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rif. 0260860859.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 0656676906.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1986rif. kk27Moscow 1986. Poster. Very Good. No Binding. Moscow 1986. -- SOVIET POSTER 25" x 40" printed in red white black green & tan-- Poster features a young peasant woman smiling slightly in front of sheafs of wheat-- in praise of Ukrainian wheat farming collectives. In very nice condition- bright & clean. unknown
1968rif. 251223003New York: A La Vielle Russie 1968. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 11x7x0. Book is in nice shape with some very light exterior wear and toning to the cover edges. Contains 318 illustrations 23 of them in color. Has some really remarkable photographs of highly ornate pieces of jewelry. A La Vielle Russie paperback
2016rif. w211130892Helion & Company 2016. 472pp. Hardback with glossy illustrated boards no DJ VG very tiny light tan stain on outerpage edge index maps figures and tables footnoots "tells the story of the Red Armys penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of the German capital reduced the city and drove westward to link up with the Western allies in central Germany" . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Helion & Company Hardcover
1999rif. 059488Private Published 1999. Book. Good. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 195pp. Reading curl to corners. Scarce. Private Published Paperback
1994rif. 19081New York: H.N. Abrams 1994. First edition presumed; no earlier dates stated. Hardcover. A fine set in a very slightly top-sunned slipcase negligible; only affects top potrion and partially so. Two folio volumes in green illus DJs and green and b/w illus paper-backed slipcase: ill. some col. bibliographical references and indexes; 31 cm. Contents: v. 1. Art of the early cultures classical antiquities oriental works of art coins and medals arms and armour -- v. 2. Western European art Russian art and culture. Art -- Russia Federation -- Saint Petersburg -- Catalogs. Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh Russia -- Catalogs. Musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg -- Catalogues. Shipping at cost. A very heavy set. Please inquire. H.N. Abrams hardcover
1932rif. 005515New York: The Viking Press 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Good copy. Signed by the author on half-title page. In burgundy cloth covers with stamped lettering and crown in gilt oval design on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Frontsipiece of the Duchess and over thirty-five illustrations. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping to ends of spine. Light foxing to title page and edges. Moderate wear to covers. . Photos upon request. . Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Press Hardcover
1904rif. 28398New York: Harper's 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Lg 4to 994pp of bound weekly issues. This half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly January 2 1904 to June 25 1904 features the Russo-Japanese War double page War map p464; war images pp967-975; X Ray invention p49; Steamer "General Slocum" on p99; San Juan Hill p955; Walter Travers golf p931; St. Louis World Fair p677; Southern California The Story of Its Development. pp504-519. With woodblock illustrations on the covers of the weekly issues. Complete with the supplements. Weekly issues bound up into a large single volume with 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Leather spine chipped cracked along the hinges but the binding is holding. Internally bright & very clean. Harper's hardcover
1932rif. 4FislDc0026Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. 1932. Book. Very Good. Decorative Canvas Hardcover. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 348 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Damage to spine. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. Hardcover
1960rif. 475Marc Chagall B. 1887 VITEBSK RUSSIA; D. 1985 SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE FRANCE DRAWINGS FOR THE BIBLE as published for Verve. Verve Vol. X no. 37/38. 1960. Text by Gaston Bachelard. Folio. With 24 original lithographs in color including the cover by Chagall and 96 reproductions in black and white. Complete as issued. Verve hardcover
1803rif. ST15927London: Cadell and Davies 1803. ONE OF 60 LARGE PAPER COPIES of the "considerably enlarged" Fourth Edition ours a variant retaining the date of 1803 on the title-page rather than 1804. 330 x 252 mm. 13 x 9 7/8". xviii 4 xix 1 380 pp. Two leaves usually bound at the end and containing the "List of Principle Books Referred to in this Work" and "Works by the same Author" bound between pp. xvii and xix here. VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY SPRINKLED CALF raised bands flanked by plain and decorative gilt rules and chain roll spine panels with star centerpiece red morocco label marbled endpapers. With six engravings: five maps two folding and one view. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Marcus Gage; title page with ink inscription at head: "M. Gage's Book got from Mr. Asperne London April 15th 1805." Lada-Mocarski 29 note; Howes C-834; Sabin 17309; Streeter VI 3501; Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica pp. 2447-48. ◆Small chip to tail of spine corners a bit rubbed flyleaves somewhat foxed the usual minor foxing to plates and a bit of offsetting to adjacent pages otherwise A VERY FINE COPY OF AN ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE EDITION clean and fresh internally with vast margins and the binding firm lustrous and with only very minor wear to the joints. This is an extremely well-preserved copy in an elegant contemporary binding of the most sought-after edition of a key source on Russian exploration and that country's efforts to expand trade with China and Alaska. Eminent historian William Coxe 1747-1828 studied the voyages and exploration by Bering and others to the regions of Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Siberia to prepare this overview of the geography and cultures of the lands between Russia and North America and to analyze the economic potential of trade--particularly in furs--with the region. According to Sabin "Mr. Coxe's book contains many curious and important facts with respect to the various attempts of the Russians to open a communication to the New World." The 1780 first edition of this work covered Russian voyages of discovery between 1740 and 1769; the 1787 third edition added a supplement comparing these explorations to those of Captains Cook and Clerke. Our much-expanded fourth edition gives in the words of the Preface "a complete series of voyages from 1711 to 1792 comprising all that is known on the subject." Some of this supplementary information was gleaned from earlier accounts by German historians G. F. Muller and P. S. Pallas and some from Coxe's own travels in Russia. According to Lada-Mocarski Coxe "also succeeded in securing additional material: for instance the narrative and maps of Krenitzin and Levashev's 'secret' expedition the first official Russian government expedition since Bering's 2nd expedition of 1741. He was able to secure this particular information not widely known at the time even in Russia from Dr. Wm. Robertson who in turn obtained it through his friend Dr. Rogerson first physician to the Empress Catherine II. . . . In view of the above additions one should consider the fourth edition of 1803 as the most desirable." He concludes: "Coxe's work particularly the fourth edition is a result of contemporary and authoritative sources translated into English not to be overlooked by scholars and collectors alike." There are also distinct aesthetic advantages to the present Large Paper version over the octavo printing. Not only is the type beautifully re-set and laid out as well as surrounded by vast margins but as Streeter notes there are two charts here that are not included in the octavo issue of 1803. The original owner of this volume Marcus Gage is known to have assembled a substantial library of beautifully cared-for books on travel and discovery see for example "Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939 Books from the Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching" passim. Gage notes that he got the book from "Mr. Asperne"—no doubt the London publisher and bookseller James Asperne 1757-1820. ABPC and RBH find just four other Large Paper copies at auction in the past 45 years two of which had condition issues. One could wait a considerable time to find a copy as attractive and desirable as the present one. Cadell and Davies unknown
rif. 25992'St. Petersburgh 26th. Jany. 1802.'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. For the context see Irina and Dmitri Gouzevitch ‘Travelling interchanges between the Russian Empire and Western Europe / The Travels of Engineers during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’ in Simões Carneiro and Diogo eds ‘Travels of Learning / A Geography of Science in Europe’ Boston 2003. 1p 8vo. Nineteen lines of closely-written text. On aged and worn paper. The item has been torn away from a mount resulting in damage to the two outer corners with the area immediately to the right of the signature ‘St Helens’ lacking. The name of the recipient ‘Genl. Bentham Esqr &c &c &c’ has the word ‘Genl.’ heavily worn. Folded into a packet. Begins: ‘Give me leave my Dear Sir to introduce and recommend to you the Bearer of this Letter Mr. Vaxel a young Russian Literati who is going to England by order and I believe at the Expence of this Government in order to study Hydraulics. As he has been particularly recommended to me by the Vice-Chancellor and some other persons in high Office I could not avoid giving you this trouble being persuaded that nobody is more capable than yourself of pointing out to him the best method of presenting his studies to advantage’. In the rest of the letter he states that Vaxel is ‘a nephew of your late valuable Friend Coll. Itamalnoff’ with ‘Admiral Medvinoff’ as his ‘chief Patron’. He also gives Vaxel's titles. Note: "Mount St. Helens takes its English name from that of the British diplomat Alleyne Fitzherbert 1st Baron St Helens a friend of explorer George Vancouver who surveyed the area in the late 18th century". 'St. Petersburgh 26th. Jany. 1802.' unknown
1933rif. B28917New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes a signed personal letter from infamous literary agent Jacques Chambrun to Good Housekeeping editor W.F. Bigelow which is pasted to front pastedown! First edition 1933 hardcover with red cloth boards octavo 299pp. illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild rubbing and soil to boards binding tight text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Chambrun was noted for screwing his writers out of large sums of money including $30000 from Somerset Maugham. After finally being abandoned by every writer with which he worked he started 16 magazine the teeny-bopper celebrity worship rag. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1986rif. 219555Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Quite rare. An all-Russian book published in 1986 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the "Academicheskaya Dacha" which opened in 1884 as a place of summer practice for poor students of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Features artwork from a collection of work produced by dacha artists. Profusely illustrated in lovely color plates the works of many artists are arranged largely in chronological order. The subjects are stunning landscapes and the Russian countryside as well as people and families involved in the basic activities of life - work play eating and family gatherings. 232 pp. Book condition: Very good. Book has been well protected in its slipcase cloth binding very good pages unmarked. Slipcase: Good some nicks to the printed paper mounted on the slipcase boards binding has tears at several corners but is secure and looks generally good. Khudozhnik RSFSR Hardcover
rif. 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
rif. 19505'Du Belvédère près de Weymar ce 22 May / 3 Juin 1830.'. 1p. 4to. On bifolium with mourning border. Nineteen lines of closely-written text with valediction: 'Votre affectionnée Marie GD de Russie et de Saxe'. In fair condition lightly aged and creased with minor traces of grey paper from mount adhering to edge. She begins by stating that the 'charmant ouvrage' that she sent has given her real pleasure: 'il orne ma demeure champêtre'. She continues regarding some gifts: 'Comptant sur Vos sentimens pour nous qui ne Vous laissent pas étrangère - à ce qui nous conçerne et jusqu'au moment qui n'est peut-etre pas éloigné de Votre retour en Allemagne j'ai pris la liberté de Vous destiner quelques objets qui ont été confectionnés dans l'une des fondations pieuses qui ont pris naissances depuis que Vous nous avez quittés … je les offre a une personne qui peut apprécier de tels travaux'. 'Du Belvédère près de Weymar, ce 22 May / 3 Juin 1830.' unknown
1973rif. 13124Lincoln NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 1973. Spiral. Good. A few scratches scuff marks to wraps fine clean crisp interior. Feb 1997 16th printing. 8vo white metal coiled spiral binding 9 sections approx 250 pages of recipes with contributors' names and location the main colonies were Greeley Colorado and Lincoln Nebraska. American Historical Society of Germans from Russia unknown
rif. 1024486915.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1994rif. 323250Harry N Abrams Inc 1994 two volumes hardback books in fine conditionin fine slipcase. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harry N Abrams Inc hardcover
rif. 26542‘Grafton Street London / 2 May 1810’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 8vo. Sixteen lines of closely-written text. In fair condition lightly aged and worn with short closed tears along the five creases from the folding of the item into a packet. Docketed on the reverse of the leaf: ‘May 2d 1810 / Lord St Helens / Authy to charge Agency at the rate of 1 P Ct on Monies recovered on accot of Land Tax refunded to Foreign Ministers &cr.’ Signed St Helens. The letter begins: ‘Having communicated with Lords Malmesbury and Auckland on the subject of the allowance to be made to you as agent for the Foreign Ministers in the business of the Land-Tax assessments which His Majesty has been graciously pleased to order to be refunded to them I have the honor to inform you that we agree in thinking that you ought to be allowed on that account the sum of One Per Cent on your payments to the retired Foreign Ministers where Pensions amount to Eight hundred Pounds per Annum and upwards.’ The rest of the letter authorizes Broughton to do so ‘as long as the business remains on it’s present footing’. Note: His friend George Vancouver named Mt St Helens after him. ‘Grafton Street [London] / 2 May 1810’. unknown
1775rif. 318234London: J. Dodsley 1775. First edition. viii 207pp 1p. table. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter contemporary brown calf and blue marbled boards red label on spine. Red speckled edges. Some wear to the spine and boards text block in otherwise excellent shape. Bookplate of E. H. Greenly. Very good. First edition. viii 207pp 1p. table. 1 vols. 8vo. Jane Vigor née Goodwin b. 1699 d. 1783 was born to a clergyman in Yorkshire. Her first husband was Thomas Ward Esq Consul General to Russia and it was through that marriage that she embarked upon her experiences in Russia and wrote the passages for this volume some forty years later. She was married twice more to Claudius Rondeau Esq. and to William Vigor Esq. whom she survived. Mrs. Vigor inherited her father's fortune after her brother died and she then married Ward. Both her first and second husband who was Ward's secretary were stationed in St. Petersburg which is where she lived throughout her first two marriages. She returned to England after her second husband's death: frail pregnant and accompanied by William Vigor a Quaker minister who became her third husband. These first "Letters from a Lady" were followed posthumously by "Eleven Additional Letters" which provided a biography of Vigor. Errata printed on verso of title page. ESTC T64790 J. Dodsley unknown
1932rif. blb06109New York: The Viking Press 1932. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Maroon cloth on boards with oval title medallion crown and titling all in bright gilt on front and titling to spine. Book is tight square sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out other than AUTHOR SIGNATURE on half-title page ""Grand Duchess Marie"". Nice map endpapers in brown yellow and cream. Book overall is Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket shows original price of $3.50. DJ is Very Good with some shelfwear a closed tear to bottom of spine and moderate scuffing but good unfaded color all around. We have the companion volume for sale in equally near fine condition also signed ""Education of a Princess - A Memoir by Marie Grand Duchess of Russia."" SIGNED The Viking Press hardcover
rif. 24739‘P Place Portland Place London / June 24 1798.’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB and the History of Parliament ‘the foremost diplomat of his age’. It was Malmesbury who went to Brunswick to fetch the Prince Regent’s betrothed Princess Caroline and whom he asked to get him a brandy on his first encounter with her three years before the present letter was written. A legible script was clearly not a prerequisite for a successful diplomat as the handwriting of this missive is scandalously bad: practically on a level with that of Dr Parr. 1p 4to. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium the verso of the second being franked with partial ‘HENLEY’ postmark and red wax seal ‘Henley June twenty four 1798 / Revd Mr Tawcence / Partridge / near Cranbourn / ’. The franking signature ‘Malmesbury’ appears between two lines in the customary bottom-left corner. Heavily aged and worn with short closed tear to letter and repaired long closed tear across leaf carrying address. The whole of the following transcription is tentative ‘Dear Sir / After consulting with Mr Wilt & with my bailiff they both agree that is not let for Portland sheep & that as plantation that it will be my to keep them from there so much wilder than there it is for that reason that I have to thank you & I beg you to thank your Father for the trouble you have taken in this subject which for for the present at least I have given you uselessly. / I should hope your affair will be settled to yr satisfaction. I am glad yr brother & are so well.’ See Image ‘P Place [Portland Place, London?] / June 24 1798.’ unknown
rif. 049902Hutchinson c. 1929. missing front endpaper; half title page contains inscription from Elsa Branstrom . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hutchinson, c. 1929 hardcover
