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Sjeklocha, Paul and Igor Mead
Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union
Berkeley CA: Univeristy of California Press 1967. 213 pages with numerous illustrations. Story of independent artists in the Soviet Union. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Univeristy of California Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 001533
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Zhukov, Georgi K
Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles
New York: Harper & Row 1969. 304 pages with several maps. Details Marshal Zhukov's four most critical victories - the Battle of Moscow Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Kursk and Battle of Berlin. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
Référence libraire : 000505
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Odom, William E
Collapse of the Soviet Military
New Haven and London: Yale University 1998. 523pp/illus. This study of the rise and fall of the Soviet military argues that it had a greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author describes the state of the Soviet military during the 1980s and then moves to the events that led to its destruction. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale University hardcover
Référence libraire : 004241 ISBN : 0300074697 9780300074697
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Rubenstein, Richard E
Comrade Valentine : The True Story of Azef the Spy - the Most Dangerous Man in Russia at the Time of the Last Czars
San Diego CA U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company 1994. 316 pages. Biography of Yevno Azef - Russian Secret Police spy in Czarist Russia. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harcourt Brace & Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 001532 ISBN : 0151528950 9780151528950
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Wise, David
Molehunt : The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA
New York NY U.S.A.: Random House 1992. Book has 325 pages with a center section of b&w photographs. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. The incredible story of the Central Intelligence Agency's secret search for Soviet spies in its own ranks - a witch-hunt that destroyed the lives and careers of loyal agency officers paralyzed the CIA around the globe at the height of the Cold War and damaged U.S. counterspy operations to the present day. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Random House hardcover
Référence libraire : 000286 ISBN : 0394585143 9780394585147
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Isby, David C
Ten Million Bayonets : Inside the Armies of the Soviet Union
London New York Toronto Sydney: Arms & Armour Press 1988. Book has 128 pages with illustrations. Light wear to edge of dj. Examines the various components of the Soviet Army its personnel and its equipments selecting specific formations and units to paint a detailed picture of this formidable fighting force. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arms & Armour Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 003156 ISBN : 0853687749 9780853687740
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Williams, Robert C
Russian Art and American Money 1900-1940
Cambridge MA U.S.A.: Harvard University Press 1980. 309pp/24 illustrations from photographs. Discusses the sale of Russian works of art to the United States including works by contemporary artists and the Romanov art treasures. DJ chipped with several small pieces missing. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 003147 ISBN : 0674781228 9780674781221
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Booth, John
The Art of Faberge
New York NY U.S.A.: Quoarto Wellsfleet Press 1990. 192 pps w/index & bibliography color illus. 'Faberge - the name evokes images of the glittering world of the last Tsars fo Russia and the priceless treasures created. Liight scratches on dj. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Quoarto (Wellsfleet Press), hardcover
Référence libraire : 002434 ISBN : 1555214436 9781555214432
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Ilyin, M
Moscow. Monuments of Architecture of the 14th - 17th Centuries
Moscow Russia: Isskustvo Art Publishers 1973. 106 pages of text illustrated with reproductions of old engravings platesd with 240 photos in colour and b/w. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall folio. Isskustvo Art Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 002795
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Ruge, Friederich
The Soviets As Naval Opponents 1941-45
Annapolis MD U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1979. 210 pages with photos/maps. An analytical history of Soviet naval practices during the Second World War in the Arctic Baltic Black and Mediterranean seas as well as in the Pacific Ocean. And as Admiral Ruge says "a picture of its operations during the last war is important for understanding its role today." The book puts political and military deelopments into historical perspective by examining the Russo-Japanes war years activities in the Baltic and the Black Sea dduring World War 1 and the period between the wars. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 001691 ISBN : 0870216767 9780870216763
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Tager, Alexander B
The Decay of Czarism: The Beiliss Trail
Philadelphia PA: Jewish Publication Society 1935. 297pp. Based on unpublished materials in the Russian archives this book traces militant anti-Semitism as a Czarist governmental policy especially in the 1913 trial of a Jew accused of murdering a Christian boy to use his blood in Jewish ritual. Light wear. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jewish Publication Society hardcover
Référence libraire : 003839
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Spector, Ivar
The Golden Age of Russian Literature Essay Index Reprint Ser.
Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers 1943. 246pp/illus. Subject Heading: Russian literature Note: Reprint of the 1939 ed.; Includes bibliographies.; Denis Ivanovitch Fonvisin. --Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin. --Alexander Sergeyevitch Griboyedov. --Mikhail Yurevitch Lermontov. --Nikolai Vasilyevitch Gogol. --Ivan Alexandrovitch Gontcharov. --Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgenev. --Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky. --Lev. Nikolayevitch Tolstoy. --Alexander Nikolayevitch Ostrovsky. --Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov. --Leonid Nikolayevitch Andreyev. --Maxim Gorky. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Caxton Printers hardcover
Référence libraire : 003215 ISBN : 0836922980 9780836922981
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Beichman, Arnold
The Long Pretense : Soviet Treaty Diplomacy from Lenin to Gorbachev
Piscataway NJ U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers 1990. Book has acetate covered dj. Edge of dj wrinkle in front bottom. A look into Soviet treaty diplomacy from Lenin to Gorbachev. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Transaction Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 000131 ISBN : 0887383602 9780887383601
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Silverlight, John
The Victors' Dilemma: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
New York: Weybright and Talley 1970. 392 pages with several maps and end-paper maps. History of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. DJ shows light wear. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Weybright and Talley hardcover
Référence libraire : 002327
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Soviet Ministry of Defense
Russian Military Manual - General Guide for Repairing Artillery Weapons Obschee Rukovodstvo Po Remontu Artilleriyskogo Vooruzheniya
Moscow Russia: Ministry of Defense 1958. 328 pages with numerous illustrations. Official Russian military manual for repair of artillery weapons. Russian text. None Stated. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ministry of Defense hardcover
Référence libraire : 002829
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Pearlstien, Edward W., (Editor)
Revolution in Russia! As Reported by the New York Tribune and the New York Herald 1894-1921
New York NY: Viking Press 1967. 297 pages/photos/illus. This book presents the unfolding of the Russian Revolution day by day as a reader of the time might have experienced it in his daily newspaper. Small tear in dj at spine. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 001940
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Hart, BH. Liddell (ed) B. H.
The Soviet Army
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1956. xiv 480pp. b/w pls. maps index Original red cloth. Series of papers on the Russian Army including some remarkable misconceptions by German Generals such as Guderian Blumentritt & von Manstein. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Référence libraire : 003803
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Vilkova, Valentina
The Struggle for Power : Russia in 1923 From the Secret Archives of the Former Soviet Union Ser.
Amherst NY: Prometheus Books 1996. Book has 357 pages. Dj has light wear to edge. In the autumn and winter of 1923 an intense political drama took place in the Russian Communist Party the consequences of which not only predetermined the tragic outcome in the personal fate of many of its participants but also to a considerable extent stipulated the character and orientation of later events in the Party and the country as a whole. As Lenin lay dying the once-powerful Bolsheviks were splitting into hostile groups. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Prometheus Books hardcover
Référence libraire : 000287 ISBN : 1573920266 9781573920261
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Dunlop, John
The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Princeton NJ U.S.A.: Princeton University Press 1993. 360 pages. Sweeping history of the period 1985-1991 and the great bloodless revolution in Russia. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000598 ISBN : 0691078750 9780691078755
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Mitchell, Mairin
The Maritime History of Russia 848-1948
London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1949. 543 with 18 maps 3 folding and numerous plates. A comprehensive study tracing the expansion of Russian sea power through the ages 848-1948 and her relations with two other great naval powers England and the United States. Notation on title page. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
Référence libraire : 002507
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Spassky, I. And E. Shchukina
Medals and Coins of the Age of Peter the Great from the Hermitage Collection
Leningrad Russia: Aurora Art Publishers 1974. approx 150 pages with numerous b&w and color photos and illustrations. Includes several fold-out illustrations. Describes and illustrates various Russian coins and medals from the 17th-18th Centuries. Russian and English Text. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Aurora Art Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 000881
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Read Anthony; Fisher David
Deadly Embrace : Hitler Stalin & the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company 1988. 687 pages with several maps and photos. Has gift inscription inside front cover. History of the Nazi-Soviet relations and their mutual non-aggression pact from 1939 to 1941. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 000512 ISBN : 0393025284 9780393025286
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Daly, John CK
Russian Seapower and the Eastern Question 1827-41
Annapolis Maryland U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr 1991. 314pp. A study of the Russian use of the Black Sea Fleet between 1827 and 1841 including the action at Navarino the Russian-Turkish war and Russia's growing regional commitments. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Inst Pr hardcover
Référence libraire : 003946 ISBN : 1557507260 9781557507266
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Hingley Ronald
The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970
New York: Simon & Schuster 1970. 313 pages; The history of the use of secret police in Russia and in the Soviet Union to control internal dissent. First Printing. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster hardcover
Référence libraire : 001937 ISBN : 0091041406 9780091041403
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Ekedahl, Carolyn M.; Goodman, Melvin A
The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze
University Park PA U.S.A.: Pennsylvania State University Press 1998. Book has 331 pages with a couple of illustrations. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Shevardnadze was foreign minister of the Soviet Union and along with Gorbachev and Yakovlev led the dramatic Soviet about-face int he 1980s that ended the Cold War. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000543 ISBN : 0271016043 9780271016047
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Tarsaidze, Alexandre
Czars And Presidents: The Story of a Forgotten Friendship
New York: McDowell Obolensky 1958. 383 pages/illus. Illustrated. Political relations between the United States & Russia during the time of the Czars. DJ torn along edges. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McDowell, Obolensky hardcover
Référence libraire : 002270
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Anisimov, Evgenii V.; Alexander, John T. (translator)
The Reforms of Peter the Great : Progress Through Coercion in Russia New Russian History Ser.
Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated 1993. Book has 328 pages with a few illustrations. DJ has chip on front that has been repaired with tape. First book in The New Russian History series. This exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life and rule of Russia's eighteenth-century tsar-reformer develops an important theme. What happens when the drive for "progress" is linked to an autocratic expansionist impulse rather than a larger goa l of human emancipation What was the price of power - for Russia and for Peter himself . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. M. E. Sharpe, Incorporated hardcover
Référence libraire : 000081 ISBN : 1563240475 9781563240478
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Kaplan, Morton A. (editor); Shtromas, Alexander (editor)
The Soviet Union & the Challenge of the Future : Economics & Society Vol. 2
Saint Paul MN U.S.A.: Paragon House Publishers 1989. 764 pages. Details the economic and social challenges facing the Soviet Union in 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paragon House Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 000653 ISBN : 0943852331 9780943852331
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Silverlight, John
The Victors' Dilemma: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War
New York: Weybright and Talley 1970. 392 pages with several maps and end-paper maps. History of the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War. DJ shows light wear. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Weybright and Talley hardcover
Référence libraire : 001546
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Harcave, Sidney
Years of the Golden Cockerel: The Last Romanov Tsars 1814-1917
New York NY: MacMillan 1968. 515 pages with several illustrations/photos and end-paper maps. Details the history of the last 100 years of Russian rule by the Romanovs. dj has wear/chipping. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacMillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 000599
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Voronin, N. N
The Architecture of Northern Russia Zodchectvo Severo-Vostochnoi Russi: 12th - 15th Centuries - 2 Volume set
Moscow Russia: Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union 1961. Approx 575 pages each with numerous photos illustrations and line drawings. Several fold-out line drawings of Russian churches. Illustrates the architecture found throughout northern Russia - emphasis on the church architecture. Russian text. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union hardcover
Référence libraire : 001430
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Knight, Amy W.; Knight, Amy
Who Killed Kirov: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery
New York New York U.S.A.: Hill & Wang Pub 1999. 331pp/illus. Appendices Notes Index. Reconstructs the haunting crime murder of Sergei Kirov and analyzes its impact on the Russian people. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hill & Wang Pub hardcover
Référence libraire : 003566 ISBN : 0809064049 9780809064045
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Dallin, David J
Soviet Espionage
New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1955. 558 pages. History of Soviet espionage and spying before during and after World War II. Has some notations on index page and inside rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean and very good. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 001448
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Pulikuna, U. M
Tables on Sections of Morphology of the Russian Language Tablitsy Po Nekotorim Razdelam Morphologii Ruskogo Yazika
Moscow Russia 1961. Consists of 57 approx 20"x26" foldout charts showing variations in Russian words/language. Set originally had 64 charts 7 are missing - #19 20 32-3441 & 46. Otherwise clean and in excellent condition. Only 10000 set printed. Folio. Very Good/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. unknown
Référence libraire : 002915
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Tyrrell, Henry
The History of the War with Russia: Giving Full Details of the Operations of the Allied Armies Vol 3 bound with The History of the Russian Empire from Its Foundation By Ruric the Pirate to the Accession of the Emperor Alexander II
London: London Printing and Publishing Company 1857. 354 pages plus index with 11 beautiful steel engravings 1st part and 546 pages and 29 beautiful steel engravings and 2 beautiful double page steel-engraved/hand-colored maps of historical Russia. Both have steel engraved frontis and title pages. Some light foxing does not affect maps. Beautiful Crimean War history. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. London Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 001799
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Shtromas, Alexander (editor); Kaplan, Morton A. (editor)
The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future Vol. I: The Soviet System: Stasis & Change
Saint Paul MN U.S.A.: Paragon House Publishers 1988. 555 pages. Details the Soviet system in 1988 and posible future alternatives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paragon House Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 000652 ISBN : 0943852293 9780943852294
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Bobrovnitskaya, I
The Armory in the Moscow Kremlin
Moscow Russia: Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers 1990. 431 pages lavishly illustrated. Main body of text in Russian captions under photos in Russian and English. Wonderful color illustrations featuring Russian gold and silver arms and armour precious textiles and embroidery historical regalia and ceremonial paraphenalia ornamental horse trappings royal carriages etc. Only 20000 copies printed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 000937 ISBN : 5269006057 9785269006055
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Holloway, David
Stalin and the Bomb : The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939-56
New Haven CT U.S.A.: Yale University Press 1994. 464 pages with several photos. Study of Soviet efforts to build an atomic bomb. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 004202 ISBN : 0300060564 9780300060560
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Tucker, Robert C
Stalin As Revolutionary 1879-1929 : A Study in History and Personality
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated 1981. Book contains 519 pages with some b&w photographs. Light wear to edge of dj. Front flyleaf bottom corner clipped and top corner has a fold. That Stalin was one of history's great tyrants began to dawn on the world during his lifetime and has become widely recognized since his death twenty years ago. But in spite of all the recent revelations about the man and his time this most secretive of modern dictators has remained a profoundly enigmatic figure awaiting interpretation as a personality against the backgroundo f the revolutionary movement that he joined in his youth. . First Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated hardcover
Référence libraire : 001469 ISBN : 039305487X 9780393054873
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Valenta, Jiri
Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia 1968 : Anatomy of a Decision
Baltimore MD U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press 1981. 208 pages. Detailed study of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Johns Hopkins University Press paperback
Référence libraire : 000700 ISBN : 0801825407 9780801825408
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Cowles, Virginia
The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars
New York: Harper & Row 1969. 351 pages with several photographs/illustrations. History of Russia's plots to extend her empire in Europe prior to World War I. DJ has light wear. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
Référence libraire : 000940
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Leonhard, Wolfgang
Three Faces of Marxism : The Origin and Development of Soviet Ideology Maoism and Humanist Communism
New York NY U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company LLC 1996. 497 pages. Theories of Marxism-Leninism Maoism and Humanist Marxism. DJ has light wear. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Henry Holt & Company, LLC hardcover
Référence libraire : 001403 ISBN : 0030886201 9780030886201
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Erickson, John
The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany
New York: Harper & Row 1975. 594 pages with several photos. Rare 1st Ed. Detailed history of the initial campaigns on the Eastern Front. Light edgewear to dj. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover
Référence libraire : 004318 ISBN : 0060111410 9780060111410
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Bashkina, Nina N., Nikolai N. Bolhovitinov, John H. Brown, J. Dane Hartgrove, Ivan I. Kudriatsev, Natal'ia B. Kuznetsova, Ronal
The United States and Russia : The Beginning of Relations 1765-1815
Washington D.C: U S Government Printing Office 1980. 1184pp/maps/illus. First joint Soviet-American publication of its kinda documentary collection containing materials from archives and manuscript repositories in the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Contains a broad spectrum of commercial scientific cultural and diplomatic contacts; illustrated with numerous portraits sketches facsimiles and maps. Light wear to dj. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U S Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 004416
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Kolkowicz, Roman
The Soviet Military and the Communist Party
Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1967. 429pp. Traces the delicate relationship between the Communist Party and the military establishment with its perennial and recurrent conflicts. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 004470
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Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
ALWAYS A GRAND DUKE
New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 299 pages. In Good plus condition. Red spine with silver lettering. Full binding in red cloth. Boards show light shelf wear and slight sunning to spine. Text block has modest age-toning and periodic foxing spots throughout pages. 1372270. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
Référence libraire : 1372270
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[Russia] Freschi
Alexander Zemlenutin. Kossack of the Don Regiment Sulin the 9th
London: R. Ackermann 1813. First printing. Print. Otherwise very good condition. Hand colored copper engraving 6 x 91/2". Some light dusting and marking on plate. R. Ackermann unknown
Référence libraire : 27742
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[Russia; Nova Zembla] Bellin, Nicolas
Carte des Pais Habites par les Samojedes et Ostiacs
Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map showing "Nouvelle Zemle" Nova Zembla in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Russia and extending from Mer Blanche to the Golphe de Taz. With decorative cartouche. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King.<br /> <br /> 10 x 7 1/2" with ample margins. Strong impression very slightly evenly toned. unknown
Référence libraire : 21556
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[Russia; China] Bellin, Nicolas
Carte de la Tartarie Occidentale
Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of northeast Asia and Siberia from Lake Baykal sic Partie du Siberie in the north Pays des Kalkas at the center as well as Desert de Sable and down to Chine and the Golphe de Lyau-tong. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King. <br /> <br /> 12 3/4 x 9 1/4" original center fold. Strong impression very clean. unknown
Référence libraire : 21534
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Russia; Photography
Soviet Russia photographic volume: 'Sochi'
Leningrad: State publishing House Isskustvo 1959. Hardcover. Good overall. 1959 Soviet Russia volume on the Russian resort town of Sochi which hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Located on the "Russian Riviera" on the Black Sea with a long & beautiful coastline and known during the Soviet era as the "All Union Health Resort".<br /> <br /> 4to 210pp many color and b&w photographic ills. Photo captions in Russian and English. Cream boards with title in dark blue at front board and spine. With the original pictorial dust jacket with title in red and white on blue ground at dj front. Dj rubbed & chipped with small loss at spine. Spine ends a bit rubbed; internally owner inscription in Russian at ffep. State publishing House Isskustvo hardcover
Référence libraire : 21046
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