Turetskie legendy o sviatoi Sofii i o drugikh vizantiiskikh drevnostiakh. [The Turkish Legends of St. Sophia and Other Byzantine Antiquities]
Published/created in: 1897
£950
Fine copy of this large-format scholarly publication, bringing to the public for the first time an Ottoman manuscript kept in the then British Museum, especially remarkable for its detailed account of Constantinople.
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich [TOLSTOI]
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviyakh i 12 kartinakh [A Living Corpse. A drama in 6 acts and 12 scenes]
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviyakh i 12 kartinakh. [A Living Corpse. A drama in 6 acts and 12 scenes]
Published/created in: 1912
£1,000
First separate edition of Tolstoy's play, a large-format quality production, with illustrations. A lovely example, unopened in the charming art-nouveau wrappers.
Tolstoy wrote in his diary, "that in A Living Corpse there are notes inspired by Chekhov's work. Such is the secret of artistic creativeness".
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Beskrifning om Rysslands Belägenhet/ Gräntzor/ Landskaper/ Städer/ Styrelse/ Macht/ Plägseder och andra Beskaffenheter nu för tijden.
Published/created in: 1706
£2,950
An exceptionnal example, uncut, unopened and unbound, of a banned and later destroyed account of Peter the Great's Russia. First edition, rare.
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GAMEL, I. [Joseph Christian HAMEL]
Anglichane v Rossii v XVI i XVII stoletiiakh [Englishmen in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries]
Anglichane v Rossii v XVI i XVII stoletiiakh. [Englishmen in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries]
Published/created in: 1865-9
£600
A theme rarely researched: the relations between Russia and Great Britain, and here more specifically early English travellers to Russia before Peter the Great. First edition of this scarce study.
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TCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
Dos Kelbl. [The Calf]
Published/created in: 1919
£3,950
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
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L'Ymaigier Jean Lebedeff.
Published/created in: 1939
£1,750
A great example of this lovely production: one of 10 copies on 'papier japon', with a supplementary print, loose and inscribed by Lebedeff.
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Wörter-Sammlungen aus den Sprachen einiger Völker des östlichen Asiens und der Nordwest-Küste von Amerika.
Published/created in: 1813
£13,500
First edition of Kruzenshtern's important study of North Pacific languages, in a superb, very unusual example: very crisp, uncut, in plain temporary wrappers and printed on thicker woven paper. We were unable to trace other such large-paper copies. A rare book on the market: only two copies at auction.
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Letopisets v litsakh o Tevtonstey brani na sloveni. [Chronicle of the Teutonic War on the Slavs]
£1,750
Complete set of this unusual war satire, written and illustrated in ancient Russian style. Rare when handcoloured, as here. Only 3 complete copies traced in institutions outside Russia.
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Eléments de la langue géorgienne.
Published/created in: 1837
£1,450
Very attractive copy of this significant grammar of the Georgian language, the third such grammar to appear in the West. First edition, complete with its two folding plates, finely produced by the French State press. Uncommon.
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Diagilev i s Diagilevym. [Diaghilev, and with Diaghilev]
Published/created in: 1939
£4,750
A bibliophile's pleasure (and definitely Lifar was one!): an extra-large paper copy of his standard work on Diaghilev, one of 15 ad nominem copies, warmly inscribed to the wife of a leading Russian publisher and bookdealer in Paris. An exceptional example.
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BERDIAEV, Nikolai Alexandrovich
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli. [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Published/created in: 1926
£250
An excellent, unopened example, in original wrappers, of the first edition of this work where two important Russian thinkers meet.
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