Album of 10 hand-colored photographs of Moscow and...
Moscow: c. 1880. Beautifully and finely hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Read More about Album of 10 hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg
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Broadside Letter as Minister of Justice "Aux Tribunal de première instance, d'appel et criminels, et aux Commissaires du Gouvernment près...
11 May, 1802. He was Minister of Justice from 1799 to 1802 under Napoleon. The =quaetion raised in this ketter is "Shall Napoleon be a lifetime Consul?" Read More about Broadside Letter as Minister of Justice "Aux Tribunal de première instance, d'appel et...
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RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA
Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and...
c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an..... Read More about Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and...
Price: $6,000
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and...
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1860. First edition. Read More about Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines...
Price: $400
Collection des plus Beaux Numéros Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le Début à...
Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1922?]. Bakst, Léon. An outstanding visual record of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Ida Rubinstein's Galas Russes in their most influential years, lavishly illustrated with the works of Bakst, Gontcharova, Larionov, Picasso, Matisse, Massine, Derain, and others. The collection is comprised of special issues of the theatrical..... Read More about Collection des plus Beaux Numéros Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets...
Price: $3,500
RELIEF FOR WHITE RUSSIAN REFUGEES
A collection of four letters signed ("Julia Cantacuzène Spiransky nee Grant") to Cyrus H.K. Curtis ("Dear Mr. Curtis"), and one...
Washington, D.C and New York: 1921, 1927, 1928 and 1932 respectively. RELIEF FOR WHITE RUSSIAN REFUGEES. 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..... Read More about A collection of four letters signed ("Julia Cantacuzène Spiransky nee Grant") to Cyrus...
Price: $450
Crrespondance de Falconet avec Catherine II 1767-1778.
Paris: Champion, 1921. First edition. Read More about Crrespondance de Falconet avec Catherine II 1767-1778
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The Present State and Regulations of the Church of Russia. Establish'd by the Late Tsar's Edict. Also in the Second...
London: Printed by S. Holt, and Sold by J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, 1729. Read More about The Present State and Regulations of the Church of Russia. Establish'd by the Late Tsar's Edict....
Price: $1,750
Elizabeth and Catherine Empresses of All the Russians. Edited by Jay Gold.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1974]. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed "For Mrs. Engelhard with best wishes from the author R.C.{. Read More about Elizabeth and Catherine Empresses of All the Russians. Edited by Jay Gold
Price: $225
Battles of the Crimea.
New York: G.S. Wells, Publisher, 140 Nassau Street, 1855. Second edition. Read More about Battles of the Crimea
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Archangel: The American War With Russia. By a Chronicler.
Chicago: A.G. McClurg & Co, 1924. First Edition. About the American campaign into Russia. Read More about Archangel: The American War With Russia. By a Chronicler
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A Winter in Russia from the French ... by M.M. Ripley.
New York: Henry Holt, 1974. Signed twice on front free endpapers by George Kennan. George Kennan (February 16, 1845 - 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed, with whom he..... Read More about A Winter in Russia from the French ... by M.M. Ripley
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If You Were Born in Russia.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, [1950]. First edition. F.f.e.p. inscribed “To Nicholas--With many thanks for his help, knowledge and solace--Arthur Goodfriend/March 15, 1950”. Read More about If You Were Born in Russia
Price: $65
Relation Circonstancée de la Campagne de Russie, en 1812.
Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, Décembre 1814. Troisiéme Édition. Read More about Relation Circonstancée de la Campagne de Russie, en 1812
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Histoire des Revolutions de l'Empire de Russie.
Paris: Jean-Th. Herissant, 1760. First Edition. Read More about Histoire des Revolutions de l'Empire de Russie
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Signed Twice by Lenin's Wiife
Zenszhna rawoprawn'ij irazdanin SSSr.
N.p: 1937. Signed Twice by Lenin's Wiife. 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 about Zenszhna rawoprawn'ij irazdanin SSSr
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Main Street, U.S.S.R.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, (1959). First edition. Inscribed Jan. 26, 1967 Rome Italy to Sylvia & Leonard (Lyons) and with drawing by the Levine's son Jeffrey (aged 6) in crayon on the preceding pages. He is now a film critic. Levine was NBC Moscow correspondent when he wrote this book..... Read More about Main Street, U.S.S.R
Price: $100
Kosinski's First Book, Inscribed
The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition. Kosinski's First Book, Inscribed. 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 about The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine
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Histoire de L'Anarchie de Pologne, et du Démembrement de cette République...suivi des Anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie, en 1762...
Paris: H. Nicolle, 1808. Deuxième Édition. Read More about Histoire de L'Anarchie de Pologne, et du Démembrement de cette République...suivi des Anecdotes...
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The Complete History of the Russian War.
New York: J.G. Wells, 1856. First American edition. Read More about The Complete History of the Russian War
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Two decrees (in Russian).
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 about Two decrees (in Russian
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The Shadow of the Winter Palace. Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917.
New York: The Viking Press, [1976]. First edition. Read More about The Shadow of the Winter Palace. Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
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Inscribed form the editor
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias: Written by herself: Comprising...
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1840. First edition. Inscribed form the editor. Inscribed from Mrs. Bradford, the editor to J. Arabella Holt March 28, 1840 with clipped fragments from two letters from Mrs. Bradford pasted to endpapers. Read More about Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias:...
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Memoires Historiques, Politiques et Militaire sur La Russie depuis l'année MDCCXXVII jusqu'à MDCCXLIV. Avec un Supplement, contenant une idée succincte...
Paris: Chez Humblot, 1771. First edition published in France and probably the first edition in French. Also published in French in Leipzig and Amsterdam the same year. Scarce edition. Hume translated the English edition and published it in 1770 though the author of this edition says that the English edition..... Read More about Memoires Historiques, Politiques et Militaire sur La Russie depuis l'année MDCCXXVII jusqu'à...
Price: $350