‎Russia‎

‎EARLY RUSSIA ARCHIVE‎

‎Nine Letters To Joseph Slocum A New York Merchant Who Tried To Sell Farm Equipment To Russia In The Mid-Nineteenth Century‎

‎JOSEPH SLOCUM 1800-1853. Slocum was a merchant from Syracuse New York who attempted to sell farm equipment to Russia in the nineteenth century. He was unable to turn a profit from his endeavors and his family fell into financial hardship. His daughter Margaret Olivia Scolum Sage became an influential philanthropist and teacher. She endowed a building and a now-defunct agricultural school at Syracuse University both named after him. Archive. 9 pieces. 1830s-40s. An archive related to Joseph Slocum and his business with Russian agriculture. There are nine letters and documents predominately letters written to Slocum from various Americans and Russians. Highlights are listed below and the best piece is the first one the lengthy manuscript detailing Russian agriculture and natural resources: •Handwritten document. 4pgs. September 12 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. The four page handwritten manuscript is entitled “Some Rough Hints About the Productive Power of Russian Agricultureâ€. It states in part: “European Russia it may be divided grosso muto in three great regions or belts running from East to West. 1st - The first region extends between the White Sea and the provinces of Tver Smolensk Nijni-Novogorod & Kazan - it contains more wood low marshy ground intermixed the sand Baron then arable land. – Rye oats barley potatoes hemp and flax are the main products of that region. 2nd - the second section of the Empire being comparatively densely populated forms a central part of the European Russia – it is particularly addicted to manufacturing pursuits. It's Southern limits is about the course of the Oka River & the Central Valley of the Volga. The agricultural products are nearly the same as aforesaid. 3rd - the third region extending to the south and southeast as far as the Black Sea the provinces of Ashnaklan and the Ural Mountains reaches the Carpathian mountains Galicia & Moldavia in the West. It is mostly covered with a rich strata of black earth with a subsoil of clay lime & sandstone. Minoru is generally not used in this part of the country vulgarly called the step or prairie count the staple products of the fertile district are rye winter and summer wheat especially summer wheat - the summer frosts in the autumn preventing the seeds of the winter week to start up well millet oats barley peas buckwheat field poppy hemp flax & linseed. Cotton & Vine are raised merely in the most remote districts of the South such as Georgia Astrakhan the territory of the Cossacks of the Don Crimea & Bessarabia. Three other very important staples of Steph region are livestock & saltworks & fisheries. The stock consists mainly of horned cattle and horses grazing in large herds on the pastorate of the steps of the Black Sea… As well as on both sides a lower Volga. Sheep both Merinos Saxon & form and main object of the agricultural industry of the step and owners. – The Russian or common sheep is generally the property of the peasantry. The wool and tallow are usually sent overland in the winter to the manufacturing districts of the central belt of Russia Moscow. Or exported via Odessa Taganrog Riga & Petersburg to England and France. The saltworks are especially remarkable on the left sure the Volga on the verge of the province of Astrakhan as well as near the Ural River not far from the city of Orenburg. The Lake Elton alone of a circumference of nearly 180 miles is a solid mass of salt inexhaustible in its mineral riches. The stone saltworks of Gletznaia.As well as the saltworks a Crimea produce an immense quantity of that precious mineral. Besides that all the basin of the Caspian is full of an infinity of small salt lakes. The main fisheries are at the mouth of the Volga on the Caspian – they produce an enormous quantity of fish of all kind. Besides that of the fisheries of the Ural River on the Don. The main fluvial artery of Russia is the Volga – it is a Mississippi of our country. Its length is upwards 3000 miles. Unfortunately it is frozen up during nearly 6 months of the year. There are but very few steamboats in it. This year a large steam tow boat has been put into action on the Volga attended with great success…â€. The manuscript continues extolling Russia’s natural resources. It is uncertain who wrote it and the condition is good with folds and fold separations. A partial typewritten transcript is included. LS. 1pg. August 1843. Russia. A letter signed “L. Perovsky†by Russian nobleman Lev Perovski 1792-1856 as Russian Minister of the Interior. Perovski thanked Slocum: “The Directo fo the Agronomical…School having informed me that you presented to the museum of this Institution several agronomical instrument I feel myself much gratified to acknowledge…â€. Agronomy is crop and soil science. The letter is in very good condition with folds and short fold separations. ALS. 4pg. 5 ½†x 8 ½â€. November 7 1846. St. Peterburg Russia. An autograph letter signed by an American working for the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. He wrote in part to Slocum: “…The only reproach I ever heard from the Minister as I told you at that time and which certainly stands on a misunderstanding concerns the establishment of a cast iron fabrication. The Minister is in full belief you had spoken to him about a…in the Union that as soon as a new colony any where is established…This seemed to His Excellency excellent means to introduce in Russia and to…in this way the…possibility to the peasants to have their implements cheap & well one…â€. The letter is in fine condition. ANS. 1pg. 1834. New York. A brief note acknowledging money received from Slocum signed “Ja J Roosevelt†by Jacobus “James†Roosevelt III 1760-1847 the New York state businessman and politician who was great-grandfather of FDR. In fine condition. ALS. 1pg. June 6 1834. New York. An autograph letter signed “Jab J Roosevelt†by Jacobus Roosevelt. Roosevelt wrote to Slocum requesting the return of an item. In very good condition. ALS. 3pgs. October 22 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. A lengthy letter to Slocum signed “Chas Cramer†to Slocum. Charles Cramer 1799-1879 was an important trader to Russian and his letter concerns finance: “…he gave you an order for the purchase of Implements for Agricultural purposes & that he assigned you a credit against…of the Government. He fully confirmed the contents of the letter you communicated to me & promised to reply to your letter…Mr. Clay stated when I asked him on your behalf that he could do nothing in the case to further your interest. Major Whistler whom I called on several time but missed has not yet returned my calls. I rather think he will not be able to serve you better than I can with the Government of this Empire…We merchants often meet with heavy losses – Do consider your ‘Adventure to Russia’ misfortune & think no more about it for you will not gain anything…â€. The penciled letter is in very good condition with a tear in the address leaf. Letter. 1pg. 5 ¼†x 8 ¼â€. 1846. St. Petersburg. A contemporary copy of an 1846 letter by Rhesa Griffin a Syracuse area merchant: “Received St. Petersburg 31 July 1846 of the Russian Imperial Department…five hundred thirty six silver rubles and sixteen seven coppers in full satisfaction of all and every claim or Demand on the above Department or if any other Department of the Russian Government and in full satisfaction of all and every agreement or understanding made by me with Joseph Slocum as an agent of the Russian Government…â€. The document is wrinkled and in very good condition. unknown books‎

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‎SOCIAL FICTION RUSSIA GORKY Maxim‎

‎Tales From Gorky. Translated From the Russian with A Biographical Notice of the Author by R. Nisbet Bain‎

‎London: Jarrold & Sons 1902. Later Printing. Octavo. Green decorated cloth blocked in gilt and colors; 285pp 3pp ads. Title page states "Fifth Printing." Very mild external wear; still a tight attractive Near Fine copy of this very attractive book among the earliest translations into English of Gorky's work. Jarrold & Sons unknown books‎

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‎Russia Prisoner of War Camps in World War One Architecture Pierce Herbert HD. H. D.‎

‎An Archive of Material Relating to Russian Prisoner of War Camps Mostly in Siberia 1914-1916 Including Several Hand Drawn Architectural Plans for a Camp at Omsk from the Estate of Diplomatic Assistant Herbert H.D. Pierce‎

‎Siberia Petrograd et al. 1916. First Edition. Various documents and letters most legal format roughly 200 pages in total with three publications and several newspapers on the subject and thirteen hand drawn architectural plans for a new camp at Omsk measuring between 25 x 17 and 13 x 8 inches. During World War One a staggering number of prisoners - roughly 2.4 of the five million in total who were sent to the Eastern Front - ended up as prisoners of war in Russia. Of that number roughly two million were from Austria-Hungary. Though often neglected by historians due to the attention given to the Russian Civil War and the atrocities of World War Two the subject has drawn increased historical interest with the historian Gerald H. Davis and others calling attention to its importance in the 1980s. Davis and others have written on the relationship between the large prisoner population and the dissolution of their nations as well as the abhorrent conditions many were forced to endure partially due to hierarchical structure of treatment due to differing attitudes by their Russian hosts toward different nations and ethnicities and partially due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and resources to support such a large prisoner population. <br /> <br /> Offered here are the papers of Herbert H.D. Pierce the Special Aide to Embassador George T. Marye in Petrograd containing a substantial amount of firsthand accounts of prison conditions from the early years of the war as well as a striking series of manuscript architectural plans for a new prison camp that was built in Omsk. Pierce a diplomat who was most famously involved with a case involving seal fishing in the Berings Strait was appointed as a Special Aide out of his retirement and served until his death in 1916. It is possible that he was assigned the task of dealing with the prisoner of war situation as nearly all of his papers that we recovered from his estate from this period deal with the subject. Pierce was involved specifically with the disbursal of relief funds received from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments that were to be disbursed to their citizens. <br /> <br /> The highlight of the collection is a series of hand drawn architectural plans for a series of POW camp structures in Omsk bearing the signature of a N. Alexandrow architect. It is unclear what Pierce's exact relationship was to this project. The plans are translated into English in ink. Of particular interest are the separate officers' barracks plans as one of the violations of POW laws in Russia was the varying levels of treatment given to different prisoners in particular in their recognition of German and Austro-Hungarian ranking officers. There were twenty-eight prison camps in Omsk this one is not identified specifically. The Siberian camps often held up to 35000 prisoners this one shows plans for 10000. There were 128 camps in the Moscow region where camps typically housed 2000-5000 prisoners. The conditions of the camps were generally abysmal with camp capacities routinely exceeded by roughly 50-100%. Frequent disease outbreaks killed thousands of prisoners during the conflict in Omsk Novo-Nikolaevsk Sretensk and Totskoe specifically. <br /> <br /> The group includes letters written to Marye describing conditions in the camps as well as reports of the Americans' own observations in Siberia Moscow and elsewhere. Most are in English though several original documents in German are included. Also included are Pierce's working copies of the Second Hague Convention guidelines of 1907 Order 697 of the War Department that established the regulations regarding prisoners of war in 1914 and a copy of the agreement made between Germany and Russia in August of 1914 which allowed for all women and all men over 45 years and younger than 17 to leave the country unheeded. Some of the letters document violations of this agreement for example a fifty-five year old Austrian man writing to the embassy stating that he had been detained. The authorship of some of the reports is often unclear - one report is credited to "A Russian Lady" another from Krasnaya-Ratchka near Khabaraovsk is an uncredited 18 page description of prisoner conditions. One uncredited report nineteen pages long on the conditions of prisoners in the Moscow Circuit may have been written by Pierce himself and is addressed to Marye. Another 44 page report on Siberian prison conditions is uncredited and likely produced by the embassy itself. A portion - perhaps 25% or so - of the reports are incomplete or unclear in origin though there is much to glean from them regardless. <br /> <br /> Also included are three printed publications. The first is entitled Rapport du Conseiller Prive E.G. Chinkevitch Membre du Comte special de secours aux prisonniers de guerre sur la visite des camps des prissoniers Austro-Hongrois dans l'arrondissement militair d'Omsk printed in 1915. OCLC locates a single copy in France. The report outlines the observed conditions and includes twenty-six photographs of prisoners. The second is a forty-three page report addressed to James Gerard the American ambassador in Berlin by an unidentified author which outlines the prisoner of war conditions in England written in February of 1915. The third is a scarce map of Russian prisoner of war camps printed by L. Friederichsen in Hamburg in 1915 entitled Karte vom Europäischen und Asiatischen Russland mit Angabe der hauptsächlichsten Orte in denen sich Kriegsgefangene und zurückgehaltene Zivilpersonen befinden sowie mit Bestimmungen über den Postverkehr nach diesen Orten. The map shows locations of prison camps throughout the Russian Empire and also shows the mail routes. It is in fine condition overall and we locate six copies in OCLC. <br /> <br /> Overall a scarce survival of primary source material on a somewhat overlooked but important period in Russian history with relevance to diplomatic historians as well worthy of further study. <br /> <br /> Works cited: <br /> <br /> Grekov N. V.: Germanskie i avstriiskie plennye v Sibiri 1914-1917 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia 1914-1917 in: Vibe P. P. ed.: Nemtsy. Rossiia. Sibir' Germans. Russia. Siberia Omsk 1997 p. 159.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard: Seuchen unter militärischer Aufsicht in Rußland. Das Lager Tockoe als Beispiel für die Behandlung der Kriegsgefangenen 1915/16 in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48/3 2000 pp. 367-368; Brändström Kriegsgefangenen 1922 pp. 41-48.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard; Radauer Lena: Prisoners of War Russian Empire. In: 1914-1918 Online. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_russian_empire Accessed 5/21. unknown books‎

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‎Russia Bond 1917 Russian Revolution‎

‎Russia Bond Irkutsk 1917 The year of the Russian Revolution‎

‎Russia bond Irkutsk 1917 This bond dates from the year of the Bolshevik revolution. 200 rubles P-S886. During the Russian Civil War which broke out after the October Revolution the city of Irkutsk to whom this Bond was issued became the site of many furious bloody clashes between the "White movement" and the "Red Bolsheviks". In 1920 Aleksandr Kolchak the commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces was executed in Irkutsk. This effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance. Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the Provisional government subsequently creating the Soviet government. The amounts of payments in default were enormous. the repudiation of the old debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and triggered unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers. The revolutionary Russia completely fell out of the world economy and sealed itself up in isolation. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16790

‎Catherine II Empress of Russia; Chechulin N D.‎

‎Nakaz Imperatritsy Ekateriny II Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii.‎

‎1907. The First Edition of the Nakaz Published in the Twentieth Century Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Chechulin Nikolai Dmitrevich 1863-1927 Editor. Nakaz Imperatritsy Ekateriny II Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii Proekta Novago Ulozheniia. St. Petersburg: Izd. Iurid. Knizhnago Sklada "Pravo" 1907. ii cliv 174 pp. Three folding plates of facsimile manuscript leaves. Text of Nakaz in Russian with parallel French translation. Contemporary pebbled cloth light rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners which are bumped. Light toning to text a few leaves have carefully repaired tears. Early inscription and owner inkstamp to title page interior otherwise clean. $1250. The first edition published in the twentieth century. Title two in the series Pamiatniki Russkago Zakonodatel'stva 1649-1832. The Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II between 1764 and 1766. It was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Infused with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All- Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and denounced torture and the death penalty. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. The first two editions one with parallel texts in Russian and German were published in 1767. Our 1907 edition may have been inspired by a spirit of reform fired by the Russian Revolution of 1905. OCLC locates 1 copy in a North American law library Columbia. Another copy located at Harvard Law School. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 526 Entry 19. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 65341

‎Catherine II Empress of Russia; Code of Catherine‎

‎Instruction de Sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II Pour la Commission.‎

‎1771. Amsterdam 1771. 2nd Dutch ed. Amsterdam 1771. 2nd Dutch ed. Early Amsterdam Edition of Catherine's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Instruction de Sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II. pour la Commission Chargee de Dresser le Projet d'un Nouveau Code de Loix. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. vii 229 pp. Frontispiece engraved copperplate medallion portrait of Catherine II by C.A. Boily. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Contemporary mottled calf blind rules to boards gilt spine with lettering piece edges rouged marbled endpapers. A few minor scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities spine ends worn front joint starting at ends corners bumped and somewhat worn. Light toning to text dampstaining and light foxing to a few leaves internally clean. An attractive copy. $1500. Second Dutch edition. This important text also known as the Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II from 1764 and 1766. Permeated with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All-Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Beccaria Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and disapproved of death penalty and torture. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. Catherine's manuscript was written in French and she later produced a Russian translation. Editions in German and Russian were published in Moscow in 1767. Several editions followed in nations ranging from Italy to Latvia. The first Dutch edition in Dutch translation was published in Amsterdam in 1769. The 1771 Amsterdam edition was the first Dutch edition in French. It is a scarce imprint. OCLC locates 2 copies in North American law libraries Library of Congress UC-Berkeley. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 528 entry 28. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 64797

‎Catherine II Empress of Russia; Code of Catherine‎

‎Instruction de Sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II Pour la Commission.‎

‎1771. Early Amsterdam Edition of Catherine's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Instruction de Sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II. Pour la Commission Chargee de Dresser le Projet d'un Nouveau Code de Loix. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. vii 229 pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Later patterned-paper covered boards calf lettering piece to spine patterned endpapers. Minor wear to spine ends and corners front joint starting at ends. Negligible light toning to text dampstaining to bottom and fore-edges of text block very faint in most places in preliminaries somewhat darker. A nice copy. $1250. Second Dutch edition. This important text also known as the Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II from 1764 and 1766. Permeated with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All-Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Beccaria Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and disapproved of death penalty and torture. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. Catherine's manuscript was written in French and she later produced a Russian translation. Editions in German and Russian were published in Moscow in 1767. Several editions followed in nations ranging from Italy to Latvia. The first Dutch edition in Dutch translation was published in Amsterdam in 1769. The 1771 Amsterdam edition was the first Dutch edition in French. It is a scarce imprint. OCLC locates 2 copies in North American law libraries Library of Congress UC-Berkeley. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 528 entry 28. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 64860

‎TISSOT Victor.; BINDING; RUSSIA‎

‎La Russie et les Russes.‎

‎1884. BINDING. La Russie et les Russes. By Victor Tissot. 4 423 1 pp. Illustrated with 7 plates and 240 illustrations in the text. 4to. 275 x 195 mm bound in publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Librairie Plon E. Plon Nourrit et Cie. 1884. First Illustrated Edition. The text appeared in a smaller format without illustrations in 1882. A handsome copy of this celebrated survey of Russia in its original polychrome binding with a view of the Kremlin on the front cover. Of the illustrations 67 are by F. de Haenen and 115 are by Pranischnikoff. Scattered foxing a near fine copy. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 139788

‎Catherine II Empress of Russia‎

‎Drey Lustspiele wider Schwärmerey und Aberglauben. 1 Der Betrüger 2 Der Verblendete 3 Der sibirische Schaman. Von J. K. M. d. K. a. R. = Ihrer Kaiserlichen Majestät der Kaiserin aller Reußen Three Comedies against Sentimentality and Superstition. 1 The Deceiver 2 The Deceived 3 The Siberian Shaman‎

‎Berlin und Stettin: bey Friedrich Nicolai 1788. Octavo 15.5 × 9.2 cm. Contemporary half calf; spine richly gilt and with green title lable; edges red; XVI 347 pp. Frontis engraving by E. Henne. Bookplate of Martin E. Winkler to front pastedown. Boards very lightly rubbed; tiny ink shelfmark to first leaf; a few small smudges but overall a very good copy. First collected edition and the first edition printed in Germany of these three anti-Masonic plays by Catherine the Great which were first staged in Russia in 1786 at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg. At the same time they were published in German translation by Christian Gottlieb Arndt 1743-1829 by at least two Russian publishers evidently to great acclaim. Catherine's plays were in particular a reaction to the arrival of Alessandro Cagliostro 1743-1795 in St. Petersburg where he sought to spread word of his system of "Egyptian Freemasonry" but was exposed and ridiculed. The publisher the German writer critic and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai 1733-1811 was one of the key representatives of the Berlin Enlightenment. His lengthy preface praises Catherine's wisdom and reaffirms the need for ridiculing occultism and superstition of all forms in this "century of philosophy." Curiously he also mentions that the Russian editions of Catherine's plays earned their publishers over twenty thousand rubles. Cat. Russica C344. From the collection of the German historian and icon collector Martin E. Winkler 1893-1982. KVK and OCLC locate no copies in North America only microform. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : P4601

‎Great Britain Russia Treaty‎

‎TREATY BETWEEN HIS BRITANNICK MAJESTY AND HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY OF ALL THE RUSSIAS. SIGNED AT ST. PETERSBURG SEPTEMBER 19/30. TOGETHER WITH THE TWO SEPARATE AND SECRET ARTICLES BELONGING THERETO‎

‎London 1755. 18pp. Text in parallel French and English. Quarto. Dbd. Titlepage and final leaf a bit tanned. Else quite good. Detailed military alliance treaty between Great Britain and Russia setting forth the need for a capable defense force in case of attacks on dominions of both nations. One of the secret articles at the end stipulated that Great Britain shall pay Russia 100000 pounds a year to maintain a strong military force on the borders of Livonia. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM24182

‎Russia Windt Harry de 1856 1933‎

‎Russia as I Know It‎

‎Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. London : Chapman & Hall 1917. First edition. With numerous Illustrations. xi 1 232 pp. 8vo. Bound in light tan mottled modern three quarters polished calf brown leather title label and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. With numerous Illustrations. xi 1 232 pp. 8vo. J.B. Lippincott. London : Chapman & Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 318401

‎Russia Rowan Hamilton Norah‎

‎Under the Red Star‎

‎London: Herbert Jenkins 1930. First Printing. Illus. 320pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters mottled brown calf marbled sides leather title label. Fine. First Printing. Illus. 320pp. 8vo. Herbert Jenkins unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 317605

‎Russia Kohl J. G.‎

‎Petersburg in Bildern und Skizzen . Erster Zweiter Theil‎

‎Dresden und Leipzig: Arnold 1841. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers ads on back wrappers; uncut and unpressed. Wrappers toned losses to spine with old repairs some marginal chipping. Internally clean. About very good. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. With a Plan of St. Petersburg. The standard guide to mid-century St. Petersburg with chapters on the palaces markets street life ice-sleds the Hermitage and the notable collections of the city including a descriptive tour of libraries and archives. Arnold unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 306977

‎Russia‎

‎The Memorial of M. Bestuchef Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Riumin His Czarish Majesties resident in London. Presented Oct. 17. 1720. To the court of Great Britain being a reply to the two answers given by the British and Brunswick ministers to a former memorial. Presented by the resident Wesselofski‎

‎London 1721. 43 1 pp. Removed slight foxing. 43 1 pp. ESTC N12949 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 262775

‎RUSSIA‎

‎COMPTE-RENDU DE LA COMMISSION IMPERIALE ARCHEOLOGIQUE‎

‎RUSSIA COMPTE-RENDU DE LA COMMISSION IMPERIALE ARCHEOLOGIQUE. Pour L'Annee 1863 1864 and 1874. Folio volumes in contemporary half-morocco bindings ex-library with some cov wear. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 13295

‎Russia Conder Joseph‎

‎A Popular Description of Russia: Geographical Historical and Topographical‎

‎London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1825. Two folding engraved maps two engraved views some offsetting to maps and plates. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Later maroon morocco-backed cloth. some rubbing of extremities library stamp on contents page and a few other leaves bookplate on pastedown else a very good copy. Two folding engraved maps two engraved views some offsetting to maps and plates. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 33191

‎Russia Architecture Faensen and Vladimir Ivanov Hubert‎

‎Early Russian Architecture‎

‎New York: G.P. Putnam's Son 1975. First American Edition. Photographs by Klaus Beyer. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. First American Edition. Photographs by Klaus Beyer. 1 vols. 4to. G.P. Putnam's Son unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 28631

‎Poster Russia‎

‎Batum" Fine color travel poster depicting a woman in the field worker in red carrying a fruit-laden basket town in background‎

‎Russia 1930. 1 vols. Folio 39 x 24 1/4 inches. Linen backed. 1 vols. Folio 39 x 24 1/4 inches. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 34630

‎Russia‎

‎Appel de la Fraction Socialiste-Révoltionnaire de la Conférence des Membres de l'Assemblée Constituate au prolétariat du monde entier et aux partis socialistes‎

‎No place 1921. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. Fold mark across middle. Expertly backed with linen. Browned three short tears can be seen though repaired by the backing. Very good. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. This appeal printed above the names of A. Kerensky Victor Tchernoff Chernov and other Russian Social Revolutionaries for the 32 former members of the Russian Constituent Assembly protests the hardships inflicted upon Russia by communism. They accuse the Bolshevik government and its New Economic Policy of selling Russia's natural resources to the greed of international capitalism. The NEP was announced by Lenin in March 1921 and inaugurated an interim policy guaranteeing freedom of trade in internal commerce and a system of concessions for the investment of foreign capital. European states and busineses were pleased with the NEP and saw in it Lenin's capitulation to capitalism. However what they considered a weakness eventually turned out to be a mark of strength and flexibility of Bolshevik policy. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 234513

‎Russia Daschkaw Princess Catherine‎

‎Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias: Written by herself: Comprising Letters of the Empress and other Correspondence. Edited from the originals from Mrs. W. Bradford‎

‎London: Henry Colburn Publisher 1840. First edition. Frontispiece portraits facsimiles. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Head of spines pulled shaken some light browning and soiling of text mostly marginal. A Very good copy. First edition. Frontispiece portraits facsimiles. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed form the editor. Inscribed from Mrs. Bradford the editor to J. Arabella Holt March 28 1840 with clipped fragments from two letters from Mrs. Bradford pasted to endpapers. Henry Colburn, Publisher unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 19185

‎Russia Manstein Cristophe Hermann de‎

‎Memoires Historiques Politiques et Militaire sur La Russie depuis l'année MDCCXXVII jusqu'à MDCCXLIV. Avec un Supplement contenant une idée succincte du Militarie de la Marine du Commerce &c de ce vaste Empire. Avec la vie de l'Auteur par M. Huber‎

‎Paris: Chez Humblot 1771. First edition published in France and probably the first edition in French. Also published in French in Leipzig and Amsterdam the same year. Large folding map at the back. xxviii 584 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black boards manuscript paper label on spine. Boards very rubbed some knocking spine repaired but worn stamp on title and a few leaves of text browning of text pencilled marginalia else a very good copy. First edition published in France and probably the first edition in French. Also published in French in Leipzig and Amsterdam the same year. Large folding map at the back. xxviii 584 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce edition. Hume translated the English edition and published it in 1770 though the author of this edition says that the English edition is full of errors which may be correct as Hume published the second edition greatly corrected etc. Chez Humblot unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 31423

‎Russia Lankenau H. & von Oelnitz‎

‎Russia Past and Present. Adapted from the German by Henrietta M. Chester‎

‎London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1881. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern quarter black morocco and boards. Very Good. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. George Kennan's Copy. Signed by the elder George Kennan on endpaper in blue pencil. A great Russian-American Association<br/><br/>George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday.<br/>Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels.<br/>In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C.<br/>George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday.<br/>Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels.<br/>In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 21931

‎Russia‎

‎Russia Imperial Government: Duma sessions V. Meetings Number 2 7 9 10-13 17-19‎

‎Petrograd: Gosudarstvennaya Tipografia 1917. Small folio. Stitched mostly unopened. A bit browned but still very good. Small folio. The stenographic minutes of the above meetings Session V of the State Duma. Gosudarstvennaya Tipografia unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 234515

‎Marie Grand Duchess of Russia‎

‎Education of a Princess‎

‎New York: The Viking Press 1931. Original black cloth gilt top edge stained magenta. Map endpapers. Many photographs. Author extravagant signature on the half title. Dust jacet chipped at spine ends and on edges with some small closed tears. . Signed by Author. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Viking Press Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : W42344

‎Gosudarstvennyi russkii muzei Saint Petersburg Russia‎

‎THE RUSSIAN MUSEUM : A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF A NATIONAL TREASURE‎

‎St. Petersburg: The State Russian Museum Palace Editions 1998. Hardcover. Quarto; Fair/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine red and yellow with yellow print; DJ has light edgewear but is clean and bright; Boards in glossy illustrated paper cocked spine else clean and strong; Text block has intermittent spine breaks clean text; 263 pages frontispiece illustrated color. Shelf: Russian Slavic Eastern European Art <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1341463. FP New Rockville Stock. The State Russian Museum, Palace Editions hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 1341463 ISBN : 0810963574 9780810963573