![The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:] Being an account of the Government of that Country, both Civil and Ecclesiastical; of the Czar's Forces by Sea and Land, the Regulation of his Finances … Translated from the High-Dutch [vol. II:] … containing, 1. Laurence Lange’s Journey from Petersbourg to Peking in China. II. John Bernhard Muller’s Description of the Ostiacks, a nation in Siberia … VI. M. Le Brun’s Observations on his Journey through Russia to Persia](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/264342.jpg?v=1534806793)
The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:]...
London: printed for W. Taylor [and others], 1723-1722. First edition. A country house library copy: Lord Western bought... Read More
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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
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RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA
48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and transport there on the Trans-Siberian Railroad and through Manchuria.
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
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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
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
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Crrespondance de Falconet avec Catherine II 1767-1778.
Paris: Champion, 1921. First edition. Read More
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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
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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
Price: $225
Battles of the Crimea.
New York: G.S. Wells, Publisher, 140 Nassau Street, 1855. Second edition. Read More
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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
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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
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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
Price: $65
Relation Circonstancée de la Campagne de Russie, en 1812.
Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, Décembre 1814. Troisiéme Édition. Read More
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Histoire des Revolutions de l'Empire de Russie.
Paris: Jean-Th. Herissant, 1760. First Edition. Read More
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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
Price: $1,500
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
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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
Price: $550
One Man in his Time.
London: Hutchinson, [1960]. Inscribed by the author on the title page to the chef of the St. Regis Hotel, Rudy Melzer; " ... with all my best wishes for a Merry Xmas and a very happy New Year. Serge Obolensky 18 Dec. 1964" Further inscribed on the flyleaf by Melzer... Read More
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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
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The Complete History of the Russian War.
New York: J.G. Wells, 1856. First American edition. Read More
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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
Price: $750
The Shadow of the Winter Palace. Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917.
New York: The Viking Press, [1976]. First edition. Read More
Price: $60
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
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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
Price: $350