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1922rif. 18955Paris M. DE BRUNHOFF 1922 1 Peintures, sanguines et croquis d'Alexandre IACOVLEFF. Texte de TCHOU-KIA-KIEN. Paris, M. de Brunhoff, 1922, in-4., broché, couverture cartonnée ornée d'une figure contrecollée, 30 pages, 6 planches titrées "Les Images populaires théâtrales", ornées de 10 figures.
1895rif. 1998PARIS. IMPRIMERIES LEMERCIER. SANS DATE. (1895). IN-FOLIO (31 X 40 X 2,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (6) + 151 ET (1) PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE 1/2 CHAGRIN VERT A COINS, DOS A CINQ NERFS, TITRE ET TETE DORES. ILLUSTRE D'UN PORTRAIT DU TSAR NICOLAS II EN FRONTISPICE, REPRODUIT EN HELIOGRAVURE, DE 8 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE D'UNIFORMES EN COULEURS ET DE TRES NOMBREUSES PHOTOGRAPHIES EN NOIR. (LES COSAQUES - L'INFANTERIE, LA CAVALERIE ET L'ARTILLERIE DE LA GARDE - TROUPES DE LIGNE ET TROUPES SPECIALES). EXCELLENT DOCUMENT D'EPOQUE SUR L'ARMEE IMPERIALE RUSSE. EDITION ORIGINALE. L'ATELIER PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE JONGH FRERES (CA 1880-1903) ETAIT TENU A NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE PAR TROIS FRERES : VICTOR-EDOUARD (1859-1926), LEON-FRANCOIS-FRANCIS (1861-1944) ET AUGUSTE CLEMENT (1863-1947). DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, DONT MANQUE DE CUIR SUR LE MORS SUPERIEUR, FAIBLESSE AU NIVEAU DE LA CHARNIERE DU PLAT SUPERIEUR TOUJOURS ATTENANT, INTERIEUR TRES FRAIS.
1831rif. 3477Paris, H. Fournier Jeune, 1831. 2 vol. in-8 (21,4 x 13 cm), XL, 370 pp., 410 pp., dem-veau beige, dos lisse orné en long de fers noirs et or, pièces de titre et tomaison noires, tranches marbrées (reliure d'époque). Edition originale
1606rif. LBW-22771606-1608. 354 x 475 mm.
1831rif. 15505Levrault Paris, Strasbourg, Bruxelles 1831 1 vol. In-8 de 3 ff.n.ch. 316 pp., demi-basane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre.
1956rif. 26540Paris, Imprimerie nationale / André Sauret, (1956). Un fort vol. au format gd in-8 (224 x 167 mm) de 558 pp., broché, sous couvertures à rabats rempliés.
1784rif. 14618Amsterdam 1784 3 vol. 4 parties en 3 vols in-8 de LVI 274 pp., 301 pp., 252 pp. et 208 pp.; plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, tranches jaspées.
rif. LBW04171London, Christopher Browne, [circa 1700]. 450 x 558 mm.
1952rif. 183941London: Ordnance Survey 1952. Later editions marked "restricted" revised from those produced by the War Office in 1919 and 1916 with isogonals correct to 1953. These maps were issued in the early years of the Cold War only a decade after the region was ravaged in the Battle of Stalingrad. Stepnoy now Elista was renamed only five years after this map's publication. In the early years of the Cold War the CIA attempted to gather information on the Soviet Union through aerial spying missions flown with the co-operation of the British government. "The RAF formed a top-secret reconnaissance outfit in the spring of 1951. Churchill approved the RAF overflight program knowing that if one of the planes came down on Russian territory Labour MPs in an embarrassed and angered House of Commons undoubtedly would force a vote of confidence to bring down his government. But he balanced that possibility against the desperate need for radar pictures of Soviet military targets that would held SAC and RAF bombers in the event of war" Burrows pp. 131-33. In 1952 John Crampton flew a high-speed high-altitude test run over the Berlin corridor which Bomber Command followed with three simultaneous sorties reaching as far as Moscow itself. After a ten-hour mission that triggered the Soviet air defences "All three planes made it back to Sculthorpe with their radar imagery and without a scratch" Burrows p. 134 angering the Kremlin and prompting a review of the nation's air warning systems. The map of Stalingrad is the fourth edition and the map of Stepnoy is the fifth. Single sheet of cloth 605 x 554 mm colour maps with key on each side pale border on Stalingrad side lettered in red blue and black. Map bright sometime folded and creased edges a little frayed: a very good copy. William Burrows By Any Means Necessary: America's secret air war in the Cold War 2001. hardcover
1769rif. 647731769. 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
1769rif. 647731769. 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 books
1999rif. 0008049Boulder CO: Westview Press 1999. First English language edition. Hardcover. As New/issued without. 8vos; xxxiv 562; ix 389 pages maroon cloth in original shrinkwrap. Not x-library. Scarce. O.P. This English translation contains an autobiography by Mironov which was not in the Russian edition. It details his anti-Marxism philosophy while a student in Leningrad. "The author has assimilated a large body of foreign scholarship primarily "new social history" produced by Anglo-American authors along with a sprinkling of more broadly European economic and demographic history from the 1970s and 1980s which is effectively incorporated into his own very deep empirical knowledge. . The reader does not find in this extensively researched account the standard Soviet answers to specific historical questions. Mironov has abandoned most Soviet cliches though he still assumes that laws of Russian history can be identified based on social science theory and quantitative analysis Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter." "This is a massterful work that provides other scholars with a wealth of useful information while confrontimg them with an argument that compels a response - William G. Wagner." Maps. Westview Press hardcover
1854Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary non-aesthetic burgundy cloth bdg. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 299, [6] p. Fading on cloth, minor repairs on some pages, otherwise a good copy. Lithographed edition. First and only Turkish edition of this uncommon and very scarce early book of the history of Russia under the rule of Peter the Great. This book was published during the Crimean War, which was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Piedmont-Sardinia. The first four chapters describe the general political and social history of Russia at the time of Peter the Great. The following chapters narrate important events like the new revolution in Sofia, the first diplomatic relations with China in the period and the first agreement between the Russian and Chinese Empires, The Siege of Azov Fortress, the agreement with the Saxony, Peter the Great's travels to Europe, rebuild of St. Petersburg, The Battle of Narva and the Siege of Narva, return of the Great Tsar to Russia from France, commerce in Russia in the period of the Peter the Great's rule, etc. Peter I, most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a monarch of Russia who modernized it and made it a European power. He ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 to 1721 and subsequently the Russian Empire until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V. To improve his nation's position on the seas, Peter sought more maritime outlets. His only outlet at the time was the White Sea at Arkhangelsk. The Baltic Sea was at the time controlled by Sweden in the north, while the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea were controlled by the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire respectively in the south. Peter attempted to acquire control of the Black Sea, which would require expelling the Tatars from the surrounding areas. As part of an agreement with Poland that ceded Kyiv to Russia, Peter was forced to wage war against the Crimean Khan and against the Khan's overlord, the Ottoman Sultan. Peter's primary objective became the capture of the Ottoman fortress of Azov, near the Don River. In the summer of 1695, Peter organized the Azov campaigns to take the fortress, but his attempts ended in failure. Through a number of successful wars, he captured ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea, laying the groundwork for the Imperial Russian Navy, ending uncontested Swedish supremacy in the Baltic, and beginning the Tsardom's expansion into a much larger empire that became a major European power. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernised, and based on the Enlightenment. Shuvalov was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and Academy of Arts were instituted with his active participation. He was born in Moscow, the only son of Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov, an army captain who died when the boy was ten, and Tatiana Rodionovna. The Shuvalov family fortunes changed drastically in 1741 when Empress Elizaveta Petrovna ascended to the Russian throne with help from Ivan's powerful cousins - Peter Shuvalov and Alexander Shuvalov. The following year, they had the fourteen-year-old Ivan attached to the imperial court as a page. Complete title: "Büyük Petro'nun eyyâm-i hükümetinde Rusya'da cereyân eden ahvâl-i dahiliyye ve umûr-i hâriciyyeye ve husûsiyle nizâmât-i mevzûa-i cecdîdeye ve oralarda bulunan milel ve akvâm-i muhtelifenin ahlâk ve âdâb ve fünûn ve sanâyilerine dair Büyük Petro'nun kizi Elizabete'nin kurenâsindan Sovalef nâm zâtin bazi resâil-i mevsûka ve senedât-i sahîhadan vukûf ve ittilâi hâsil olan ahvâl ve keyfiyâti nakil ve hikâyeye mübâseret olunmustur." Özege 17170.
1920Very Good Persian First Edition of this extremely rare bilingual tractate including Prince Reza Khan's thoughts on Anglo-Persian agreement in1919. Mirza Reza Khan also known as Prince Rezâ Arfa', was a diplomat and poet of the late Qajar period who serviced in Constantinople. During his years of service abroad Reza became acquainted with a number of European political leaders. He was reported to entertain Russian sympathies and was certainly instrumental in negotiating the first Russian government loan to Persia, in 1317 / 1900. Nevertheless, he also appears to have supported the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919. In 1332 / 1914 he served as minister of justice (wazîr-e 'adlîya) in Tehran for about a year. This agreement in 1919 was a provisional agreement made between the British and the Persian governments which, if ratified, would have granted the British a paramount position of control over the financial and military affairs of Iran. From the days when Napoleon conceived the idea of invading India with the help of Alexander I, the Tsar of Russia, Great Britain contemplated with apprehension the invasion of India by Russia via Persia and Afghanistan. Under the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 (q.v.), which divided Persia into rival spheres of influence, southern Persia was assigned to Britain while Russia controlled the northern portion. Later, according to the terms of "The Secret Treaties of Constantinople" of 18 March 1915, Constantinople was promised to Russia, and England was allowed to incorporate within her sphere of influence the neutral zone of Persia. (Source: Encyclopedia Iranica). Original wrappers. Slightly chipped on extremities and occasionally foxing on cover. Otherwise a very good copy. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). Bilingual in Persian and Ottoman script. [34] p., 7-18 pp. text in Persian, 19-34 pp. translation to Ottoman Turkish, a portrait of Prince Mirza Riza Han with a printed signature and inscription, and facsimile litho page of his manuscript poem in his calligraphy. Turkish chapter is in nashkh, Persian chapter is in taliq script. Lithography. Not in OCLC.; Özege 25155.; TBTK 8061. First Edition. Extremely rare.
1928Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters. 120 p., several tables of zones and routes. Slight foxing on cover, fading on pages, chippings on extremities of cover and some pages, repaired spine. Otherwise a good copy. First and only Turkish edition of this rare description of the Black Sea, including the historical geography of the western shores of the region, written in a travelogue style, by Bulgarian admiral Ivanov when he was the head of the Naval School in Varna (1928-1931) where he lectured on meteorology, oceanography and naval aviation for officers and conducted the seamanship course for the civil navy. Ivanov was a Bulgarian officer and admiral and a freemason, who was a member of the "Black Sea Friends" Lodge. He is a descendant of Kolyo Ficheto. In 1910, he graduated from the Military School in Sofia, and in 1914, he also completed a naval cadet course in St. Petersburg. From 1912 to 1913 he served in the Port Company of the Navy. During the period March 30, 1913 - September 1, 1913, he was the chief of the ship "Druzki". In the same year, he also served on the ship "Nadezhda". From 1914 he was adjutant of the Mobile Defense and flag officer of the destroyer detachment. He participated in World War I. Özege 10186.; Six copies can be traced in OCLC: 977483558.; 949487717.; 67339656.; 1030754762.
rif. 013359[Russie] François-Timoléon de Choisy dit l'abbé de Choisy ou Joseph-Gaspard Lambert de Guérin, Le prince Kouchimen, histoire tartare et Dom Alvar del Sol, histoire napolitaine. Paris, Jacques Estienne, 1710. In-12, [4]-150-[2]p. Edition originale de cet ouvrage attribué à l'abbé de Choisy par Barbier et Quérard mais que certains attribuent à l'ancien ingénieur au service de la Russie, Joseph-Gaspard Lambert de Guérin. Il avait quitté la Russie sans l'autorisation du tsar Pierre 1er en 1706, fut arrêté en Prusse en 1711, accusé de désertion, mais réussit à s'enfuit en Italie. L'ouvrage aura 4 éditions au XVIIIe siècle et son titre évoluera et deviendra Histoire de l'origine du prince Menzikow en 1728. Le premier texte est une critique d'Alexandre Danilovitch Menchikov (1673-1729), proche du tsar Pierre Ier, à l'ambition démesurée. Le nom du personnage est évidemment un anagramme de Menchikov, du verlan avant l'heure ! Le tsar devient le Grand Cam, monarque de la Grande Tartarie. C'est le premier livre à s'intéresser à ce personnage, capable de corruption pour arriver à ses fins, devenu richissime et puissant. Le second texte est une petite nouvelle romançant la rencontre entre Anna Caraffa (1607-1644), princesse de la maison napolitaine Carafa, et Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán (ca.1600-1668), grand d'Espagne, 2e duc de Medina de las Torrès. Ils apparaissent ici sous des noms quasi transparents, Anna devenant Diana et Ramiro devenant Philippes Ramires. Le duc s'est alors présenté à Naples sous le pseudonyme de Dom Alvar del Sol. Plein veau, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre maroquin, tranches rouges. Accroc à la coiffe supérieur, épidermures, deux coins un peu usés, petit travail de vers principalement marginale en pied de pages (sans empêcher la lecture). L'ouvrage, présent dans de nombreux catalogues anciens de ventes, est devenu rare.
17888 volumi, cm. 21, cartonato rustico originale con tit. manoscritto al dorso, pag. 296; 328; 347 (5); 301; 278 (2); 282 (1 c.b.); 376; 305 (1 c.b.). Esemplare perfetto, con barbe.
rif. 837409Éditions D Art La Cible ( Presses De L Imprimerie «Union» ) Paris 1920 In-4 carré ( 290 X 225 mm ), demi-basane vert sapin, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés, couvertures violines conservées ( Reliure de l'époque ). EDITION ORIGINALE de la traduction du russe par Serge ROMOFF, illustrée de 7 dessins de Michel LARIONOV, imprimés sur papier couché et monté hors texte. Tirage à 510 exemplaires, 1 des 500 sur vergé d'Arches, celui-ci non numéroté. Signature manuscrite sur une garde, bel exemplaire.
rif. ORD-2643Traduit de l'anglais, enrichi de notes & des éclaircissemens nécessaires, & augmenté d'un Voyage en Norvège. Par M. P. H. MALLET. Ouvrage orné de Cartes géographiques, Portraits, Plans & Figures en taille-douce. Genève. Barde, Manget & Comp. Paris. Buisson. 1786. 4 volumes in-8 (128 x 198mm) plein moucheté de noir, dos à 5 nerfs ornés or, pièces de titre maroquin rouge, de tomaison maroquin noir, tranches rouges, XII, 380; 1f., 404; 1f., 393 et 1f., 303 pages. Bien complet des 19 planches hors texte. Ex-libris Duhamel. 2 coiffes supérieures habilement restaurées, petits accidents aux derniers plats des tomes 1 et 2 sinon très bel exemplaire.
1826rif. 14060paris Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils. 1826 1 Un volume de format in 8° de XII pp.( faux titre, titre, avertisement, préface de l'auteur); 508 pp.; 4 planches hors texte en couleurs dont le frontispice; et trois en noir; une grande carte dépliantes en fin (rousseurs). Le voyage en lui-même couvre 306 pp.; viennent ensuite de nombreux suppléments d'érudits russes concernant les monnaies les langues, l'histoire naturelle de la Boukharie (sic)... Dos lisse richement orné; demi basane violine; titre doré. Brunet III; col.1690.
1826Un volume de format in 8° de XII pp.( faux titre, titre, avertisement, préface de l'auteur); 508 pp.; 4 planches hors texte en couleurs dont le frontispice; et trois en noir; une grande carte dépliantes en fin (rousseurs). Le voyage en lui-même couvre 306 pp.; viennent ensuite de nombreux suppléments d'érudits russes concernant les monnaies les langues, l'histoire naturelle de la Boukharie (sic)... Dos lisse richement orné; demi basane violine; titre doré. Brunet III; col.1690. Importante rousseurs sur le titre et le frontispice puis rousseurs éparses plus rares. Bien complet . Parfaitement relié. Ouvrage peu fréquent; voir les photos.
1805rif. 25101Amsterdam 1805 3 tomes en 1 vol. in-4 demi-basane fauve racinée, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés, pièce de titre brique, coins en vélin, tranches mouchetées de bleu [Rel. de l'époque], un mors un peu fragile
1750rif. 14523AB1750. Sta. Petersburg Academie Imp. des Scien et des Arts ca. 1750 48 : 69 cm Original engraving with text in Russien and Frenche below the image. Rare engraving of the Amphitheatre near St. Petersburg. unknown
1825rif. 20949Paris Alexis Eymery 1825 3 vol. in-8 basane racinée, dos lisses ornés de motifs dorés, tranches jaunes, [Rel. de l'époque], piqûres
rif. 4678JOSEPH SLOCUM 1800-1853. Slocum was a merchant from Syracuse New York who attempted to sell farm equipment to Russia in the nineteenth century. He was unable to turn a profit from his endeavors and his family fell into financial hardship. His daughter Margaret Olivia Scolum Sage became an influential philanthropist and teacher. She endowed a building and a now-defunct agricultural school at Syracuse University both named after him.Archive. 9 pieces. 1830s-40s. An archive related to Joseph Slocum and his business with Russian agriculture. There are nine letters and documents predominately letters written to Slocum from various Americans and Russians. Highlights are listed below and the best piece is the first one the lengthy manuscript detailing Russian agriculture and natural resources:Handwritten document. 4pgs. September 12 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. The four page handwritten manuscript is entitled Some Rough Hints About the Productive Power of Russian Agriculture. It states in part: European Russia it may be divided grosso muto in three great regions or belts running from East to West. 1st - The first region extends between the White Sea and the provinces of Tver Smolensk Nijni-Novogorod & Kazan - it contains more wood low marshy ground intermixed the sand Baron then arable land. Rye oats barley potatoes hemp and flax are the main products of that region. 2nd - the second section of the Empire being comparatively densely populated forms a central part of the European Russia it is particularly addicted to manufacturing pursuits. It's Southern limits is about the course of the Oka River & the Central Valley of the Volga. The agricultural products are nearly the same as aforesaid. 3rd - the third region extending to the south and southeast as far as the Black Sea the provinces of Ashnaklan and the Ural Mountains reaches the Carpathian mountains Galicia & Moldavia in the West. It is mostly covered with a rich strata of black earth with a subsoil of clay lime & sandstone. Minoru is generally not used in this part of the country vulgarly called the step or prairie count the staple products of the fertile district are rye winter and summer wheat especially summer wheat - the summer frosts in the autumn preventing the seeds of the winter week to start up well millet oats barley peas buckwheat field poppy hemp flax & linseed. Cotton & Vine are raised merely in the most remote districts of the South such as Georgia Astrakhan the territory of the Cossacks of the Don Crimea & Bessarabia. Three other very important staples of Steph region are livestock & saltworks & fisheries. The stock consists mainly of horned cattle and horses grazing in large herds on the pastorate of the steps of the Black Sea As well as on both sides a lower Volga. Sheep both Merinos Saxon & form and main object of the agricultural industry of the step and owners. The Russian or common sheep is generally the property of the peasantry. The wool and tallow are usually sent overland in the winter to the manufacturing districts of the central belt of Russia Moscow. Or exported via Odessa Taganrog Riga & Petersburg to England and France. The saltworks are especially remarkable on the left sure the Volga on the verge of the province of Astrakhan as well as near the Ural River not far from the city of Orenburg. The Lake Elton alone of a circumference of nearly 180 miles is a solid mass of salt inexhaustible in its mineral riches. The stone saltworks of Gletznaia.As well as the saltworks a Crimea produce an immense quantity of that precious mineral. Besides that all the basin of the Caspian is full of an infinity of small salt lakes. The main fisheries are at the mouth of the Volga on the Caspian they produce an enormous quantity of fish of all kind. Besides that of the fisheries of the Ural River on the Don. The main fluvial artery of Russia is the Volga it is a Mississippi of our country. Its length is upwards 3000 miles. Unfortunately it is frozen up during nearly 6 months of the year. There are but very few steamboats in it. This year a large steam tow boat has been put into action on the Volga attended with great success. The manuscript continues extolling Russias natural resources. It is uncertain who wrote it and the condition is good with folds and fold separations. A partial typewritten transcript is included.LS. 1pg. August 1843. Russia. A letter signed L. Perovsky by Russian nobleman Lev Perovski 1792-1856 as Russian Minister of the Interior. Perovski thanked Slocum: The Directo fo the AgronomicalSchool having informed me that you presented to the museum of this Institution several agronomical instrument I feel myself much gratified to acknowledge. Agronomy is crop and soil science. The letter is in very good condition with folds and short fold separations.ALS. 4pg. 5 x 8 . November 7 1846. St. Peterburg Russia. An autograph letter signed by an American working for the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. He wrote in part to Slocum: The only reproach I ever heard from the Minister as I told you at that time and which certainly stands on a misunderstanding concerns the establishment of a cast iron fabrication. The Minister is in full belief you had spoken to him about ain the Union that as soon as a new colony any where is establishedThis seemed to His Excellency excellent means to introduce in Russia and toin this way thepossibility to the peasants to have their implements cheap & well one. The letter is in fine condition.ANS. 1pg. 1834. New York. A brief note acknowledging money received from Slocum signed Ja J Roosevelt by Jacobus James Roosevelt III 1760-1847 the New York state businessman and politician who was great-grandfather of FDR. In fine condition.ALS. 1pg. June 6 1834. New York. An autograph letter signed Jab J Roosevelt by Jacobus Roosevelt. Roosevelt wrote to Slocum requesting the return of an item. In very good condition.ALS. 3pgs. October 22 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. A lengthy letter to Slocum signed Chas Cramer to Slocum. Charles Cramer 1799-1879 was an important trader to Russian and his letter concerns finance: he gave you an order for the purchase of Implements for Agricultural purposes & that he assigned you a credit againstof the Government. He fully confirmed the contents of the letter you communicated to me & promised to reply to your letterMr. Clay stated when I asked him on your behalf that he could do nothing in the case to further your interest. Major Whistler whom I called on several time but missed has not yet returned my calls. I rather think he will not be able to serve you better than I can with the Government of this EmpireWe merchants often meet with heavy losses Do consider your Adventure to Russia misfortune & think no more about it for you will not gain anything. The penciled letter is in very good condition with a tear in the address leaf.Letter. 1pg. 5 x 8 . 1846. St. Petersburg. A contemporary copy of an 1846 letter by Rhesa Griffin a Syracuse area merchant: Received St. Petersburg 31 July 1846 of the Russian Imperial Departmentfive hundred thirty six silver rubles and sixteen seven coppers in full satisfaction of all and every claim or Demand on the above Department or if any other Department of the Russian Government and in full satisfaction of all and every agreement or understanding made by me with Joseph Slocum as an agent of the Russian Government. The document is wrinkled and in very good condition. unknown
