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ÐšÐžÐÐ¡Ð¢Ð Ð£ÐšÐ¢ÐžÐ Ð®ÐÐžÐ¡Ð¢Ð¬ - 3; "Constructor Youth-3" A Soviet pre-collapse constructor set for young people

1980réf. 81760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures." Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 312,70 €

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ÐšÐžÐÐ¡Ð¢Ð Ð£ÐšÐ¢ÐžÐ Ð®ÐÐžÐ¡Ð¢Ð¬ - 3; "Constructor Youth-3" A Soviet pre-collapse constructor set for young people

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 312,70 €

[CZARIST RUSSIA BOND]Biblio.com

Unsigned Printed Bond for 2000 German Reichsmarks

réf. 42351Imperial Government of Russia 4% State Loan of 1902 bond issued by virtue of the Imperial Ukase of the 1st March 1902 to realise the contribution due to Russia in compensation for the "loses incurred in consequence of the Chinese disorders." the Boxer Rebellion "the annual payments to exactly correspond with the annual payments of interest and amortisation of the part of the contribution due to Russia which China engaged to pay in virtue of the Edict of the Chinese Empoer of of the 29th May 1901." folio A consortium of Russian German and Dutch banking and financial institutions were involved in the administration of this loan and payment of interest against coupons was paid from 18th June-1st July and from 19th December-1st January at various locations. An interesting anomaly is the denomination of the bond which is stated in Reichsmarks. The Reichsmark was not formally adopted as the German currency until 1924. The bonds were negotiable and accepted as security for Government contracts for deferred excise duties and for payment of customs duties at prices to be fixed half-yearly which would be not less than 90% of the face value of the bonds. The Boxer Rebellion in China had been followed by the combined military expedition of the powers to the Relief of Peking in which the US shared and the exaction of a huge indemnity of which the States relinquished nearly half of its share as in excess of the actual losses. The US protested against Russian demands upon China and actively participated in the negotiations which resulted in Russia's agreement to evacuate Manchuria. Russian delays and their policy have led Japan to declare war Secretary of State Hay's diplomacy was influential in limiting the zone of hostilities and the good offices of President Theodore Roosevelt brought about the conference between the two powers at Portsmouth N.H. which terminated hostilities. unknown

Sophie Dupre · Royaume-Uni88,50 £GB≈ 105,70 €

[Diderot]Livre Rare Book

Oeuvres de Denis Diderot.

1821réf. 19877Paris, J.L.J. Brière, 1821-1823 ; 22 tomes. Suivi de : Mémoires, correspondance et ouvrages inédits de Diderot, publiés d’après les manuscrits confiés, en mourrant par l’Auteur à Grimm. Deuxième édition augmentée. Paris, Paulin, 1834, 4 tomes, soit en tout 26 tomes in-8 en reliure uniforme : demi-veau fauve, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièces d’auteur et de tomaison rouge et de titre vert empire, tête dorée. Cet ensemble comprend :T1-2 : Philosophie, avec la préface de Naigeon dans l’édition de 1798. Frontispice : Portrait de Denis Diderot par Mme Therbouche 1823, gravé par Bertonnier ; planche I et II dépliante montrant le système de Saunderson (pour les aveugles) ; 3 planches HT au tome II ; les quatre textes en fin de volume sont aujourd’hui attribués à Mme D’Epinay.T3 : Mélanges de littérature et de philosophie.T4 : Théâtre.T5-6-7 : Romans et Contes.T8-9-10 : Salons ; Mathématiques.T11-12 : Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron ; Essai sur les études en Russie ; Plan d’une université pour le gouvernement de Russie ; Correspondance.T13 à 20 : Dictionnaire encyclopédique. T1 p.20 Tableau dépliant du Système figuré des connaissances humaines. Histoire complète de l’Encyclopédie et table des matières et table générale des articles.T21 : Oeuvres inédites de Diderot : Le Neveu de Rameau. Voyage de Hollande. Correspondance. Table générale et analytique des matières contenues dans les Oeuvres de Diderot.T22 : Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de D. Diderot par J.A. Naigeon. A la mémoire de D. Diderot par M. de Meister, 1786.T23-26 : Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Diderot, par Madame de Vandeul, sa fille. Mémoires de Diderot. Lettres à Mademoiselle Voland de 1759 à 1774. Voyage à Bourbonne et à Langres. Correspondance avec Falconet. Paradoxe sur le comédien. Entretien entre D’Alembert et Diderot. Rêve de D’Alembert. La Promenade du sceptique ou les Alliées, 1747. Est-il bon ? Est-il méchant ? ou l’officieux persifleur.

Librairie Ancienne Clagahé · Saint Symphorien d’Ozon, France1 600,00 €

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