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Item 259945A collection of four letters signed ("Julia Cantacuzène Spiransky nee Grant") to Cyrus H.K. Curtis ("Dear Mr. Curtis"), and one...

Cantacuzene Spiransky, Princess, Julia Dent Grant.

Price: $450

Washington, D.C and New York: 1921, 1927, 1928 and 1932 respectively. A collection of four letters to American magazine and newspaper publisher, Cyrus H.K. Curtis, asking for contributions for the relief of White Russian refugees who fled the country in the wake of the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian..... Read More Item Details for A collection of four letters signed ("Julia Cantacuzène Spiransky nee Grant") to Cyrus H.K. Curtis ("Dear Mr. Curtis"), and one clipped signature Add to Wish List

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Item 210898The Present State and Regulations of the Church of Russia. Establish'd by the Late Tsar's Edict. Also in the Second...

Consett, Thomas.

Price: $1,750

London: Printed by S. Holt, and Sold by J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, 1729. Read More Item Details for The Present State and Regulations of the Church of Russia. Establish'd by the Late Tsar's Edict. Also in the Second Volume a Collection of several Tracts relating to his Fleets, Expeditions to Derbent, &c Add to Wish List

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Item 250589De l'administration de la justice criminelle en Angleterre, et de l'esprit du gouvernement anglais.

Cottu, [Charles].

Price: $750

Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1822. Seconde édition, revue et corrigée, but the first edition in book form. Secretary General of the Royal Society of Prisons, Cottu went to England in 1820 to study their prison system. Read More Item Details for De l'administration de la justice criminelle en Angleterre, et de l'esprit du gouvernement anglais Add to Wish List

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Item 325349[The Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars].

Fenton, Roger.

Price: $2,500

Sebastopol, Crimea: 1855. "Photograph of soldiers from the 8th Hussars gathered around an open air cooking hut/field kitchen. A man stands at the centre of the group holding a large pan while the man sitting in front of him fills his bowl from it. The other soldiers stand, sit and..... Read More Item Details for [The Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars] Add to Wish List

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Item 353454Report of Lieut. Giles B. Harber, U.S.N. of the search for the Missing People of the Jeannette Expedition, etc.

Harber, Giles B.

Price: $600

Washington, D.C: [GPO] House of Rep, 1884. The heliotypes in this publication are particularly interesting as the show Russian soldiers guarding the graves of the Jeannette crew. the final photo shows all the coffins loaded unto a Russian train. Read More Item Details for Report of Lieut. Giles B. Harber, U.S.N. of the search for the Missing People of the Jeannette Expedition, etc Add to Wish List

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Item 302270Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946.

Harriman, W. Averell and Elie Abel.

Price: $450

New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Jane Engelhard “with deep respect and my love. Averell”. Read More Item Details for Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941-1946 Add to Wish List

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Item 352942Order of Exercises at the Musical Entertainment in honor of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia (1850-1908) by 1200 pupils of...

(Holmes, Oliver Wendell).

Price: $250

Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, City Printers, Dec 9, 1871. Read More Item Details for Order of Exercises at the Musical Entertainment in honor of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia (1850-1908) by 1200 pupils of the Public Schools...at Boston Music Hall Add to Wish List

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Item 35995Zenszhna rawoprawn'ij irazdanin SSSr.

(Lenin, Vladimir) Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna.

Price: $1,500

N.p: 1937. Signed twice, once on the front cover and once on the portrait by Krupskaya who was Lenin's wife, closest companion and fellow revolutionary. Rare. Read More Item Details for Zenszhna rawoprawn'ij irazdanin SSSr Add to Wish List

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Item 346384Letter, signed (“Nicolas”), to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, St. Petersburg 20 January 1901, a formal expression of condolence on the...

NICHOLAS II, Emperor of Russia.

Price: $3,000

St. Petersburg: 1901. A formal note of condolence from Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russias, styled “le bon Cousin” in the closing, addressed to Ernst Gunther II (1863-1921), third Duke of Schleswig-Holstein ("Monsieur Mon Cousin!"), after learning of the death of Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, a grandson of..... Read More Item Details for Letter, signed (“Nicolas”), to the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, St. Petersburg 20 January 1901, a formal expression of condolence on the death of Prince Christian Victor Add to Wish List

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Item 366707Collection of Twelve Color Photographs: Official White House Prints of President Nixon's Visit to Russia, May 22-30, 1972.

(Nixon, Richard).

Price: $3,000

[Washington, D.C: The White House], 1972. A collection o photos taken from Nixon's Russia visit, during which, he and Brezhneve signed the SALT treaty and laid the groundwork for a joint space flight set to take place in 1975, both important conciliatory steps during the Cold War. The photos were..... Read More Item Details for Collection of Twelve Color Photographs: Official White House Prints of President Nixon's Visit to Russia, May 22-30, 1972 Add to Wish List

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Item 239323The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine.

Novak, Joseph [pseud. Jerzy KOSINSKI].

Price: $550

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition. The author's first book, published pseudonymously as Joseph Novak, here INSCRIBED to Mrs. Alexander Knox ("from the author / New York January 1961") and with a 5 line Spinoza quote. Read More Item Details for The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine Add to Wish List

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Item 327156RUSSIAN MEMORIES by Madame Olga Novikoff/ "O. K." With an Introduction by Stephen Graham. And Fifteen Illustrations.

Novikoff, Olga.

Price: $150

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1917. First edition. Olga Novikoff (1840-1925) was a Russian aristocrat, journalist, and diplomat. Inscribed, and signed, by Olga Novikoff, prior to publication: "To my great friend/ and 'helper in-deed'/ from grateful/ Olga Novikoff/ nee Kireeff/ O. K./ 17 October/ 1916/ 4 Brunswick Place/ Regent's Park. London"..... Read More Item Details for RUSSIAN MEMORIES by Madame Olga Novikoff/ "O. K." With an Introduction by Stephen Graham. And Fifteen Illustrations Add to Wish List

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Item 315054Geschichte des Pabstthums in den abendländischen Kirchen von Anfang des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zu der Reformation. … Dritter und letzter...

Planck, D.G.J.

Price: $750

Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1809. The final book in Planck’s multi-volume history of the Papacy in his Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschafts-Verfassung (published 1803-9), on the history of the Papacy in western churches, with Imperial Russian provenance. Read More Item Details for Geschichte des Pabstthums in den abendländischen Kirchen von Anfang des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zu der Reformation. … Dritter und letzter Band Add to Wish List

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Item 264908Typed Copy of a “Confidential” biographical sketch of Rasputin and memorandum on the state of Russia, headed “PETROGRAD 27 Dec./9...

(RASPUTIN).

Price: $7,500

Petrograd [St. Petersburg]: Jan. 1917. "Russia is a country, as you know, where, nine times out of ten, personalities and not principles are the springs of action" A remarkably prescient and prophetic account of the murder of Rasputin by a seasoned observer on the eve of the Russian Revolution. The..... Read More Item Details for Typed Copy of a “Confidential” biographical sketch of Rasputin and memorandum on the state of Russia, headed “PETROGRAD 27 Dec./9 Jan. 1916/7. Confidential” Add to Wish List

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Item 36879Two decrees (in Russian).

(Russia) Catherine the Great.

Price: $750

Moscow: Meisto Pechati [first piece], 17 & 19 March 1775. Decrees relating to the military, issued by Catherine II. These were issued the year following the end of the Russo-Turkish wars and the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji (signed the 21st July 1774), and after the Cossack rebellion lead by Ymelyan..... Read More Item Details for Two decrees (in Russian) Add to Wish List

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Item 318271Dr. Baedeker and his Apostolic Work in Russia. With Introductory Note by Her Highness Princess Nathalie Lieven.

(Russia) Latimer, Robert Sloan.

Price: $100

London: Morgan and Scott, 1907. Read More Item Details for Dr. Baedeker and his Apostolic Work in Russia. With Introductory Note by Her Highness Princess Nathalie Lieven Add to Wish List

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Item 31422Russia: or Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and present State of the country and Its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made...

(Russia) Pinkerton, Robert, D. D.

Price: $450

London: Seeley & Sons, Hatchard & Son, 1833. First edition. He writes of the history of the country and its present state with comments on its religion, customs and social life, including slavery, hospitals, prisons, the state of the Jews of Russia, Freemasonry, the army and navy, its agriculture, and..... Read More Item Details for Russia: or Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and present State of the country and Its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made on the spoe during travels at different times in the Service of the Bible Society Add to Wish List

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Item 53786Album of 10 hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

(Russia).

Price: $1,500

Moscow: c. 1880. Beautifully and finely hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Read More Item Details for Album of 10 hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg Add to Wish List

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Item 234513Appel de la Fraction Socialiste-Révoltionnaire de la Conférence des Membres de l'Assemblée Constituate au prolétariat du monde entier et aux...

(Russia).

Price: $450

No place: [1921]. This appeal, printed above the names of A. Kerensky, Victor Tchernoff [Chernov], and other Russian Social Revolutionaries for the 32 former members of the Russian Constituent Assembly, protests the hardships inflicted upon Russia by communism. They accuse the Bolshevik government and its New Economic Policy of selling..... Read More Item Details for Appel de la Fraction Socialiste-Révoltionnaire de la Conférence des Membres de l'Assemblée Constituate au prolétariat du monde entier et aux partis socialistes Add to Wish List

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[London? 1721?]. Read More Item Details for The Memorial of M. Bestuchef (Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Riumin) His Czarish Majesties resident in London. Presented Oct. 17. 1720. To the court of Great Britain, being a reply to the two answers given by the British and Brunswick ministers to a former memorial. Presented by the resident Wesselofski Add to Wish List

Item 262775The Memorial of M. Bestuchef (Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Riumin) His Czarish Majesties resident in London. Presented Oct. 17. 1720. To the court...

(Russia).

Price: $250

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Item 377748Reports of Military Observers attached to the Armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. WITH: Epitome of the Russo-Japanese War...

(Russo-Japanese War).

Price: $750

Washington, D.C: GPO, 1906-19007; 1907. Part I, 1906. By Lt-Col. W.S. Schuyler, Capy=tin J.F. Morrsion, eta al. 284pp. 7 folded map sheets Part II. By Col. Valery Havard & Col. John Van R. Hoft, 1906. 209pp Part III, By Mjor Joseph E. Kuhn. With many plates 1906. 241pp Part IV..... Read More Item Details for Reports of Military Observers attached to the Armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. WITH: Epitome of the Russo-Japanese War Add to Wish List

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Item 372839Tārīkh-i Muḥārabat-i Rusiyā.

Ṣādiq Rifʿat Pasha.

Price: $500

[Istanbul: Ṭakvīmḫāne-i ʿĀmire Press, A.H. 1275 = 1858-59 C.E.]. First edition of Ṣādiq Rifʿat Pasha’s historical and memoiristic treatise documenting the destructive impact of Russian aggression on the Ottoman Empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A leading Tanzimat-era statesman, Rifʿat Pasha, who served in high administrative and..... Read More Item Details for Tārīkh-i Muḥārabat-i Rusiyā Add to Wish List

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