,500

Appealing copy of this classic travel account, here in first edition.

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