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rif. 110601Utrecht Johannes Broedelet 1744. 4to. 16 1-296 2 1-200 2 blank 2 201-501 1 blank 2 503-830 2 blank pp. 4 title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignette. 3 folding engraved maps. 1 folding engraved plan. 1 folding table. 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Gilt spines. Occasional minor spotting and dampstaing. . Provenance: Gösta Nobel 1886-1955 was the youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel. He took over as Branobel`s Managing Director at the time of the Russian Revolution and had to flee Russia in 1918. Branobel or The Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company was founded by Robert and Ludvig Nobel in Baku in 1876. hardcover
1788rif. 585455 vol. in-4 et un atlas in-folio, reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, Chez Lagrange, Libraire [ puis : ] Chez Maradan, 1788-1793, Tome I : 2 ff., xxxij-773 pp. et 1 f. (errata) ; Tome II : 2 ff., 550 pp. et 1 f. ; Tome III : 2 ff., 491 pp. avec ; Tome IV : 2 ff., 722 pp. et 1 f. (errata) ; Tome V : 2 ff., 559 pp. ; VI (Atlas format en marges 30,8 x 23,8 cm) : 121 planches en 105 feuillets, ainsi décomposées : pour le tome I, 27 planches sur 29 (manquent les planches 1 et 3) dont carte dépliante de la Contrée qui s'étend le long de la Soka, carte dépliante des Landes situées entre le Volga et l'Oural et carte dépliante du Cours du Jaïk au-dessous de Gourief ; pour le tome II, 16 planches sur 17 (manque planche 1, la planche 3 est en double) dont carte dépliante minéralogique des Monts Ouralsks et carte dépliante de la Contrée qui s'étend le long de la Soka ; pour le tome III, 22 planches sur 22 dont carte dépliante des Monts Altaisk ; pour le tome IV, 35 planches (ou 36, selon la manière dont l'on peut compter, car présence des planches 8-9 et 9-10) dont carte dépliante d'une partie des gouvernements de Tobolsk et d'Irkoutsk ; pour le tome V, 21 planches sur 21 dont carte dépliante des Colonies allemandes sur le Volga dans le territoire de Saratof
17885 vol. in-4 et un atlas in-folio, reliure de l'époque demi-basane marron, Chez Lagrange, Libraire [ puis : ] Chez Maradan, 1788-1793, Tome I : 2 ff., xxxij-773 pp. et 1 f. (errata) ; Tome II : 2 ff., 550 pp. et 1 f. ; Tome III : 2 ff., 491 pp. avec ; Tome IV : 2 ff., 722 pp. et 1 f. (errata) ; Tome V : 2 ff., 559 pp. ; VI (Atlas format en marges 30,8 x 23,8 cm) : 121 planches en 105 feuillets, ainsi décomposées : pour le tome I, 27 planches sur 29 (manquent les planches 1 et 3) dont carte dépliante de la Contrée qui s'étend le long de la Soka, carte dépliante des Landes situées entre le Volga et l'Oural et carte dépliante du Cours du Jaïk au-dessous de Gourief ; pour le tome II, 16 planches sur 17 (manque planche 1, la planche 3 est en double) dont carte dépliante minéralogique des Monts Ouralsks et carte dépliante de la Contrée qui s'étend le long de la Soka ; pour le tome III, 22 planches sur 22 dont carte dépliante des Monts Altaisk ; pour le tome IV, 35 planches (ou 36, selon la manière dont l'on peut compter, car présence des planches 8-9 et 9-10) dont carte dépliante d'une partie des gouvernements de Tobolsk et d'Irkoutsk ; pour le tome V, 21 planches sur 21 dont carte dépliante des Colonies allemandes sur le Volga dans le territoire de Saratof Rare exemplaire de l'édition originale en reliure d'époque, avec son bel atlas, contenant 121 planches (sur 124) en 105 feuillets (sur 108), dont 8 cartes dépliantes. Intéressant exemplaire en reliure d'époque (accrocs avec petits mq. en coiffes et dos, mq. en coiff à l'atlas, reliure de l'atlas faible, restauration n'affectant pas le texte à un f. d'errata, bon état intérieur) relatant les pérégrinations en Russie du zoologiste et botaniste prussien Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Nommé par l'impératrice Catherine II à la tête d'une expédition en Sibérie dans la région d'Orenbourg, Pallas quitte Saint-Pétersbourg en juin 1768 ; il ne rentrera qu'en juin 1774, ayant parcouru plus de 29000 kilomètres dans les conditions les plus éprouvantes. Nissen, 3076 (qui indique 16 planches pour le tome second, mais notre exemplaire contient une planche 17) ; Cohen, II, 781 ; Chadenat, 4792 Français
1919rif. 223031919. Photographs measuring 6 x 4 inches and smaller. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Contemporary gray cloth ms. title to upper board upper joint wearing but holding nicely. Photographs measuring 6 x 4 inches and smaller. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. A rare survival from a distinguished World War One veteran. Born in India Nightingale was educated at Rugby and Sandhurst and joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1910. He survived the landing on V beach Cape Helles Gallipoli April 25th 1915 and the following year he was awarded both the Military Cross and the Legion D'Honneur for his services. Nightingale subsequently served with the 46th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in the North Russian Relief Force part of the invasion of Russia by the English Irish and the Americans. The operation was conducted under the command of General H. de V. Sadleir-Jackson. Arriving in Archangel on 5 June 1919 the 46th proceeded along the Dvina River to Osinova where preparations were made for an attack on rail and river transport. The objective was to repel the Red Army from their established positions and generally improve the position of the White Russian forces. The hope was that the NRRF would be able to subsequently withdraw without significant casualties. In addition smaller raids on Red Army positions were carried out to the south partly to destabilize them partly as reconnaissance. Nightingale was in command of the Borok Column on the right bank of the Dvina River for the August 10 offensive. The first photos are of the H.M.T. "War Summit" & H.M.T. "Pretorian" chugging through the Arctic Ocean and White Sea in Midsummer June 1919 on its way to Archangel. They were billeted at Troitsa and among the many images of the town and its surroundings is one of where the mutiny of Dyer's Battalion took place. Equally there are shots of Russian batteries Allied defenses company headquarters and regimental aid posts as well as images of the Dvina River Yaroslovskoe and Selso. A page is devoted to "Col. Davies Headquarters at Commencement of Action Aug 10th" and shows how the British troops organized themselves in the Selmenga Forest namely with three shots of "Piccadilly Circus Selmenga Forest with Shaftesbury Avenue and Regent Street." The attack commenced at noon and despite the difficulty of the terrain was successful. We know that Borok Nightingale's objective was reported captured along with 80 POWs by eleven o'clock that evening. Nightingale was evacuated in late September. This is not only a record of the battle but includes many poignant personal touches too. Namely there are several shots of men with whom he served and the Russians with whom he stayed. The captions not only name the men in each photograph but in many cases reveal their fate: "Lt Taylor killed Aug 10th Lt Grant wounded Aug 1st Capt. Driver killed Aug 10th." The album also includes a typed order - dated September 9 1919 - which is a reminder that despite the success of the August attack the Russian Civil War was ongoing and would ultimately be won by the Bolsheviks. "You will send one platoon to SELMENGA to hold the SELMENGA BRIDGE and the beach road to GORODOK. The enemy are known to be in force in the vicinity of BOROK and GORODOK and may attempt an outflanking movement . The platoon remain in position there and will withdraw when Captain de Miremont with the GORODOK Infantry comes through there tonight . The Platoon should form a right flank guard to Captain de Miremont from SALMENGA to PLESS." The photographs of Russia occupy the first half of the album the rest is devoted to Nightingale's time in Ireland with the 7th Cadet Battalion. Despite his distinguished service in the military Nightingale's fate was a melancholy one. He died in 1935 reportedly either by suicide using his own revolver of from alcoholism. unknown
1861Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Chita, Sretensk, Blagoveshchensk, TransBaikal villages, 17 May 1861 - 23 September 1880. Two manuscript journals of an English Engineer in Russian Far East, contracted to test and repair some of the pioneering steamships on the Rivers Amur and Shilka, and other important works in the Trans-Baikal region, beginning his work some 24 years before the founding of the Eastern Siberian Inland Navigation Company, and interacting several notables who were involved in the development projects. 8vo. The earliest volume comprises 113 pages of manuscript entries dating from 17 May 1861 to 22 July 1861 and then a few pages from and then from 1 January 1868 to 22 May 1870, with a tipped-in folding map of the Amur River. The subsequent volume contains 135 pages in manuscript and dates from 14 August 1876 to 23 September 1880. Cloth over marbled boards. Volumes measure approximately 19 x 24 cm and 17 x 20 cm, respectively. Map measures approximately 46 x 20 cm. Wear to boards, hinges loose, otherwise internally clean, an exceedingly scarce and early primary source account of early developments of steam navigation in the Far East of Russia. This account is very early for the region, particularly the inner reaches of the Amur river and its tributaries, where there were scarce inhabitants or even visitors, and thus are even fewer surviving manuscript accounts. It pre-dates the founding of the important "Eastern Siberian Inland Navigation Company" which would be founded in 1885, twenty-four years after the writer began his pioneering work. It also pre-dates the Trans-Siberian Railway which would be built between 1891 and 1916 under the supervision of Russian government ministers personally appointed by Tsar Alexander III and his son, the Tsarevich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II). The writer's arrival occurs only three years after the Aigun Treaty in 1858, through which the area north of the Amur belonging to the Manchu Qing dynasty since the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk was suddenly ceded to Russia. The Amur River has formed Russia's border with China since the 1858 Aigun Treaty and the 1860 Treaty of Peking. A folding map compiled in 1858 according to contemporary Russian sources, delineates the winding route of the Amur River throughout the Russian-Chinese borderlands, from Lake Baikal, to the mountainous Transbaikal region, to the Sea of Okhotsk snd the Strait of Tartary. Manuscript
1669rif. 3916London: printed for John Starkey 1669. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION A French-language version appeared at Amsterdam in the same year. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary polished calf rebacked preserving original spine corners bumped light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard First Earl of Carlisle 1628-1685 and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich 1629-1676 just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty clean tear to margin of Z1 not entering the text. Fine. First edition of this eyewitness account of the official English embassy to Russia written by Guy Miege under-secretary to the English ambassador Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle. The book provides a fascinating window on the intricacies of Russian diplomatic protocols ceremonial customs and the hospitality bestowed upon high-ranking foreign dignitaries at the Russian court. "Carlisle's main responsibilities were to reciprocate the honor that Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich had shown to King Charles II in sending his diplomats to London as well as to build the promising momentum in their relationship by negotiating the trade privileges that the English hoped to restore. It can safely be concluded that Carlisle's diplomatic mission resulted in a great failure. Ceremonial disputes and diverging economic interests precipitated a decline in Anglo-Russian relations and left the two monarchies in a state of mutual resentment."Hennings Guy Miege obtained appointment as under-secretary to Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle in his embassy to Muscovy Sweden and Denmark and in July 1663 joined an entourage that included Andrew Marvell as chief secretary. With Carlisle's express permission Miege wrote an account of the journey subsequently published as 'A Relation of Three Embassies' 1669 which is both an attempted vindication of the ambassador's conduct in the face of Russian criticism and a lively source of impressions of Russian society and culture. He considered Muscovy a beautiful country but found its inhabitants in contrast to the Swedes coarse austere and ignorant of learning. Exhibiting a characteristic commitment to Protestantism and to constitutional monarchy he was not impressed by a religion 'that obliges its Professors to severe mortification' or by icons 'very ill-drawn and in flat painting' and dismissed a monarchy that was 'despotical and absolute' But like most 17th c. Englishmen Miege respected Russian military prowess." ODNB For a detailed account and analysis of the embassy and its repercussions see Hennings "Russia and Courtly Europe" p. 139-159. For another discussion see Dukes Herd and Kotilaine "Stuarts and Romanovs" p. 105-113. printed for John Starkey hardcover
1919rif. 223031919. Photographs measuring 6 x 4 inches and smaller. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Contemporary gray cloth ms. title to upper board upper joint wearing but holding nicely. Photographs measuring 6 x 4 inches and smaller. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH RUSSIAN RELIEF FORCE 1919. A rare survival from a distinguished World War One veteran. Born in India Nightingale was educated at Rugby and Sandhurst and joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1910. He survived the landing on V beach Cape Helles Gallipoli April 25th 1915 and the following year he was awarded both the Military Cross and the Legion D'Honneur for his services. Nightingale subsequently served with the 46th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in the North Russian Relief Force part of the invasion of Russia by the English Irish and the Americans. The operation was conducted under the command of General H. de V. Sadleir-Jackson. Arriving in Archangel on 5 June 1919 the 46th proceeded along the Dvina River to Osinova where preparations were made for an attack on rail and river transport. The objective was to repel the Red Army from their established positions and generally improve the position of the White Russian forces. The hope was that the NRRF would be able to subsequently withdraw without significant casualties. In addition smaller raids on Red Army positions were carried out to the south partly to destabilize them partly as reconnaissance. Nightingale was in command of the Borok Column on the right bank of the Dvina River for the August 10 offensive. The first photos are of the H.M.T. "War Summit" & H.M.T. "Pretorian" chugging through the Arctic Ocean and White Sea in Midsummer June 1919 on its way to Archangel. They were billeted at Troitsa and among the many images of the town and its surroundings is one of where the mutiny of Dyer's Battalion took place. Equally there are shots of Russian batteries Allied defenses company headquarters and regimental aid posts as well as images of the Dvina River Yaroslovskoe and Selso. A page is devoted to "Col. Davies Headquarters at Commencement of Action Aug 10th" and shows how the British troops organized themselves in the Selmenga Forest namely with three shots of "Piccadilly Circus Selmenga Forest with Shaftesbury Avenue and Regent Street." The attack commenced at noon and despite the difficulty of the terrain was successful. We know that Borok Nightingale's objective was reported captured along with 80 POWs by eleven o'clock that evening. Nightingale was evacuated in late September. This is not only a record of the battle but includes many poignant personal touches too. Namely there are several shots of men with whom he served and the Russians with whom he stayed. The captions not only name the men in each photograph but in many cases reveal their fate: "Lt Taylor killed Aug 10th Lt Grant wounded Aug 1st Capt. Driver killed Aug 10th." The album also includes a typed order - dated September 9 1919 - which is a reminder that despite the success of the August attack the Russian Civil War was ongoing and would ultimately be won by the Bolsheviks. "You will send one platoon to SELMENGA to hold the SELMENGA BRIDGE and the beach road to GORODOK. The enemy are known to be in force in the vicinity of BOROK and GORODOK and may attempt an outflanking movement . The platoon remain in position there and will withdraw when Captain de Miremont with the GORODOK Infantry comes through there tonight . The Platoon should form a right flank guard to Captain de Miremont from SALMENGA to PLESS." The photographs of Russia occupy the first half of the album the rest is devoted to Nightingale's time in Ireland with the 7th Cadet Battalion. Despite his distinguished service in the military Nightingale's fate was a melancholy one. He died in 1935 reportedly either by suicide using his own revolver of from alcoholism. unknown books
1803rif. 19922London: for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer 1803. First edition. Illustrated with 73 hand-colored stipple engravings text in both English and French. Folio bound in contemporary full blue straight-grain morocco gilt lettered in two panels richly decorated in gilt in the remaining three and on the bands; the covers with a fine gilt dentelle border enclosing a blind-tooled border gilt turn-ins a.e.g. 73 plates and 73 text leaves the text is in English on the recto and French on the verso. A very handsome copy with just light rubbing to the binding. The plates are fine and clean. With the engraved bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale. A BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND SCARCE NOW. Abbey records a copy printed for Miller by S. Gosnell and states that "the Cat. Russica records what it calls another edition in 1803 and an edition printed by Howlett and Brimmer in 1803 but other references to these have not been found" The others in the series were THE PUNISHMENTS OF CHINA THE COSTUME OF TURKEY THE COSTUME OF AUSTRIA and THE COSTUME OF GREAT BRITAIN. For a full account of the series see Abbey Travel 533. The plates for this book are closely copies but somewhat enlarged from a book by J. G. Georgi published by Müller in St. Petersburg four volumes quarto in 1776-80 under the patronage of the Empress. for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer unknown
rif. 207971S.l., s.d. (1865) in-8, titre, 262 pp., couvertes d'une écriture fine, soignée et très lisible (environ 20 lignes par page), quelques biffures, demi-cuir de Russie vert modeste à coins, dos lisse muet, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). Coupes et coins très frottés.
1916Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary quarter brown morocco. Red boards. Staining on the red cloth. Roy. 8vo. (25 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). 64 p. Extremely rare first and only edition of this Turkish guide to the Turkish delegation of intelligence officers formed within the Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition, also known as the Kabul Mission to carry out counter-activities in the region against the British and Russian alliance, to return from India, through Russia, Afghanistan, and Iran, published after the expedition failed in 1916. This work both in very rare institutional holdings and market rarity is probably printed in no more than 100 copies. It was expected from the Turkish delegation, organized by Ömer Fevzi Bey, who was in charge of the Eastern Branch of the Turkish Intelligence (Teskilât-i Mahsûsa), by reaching Afghanistan through Iran and bringing "Jihad-i Akbar" to this country, to provide an important ally on the Indian border and to support the pro-independence Indian committees and an uprising against the British rule in India and the region. This book was prepared by the Ottoman Army Headquarters-General Intelligence Branch in 1916, during the First World War. In its introduction, the commission described their purpose of publishing this book, which is providing secret information to officers and other staff of the Ottoman army who will travel to Iran, Afghanistan, and Russia, telling them which roads to use, how to use their passports, where and how much food they need to take with them, etc., otherwise being a very comprehensive and detailed guide to the officers. The first chapter includes Iran and its environment, and the second chapter includes Russia and its environment. The first addendum contains detailed passport information, and the second part consists of the routes and towns requiring passports. According to the introduction, references of this book are some early British sources and reports by "Kralliik siyasi ve sehbenderhane zâbitâni, sabik müsahid atasemiliteri" H. Smith, "Harbiye Nezâreti Erkân-i Harbiye-i Ummiyesinden" A. D. Geddesi and "Istihbarat Subesinden" Captain S. M. Gibbon. Additionally, they are Foreign Ministry's 'tahrirât' documents, Intelligence Branch's 'kuyudâti', and a Russian railways guide printed in 1909. The Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition was a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan sent by the Central Powers in 1915-1916. The purpose was to encourage Afghanistan to declare full independence from the British Empire, enter World War I on the side of the Central Powers, and attack British India. The expedition was part of the Hindu-German Conspiracy, a series of Indo-German efforts to provoke a nationalist revolution in India. Nominally headed by the exiled Indian prince Raja Mahendra Pratap, the expedition was a joint operation of Germany and Turkey and was led by the German Army officers Oskar Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig. Other participants included members of an Indian nationalist organization called the Berlin Committee, including Maulavi Barkatullah and Chempakaraman Pillai, while the Turks were represented by Kazim Bey, a close confidante of Enver Pasha. The mission failed in its main task of rallying Afghanistan, under Emir Habibullah Khan, to the German and Turkish war effort, but it influenced other major events. In Afghanistan, the expedition triggered reforms and drove political turmoil that culminated in the assassination of the Emir in 1919, which in turn precipitated the Third Anglo-Afghan War. It influenced the Kalmyk Project of nascent Bolshevik Russia to propagate socialist revolution in Asia, with one goal being the overthrow of the British Raj. Other consequences included the formation of the Rowlatt Committee to investigate sedition in India TBTK 13568.; Not in OCLC.
1813rif. 15666Nepveu Paris 1813 6 vol. 6 volumes in-12 (15 x 9 cm, grandes marges) de XXXII 163 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 186 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 190 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 196 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 192 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table) et 2 ff.n.ch. 198 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), plein cartonnage illustré de l'époque, dos lisse orné.
1769rif. 6640Lausanne, François Grasset & comp., 1769. In-8 de (2)-XIV pp. 1 f.bl. 204 pp. (mal chiffré 160), 2 feuillets manuscrits reliés respectivement entres les pages 44-45 et 48-49, maroquin citron, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin noir, filet et frise dorés d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches dorées (reliure de la fin du XVIIIe siècle).
1821In folio (mm. 480x326), mz. pelle mod., filetti e titolo oro al dorso, piatti in cartonato coevo, pp. 46, all’antiporta ritratto di Giacomo Quarenghi inciso da Sanders da uno schizzo di Antonio Vighi (manca la carta con l’elenco degli Associati). Il volume è illustrato da 59 belle tavole inc. in rame di cui 3 in acquatinta (tutte dettagliatam. descritte), tratte dai suoi disegni originali; vi figurano: il teatro dell'Hermitage, il maneggio delle Guardie a Cavallo, l'Istituto delle nobili fanciulle, la casa del Principe Gagarin, la cappella dei Cavalieri di Malta, l'Arco Trionfale eretto per l'ingresso dell'Imperatore Alessandro, a Pietroburgo; a Carskoe Selo il paIazzo Alessandro che è il suo capolavoro. Prima e più importante opera monografica sul grande architetto bergamasco (1744-1817). Realizzata dal figlio, a quattro anni dalla sua scomparsa, venne poi ristampata a Mantova nel 1843 ed ampliata nel 1844 con la pubblicazione di nuovi progetti raccolti e curati sempre dal figlio. Rara "edizione originale". Cfr. Berlin Katalog,2776 - Millard Collection,108. Bell’esemplare con barbe. "Il Quarenghi, formatosi specialmente su Andrea Palladio, lo interpretò non scolasticamente ma con attenzione particolare a quell'armonia di spazi e di masse verso cui lo portava il suo gusto, già in precedenza classicheggiante. Tale interpretazione semplice e severa trovò vasto campo di attuazione in Russia, dove si recò nel 1779, divenendo architetto di Caterina II. Il volto di San Pietroburgo in particolare è segnato dallo stile di ispirazione palladiana che l'architetto adottò per i progetti di edifici pubblici, palazzi, teatri, ponti che ancor oggi caratterizzano il profilo neoclassico di quella che è considerata la città più europea di tutta la Russia". Così Diz. Treccani, p. 23.
1801rif. 138259Au Comptoir d' Industrie, Leipzig, [1801-1804] 1801 In-4, demi-basane, dos lissedeux titres, un en français et un en allemand, ainsi que le descriptif à chaque planche, XII- 95 pp. & 40 planches gravées sur cuivre coloriées à la main. Rousseurs soutenues pour le texte, légères et éparses pour les planches. Quelques taches de peinture sur la première planche.
1931225 pages. "Beneath the great westward flow of our civilization, there are undercurrents moving eastward. These are impelled by a spirit which looks back to the east, to the days of tyrant and slave, of luxury and misery, and incidentally to the suppression of western culture... The following pages are designed to cast light on these eastern undercurrents which have undermined western states." - Preface. Black and white photographic portrait of Sergius A. Nilus. Erratum list affixed inside front cover. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Age-yellowing to card covers and contents. Covers nearly detached. Binding tender. Singerman 0221. Book
rif. WB16908Paris. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1764-1774 but circa 1820 paper watermarked 18181 4to 280 x 222 mm comprising 87 engraved or aquatint plates including engraved titles modern morocco backed boards minor foxing. In 1758 Le Prince journeyed to Russia to work for Catherine the Great at the Imperial Palace St Petersburg. He remained in Russia for five years and also travelled extensively throughout Finland Lithuania and Siberia When Le Prince returned to Pans in December 1763 he brought with him an extensive collection of drawings which served as the source material for the present suites. As usual the present album contains plates from several of Le Prince's suites not necessarily bound in order including the following Divers Ajustements et Usages de Russie; Divers Habillements des Femmes de Moscovie lie. Suitte d'Habiliement des Femmes de Moscovie Divers Habillements des Pretres de Russie- Les Strelits Premier Suite de Cris et Divers Marchands de Petersbourg et de Moscou- 2me Suitte de Divers Cns de Marchands de Russie- Ille Suitte de Divers Cns de Marchands de Russie- Habillements de Diverses Nations; Suite de divers Habillements des Peuples du Nord Vue des Environs de St Peterbourg Diverses Vues de Livonte and Ile Suitte d'Habillements de Diverses Nations Cf. Colas 1838-1850 cf Hiler p539; cf Cohen/de Ricci 625-626. hardcover
rif. WB16908Paris. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1764-1774 but circa 1820 paper watermarked 18181 4to 280 x 222 mm comprising 87 engraved or aquatint plates including engraved titles modern morocco backed boards minor foxing. In 1758 Le Prince journeyed to Russia to work for Catherine the Great at the Imperial Palace St Petersburg. He remained in Russia for five years and also travelled extensively throughout Finland Lithuania and Siberia When Le Prince returned to Pans in December 1763 he brought with him an extensive collection of drawings which served as the source material for the present suites. As usual the present album contains plates from several of Le Prince's suites not necessarily bound in order including the following Divers Ajustements et Usages de Russie; Divers Habillements des Femmes de Moscovie lie. Suitte d'Habiliement des Femmes de Moscovie Divers Habillements des Pretres de Russie- Les Strelits Premier Suite de Cris et Divers Marchands de Petersbourg et de Moscou- 2me Suitte de Divers Cns de Marchands de Russie- Ille Suitte de Divers Cns de Marchands de Russie- Habillements de Diverses Nations; Suite de divers Habillements des Peuples du Nord Vue des Environs de St Peterbourg Diverses Vues de Livonte and Ile Suitte d'Habillements de Diverses Nations Cf. Colas 1838-1850 cf Hiler p539; cf Cohen/de Ricci 625-626. hardcover books
1999rif. BIBLIO-45059M. Moleiro Editor Barcelona limited edition facsimile 1999 and commentary. Limited edition of 987 numbered copies. 2 vols facsimile: original blind-stamped calf folio 31 cm; commentary: cloth 4to. facsimile: 298 pages and 115 miniatures most heightened in gold commentary: 4961 pp ills. A superb high-quality facsimile of and separate commentary on 'The book of Treasures' which is an encyclopaedia by Brunetto Latini circa 1230-1294 a Florentine politician poet historian and philosopher teacher and friend of Dante's written in French during the author's exile in France 1260-1267. From the publisher's description: " It consists of three books: the first begins with the biblical history the history of Troy Rome and the Middle Ages followed by a natural history: a comprehensive compilation of information about astronomy and geography. It also addresses certain animal and bird species in depth. The second book concerns ethics: it features the thinking of modern and classical moralists and studies the vices and virtues that characterise humanity. The third book the most original part of this work deals with matters related to politics and the art of government which is according to the author the most important and noblest of all sciences. The miniatures in this codex are extremely rich and varied. The artist's boundless imagination fills the margins of the 18 folios with countless arabesques and drolleries which constitute one of the most highly developed most interesting and earliest series of this genre in the history of the European miniature. There are also countless beasts grotesque and peculiar figures dwarves up to all sorts of tricks acrobats doing balancing acts and juggling musicians playing trumpets flutes violas tambourines organs and bagpipes. Birds hares fawns lions and hounds hunting boars and even the creation of Eve are depicted too." The commentary volume includes in both English and Spanish: Foreword by V.N. Zaitsev Director of the National Library of Russia St Petersburg; Codicological and palaeographic study of Li Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini by L.I. Kisseleva National Library of Russia St Petersburg; Artistic and iconographical traits of the St Petersburg manuscript by I.P. Mokretsova State Research Institute for Restoration GosNIIR; The animal chapters in the Saint Petersburg Li Livres dou Tresor by W.B. Clark Marlboro College; and Technical research and manuscript restoration; by I.P. Mokretsova G.Z. Bykova V.N. Kiréyeva State Research Institute for Restoration GosNIIR. Copy No. 80. . A Fine set in the publisher's leather box which has the leather booklabel of Robert M. Wilson on the inside face. M. Moleiro Editor, Barcelona, limited edition facsimile, 1999 and commentary hardcover
1783rif. 18774St. Petersburg: J.J. Weitbrecht 1783. Contemporary half calf marbled sides sprinkled edges. 8vo. Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river which was under the government of Siberia which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.This publication is very rare WorldCat lists only 1 copy Kress Library of Business and Economics Harvard University. Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16. J.J. Weitbrecht, unknown
1917Cartella completa contenente 12 acqueforti e due disegni firmati Decroix che raffigurano due dei ritratti incisi. “Il a été tiré de cette suite 75 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de hollande. Exemplaire n. 3” con firma autografa dell’autore. I ritratti raffigurano siberiani, tartari, coreani, “enfants de troupe” ecc. Ogni acquaforte (il foglio misura cm 33x26) reca la firma di Decroix a matita, e il titolo del ritratto. Lo stesso Decroix (Lille 1878-1936 Parigi) fu prigioniero di guerra e passò due anni in un campo in Germania, liberato nel 1916 raggiunse la familgia a Berna per poi trasferirsi a Parigi. Assai raro.
rif. 87232A Paris, chez Lagrange, Libraire/Chez Maradan, 1788-1793, 5 volumes de 200x265 mm environ et 1 atlas de 245x340x40 mm environ, xxxij-763, 539, 491, 722-(1) f., 559 pages, demi reliure en veau rouge, titres et tomaisons dorés, dos très ornés de motifs dorés, tranches et coupes marbrées. Coupes et coins émoussés, coiffes de l'atlas ébréchées avec début de fente sur le bas du dos, frottements sur les plats et sur les coiffes, des rousseurs, sinon belle série rare et recherchée avec 122 planches (dont 4 cartes dépliantes, manque la carte générale de l'Empire de Russie.
1908rif. 189307St- Petersburg: R. Golicke & A. Willborg for the Ministère du Commerce et de l'industrie 1908. Havens for Tsarist maritime commerce First and only edition. Officially sanctioned painstaking survey of the Russian ports of Europe recorded at the height of their influence. Rare WorldCat locates a single copy in the University of Genoa. Altogether sixty-five ports are described in great detail accompanied by photographs plans and engineer's sections for aspects of their construction. This sort of close scrutiny would very soon be confined behind a wall of Soviet state secrecy. The report covers the White Sea Black Sea Baltic Sea and Sea of Azov; more than a half of the ports analyzed are now located outside of Russia in the Baltic states Ukraine and Georgia. This volume was never intended for general distribution but rather was passed through official channels a presentation of the ports as a manifestation of the of Russian Empire's influence on European maritime commerce. Finely produced the presswork was carried out by R. Golicke & A. Willborg a house known for its involvement in Russian livres d'artiste and other fine editions the binding was commissioned from the workshop of M. Uleman small gilt on white ticket to the front pastedown. Two pre-Revolutionary ink stamps to the title page one repeated on the front cover. Crossed out on the title is of that of the Imperial Library of the Central Statistical Committee of Ministry of Internal Affairs the repeated stamp is for "Professor Emeritus of the St Petersburg Institute of Communication Routes Vsevolod Evgenievich Timonov". Timonov 1862-1936 was a hydraulic engineer hydrologist and transportation engineer typical of the intended constituency for the volume. From 1886 to 1895 he served in the Ministry of Railways working on the Commission for the Construction of Commercial Ports. During this time Timonov supervised the first work on the construction of stone block breakwaters for ports on the Baltic 1887 organized and implemented the initial marine dredging works there 1889 explored the mouths of the Dnieper Don and Volga rivers 1890 selecting the branches for development drew up a project for improving the rapids on the Dnieper carrying out exploratory work on one section 1894 explored the shores of the Pacific Ocean to assist in the selection Vladivostok as the location for the Pacific port terminal of the Siberian railway and explored the rivers of the Amur region developing measures to increase navigability 1895. Octavo 280 203 mm. pp. 24 33 94 128 91 vii. Printed throughout on coated paper numerous half-tone illustrations maps and plans to the text large folding three-colour printed map 695 x 560 mm retained by a band at the rear endpaper. Original light greenish blue cloth lettered in black on the spine and front cover French fillet panel to both covers in black to the front in blind on the back light greenish grey endpapers. Slightly rubbed and a little bumped some short splits to head and tail of the spine endpapers a touch browned at the edges; text-block marginally toned but clean and sound; very good. hardcover
1770rif. 648241770. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. "The Best and Most Luxurious" Four-Language Edition of Catherine the Great's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Kozitzki Grigorii Vasil'yevich d. 1775 Latin translation. Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii Proekta Novago Ulozheniia. Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the Projected New Code of Laws. St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademii Nauk 1770. viii 403 pp. Four title pages one in each language. Printed in double columns Russian and Latin on one page and German and French on the opposite page. Allegorical engravings by C. M. Roth at head and tail pieces. Latin translation by Grigorii Vasil'yevich Kozitzki. Quarto 9-1/2" x 8". Contemporary calf raised bands lettering piece and black-stamped ornaments to spine edges rouged patterned endleaves Light rubbing faint stains scratches and ink marks to boards which are slightly bowed moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and worn. Large copperplate vignettes at beginning and end of text. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to margins in a few places internally clean. A nice copy. $3500. Only four-language edition the fourth and best edition overall. Described by Count M.A. Korf then director of the Imperial Library as "The Best and Most Luxurious Edition." The Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II between 1764 and 1766. It was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Infused with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All-Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and denounced torture and the death penalty. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. Catherine's manuscript was written in French and she later produced a Russian translation. Editions in German and Russian were published in Moscow in 1767. The book was initially banned in. unknown books
1948280 pages. Signed and inscribed upon front free endpaper by author to Roman Fast in June of 1949. Gouzenko was the Soviet embassy cipher clerk whose defection in 1945 marked the beginning of the Cold War. His revelations resulted in major investigations and dozens of arrests. Above-average wear to red boards. Binding intact. Unmarked. What appears to be a clipping from the dust jacket of a Second Printing copy is neatly affixed at half-title page. Said clipping provides major contemporary media reviews of this work. A treasure for your Espionage or Cold War collection. Book
1940Inscribed and initialed by Polanyi to "Sir Ernest and Lady Simon", Sir Ernest Simon, The Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, and his wife, upon front free endpaper. Simon, a British industrialist, politician and public servant, had a long association with the University of Manchester where Polanyi was a professor at the time of publication. Ink stamp reading "University of Manchester Broomcroft Hall" atop front free endpaper and inside back board solidifies this provenance as it was then the residence of the Simons. ix, [1], 116 pages. Includes these essays: The Rights and Duties of Science (1939), Collectivist Planning (1940), Soviet Economics - Fact and Theory (1935), and Truth and Propaganda (1936). "In those years the ideas of liberty... were left almost uncultivated." - from Preface. Minimal faint pencil markings to contents. Average wear and some fading to publisher's pale green cloth which is sunned at spine. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Today, the thoughts of the author, a scientist and philosopher who lived from 1891 to 1976, are faithfully upheld by a society named in his honour. Book
