Russian History

London: J.B. Millet [1910], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 750. (Limp leather) 332, 334, 318pp. Very good plus. 3 volumes. Black pebble-grained leather with gilt emblem on the spines. Top edge gilt, decorated endpapers, decorated title pages, color frontispieces, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. L. Beling Tetens is also cited as the publisher on the title pages. Light edgewear to the ends of the spines and volume 1 is lightly faded on the spine. Edited with annotation by Charles Welsh. Publisher series: Oriental Series Ambassadors' Edition. Vol. 3 Villari, Luigi (Russia of Today). Locale:. (History, Description and Travel, History, Politics).

Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1990, hardcover, 400 pp, Edition not stated, No previous English-language editions or printings noted, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed and dated by the Author in the year of publication on the front endpaper, three tiny spots to front endpaper as well, small ink stamp and light dampstain to rear pastedown. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge bumps, dampstain to rear panel and flap, in new Brodart sleeve. Five plays by the Russian dramatist focused on Lenin's role in organizing the Communist Party network, leading the Russian Revolution, and the formation of the Soviet Union. Shatrov's plays about Lenin became the most frequently staged plays in all of the USSR during the reign of Leonid Brezhnev. Contents include five plays: Bolsheviks, The Brest Peace, Blue Horses on Red Grass, Thus Shall We Conquer!, and Onwards...Onwards...Onwards!, as well as an interview with the author 'History is a Factual Drama' and an afterword by Dr. Yuri Sharapov:… Read More

William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 Volume set. Suitable for a gift. Beautiful half calf, brown levant morocco leather and marbled boards. Gold lettering. Bindings are near fine. Clean, unmarked pages, with sparse foxing. William Blackwood and Sons, published 1863-1887. 2nd edition of Vols I & II; rest are 1st editions. Kinglake based his history of the Crimean War both on his own experiences and on the papers of Lord Raglan given to him by Raglan's widow. Kinglake ordered that Raglan's papers be destroyed after Kinglake's death, thus rendering his own work the only secondary source describing Raglan's account of the War. Several dozen battle plans and other maps (many folding) demarcating each army's units in red, blue, and green. Pictures available upon request. Ships daily. (RARE)

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954 Green/blue/gilt covers. Frontispiece of Kozhevniko Liberary of Selected Soviet Literature Stalin Prize 1950 Author of Ocean's Brother 1939. Extra title page in Russian. Illustrated by D. Piatkin. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs 605 pgs. Very Rare OCLC finds 10 copies. Illus. by D. Piatkin. Owner's Bookplate. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

Leipzig & Paris: Karl Baedeker & Paul Ollendorff. Very Good+. 1902. Third Edition. Flexible cloth. Clean red flexible cloth with bright gilt titles on front cover and spine. Fold out color map frontispiece. Avec 19 cartes et 32 plans (Manuel De Langue Russe Edite A Part). Marbled page edges. French text, Russia; Maps & Plans; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 476 pages .

T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in original publishers red cloth with elaborate blind stanped decoration to both boards and spine. Gilt lettering to the centre of the front board and the spine. Yellow coated endpapers. A hint of fading to the spine and mild mottling to the front board but overall a lovely copy.

London: Printed for W. Owen; J. Dodsley; J. Rivington; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Presentation copy, signed on title page "For Mr. William Richardson, From the Author." B&W 2-page frontis + 12 plates, engravings by P. Mazell. Half-bound in calf with marbled paper boards. Original spine label with gilt titling laid on to rebacked spine with raised bands. Wear to boards and edges and chipping to leather corners. Library stamp of the Mercantile Library, New York. [8], xix, [5], 477 p.p. [7 - index w/ errata]. Foxing throughout commensurate with age, a few small stains and light soiling. Damp stain to index. Some offsetting from plates. Small chip to page 190. Tanning to text block edges. John Glen King (1732-1787) was a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and Chaplain to the British Factory at St. Petersburg. ESTC # T95407.

Soviet Union , 1979. Dated 1979-1982, a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album, 13 1/2" w x 9" h, in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard, with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in, and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships, 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships, on rice paper, with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good, small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist. . Photograph Album. Very Good. 13 1/2" w x 9" h.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Half-title: Bohn's Standard Library. History of Russia. Frontispiece engraved portraits Catherine (I) and Nicholas (II). x, 502, viii, 528 pp. Vol. I published 1854, II, 1855, originally published 1844. SCARCE in either edition, this was the first history of Russia published in English language. Very Good in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, the backs ornately decorated in gilt, marbled end papers and edges, joints showing wear yet holding nicely, triangular chip at head of spine Vol. II, rubbing at corners and edges. Internally clean and bright, a pleasing set . Second Edition. Half Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London and Boston : Grant Richards / L. C. Page & Co., 1900. SCARCE First Edition of his first published book. Herbert H. Munro would go on to write under the pen name of Saki or just H.H. Munro, becoming well-known for sardonic writing on Edwardian society, generally in the form of short stories. Very Good in original yellow cloth, the cloth lightly soiled, small rubs at spine ends and corners. slight toning to end pages, the name stamp of Rawson Bennett, front gutter and at p.143. Rawson Bennett was "Head of Electronics Design Division, from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded the Legion of Merit 'for exceptionally meritorious conduct' during his tour of duty in the Bureau of Ships. The citation further states: '(he) also designed sonic and supersonic underwater sound apparatus so urgently required by the Fleet for the destruction of Axis submarines and Japanese shipping"." He retired from the Navy as a Rear Admiral.(Naval History and Heritage Command website). . First… Read More

Stalinabad [Dushanbe]: Tajikistan State Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards toned and worn, dings to top edges of . front boards, pages toned, front hinge cracked.. 1956. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in Tajik. Many illustrations. Folded printed alphabet sheet laid in. School primer published during the era of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Many illustrations reflect Russification policies with depictions of obedient children studying, tractors and orderly agricultural scenes, factories, military equipment, Moscow landmarks, Lenin, and women hard at work with sewing machines. Not in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .

French language 1st Edition (precedes the English language translation of 1929). 282pp + 8 photographic plates (containing 9 illustrations) + 4 maps - all collated and present. Good+ condition - light foxing, slant to the text block and minor edge wear / corner curl. No inscriptions. Better than this description sounds. A superior survival of a rare book.One time Captain in the Caucasian Divisional Cavalry, "The Savage Division". Charged for anti-revolutionary activities in the Russian revolution. Established in 1923 on a stunning archipelago close to the Arctic Circle, which had hosted one of the most prestigious monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Fifteenth century, the camp of the Solovki was created in order to solve one of the many problems for the newborn Soviet state. Prisoners, arrested in an ever increasing number since 1917, were being kept in improvised prisons. The Sovnarkom decided to create a Special Purpose Camp on the Solovki islands, on the model of already… Read More

1860 History of Crimean War RUSSIA Illustrated Battle Scenes Ottoman Turks 6v
Henry Tyrrell was a 19th-century historian known for his studies and expertise on Russian history and wars with Russia. "History of the War with Russia" depicts the English struggle against Russia in the Crimean War. This illustrated work features many of the celebrated and decorated military officers, major events during the war, maps and plans, and battle scenes. Tyrrell provides an accurate and important historical account of the people and government bodies involved, including both Turks and Russians, in addition to English rule.
Item number: #18096
Price: $950
TYRRELL, Henry
The history of the present war with Russia : giving full details of the operations of the allied armies
London: The London printing and Publishing Company, [ca. 1860]. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes in 6 tomes
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Illustrated with steel engravings of portraits, maps, and battle scenes
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Ex-library. Good condition. Contains parts: Part 4: The Bolsheviks and the beginning of the Hetmanate in Ukraine; Part 5: Denikin period; Part 6: Wrangel period; Part 7: The Attitude of France and Great Britain towards the Fight Against Soviet Power in Russia.1. Power (collection). 2. People (collection). 3. World War I (collection). 4. World War I - 1914 - 1918 - Memories, notes, etc. 5. Civil war and military intervention in Russia - 1918 - 1920 - Memoirs, notes.

An Account of a 1785-1794 Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the River Kovima; of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the Aleutian islands in the Eastern Ocean, stretching to the American Coast. By command of Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress of all Russians. One of the most important Russian expeditions to Siberia and Alaska, with much material on the land and people, views of Kadiak, Aleutians, Kamchatka, etc. Captain Joseph Billings, who had sailed with James Cook on Cook's last voyage, became an officer in the Russian navy and was given command of this expedition by the Empress. He had, as his secretary, Martin Sauer, who was responsible for this, the fullest account of this important expedition. Visits were made to Kodiack, Montague Island, and Prince William Sound. Eventually a scarcity of provisions forced the return of the expedition to the mainland. The… Read More