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[COMMUNISM] [RUSSIA]
КОÐСТРУКТОРЮÐОСТЬ - 3; "Constructor Youth-3" A Soviet pre-collapse constructor set for young people
Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
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[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] IPATIEFF, Professor Vladimir N [ED: EUDIN, Xenia; FISHER, Helen D; FISHER, HH] H H
The Life of A Chemist; Memoirs of Vladimir N. Ipatieff Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lt. General in the Imperial Russian Army Professor at Northwestern University etc.
Stanford CA: Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War Revolution and Peace 1946. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xv; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth mostly confined to some shallow cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges some toning of the spine panel and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy in a dustjacket with some light wear.<br /> <br /> A sizeable biography of the life of Ipatieff who managed to be a respected scientific figure before the Revolution and an even more respected one afterwards. It can have been no mean feat to have been head of Imperial Russian chemical warfare research during WW1 and then post-revolution to be held responsible for the revitalization of the chemical industry of the newly minted USSR. A joint memoir of the last days of Imperial Russia and the early days of the USSR with all the turbulence fear and uncertainty that must have engendered. Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace unknown
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[RUSSIA] KLOSE, Kevin [Foreword]; BITOV, Andrei; AKSYONOV, Vasily et al
Metropol Literary Almanac
New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1982. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and decorated in black silver and gilt to spine. Dustjacket.xvii; 636pp.; 7pp. Clean and bright with minimal wear; internally clean. A very good copy indeed. <br /> <br /> A compendium of writings and art pieces banned or denied publication in the Soviet Union originally issued in 1979 under the title of "Metropol" with the demand that they be published free of state censorship. The demand was predictably refused and copies of Metropol were circulated secretly within the Soviet Union before eventually making their way into the West. W.W. Norton & Co unknown
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[Russia]. PINKERTON, Robert
Russia; or Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of that Country and its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made on the Spot during Travels at Different Times in the Service of the Bible Society and a Residence of many Years in that Country
London: Seeley & Sons 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Seeley & Sons 1833 first edition. Large octavo xii 486 2 plate list and errata pages plus 8 hand-coloured lithographs. Original quarter pebble-grained green cloth and plain papered boards with a black paper title-label on the spine; all edges uncut; cloth a little worn and unevenly stained; boards rubbed marked and worn at the extremities; early ownership signature 'Francis Marriage' on the front free endpaper; scattered light foxing; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy. Seeley & Sons hardcover
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[RUSSIA] -
Russian workmen.
mid. XIX c. . Original watercolour 23 x 29 cm. Mounted and framed. <br /> mba004 This charming watercolour shows a group of four Russian workmen in front of semi-derelict barracks. The expressions and gestures of the figures endow the work with life and character as three men leaning on long staffs dressed in heavy coats with high hats of fur or wool turn to glare at a passing official in braided coat who gingerly raises his peaked cap in response. The work is both a delightful study of local costumes in nineteenth century Russia and a window into the life of the lower classes in the Empire at the time.<br /> [mid. XIX c.]. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 85645
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[RUSSIA]. [SLAVONIC LITURGY].
Kanonik. Book of Canons.
Russia 1866. . 4to 23 x 185 cm. Illuminated manuscript on paper ff. 4 index 4 blank 344 17 lines per page alphabetic signatures and pagination of Cyrillic alphabetic numerals 35 full-page illuminations in watercolour 36 headpieces in black and gold with first lines in gilt; occasional light spotting and soiling mostly marginal. Contemporary gilt-stamped red morocco gilt spine with raised bands edges gilt and gauffered gilt endpapers; slightly rubbed lacking both clasps.<br /> An exceptionally fine example of an Old Believer liturgical book beautifully illustrated with 35 full-page illuminations.<br /><br />Created by a skilful master they depict in great detail the most significant events of the New Testament including the Annunciation the Nativity the Baptism of Christ the Ascension the Twelve Apostles and more.<br /><br />This volume was made for and used by Old Believers who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. These Old Believers refused to accept alterations and amendments to the Holy texts aimed at bringing their religious practice closer to the 'original' Greek Orthodoxy. They refused to allow sacred texts to be printed instead reproducing them as manuscripts. <br /><br />The large size of this book its high-quality paper neat script very detailed illuminations and attractive gilt binding prove beyond doubt that no expense was spared on its production. As the colophon indicates it was made for Evdokiia Ivanovna Babaeva the wife of a merchant in Kolomna which was then an important trade point near Moscow. There are records of several men with this surname in Kolomna during the mid-XIX century all of them owners of factories in the city and probably members of the same wealthy merchant family. Kolomna was also important as a centre of the Old Believer community. The city's Bishop Paul fiercely opposed Patriarch Nikon's reforms and was consequently stripped of the rank of Bishop exiled and eventually killed in 1656 rendering him a martyr in the view of many Old Believers.A century later 156 Old Believers were officially registered in Kolomna then a city of 5400 inhabitants. Many more practised their beliefs in secret to avoid persecution.<br /><br />This volume later belonged to Cornelius J. Hauck 1893-1967 whose outstanding and somewhat eclectic collection was formed with the help of the well-respected antiquarian bookseller Emil Offenbacher between 1945 and 1965. The collection was given to the Cincinnati Historical Society Library in 1966 where it remained largely unknown to the world until part of it was auctioned by Christie's in New York in 2006.<br /><br />Russian manuscripts of this quality and preserved in such pristine condition are extremely rare.<br /> S.S. Mikhailov Istoriya staroobriadchestva g. Kolomna i ego okrestnostey Kolomna Staroobriadcheskaya obshchina khrama Nikoly na Posade v g. Kolomna 2013. Russia, [1866]. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 94903
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RUSSIA
Memorie van den Russischen envoyé tot een gemeensaam concert tusschen de neutraale mogendheeden over de sekerheid en vryheid der weederzydsche commercie en navigatie .
No pl. 1780. Folio. 3 pp. Extract uit de Resolutien van de Heere Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland in haar vergadering genomen op Dinsdag den 4 April 1789. - Treaty between the Russians and the Dutch about commercial relations and navigation.Text in French and Dutch. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : #[33329]
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RUSSIA
ZEE-TRACTAAT tusschen haar Rusch keyzerlyke majesteit en zyne koninglyke majesteit van Denemarken en Noorwegen tot standhouding der vryheid van de neutrale koopvaardy-scheepvaart geslooten tot Coppenhagen . 1780. En waarin zyn koningl. majesteit van Zweeden nevens . de heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden deel genomen hebben en toegetreeden zyn respectivelyk geteekend te St. Petersburg . 1781.
Amsterdam H.W. & C. Dronsberg 1781. Folio. 4 pp. Sea-treaty between Russia Denmark and Norway concluded in Kopenhagen in 1780. Sweden and the Netherlands became a party to the treaty in St. Petersburg. - Some staining. - Rare. Knuttel 19490. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : #[33546]
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L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES DE RUSSIE -
Mémoires de L'Academie des Sciences de Russie. Volume XIII Nos 1-6 all.
Petrograd St. Petersburg 1916-22. 4to. In 6 parts with original printed wrappers 1 wr. lacks. The issues separately paginated. In all ab. 800 pp. Margins of a few leaves with nicks. unknown
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RUSSIA - LEAGUE OF EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
Golosuite za spisok #7.
Petrograd: Tsentr. Tipograf 1917. A new Russia should be built by women and men together A remarkable survival of a flyer printed by the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women for their political campaign for the election to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. The League participated in elections as its own party under the number 7. In English the flyer text reads: ''Female Citizens and male citizens! The League of Equality for Women wishing that the right of women to participate in the Constituent Assembly was not only on paper expose its candidates to the Constituent Assembly. Vote for the list number 7. If you want our children not to grow up without a home and the old people to not die on the street - send women to the Constituent Assembly. In America Australia and other countries where women take part in the drafting of laws the number of schools is multiplied prisons are empty debauchery and drunkenness noticeably diminish the protection of children and the elderly is fully secured by law. Let's send women to the Constituent Assembly too. The old Russia was built only by men and the grief and misfortunes of the motherland were always shared with them by mothers wives and daughters. A new Russia should be built by women and men together! The most important Russian laws will be written in the Constituent Assembly. From the laws that will be created in the Constituent Assembly the fate and life of many generations depends not only on men but also on women and so send women to the Constituent Assembly.''. The campaign for women's political rights in Russia termed the ''women's liberation movement'' became possible only with the beginning of the revolution in 1905 when the question of the democratization of the political system arose. The oldest women's association in Russia the All-Russian Women's Mutual Charity Society established in 1895 was actively involved and new organizations were created: the Union for the Equality of Women 1905 Women's Progressive Party 1905 and the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women 1907. The most influential organization was the first the Union which had 48 offices in various cities across Russia and actively conducted agitation among women workers and peasants. After its disintegration the League of Equal Rights for Women became its successor. Members of the League deliberately abandoned the broad political programme and focused their attention only on suffragist demands practising agitation tours through the provinces Orel Saratov Rostov-on-Don Kremenets Tomsk Kiev Simferopol and Narva. As a result branches of the League emerged in many cities including Moscow 1910 Kharkov 1912 Tomsk 1914 and Yekaterinburg 1914. This included the establishment of the following departments: a reading room for street children with a view to preventing child prostitution; a publishing committee that printed cheap pamphlets and books on women's issues; and an editorial commission that published the proceedings of the congress. Every day reports were given on the issues of women's equality in the League's premises. After the February Revolution delegates from the League repeatedly met with the leaders of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the issue of women's suffrage. Despite initial promises of support they refused to immediately act on granting political rights to women. In response the League organized the famous mass march on 20 March 1917 which brought together about 40000 women. To that date it was the most numerous and memorable stand by the Russian women's movement and resulted in the adoption by the Provisional Government of a decree on universal suffrage which was passed on 20 July 1917. Single-sided flyer 365 x 220 mm. In near-fine condition. unknown
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[Russia]
A New and Exact Description of Moscovy.
London: R. Baldwin 1698. First edition of this work. Octavo bound in modern wrappers 28 pages. In very good condition with some browning and toning to the text. Rare with no other examples appearing at auction in the last 80 years. R. Baldwin unknown
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VAUGONDY, ROBERT de - RUSSIA
Partie Occidentale de L'Empire de Russie ou se trouve distinguée La Russie Européenne.Paris 1750.
A large engraved cont. handcoloured map of the Northern part of Russia from Novaja Semlja in the north to the Caspian Meer in the South from Finland to Jakusskkáy measuring 485 x 62 cm. Folded in center. A few tears in margins. <br/><br/><em>This large map is from Vaugondy: Atlas universel Paris 1757. </em> unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16523
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VAUGONDY, ROBERT DE - EUROPEAN RUSSIA
Partie Septentrionale de la Russie Européenne.
Paris ca. 1786. 253x31 cm. Engraved map of Northern Russia the european part. In original handcolouring. The map engraved by E. Dussy. <br/><br/><em>From Vaugondy's atlas "Nouvel Atlas Portatif". </em> unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 32943
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YENISSEI RIVER RUSSIA -
Expéditions Suédoises de 1876 au Yénisséi. I. programme des Expéditions. Lettre de Nordenskiöld. Rappoert de Nordenskiöld a Oscar Dickson et Alexandre Sibiriakoff. II. rapport de Nordenskiöld sur l'Expedition. III. rapport de M. Thél sur l'Expeditio.
Upsal Edquist 1877. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. gilt lettering. Light wear to spine. 644 pp. and folded lithographed map. unknown
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TSAR PAUL I OF RUSSIA - (TANNENBERG, GEORG von).
Leben Pauls des Ersten Kaisers und Selbstherrschers aller Reussen. Nebst einer authentischen Geschichte der Feldzüge der Russen in Italien in der Helvetischen und Batavischen Republik gegen der Franzosen und vieler bisher unbekannt gebliebener Anecd.
Frankfurt am Main Johann Daniel Simon 1804. Contemp. boards but with later modest clothbacking. Endpapers renewed. Stamp on titlepage. 414 pp. <br/><br/><em>The scarce first edition. </em> hardcover
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Tupitsyn, Igor
Sovetskoe Fotoiskusstvo. Soviet Art Photography. L'art Photographique En U.R.S.S.Das Sowjetische Kunstfoto. Elarte Fotografico Sovietico.
Moscow / Moscou / Moskau / Moscu: Ussr Foreign Languages Publishing House Circa 1960/1963 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Color And B/W Photographs Throughout. Large Format Photography Book In Five Languages Russian English French German And Spanish. A Few Text Pages 147 Numbered Plates. Silver Cloth Printed In Black. Photographic Paper Dj With Additional Clear Plastic Dj. Book With Very Slight Wear But Still Fraying Along Bottom Edge Of Spine With Printed Lettering. Dj's With Light Wear And Short Tears At Corners Small Chips To Plastic Dj At Top And Bottom Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Ussr Foreign Languages Publishing House Circa 1960/1963 hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 029657
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Four Ukrainian Patriotic Postcards Including "Die Golgotha Der Ukraine
Vienna Lvov Etc.: 1917-1921 1920. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Four Postcards Of Ukrainian Patriotic Subjects Anti-Russian Color Illustrations Of Patriotic Subjects Four Different Publishers Undated But Circa 1917-1921 Unused But Somewhat Worn And Aged. One Dramatic Postcard Shows A Peasant Woman Tied To A Cross Two Children At Her Feet Burning City And Village In Background Four Black Evil Fantastic Birds Coming At Her At Top One Bird With Russian Hat With Red Star Another Wearing The Russian Imperial Crown; Ukrainian Text On Reverse 8 Lines And Three Lines Explanatory Text In Ukrainian And German. The Moscow Orks From The Northeast Lithuania Poland And Hungary From The West The Don Cossacks And Turkey From The South And The Mongols From The Southeast Have Fought Over The Vast Plains Now Independent Again As "Ukraine" For 1200 Years But The Battlefields Are Much Older Extending Into The Dim Recesses Of Ancient History And The French And Germans Have Made Their Own Attempts From Further West. The Inhabitants Of The Mediterranean Countries East Asia Africa And Central And South America Have Been Largely Innocent But Received Huge Numbers Of Refugees Fleeing Repeated Incursions Into Ukraine. Vladimir Putin Claims That Reads History Carefully But Has Missed The Vast Majority Of Historical Material On Ukraine Apparently A Visual Or Comprehension Impediment. <br/> <br/> 1917-1921 unknown
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Morley, Henry (1822-1894, Editor); Anonymous
Sketches Of Russian Life Before And During The Emancipation Of The Serfs
London: Chapman And Hall 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Vi 298 Pp. Modern Blue Cloth Gilt Stamped Black Leather Spine Label. The Modern Binding Is Fine Contents Just Very Good With Wear At Corners And Slight Even Foxing To Title Page. Scarce. Morley Reports That The Observations Were Provided By A Friend Who Brought Them From A Doctor Long Resident In Russia. The Quality And Immediacy Of The Observations Are Remarkable. <br/> <br/> Chapman And Hall hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 030652
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Evgueni Lvovic Nemirovski
Vozniknovenie Knigopetchatania V Moskve. Ivan Fedorov The Beginnings Of Bookbinding In Moscow: Ivan Federov
Moscow: Books 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Photographs Throughout. 404 Pp. Cream Cloth.10 1/2" Tall. Text In Russian. One Of 5000 Copies But Scarce In The West Only Four Institutional Holdings Recorded In Worldcat. <br/> <br/> Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 031153
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia; Code of Catherine
Instructions Adressees par Sa Majeste L'Imperatrice de Toutes les.
1769. Early French-Language Edition of Catherine's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Landres J. Rodolphe Frey de Translator. Instructions Adressees par Sa Majeste L'Imperatrice de Toutes les Russies: A la Commission Etablie Pour Travailler a L'Execution du Projet d'un Nouveau Code de Lois. Traduit de l'Allemand. "A Petersbourg" i.e. Yverdon Switzerland: s.n. 1769. 286 pp. 12mo. 6" x 4". Early quarter vellum over marbled boards untrimmed edges a few unopenened signatures. Light soiling corners lightly bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior somewhat heavier in places some leaves have light foxing a few have light dampstaining to margins internally clean. Ex-library with a small inkstamp to title page. A handsome copy. $1000. Reissue of the first edition in French published by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences for private distribution in 1769. 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. The book was initially banned in France because it was too liberal which is why the first French-language edition was produced in Switzerland with a false imprint. French and Latin editions were eventually published in 1770. OCLC locates 6 copies of this imprint in North American law libraries Columbia George Washington University Harvard Library of Congress UC-Berkeley Yale. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 531 Entry 40. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64773
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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"; 19.68 x 12.06 cm. 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. $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 Nakaz 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. This is a scarce imprint. OCLC locates 2 copies in North American law libraries Library of Congress UC-Berkeley. Butler and Tomsinov Eds. The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 528 entry 28. unknown
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia.
1770. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. "The Best and Most Luxurious" Four-Language Edition of Catherine the Great's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Kozitzki Grigorii Vasil'yevich d. 1775 Latin Translation. Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii Proekta Novago Ulozheniia. Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the Projected New Code of Laws. St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademii Nauk 1770. viii 403 pp. Four title pages one in each language. Printed in double columns Russian and Latin on one page and German and French on the opposite page. Allegorical engravings by C. M. Roth at head and tail pieces. Latin translation by Grigorii Vasil'yevich Kozitzki. Quarto 9-1/2" x 8". Contemporary calf raised bands lettering piece and black-stamped ornaments to spine edges rouged patterned endleaves. Light rubbing faint stains scratches and ink marks to boards which are slightly bowed moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and worn. Large copperplate vignettes at beginning and end of text. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to margins in a few places internally clean. A nice copy. $3000. Only four-language edition the fourth and best edition overall. Described by Count M.A. Korf then director of the Imperial Library as "The Best and Most Luxurious Edition." 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. 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. The book was initially banned i. unknown
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia; Code of Catherine
Instruction de Sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II Pour la Commission.
1771. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. Attractive 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 Nakaz proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and disapproved of the 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
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia; Bezgin, I G
Nakaz Eja Imperatorskago Velicestva Ekateriny Vtoryja Samoderzicy.
1893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. The Last Edition of the Nakaz Published in the Nineteenth Century Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Bezgin Il'ia Grigor'evich Editor. Nakaz Eja Imperatorskago Velicestva Ekateriny Vtoryja Samoderzicy Vserossijskija Dannyj Kommissii o Socinenii Proekta Novago Ulozenija. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. 53 201 pp. Text of Nakaz in Russian with parallel French translation. Original printed stiff wrappers bound into recent quarter calf over cloth gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Gilding mostly rubbed away from lettering piece light soiling and edgewear to wrappers moderate toning to text faint dampspotting to a few leaves. Small early owner label to front free endpaper internally clean. $1750. The last edition published in the nineteenth century. 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. 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 18. unknown
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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
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Curzon, Robert, Lord
Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom and on the Frontiers of Russia Turkey and Persia
New York: Harper & Brothers 1854. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Map and Woodcuts. 226 Pp. Original Cloth Gilt And Blind Stamped. Contents Clean Light Aging. Covers With Wear Cloth Lightly Frayed Across Top Of Spine And Down 3/4" At Top Front Spine Edge A Few Other Points Of Fraying. Spine Has Been Wet Gilt Is Dulled Cloth Of Spine And Adjacent Areas Of Covers And Endpapers Damp Stained This Damage Not Reaching The Printed Pages. Anecdotes And Observations Made While Curzon Was Part Of A Commission To Resolve The "Turkish And Persian Problem In Kurdistan And Armenia" Seeking The Most Arbitrary And Least Democratic Solution For All Residents Of The Area And Achieving Enduring Success. Library Label Franklin Institute On Front Pastedown Four Digit Number At Base Of First Page. This Copy Fairly Crisp And May Never Have Been Read. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
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Lavrowsky, M J [ Aka M Y Lavrovskago]
For The Freedom Of Russia. Album. History Of The Revolutionary Movement For The Last 100 Years. 1820 - 1920 Za Svobodu Rossii
New York: Lavrowsky 1920. First Edition . Disbound. Fair. Portraits Throughout. 128 Pp. Entirely In Russian Except For The Copyright Page. The Author A Teacher And Poet In The U.S. Was Abused During The Palmer Anti-Red Raids And Testified In Hearings Regarding Them. A History Of Anarchism Covert Political Thought Political Violence And Revolution In Russia 1820 - 1920 With Extensive Text And Prolifically Illustrated With Portraits Of Prominent And Somewhat Obscure Personalities. Very Scarce. This Example Dis-Bound No Covers Endpapers Worn And Chipped At Edges But Contents Near Fine. <br/> <br/> Lavrowsky unknown
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Lunts (Lounz) (Lunz), L B
Parki Kul'tury Kultury i Otdykha Otdycha/ Parcs de Culture et du Repos; Parks of Culture and Rest
Moscow / Leningrad Moskva: Gosstroiizdat 1934. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good. 10 1/2" Tall. Maps Plans Folding Plates Throughout. 519 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers Stamped In Peach And Black. Survey Of Urban Parks And Recreation Areas In The Soviet Union Including Conceptual Ideas And Theories Planning Design Structures And Buildings Plantings Engineering Considerations Etc. Comprehensive Scholarly Text Notes Detailed Bibliography Technical Charts Index In Russian French And English 451 Illustrations In The Text And On Plates Incl. Numerous Large Folding Plates After Detailed Site Plans Photographs Models And Elevations. Some Edgewear Very Short Tears At Foredges Of CoversAnd With A 1/2" Square Chip At Lower Front Spine Fold No Marks Or Damage. <br/> <br/> Gosstroiizdat unknown
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Sayler, Oliver M
Russia White or Red
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1919. First Edition . Orange Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Jacket. 42 Illustrations from Photographs By Author. 312 pp. $2.50 pre-printed price on front flap crossed out and "$3.00 net" printed price label on jacket spine. Book is clean tight no wear chalk lettering on cover still complete although chalk spine lettering is partially flaked away. Dustjacket with printed picture of the Nikolskiya Gate to the Kremlin showing damage during the Revolution. Jacket with a few shallow chips along top of spine of front panel and bottom of spine and a 1/2" chip in the lower center of spine all lettering still clear; dustjacket aged and a little dusty. <br/> <br/> Little Brown and Company hardcover
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Ukrainian Ornamental Glass Today / Suchasne Ukrainske Xusoshchne Sklo
Kiev: Albom / Mistetstvo 1980. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Near Fine. 13" Tall. Color Plates Throughout. A large well-designed book with information on many contemporary glass artists. <br/> <br/> Albom / Mistetstvo hardcover
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Ananieva, E
Zoloto Mira Gold Of The World- An Illustrated History Of It's Use
Moscow: Avanta 2003. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Fine/Fine Dustjacket. 29.7 Cm Tall. Color Photographs Throughout. A finely illustrated history with Russian text. <br/> <br/> Avanta hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006042 ISBN : 5946230476 9785946230476
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Andreyev, Leonid (translated from the Russian By Luba Hicks) Edited with an Introduction By Maxim Gorky
Sashka Jigouleff
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1925. First American Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. 8 3/8 " High. 294 Clean Unmarked Pages. No Inscriptions. Illustrated Endpapers. First American Edition With 1925 Date On Title Page. Small Bookseller's Sticker On Rear Pastedown. Covers And Gilt Lettering And Decoration Clean And Bright. Spine Slightly Faded And Gilt Slightly Dulled. Slight Rubs At Corners But Frayed Across Top Edge Of Spine Cat Attack. <br/> <br/> Robert M. McBride & Co. hardcover
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Swearingen, (Arthur) Rodger(1923-2015) [Editor]
Siberia and the Soviet Far East: Strategic Dimensions in Multinational Perspective
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press / Stanford University 1987. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. Xxx 298 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing. Fine. Critical Strategic Analysis Regarding Russia. Nicely Inscribed By The Author To Professor Hammond Rolph. The Two Of Them Wrote A Book On Vietnam Together. Per Usc Swearingen A Former World War Ii Intelligence Corps Officer And Top Aide To General Douglas Macarthur Swearingen Became A Close Friend And Colleague Of Then Future Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger While Both Were Graduate Students At Harvard University In The Late 1940S. Swearingen'S Wife Darlene Swearingen Said That During The 1970S And 1980S Her Husband And Kissinger Took Numerous Trips To China And The Soviet Union. Their Findings Assisted The U.S. Government In Developing International Relations Policies She Said. Rodger Swearingen Joined Usc Dornsife'S School Of International Relations In 1954 Creating A Teaching And Research Focus On Soviet Policy And World Communism. In The 1960S Swearingen Was One Of A Group Of Cold War Scholars Who Convinced Usc Trustee And Donor Henry Salvatori To Contribute $1.25 Million To Establish The Usc Research Institute On Communist Strategy And Propaganda. After Founding The Institute Swearingen Went On To Direct It Teaching Courses And Seminars There Until His Retirement In 1993. He Also Played A Vital Role In Writing For The Journal Published By The Institute. During The Cold War Swearingen Also Brought His Knowledge To Television Moderating A 35-Week Documentary Series On The "Dangers" Of Communism. Titled Communism: Myth Vs. Reality It Aired Nationwide And On U.S. Armed Services Stations Abroad. In Later Years Swearingen Was A Key Advisor To Several Military Committees - Providing Expert Testimony On Both Soviet And Chinese Military Strategies. Swearingen Was Born On April 23 1923 In Los Angeles. His Father Was The Chief Real Estate Broker For The City Of Los Angeles And Was In Charge Of Negotiating Home Purchases To Make Room For The City'S Expanding Freeway System. <br/> <br/> Hoover Institution Press / Stanford University hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 019218 ISBN : 0817983619 9780817983611
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Von Eckhardt, Hans (translated By Catherine Alison Phillips)
Russia Russland
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Wheat Cloth. Fine/Very Good Dustjacket. 13 Maps and 127 Illustrations and Diagrams. Xxix 711 Vii. Wheat Cloth. First American Edition Stated. "Revised And Supplemented By The Author For The English Edition." A Clean Tight Unworn Copy In A Jacket With Some Edge Wear And Small Edge Chips Not Affecting Lettering Or Design. An Immense Amount Of Interesting Detail Not Usually Publicized Elsewhere; For Example 41 % Of The Russian Higher Army Command Under Alexander Ii Was Of German Ancestry And At That Same Time The Russian Senate Was 33% German Etc. American Writing About Russia In Public Printings Remains Largely Political Opinion And Of No Obvious Practicality. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
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Leningrad / Stalingrad
Washington circa 1943: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1943. First Edition . Thick Brown Card Wrappers. Good. Tall. Photographs Throughout. Unpaginated. Propaganda Piece Celebrating Victories Over Germans With Promise Of Revenge To Come. Wear At Edges Small Losses At Head And Foot Of Spine. Binding Intact But Title Page Detached Damaged Where Torn Out From Binding Clips. It Is Clear That The Only Time Soviet Russia Does Not Seek The Destruction Of Western Governments Is When They Need Something Desperately As In Wwii. Accommodating Any Russian Government Action Is A Fool's Errand. Russia Hoped That Highlighting The Battle Of Stalingrad Would Ignite Our Jealousy As The West Has Always Sought The Same Oil From The Caucasus That Hitler Needed For Survival The Same Oil That International Oil Companies Now Seek But Now Of Course There Are Vastly Greater Petrochemical Resources Elsewhere In Russia That They Are Clawing Their Way Towards. . <br/> <br/> Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown
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Chukovskaya, Lydia
Akhmatova Journals: v. 1 The Akhmatova Journals 1938-1966
London: HarperCollins 1994-06-06. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Gift inscription to title page. Slight fading to D/J. HarperCollins hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 725869 ISBN : 0002163918 9780002163910
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[RUSSIA - CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION].
Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les ports et aux douanes des frontières de l'Empire de Russie excepté à celles d'Astracan du gouvernement d'Oufa et de Sibérie. Composé dans la Comission de Commerce l'année 1782.
St. Petersburg: J.J. Weitbrecht 1783. Contemporary half calf marbled sides sprinkled edges. 8vo. Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river which was under the government of Siberia which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.This publication is very rare WorldCat lists only 1 copy Kress Library of Business and Economics Harvard University. Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16. J.J. Weitbrecht, unknown
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[RACE HORSES - RUSSIA].
12 photographs of race horses.
Russia 1900. Each photo ca. 27 x 37 cm. Pasted on cardboard. Series of 12 fine large and sharp photographs of Russian race horses. Pasted below each photo a slip with text written in cyrillic script names the horse owner pedigree and breed of horse in the photograph. Each horse is accompanied by a man holding the reins dressed in possibly a matching costume. They were all photographed at the same track in the yard of what seems to be a palace. The names of the horses are: Prezes Jako Velizarij Fanfara Taran Lenta Mon Barry Karina Lusty Nord-Ost Lena and Forteca.With a blind stamped signature of the photographer unidentified by us. Paperboard supports slightly warped. One photo with a minor tear otherwise all in very good condition. unknown
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(RUSSIA). Ministere de l'Agriculture et des Domaines
Les Forêts de la Russie. Rèpartition - Exploitation. Commerce intérieur et extérieur. Avec une carte forestière de l'empire.
Paris: Exposition Universelle. 1900. 8vo. 24.5 x 16 cm. pp. 194. Original green printed wrappers. Large 66 x 52 cm. colour printed folded map at rear by A. Fock showing the forestation of European Russia and including the railways marked in silver. Covers worn and detached contents generally very good. Translated by M. le baron Jacques de Berwick from the original work assembled by M. Orloff and M.V. Faas on behalf of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Paris: Exposition Universelle. 1900 unknown
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RUSSIA; St Petersburg - MORNAY (illus)
A Picture of St. Petersburgh
London: Printed for Edward Orme 1815. Magnificent hand-coloured views of St Petersburg First edition "one of the most beautiful plate books of St Petersburg" Bobins Collection offering a wonderfully evocative picture of the city in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars issued during the lifetime of one of its most famous inhabitants Alexander Pushkin. Published at 6 guineas coloured this is a superb record of the city of Peter the Great and is divided into two sections: the first 12 plates represent the months of the year through characteristic views of the city; the other 8 illustrate different modes of transport various types of sledges and carriages but include excellent character studies showing diverse types of costume by class and by season. The 26-page introduction entitled "The present state of St Petersburgh" includes a brief historical survey and a few statistics along with descriptions of the main sites and monuments. "Though unsigned the letterpress was chiefly compiled from Robert Ker Porter's Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805-1808 as many sections repeat his text verbatim" Giroud p.72. Mornay the artist responsible for the original sketches upon which Clark and Dubourg's aquatints were based eludes identification and does not appear in Thieme-Becker. Martin Hardie in characteristically waspish fashion describes the plates as "lurid in colouring very much in the style of toy theatre scenery" English Coloured Books 1906 p. 138; this is entirely unfair the colouring in the present copy is certainly not "lurid" and the "toy theatre" quality of the views only lends them a most appealing charm: many of them are composed in such a way that they resemble vues d'optiques - symmetrical and theatrical middle-distance perspectives - which combine well with the small scaling figures staffage adding splashes of bright colour against backgrounds of snowy streets grey skies and yellowish-brown buildings of this "city of stone" forming a satisfyingly picturesque effect. Two of the buildings shown - the Exchange 1809 and the Kazan Cathedral 1811 - had only recently been completed. Edward Orme - "Publisher to His Majesty and HRH the Prince Regent" - was "after Rudolph Ackermann the most important publisher of illustrated books during the short golden age of the coloured aquatint" ODNB. He would have had a prudent eye on the visit of the Allied sovereigns to London in June 1814 which celebrated the Treaty of Fontainebleau 11 April 1814 and the peace following the defeat and abdication of Napoleon. Among them was Tsar Alexander I who stayed with his sister the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg at the Pulteney Hotel on Piccadilly. "In 1809 Edward Orme had begun buying land and property in Bayswater London. He exploited the gravel deposits built houses and in 1818 added a chapel of ease. Orme Square developed between 1823 and 1826 was named after him and Moscow Road and St Petersburgh Place nearby may have commemorated the state visit of Tsar Alexander I in June 1814. In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events" ibid. This is a marvellous survey of one of the world's great cities captured at the time when it served as the backdrop for Tolstoy's War and Peace. Folio 469 x 310 mm. Additional engraved title page incorporating a large double-headed Russian eagle 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Clark & Dubourg after Mornay; watermarks: plates J. Whatman 1825 text W. Balston 1813. Late 19th-century dark brown morocco-grain half skiver professionally refurbished marbled sides gilt edges drab grey endpapers. From the library of noted bibliophiles Maxine and Joel Spitz with their "Trail Tree" bookplate Joel Spitz was a member of Chicago's prestigious Caxton Club. Light offsetting from frontispiece to engraved title. An excellent copy the plates fresh and bright and with the four leaves of explanation of the plates in French and English. Abbey Travel 226; Bobins Collection 203; Tooley 355; Vincent Giroud St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City Yale University Press 2003. unknown
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British Trades Union Delegation to Russia and Caucasia
Russland. Offizieller Bericht der englischen Gewerkschaftsdelegation nach Russland und dem Kaukasus im November und Dezember 1924.
Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag 1925. 3. Auflage 11-15 Tausend; xxxviii 303 1 pp. frontis. plates small folding maps in German only translated and edited from the English by Hans Glaubauf and Kate Gusfeld; ex library original paper wrappers darkened with large chip at head of spine good only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, unknown
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International Botanical Congress, Russia
Bulletin Du Congrès International De Botanique Et D'horticulture De St. Pétersbourg: Le 6/18 Le 8/20 Et Le 10/22 Mai 1869 Classic Reprint
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0666780420.G ISBN : 0666780420 9780666780423
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[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA] HAMMER, Armand
The Quest of The Romanoff Treasure
New York: The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson 1936. Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain pale grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xi; 241pp. Some wear and discoloration to extremities very light it's a very solidly produced book so wear and tear is represented by darkening of the cloth at the edges and some softening of the spine ends rather than anything more drastic; internally clean ownership to front pastedown author's signature to front flyleaf; in a handsome example of the gold and black dustjacket with some chipping and shallow loss to the spine ends scuffing and rubbing to the gilt paper coating and some marginal creasing and soiling. A very good solid copy. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. <br /> <br /> For a man named by his father after the logo of the American Socialist Labor Party after slipping out of Odessa in the 1870's Armand Hammer's journey to become one of the world's most influential businessmen and "Lenin's Favorite Capitalist" must have been a dramatic one. <br /> His father Julius had spent much of the early 20th century consolidating his role at Allied Drug and Chemical which was essentially at times a smuggling front shipping embargoed goods to Russia during the US trade sanctions. After Julius was sentenced to 3 years in Sing Sing allegedly for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Russian woman from subsequent pneumonia although modern research suggests that Armand a medical student might have been the one who performed the abortion and Julius took responsibility as the qualified senior medical professional present Armand took over Allied Drug and Chemical and raised it to new heights of corporate success. <br /> During Prohibition Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. <br /> <br /> Acting under the instructions of his imprisoned father Armand began taking numerous business trips to the Soviet Union. A young J. Edgar Hoover at that point basically an analyst at the Justice Department very strongly believed that the equally youthful Hammer was a COMINTERN courier and essentially placed him under surveillance for the rest of his life. <br /> Hammer's trips to Russia were ostensibly to recoup bad debts but this quickly developed into a number of lucrative business deals not least of which was selling cheap wheat to starving famine hit areas of Russia. Hammer developed a close co-operative no pun intended relationship with Lenin which resulted in a number of very high status business contracts and deals ranging from medical import contracts to 25 year's worth of asbestos mining in the Urals; one of Hammer's greatest coups was arranging payment for various services in furs caviar jewellery and antiquities seized by the Party from its long tail of enemies making him essentially a conduit for looted and otherwise dubious art jewels and antiques. <br /> At the height of Lenin's New Economic Policy Armand Hammer was the sole trade liason between the enormity of Soviet Russia and 38 major US corporations seeking to build trade deals through him. His grasp of the downrange necessities of dealing with the Soviets; graft bribery corruption and palm greasing was legendary and by the 1970's when his methods were starting to be inspected more closely there was no doubt that Hammer's understanding of legitimate business was secondary to his instinctive abilities in the fields of corporate and beaurocratic bribery and manipulation. <br /> This book is one personal perspective on the empire of treasure that Hammer accumulated; there are others and the entangled ephemeral traces of looted artworks forged and unfinished Fabergé eggs specially manufactured jeweller's tools designed to copy Fabergé's style exactly and a wealth of other foggy rumors and suspicions ranging from Armand the KGB stooge to Armand the James Bond Villain bent on Soviet domination through capitalism will continue to follow in his wake whether he be considered a legitimate businessman or a highly successful 20th century robber baron of legendary proportions. The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson unknown
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[RUSSIA] [ESPIONAGE] COOKRIDGE, EH E H
The Net That Covers the World
New York: Henry Holt 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over grey paper covered boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 315pp. Some very light soiling to the paler portions of the boards minor bumping to spine ends internally clean with some offsetting to pastedowns and a very few discrete pencil marks to margins of the prelims in a bright sharp dustjacket with some minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> A rather alarmist but for the time rational analysis of the breadth of Soviet intelligence attempts to maintain and utilize a global espionage network; covers the Atom Spy frenzy The Rosenbergs Alger Hiss etc. Henry Holt unknown
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[PRE-REVOLUTONARY RUSSIA] ROBINSON, Geroid Tanquary
Rural Russia Under The Old Regime; A History of The Landlord-Peasant World a Prologue to the Peasant Revolution of 1917
New York: Macmillan 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. ix; 342pp. Lightly sunned to spine with some light bumping and fading to the extremities; internally clean with a name and military ID number stamped on the top-edge of the page block and another numerical stamp to the bottom edge; in a priceclipped dustjacket with shalow fraying and chipping to the spine ends and extremities some light soiling to the pale paper and toning to the spine panel. A very good copy in a dustjacket that has seen some use.<br /> <br /> An extremely readable history of the social hierarchies and structures of Russia prior to the Revlution and the manner in which a nation deals with the overturning of all that it held familiar and enduring. Macmillan unknown
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[RUSSIA] [MILITARIA] LEITES, Nathan
Soviet Style in War
New York: Crane Russak 1982. First Thus. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. xxvi; 398pp. Light bumping to spine ends some very light wear to the extremities of the cloth; internally clean; in a clean sharp example of the dustjacket. A near fine copy.<br /> <br /> A study produced under the auspices of the RAND Corporation a military adjacent think-tank and research institution originally created to research and protect against future methods of warfare but later expanding into the civilian sector. Coinciding with the opening of Soviet hostilities against Afghanistan but working from a body of knowledge accumulated since the end of WW2 and the commencement of the Cold War this is an attempt to predict and understand Soviet military and strategic thinking and behavior in time of conflict. Crane Russak unknown
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[RUSSIA] MATTHEWS, Mervyn [Editor]
Soviet Government; A Selection of Official Documents on Internal Policies
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co 1974. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 472pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean top edge stained red; in a strong bright dustjacket with light wear to extremities. A very good copy indeed.<br /> <br /> Ninety-two documents showing the development of Soviet internal and foreign policy dating from the Revolution to the period of publication. Taplinger Publishing Co unknown
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[RUSSIA] [TSARIST] "STEPNIAK" [pseud: STEPNYAK-KRAVCHINSKY, Sergey Mikhaylovich]
The Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition Social Life and Religion with Three ALS to Sonnenschein Regarding Publication
New York: Harper and Brothers 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Publisher's green pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. vi; 1; 401pp.6pp. ads to rear. Light rubbing to corners slight scuffing and some minor bumping to spine ends with a small spot stain at the very head of the spine small dent to upper edges of the boards; internally clean with some superficial soiling to the page edges ownership of Pennsylvania historian Gertrude Bosler Biddle to front flyleaf. A very good clean and handsome copy.<br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> London: 1890-93. Three ALS autograph letters signed on folded stationery sheets as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Dated "March 31" without year; from context ca. 1888-1890. 2pp ca. 250 words in black ink; datemarked St. John's Wood March 31. Requesting the publisher's permission to commission a German translation of his Russian Peasantry which first appeared in 1888 with a second edition in 1890. Stepniak proposes 50/50 division of royalties and identifies the translator as Victor Adler who has just been sentenced to three months in prison and thus now has "ample leisure" for undertaking the translation. Adler 1852-1918 was founder and first chairman of the Austrian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in 1888. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Near Fine. <br /> <br /> 2. Dated November 6 1890. 1pp ca. 75 words in blue ink. Declines a request from his publisher to undertake a book on the Jewish Question: ".it is impossible for me to write upon any question upon Jews or anything else for I am quite full with preparing a series of American lectures." Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Slight smudging final two lines and left margin not affecting legibility. Very Good. <br /> <br /> 3. Dated May 15 1893. 2pp ca. 120 words in black ink. Addressed to "Dear Mrs i.e. messieurs Sonnenschein" accepting an invitation to visit but stating he cannot arrive early. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Light soil; Near FIne. <br /> <br /> Sergei Stepniak aka Sergius; aka Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskii 1851-1895 made his revolutionary bones during the Narodnik Rebellion of 1877-78 by openly assassinating Nikolai Mezentsov the head of the Czar's secret police on the streets of St. Petersburg. Kravchinskii committed the act in broad daylight and made no attempt to disavow his guilt living publicly if dangerously for several months before finally escaping to Switzerland. He arrived in London around 1880 and quickly became the center of a lively Russian revolutionary exile scene. He founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in 1891 and wrote a number of well-received books on revolutionary Russia including Underground Russia which had in fact been published in translation prior to his exile The Russian Peasantry 1888; and a fictionalized account of his own exploits The Career of a Nihilist 1889. He was killed somewhat mysteriously we think by an onrushing train in December of 1895 depriving him of any opportunity to witness the fruit of his labors in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Dying young Stepniak did not leave a great body of manuscript material behind him and relatively few letters with good content have appeared in commerce. Harper and Brothers unknown
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(SVERIGE - RUSSLAND). (SWEDEN - RUSSIA).
Réflexions sur la déclaration de guerre de Sa Majesté Impériale de Toutes les Russies à Sa Majesté le Roi de Suède En Date du 10 Fevrier 1808.
Londres. London 1808. Liten 8vo. Nyere shirtingryggbind med marmorerte dekler. 2 41 2 s. Small 8vo. More recent cloth bound marbled covers. 2 41 2 pp. Fransk. <br/><br/><em>Ex libris “Bibliotheca Trolleholmiæâ€. Med navntrekk G. Sparre pÃ¥ tittelbladet. Krigserklæringen endte til slutt med Sveriges tap av Finland. Name on tiltle page “G. Sparreâ€. This declaration of war ended finally with the loss of Finland from the Swedish crown. </em> hardcover
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NICHOLAS II, Emperor of Russia
Letter signed "Nicolas" to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein St. Petersburg 20 January 1901 a formal expression of condolence on the death of Prince Christian Victor
St. Petersburg 1901. One-page secretarial letter in French on mourning stationery with a secretarial copy marked in ink Copie . signé Nicolas. 1 vols. 10 x 8 inches. Old folds generally fine. With transcription and translation. One-page secretarial letter in French on mourning stationery with a secretarial copy marked in ink Copie . signé Nicolas. 1 vols. 10 x 8 inches. A formal note of condolence from Nicholas II Emperor of all the Russias styled "le bon Cousin" in the closing addressed to Ernst Gunther II 1863-1921 third Duke of Schleswig-Holstein "Monsieur Mon Cousin!" after learning of the death of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein a grandson of Queen Victoria and British officer who died of malaria in Pretoria on 29 October 1900.<br /> <br /> A somber and attractive autograph documenting the close connections between the royal and imperial household of prewar Europe. Provenance: Dr. Herbert Ernest Klingelhofer 1915-2015 collector and former President of the Manuscript Society bought from Karl Faber 1957 unknown
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