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1921réf. 234513No place 1921. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. Fold mark across middle. Expertly backed with linen. Browned three short tears can be seen though repaired by the backing. Very good. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. This appeal printed above the names of A. Kerensky Victor Tchernoff Chernov and other Russian Social Revolutionaries for the 32 former members of the Russian Constituent Assembly protests the hardships inflicted upon Russia by communism. They accuse the Bolshevik government and its New Economic Policy of selling Russia's natural resources to the greed of international capitalism. The NEP was announced by Lenin in March 1921 and inaugurated an interim policy guaranteeing freedom of trade in internal commerce and a system of concessions for the investment of foreign capital. European states and busineses were pleased with the NEP and saw in it Lenin's capitulation to capitalism. However what they considered a weakness eventually turned out to be a mark of strength and flexibility of Bolshevik policy. unknown
1833réf. 31422London: Seeley & Sons Hatchard & Son 1833. First edition. 8 handcolored lithgraphic plates of the people one spotted errata at the back. 1 vols. 4to. Later half roan red and black labels chipped. Joints and extremities rubbed short crack at top of upper joint some light browning of text else very good. First edition. 8 handcolored lithgraphic plates of the people one spotted errata at the back. 1 vols. 4to. He writes of the history of the country and its present state with comments on its religion customs and social life including slavery hospitals prisons the state of the Jews of Russia Freemasonry the army and navy its agriculture and commerce and manufacturing. One of the plates shows men playing Svalka another the village amusements and another a national dance.The appendix contains specimens of the style of preaching among the Russian clergy. Colas 2395; Abbey Travel 230; Hiler p. 712; Tooley 380 Seeley & Sons, Hatchard & Son unknown
réf. 1974Most slides with taped edges; some images slightly faded; some slides with small cracks; library boxes somewhat rubbed and worn. Very good. Group of 34 Glass Travel Slides Depicting Views of Pre-Bolshevik Era Russia circa 1895 - 1915. Publishers include: Keystone View Company Underwood & Underwood Cornell Photos Supply Co. McIntosh Stereopticon Company and Victor Animatograph Co. Thirty-four glass travel slides various publishers mostly black and white some color some with printed or manuscript labels. Most measuring approx. 3.25 x 4 inches with a few measuring approx. 3.25 x 3.25 inches. Most in later protective paper sleeves many with pencil titles. Housed in vintage handled cloth-covered wooden boxes labeled "Portland Public Schools Visual Aid Department." Manuscript lists affixed to box lids do not reflect actual contents. Pencil sleeve-descriptions include: St. Petersburg - Tsarskoe Selo Alexandra Feodrovna and German Empress; St. Petersburg - Peter & Paul Cathedral - Burial Place of Tsars; Moscow - St. Basil's; 5 Men; St. Petersburg - Street Paving; Man in Village Street; Rural Building w/ Lots of People Posed; Moscow - Red Square; Moscow - Tsar Bell; Coachman in Coach; Russia Peasants; Russia Dacha; Russia Toika & Driver on Street; Moscow Large Church in City; Russia Coachman & Horses; Moscow - Kremlin & River Keystone; Tsarskoe Selo Village; St. Petersburg - Troika & Driver in Courtyard; Kremlin - Ivan The Great Bell Tower Tsar Bell; Moscow: House of Romanov Boyars; St. Petersburg - Nevski Prospekt x 2; Moscow - Kremlin - Assumption Cathedral Int.; Kremlin View; St. Petersburg Street View; St. Petersburg Bridge; Troika; Moscow - Kremlin - Ivan the Great Bell Tower; Guard. . unknown
1871réf. 5818New York 1871. Good. 32pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and spotting to wrappers. Some marginal insect damage to lower right corner not costing any text. Faint dampstain to upper margin of most leaves. A scarce work in which an "Evangelical Alliance" of American and British religious leaders petition Tsar Alexander II to grant religious freedom to Catholics and Protestants in 1871. The report begins with some background on the "Evangelical Alliance and Religious Liberty" religious persecution in the Baltic States some information on the penal laws in Russia and then the alliance's work in arguing for religious freedom beginning with their "Prepatory Labors" and "Meetings in London and Stuttgart" and ending with the "Final Promise of the Prime Minister" and "The Result." The latter included "partial relief" from religious persecution with hopes for "further improvements." The report is signed at the end by its President Samuel F.B. Morse. The report is followed by an Appendix printing "Prince Gortschakoff's Report to the Emperor of Russia" and three other memorials and interviews pertaining to the alliance's activities in Europe. An early example of religious diplomacy from American and British leaders. Ten copies in OCLC. unknown
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réf. RGW19426AAquatint with original hand-colouring from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City the Sledges and the People . . .' unknown
réf. RGW19683Aquatint with original hand-colouring from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City the Sledges and the People . . .' unknown
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1936réf. 83612New 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. 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. 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. During Prohibition Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. 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. 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. 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. 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
1962réf. 011149New York: St Martins 1962. 889pp/frontis. Important study of the development of the Red Army from the revolution to the eve of World War II. Light wear to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. St Martins Hardcover
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1841réf. 306977Dresden und Leipzig: Arnold 1841. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers ads on back wrappers; uncut and unpressed. Wrappers toned losses to spine with old repairs some marginal chipping. Internally clean. About very good. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The standard guide to mid-century St. Petersburg with chapters on the palaces markets street life ice-sleds the Hermitage and the notable collections of the city including a descriptive tour of libraries and archives. Arnold unknown
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réf. MB99Six leaves all Elephant Folio ca. 63x77 cm or 20 ¼ x 24 ¾ in. With a notary stamp a small wax seal and six revenue stamps. Leaves stitched through on the bottom and folded. Brown ink on vellum filled in on one side. Fold marks outer leaf soiled and slightly rubbed otherwise a very good document. Interesting original real estate document written and certified in Saint Petersburg. Concluded between British merchants in Saint Petersburg William Gillison Bell of Melling Hall and Thomas Graven the contract was witnessed by local merchants James Liddell and John Ledderdale. William Gillison Bell was later listed as a member of the United Company of Merchants of England see: A List of the Names of the Members of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies… London 1825 p. 10. John Ledderdale 1782-1845 was the father William Lidderdale 1832-1902 Director 1870 Deputy Governor 1887 and the Governor of the Bank of England 1889-1892. The contract was certified signed and sealed by Saint Petersburg public notary Stephen Sasonoff on June 2 1816 and further certified by the British Consul General in Russia Sir Daniel Bayley 1766-1834 on June 7 1816. “For two centuries after the foundation of St Petersburg in 1703 the British merchant community exercised a remarkable influence over the city's economic relations with the wider world. This community operated as a 'City of London' in miniature and where the merchants led others - diplomats travellers soldiers sailors engineers craftsmen and others - followed. As the new capital grew in splendour Britons acquired or rented some of the city's finest residences. At the end of Catherine II's reign the city's first grand embankment along the Neva between the Senate later Decembrist Square and the New Admiralty Canal came to be known as the English Embankment” Thompstone S. On the Banks of the Neva: British Merchants in St Petersburg before the Russian Revolution// History Today Vol. 53 No. 12. Sir Daniel Bayley “became a merchant at St Petersburg being a partner in the great Russian house of Thorntons and Bayley firm dissolved 30th April 1810. He was appointed 9th October 1812 His Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General at St. Petersburg and was also agent to the Russia company. He was knighted 20th June 1815 and his services as chargé d’affaires during the absence of the English ambassador were also rewarded by the knighthood of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order” Axon E. The Family of Bayley of Manchester and Hope. Manchester 1894 p. 19-20. hardcover
1833réf. 143387London: 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
1860réf. 010818Washington D. C: George W.Bowman Printer 1860. xxiv 277pp.with 24 lithographed views incl. additional title most tinted some folding 2 with some hand-colouring & 57 folding maps plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies furnishing and distributing supplies medical and hospital arrangements kinds of arms ammuniition and equipment including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon the construction of fortifications methods of transportation &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there the military hospital at St. Petersburg the Turkish Barrack at Scutari used by the English Army as their general depot hospital and as a residence by Florence Nightingale folding plans of fortifcations in Paris Cherbourg Sebastopol Constadt and other cities and plates showing weapons hospitals batteries storehouses military structures. Text plates and maps in excellent condition - no tears foxing. However the binding is in very poor condition. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. George W.Bowman, Printer Hardcover
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1891réf. 21073New York: The Century Company. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. A few pages unopened.; "Sponsored by the Century magazine and accompanied by the Boston artist and photographer George Frost Kennan arrived in Russia for his fourth visit in May 1885. He came prepared to give a favourable assessment of the penal system in Siberia but subsequent meetings and events in Siberia radically changed his views and through his subsequent book and lectures those of America. In the course of eight months between June 1885 and March of the following year they covered some 8000 miles within Siberia." Cross Anthony. “REIGN OF ALEXANDER III 1881–1894. ” In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire 1613-1917 1st ed. Open Book Publishers 2014 pp. 273–309. - Green boards with gilt lettering. Blindstamped decorative floral design. Volume 1 with frontispiece 4 maps and 90 illustrations. Volume 2: frontispiece and 104 illustrations as well as 3 maps.; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; xv 409; x 575 pages . 1891. The Century Company hardcover
réf. 22708Nice 13 Fevrier 1916. Card 13 x 10cm text on both sides card with attractive coloured and embossed royal insignia. "Permettez-moi de vous dire combien je suis touchee de votre don genereux d'un tableau par vous-meme qhe vous verrez de m'envoyer pour l'hopital russe. Il est bien joli et nous tacherons de le mettre au lotterie pour augmenter les fonds de l'Hopital dont il a besoin souvent. Avec mes vifs remerciements ." See image of first side. Nice, 13 Fevrier 1916 unknown
1866réf. 030652London: 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. Chapman And Hall hardcover
