‎Russia‎

‎Bradby, Tom‎

‎The White Russian: A Novel AWARD FINALIST‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A NOMINEE for the ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD. In 1917 Russia the bodies of a young couple are found on the ice of the frozen river Neva. It is up to Sandro Ruzsky chief investigator for the St. Petersburg police to find the killer as he finds himself face-to-face with his own past as he fights to save everything he cares for. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017076 ISBN : 0385508409 9780385508407

‎Hyde, Anthony‎

‎The Red Fox‎

‎NYNY: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1985. A spellbinding thriller of a hunt through America Europe and Soviet Union for a missing man fortune and the key to a mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Alfred A Knopf Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017253 ISBN : 0394544439 9780394544434

‎Browne, Gerald A.‎

‎Hot Siberian‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Arbor House Pub Co 1989. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. A Russian mystery set amongst the backdrop of the international Art World. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Arbor House Pub Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016768 ISBN : 087795965X 9780877959656

‎Aspler, Tony; Pape, Gordon‎

‎The Music Wars: A Novel‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Beaufort Books 1985. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A music related mystery based upon the Tchaikovsky International Music Competetion in Moscow. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Beaufort Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016643 ISBN : 0825302633 9780825302633

‎Smith, Martin Cruz‎

‎Gorky Park‎

‎NYNY: Random House Inc 1981. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Book has tiny name written in ink on ffp light soiling at page edges. Jacket shows yellowing which is usual with this title light soiling Made into a major motion picture. A Soviet investigator and an American policeman try to solve the murder of three young people in Gorky Park. One of the best Russian Mystery ever written. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Random House Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016544 ISBN : 0394517482 9780394517483

‎Kerr, Philip‎

‎Hitler's Peace: A Novel Of The Second World War‎

‎E Rutherford New Jersey U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group 2005. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. American Forces know that unconditional surrender will leave Germany decimated puts out feelers to other leaders. Only Winston Churchill refuses. What can be done to save the fate of Germany. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Putnam Pub Group Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016676 ISBN : 0399152695 9780399152696

‎Cassutt Michael‎

‎Red Moon‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Forge 2000. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A modern historical novel based on the doomed Soviet Space Program. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Forge Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015655 ISBN : 0312874405 9780312874407

‎McPhee, John A.‎

‎THE RANSOME OF RUSSIAN ART‎

‎NY NY.: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1994. First edition so stated. A Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. McPhee's book is a suspenseful chilling and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse. On frequent trips to the Soviet Union the awkward gutsy Oklahoma-born art enthusiast visited the homes of underground artists and spent a fortune to buy some 8000 works by 600 artists. His collection with styles ranging from Pop to abstract expressionism was recently donated to Rutgers University. Includes many color art reproductions Interspersed throughout the book. In the 1960s and 1970s an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977 he had a thousand works of art. His ultimate window of interest involved the years from 1956 to 1986 and through his established contacts he eventually acquired another eight thousand works-by far the largest collection of its kind. McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art his motives for his work and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/As New. Book. Farrar Straus & Giroux Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015603 ISBN : 0374246823 9780374246822

‎Womack, Jack‎

‎Let's Put the Future Behind Us‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Atlantic Monthly Press 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Follows the steps of a sucessful Soviet businessman as he strolls through the wreakage of today's Russia with seemingly ease. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015671 ISBN : 0871136279 9780871136275

‎Kaminsky, Stuart M.‎

‎DEATH OF A DISSIDENT SIGNED LIMITED EDITION‎

‎N.Y.: Armchair Detective Library 1991. 1st hardcover edition. A fine unread copy in slipcase. ONE of 100 NUMBERED COPIES this being #98 SIGNED by Kaminsky bound in burgundy cloth without dust wrapper as issued in matching burgundy slipcase gilt stamping to front board and spine pencil sketch of the author by Carolyn Hartman at front board a very fine unread copy. A new introduction by Kaminsky. The 1st Rostnikov title. Set in Moscow the debut Ratnikov novel demonstrates how Kaminsky captures the flavor of that city. This powerful sense of time and place is doubly remarkable because Kaminsky had never been to Russia before he wrote the book. His depictions of Rostnikov coping with a corrupt Moscow police force underlying KGB pressures and the overall inefficiencies of working in the then Soviet Union are dead-on. Death of a Dissident shows a master storyteller at his finest. . Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition. Armchair Detective Library Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 014806 ISBN : 156287019X 9781562870195

‎Sauter, Eric‎

‎Hunter and the Ikon‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon 1984. The second Hunter titlefinds him entangled with killers from Russia whose souls are as cold as their winters. 1st Ed. PBO . Book store stamps to front page covers rubbed and soiled slight spine lean. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback Original. Morrow/Avon Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 014645 ISBN : 0380865467 9780380865468

‎Coonts, Stephen‎

‎THE RED HORSEMAN‎

‎NY: Pocket Books 1993. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A Jake Grafton title. "oonts's latest Jake Grafton Under Siege espionage thriller takes on the most critical issues in global politics and turns them into first-rate adventure fiction. Now a rear admiral and deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA Grafton learns from a Mossad hitwoman that Jewish media kingpin Nigel Keren was the victim of a complicated poisoning engineered by the CIA. Grafton and "Toad" Tarkington his trusted sidekick are threatened with similar poisoning and just as they are dispatched to Moscow to oversee the dismantling of the Russian nuclear arsenal they discover bugs in the DIA offices. Thus begins a dizzyingly complex adventure of apocalyptic importance staged on three continents filled with convincingly fictionalized portraiture there are characters based on Robert Maxwell and Colin Powell; Saddam Hussein himself plays a pivotal role. The issues Coonts confronts--the frighteningly unprotected and undermaintained nuclear devices in the former Soviet Union; factionalism in the U.S. intelligence community; unrest in the Middle East--make this one of the most compelling post- glasnost thrillers to date." --- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Pocket Books‎

Bookseller reference : 014054 ISBN : 0671748874 9780671748876

‎Kaminsky, Stuart M.‎

‎A COLD RED SUNRISE Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery Ser. EDGAR AWARD WINNER‎

‎NY: Scribners 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A fine copy in dj of this terrific crime novel set in the USSR. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Mystery. 5th Inspector Rostnikov title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011776 ISBN : 0684189054 9780684189055

‎Sebastian, Tim‎

‎SPY IN QUESTION‎

‎London: UK: Simon & Schuster 1988. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled else fine in unclipped dust jacket. "Former BBC correspondent Sebastian who wrote of his expulsion from the U.S.S.R. on espionage charges in I Spy in Russia set this workmanlike methodical first novel in wintry forbidding Moscow a city full of spies counteragents and distrust. It's 1990 and Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership in Gorbachev's politburo when his long-dormant status as a "mole" for the British is suddenly reactivated. English intelligence man George Parker feeling indebted to Kalyagin begins a covert effort to pull the agent out before his Soviet counterparts discover the traitor's identity. But as the body count starts to rise Parker's attempts to protect Kalyagin are hampered by both Russian ruthlessness and British indifference. Parker's dogged persistence and Kalyagin's increasing desperation lead to a climactic showdown in the Moscow streets between two networks of spies." -- PW. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Simon & Schuster‎

Bookseller reference : 001398 ISBN : 0671699075 9780671699079

‎Smith, Martin Cruz‎

‎HAVANA BAY A HAMMETT AWARD WINNER‎

‎N.Y.: Random House 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Renko is in Cuba and not likeing it one little bit. A HAMMETT AWARD WINNER for Best Novel. "The body at least what was left of it was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda but Arkady wasn't so sure. "You don't investigate assault you don't investigate murder. Just what do you investigate" Arkady asks Ofelia Osorio a detective in the Policía Nacional de la Revolución. "Or is it simply open season on Russians in Havana" The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised much more so than Americans. Havana is overrun with color music and suspicion. The Revolution's heroes have outlived idealism. The Com-munist world has shrunk to Cuba. Paradise has become a stop on sex tours. It is a city of empty stores and talking drums Karl Marx and sharp machetes where an American radical rides around in Hemingway's car to tout island investments and a Wall Street developer on the run from the FBI flies a pirate flag. "A dead Russian a live Russian" Ofelia says. "What's the difference" But the dead Russian is followed by the murders of a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated Arkady cannot be stopped. He speaks no Spanish knows nothing about Cuba and as a Russian is a pariah. However there is something about this faded lovely dangerous city--the rhythms of waves against the seawall the insinuation of music always in the air and finally Ofelia herself--that plunges Arkady back into life." dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Random House Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 011111 ISBN : 0679426620 9780679426622

‎Smith, Martin Cruz‎

‎RED SQUARE‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Random House 1992. 1st edition so stated. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. . An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Moscow. The Soviet upheavals have fueled the glowing talent of Smith Gorky Park America's preeminent writer of Russia-based thrillers. Investigator Arkady Renko returns from exile on the Polar Star fleet to find the new Moscow a dramatic battlefield of warlords and entrepreneurs; behind it as still as a painted backdrop eight million people standing in line. An ingenious bomb kills Renko's informer the banker for freewheeling black marketeers-leading Arkady's team through the quicksand of mafia-dominated official graft. His workaholic forensics expert Polina who must wait in line for morgue time as well as for beets identifies the bomb method leading Arkady too close for aparatchik comfort. He is bumped from the case but only after a clue from the dead man's fax Where is Red Square points him toward a Munich connection. Meanwhile he is stunned to hear his lost love Irina on Munichbased Radio Liberty and with his last bit of clout wrangles a barely official trip to Germany. His mastery of the Russian system stymies the Munich embassy and reunites him with Irina in the midst of nasty fellow citizens bent on national theft. With vital aid from a Munich cop Arkady links the fax clue to Russian bureaucrats the ethnic Checken mafia and German bankers. The novel paints the new post-Soviet aura through the stoic hero's wry humor and leaves Arkady and Irina perfectly poised like Russia itself for whatever comes next." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Random House Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010148 ISBN : 0679416889 9780679416883

‎Seymour, Gerald‎

‎ARCHANGEL‎

‎N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1982. 1st ed. Fine in dj one tiny chip out at rear. When British Intelligence asks Michael Holly a mechanical engineer to run an errand for them in the Soviet Union the consequences of capture are never mentioned. But what seems a simple handover carries unimaginable risks and now Holly is facing fifteen years imprisoned in a gulag in the midst of the frozen tundra. Along with his fellow inmates Holly has to find the strength to fight the camp's brutal regime in any way he can. But Camp 3 is the place where hopes and dreams are brought to die. Against the might of the Soviet state is Michael Holly strong enough to sustain his will to survive. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 000669 ISBN : 0525241299 9780525241294

‎Malashenko, Alexei‎

‎LAST RED AUGUST: A Russian Mystery‎

‎N.Y.: Scribners 1993. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Set in Russia at the time of the attempted coup of 1991. "This fast-paced highly engaging political thriller begins on the eve of the attempted coup against President Gorbachev in August 1991. Written by a policy analyst and briskly translated by the author of the Russian detective Ivan Duvakin series this thinly disguised roman a clef probes into the backgrounds of those responsible for the abortive coup and the frantic events that led to their downfall. A secretary who discovers a discarded planned announcement of the impending military takeover is found out by the KGB and winds up dead. Andrei Alekseevich a young "half-wild intellectual" and Yeltsin supporter also inadvertently learns about the planned coup from his father Georgi a hardliner and high-ranking military officer. Andrei is eventually kidnapped and confined to a plush dacha to sit out the coup--but not before he can pass on what he knows to an American journalist and to a former classmate who works for a Moscow paper. Malashenko does a smart job depicting the psychological strain between Georgi Alekseevich and his son and in showing the greater tensions between the coup plotters--aging generals more interested in their limousines perks and speciality stores than in planning a decisive military action--and the "new" Russia--the idealistic yet unformed generations which rally to protect Boris Yeltsin at the Russian White House." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 000760 ISBN : 0684195712 9780684195711

‎OLCOTT, ANTHONY‎

‎MAY DAY IN MAGADAN‎

‎N.Y.: Bantam 1983. 1st edition August 1983 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. . Light soiling at page edges else very good in dust jacket lightly worn at edges sticker shadow at front lightly soiled. Magadan a frozen Siberian outpost that still smolders with the bitter memory of Stalin's work camps. Most men come "voluntarily" their choice being freedom or prison. Icy exile was Ivan Duvakin's reward for interfering in Party matters and uncovering a major scandal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Bantam Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 010129 ISBN : 0553050419 9780553050417

‎Kaminsky, Stuart M.‎

‎THE MAN WHO WALKED LIKE A BEAR‎

‎NY: Scribners 1990. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Inspector Rostnikov of Kaminsky's Edgar-winning series A Cold Red Sunrise duels for the sixth time with the KGB in this superb mystery-thriller. The novel bursts into action as Rostnikov is visiting his wife Sarah hospitalized in their home city of Moscow. The titular "walking bear" is a man who escapes from the mental ward and alarms the women in Sarah's room before the inspector succeeds in calming him he then hints of thefts at the factory where he had worked. This strange event is but a prelude to crises impelling Rostnikov with his comrades Karpo and Thach through intolerable ordeals: a bus is hijacked by rebels conspiring to blow up Lenin's tomb; young lovers plan to murder a government official. Sharing in the overlapping investigations the inspector joins in celebrating victory with his loyal officers when they prevent bloody deeds. But the triumph is Rostrikov's alone when he outwits the jealous KGB chief--and the reader--in a scene harking back to the walking bear. Kaminsky masterfully balances stories of family life humorous anecdotes and riveting suspense involving his distinctive characters." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 012767 ISBN : 0684190230 9780684190235

‎[CZARIST RUSSIA BOND]‎

‎Unsigned Printed Bond for 189 Roubles Twenty pounds Sterling‎

‎issued by the City of Moscow in 1908 with coupons text in both English and Russian folio with attractive vignette at the head of a knight slaying a Dragon Moscow At the end of the 19th century Europe lived under the law of alliances. As Germany and Russia move away Saint Petersburg and Paris get closer. Russia needed money and France needed friends to face the Triplice Germany Austria and Italy. "Slovophily" turns into hysteria. In 1888 Moscow issued four loans of 500 million gold francs under the blessing of the French public authorities. The Franco-Russian Alliance of 1891 ensured the success of the loans which multipled. Savers then rushed to the bank counters to show their patriotism and lend to Alexander III we will even build a bridge in Paris over the Seine that bears his name and then to Nicolas II and the City of Moscow. In 1904 the Russo-Japanese war caused panic but the banks were reassuring though after the October Revolution Lenin decided to stop recognising the debts of the old regime. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 42350

‎[CZARIST RUSSIA BOND]‎

‎Unsigned Printed Bond for 2000 German Reichsmarks‎

‎Imperial Government of Russia 4% State Loan of 1902 bond issued by virtue of the Imperial Ukase of the 1st March 1902 to realise the contribution due to Russia in compensation for the "loses incurred in consequence of the Chinese disorders." the Boxer Rebellion "the annual payments to exactly correspond with the annual payments of interest and amortisation of the part of the contribution due to Russia which China engaged to pay in virtue of the Edict of the Chinese Empoer of of the 29th May 1901." folio A consortium of Russian German and Dutch banking and financial institutions were involved in the administration of this loan and payment of interest against coupons was paid from 18th June-1st July and from 19th December-1st January at various locations. An interesting anomaly is the denomination of the bond which is stated in Reichsmarks. The Reichsmark was not formally adopted as the German currency until 1924. The bonds were negotiable and accepted as security for Government contracts for deferred excise duties and for payment of customs duties at prices to be fixed half-yearly which would be not less than 90% of the face value of the bonds. The Boxer Rebellion in China had been followed by the combined military expedition of the powers to the Relief of Peking in which the US shared and the exaction of a huge indemnity of which the States relinquished nearly half of its share as in excess of the actual losses. The US protested against Russian demands upon China and actively participated in the negotiations which resulted in Russia's agreement to evacuate Manchuria. Russian delays and their policy have led Japan to declare war Secretary of State Hay's diplomacy was influential in limiting the zone of hostilities and the good offices of President Theodore Roosevelt brought about the conference between the two powers at Portsmouth N.H. which terminated hostilities. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 42351

‎Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia‎

‎Collected Works: Once a Grand Duke; Always a Grand Duke; Twilight of Royalty‎

‎NEW. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : BIB-NOV-14-2025-129408 ISBN : 1539950387 9781539950387

‎Seagal, Z. M. (Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Russia)‎

‎Topographical and Pathotopographical Medical Atlas of the Human Body‎

‎new. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 35382606-n ISBN : 1119614333 9781119614333

‎Russia Blaeu Willem J. 1571 1638‎

‎Russiae Vulgo Moscovia dictae Pars Occidentalis. Auctore Isaaco Massa.‎

‎1664. Amsterdam Blaeu c.1664. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 48.7 cm x 38.6 cm. Sheet Size: 65.2 cm x 55.7 cm. Original map. In very good clean condition. Wide margins. Latin text on reverse. Koeman II 1803:2. From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas oft Werelt- Beschryving in welcke 't Aerdryck de Zee en Hemel wort vertoont en beschreven. Amsterdam J. Blaeu 1664. Van der Krogt 2 621. Beautiful map of mid-17th Century Russia published during the reign of Tsar Alexis of Russia of the Romanov Dynasty as Moscow vied for regional hegemony with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden. 'Mosqua' Moscow is in the lower right corner. Smolesnsk is just squeezed in within the maps lower border. Novogorod can be seen just below the outflow of Lake Ilmen. In the upper left lies Estonia and the Gulf of Finland. Below this is the 'Livonia' region which is now between Latvia and Estonia. The regions listed as 'Ingria' and 'Careliae Pars' on the map were then under the control of the Swedes. The Russians would eventually seize this territory and dominance of the Baltic and build their new capital St. Petersburg there. This lay in the future. The map's political delineation shows the westward extent of Moscow's reach. 'Lithva' in the lower left of the map was then within the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This region is now modern-day Belarus: 'Witespk' is now the Belarussian city of Viciebsk. Relief depicted pictorially and the historic place-names are in Latin. The cathedral cities such as Pereslaw Pereslavl-Zalessky and Ieroslaw Yaroslavl and Pseskow/Pskouwa Pskov are depicted. With numerous deers and foxes seen across the map the mapmaker indicates that this is a vast region still untamed. In the 'Megrina' province the mapmaker shows a bear-hunt at its deadly denouement. The map is covered with forested areas and vast waterways such as the Volga and Volkhov and Daugava/Dvina 'Duna flu' Dnieper Boristenis Flu rivers and a patchwork of lakes such as Lake Peipus and 'Biela Osera' Rybinsk Reservoir. Large decorative title cartouche accompanied with busts of moose and deer in the left top corner of the map. The eagles of the Russian coat of arms look east and west from the top right corner of the map. In the lower left corner an ornate cartouche contains two milliaria bar scales. Blaeu as it is noted on the cartouche based the map on the travels and maps of Isaac Massa. Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa 1586 - 1643 was a Dutch grain trader traveller and diplomat the envoy to Muscovy. He wrote memoirs related to the Time of Troubles and created some of the earliest maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa in Moscow witnessed the second half of Boris Godunov's reign during which a civil war broke out now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russia in 1609 before the fall of Tsar Vasily Shuysky. Massa compiled an account of the 1601–1609 events Dutch: Een cort Verhael van Begin en Oorspronk deser tegenwoordighe Oorloogen en troeblen in Moscovia totten jare 1610 which he presented to Stadtholder Maurice. In 1612–1613 Massa published two articles on Russian events and the geography of the Land of Samoyeds accompanied by a map of Russia which were published in an almanac edited by Hessel Gerritsz. His notes on his various travels have been published in conjunction with maps made by the explorer Henry Hudson. Massa is credited with five published maps of Russia and its provinces the last ones compiled around 1633 and two maps of Moscow city including the schematic account of the 1606 battle between Vasily Shuysky and Ivan Bolotnikov's armies. He returned to Russia in 1614 and became an active agent in a myriad of diplomatic and commercial schemes and endeavours between Western states and companies and Moscow. Massa a wealthy and prominent man of the world has been the subject of several portraits by Dutch painter Frans Hals. Wikipedia Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638 was a Dutch cartographer atlas maker and publisher. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish/Dutch school of cartography in its golden age the 16th and 17th centuries. Blaeu set up his mapmaking and publishing business in Amsterdam where he sold instruments and globes published maps and edited the works of intellectuals like Descartes and Hugo Grotius. In 1633 he was appointed map-maker of the Dutch East India Company. In 1635 he released his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas novus. Willem died in 1638. He had two sons Cornelis 1610-1648 and Johannes 1596-1673. Joan trained as a lawyer but joined his father's business rather than practice. After his father's death the brothers took over their father's shop and Joan took on his work as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company. Later in life Joan would modify and greatly expand his father's Atlas novus eventually releasing his masterpiece the Atlas maior between 1662 and 1672. Wikipedia unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 200038AG