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...

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...

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...

St. Petersburg: 1913. Read More about Faune de la Russie et des Pays Limitrophes fondée principalement sur les Collections du Musée...

Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1807. From the Library of Tsar Alexander II. A book in Planck’s multi-volume history of the Papacy, in his Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschafts-Verfassung (published 1803-9), with Imperial Russian provenance, here repurposed into a book safe. Read More about Geschichte des Pabstthums in den abendländischen Kirchen von der Mitte des neunten Jahrhunderts...

Paris: Champion, 1921. First edition. Read More about Crrespondance de Falconet avec Catherine II 1767-1778

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

Boston: Higgins and Bradley, 1856. Read More about The Powers of Europe and Fall of Sebastopol. By a British Officer

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

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

Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, Décembre 1814. Troisiéme Édition. Read More about Relation Circonstancée de la Campagne de Russie, en 1812

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

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