Russian History

Fresno: Board of Christian Literature 1978. (Hardcover) 1065pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, glossary, notes, indices. The dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Originally published as Alt-Evangelische Mennonitesche Bruederschaft in Russland (1789-1910) Im Rahmen Der Mennonitischen Gesamtgeschichte. Book about Menno Simons. Preface by Peter J. Klassen. Foreword by Cornelius J. Dyck. Locale: ; Prussia. (Mennonites, Anabaptists, Mennonite Brethren Church, Mennonites--Russia, Missionaries).

New York: Garland Publishing [0-8240-8056-4] 1987. (Hardcover) 415pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Revision of thesis (Ph. D.). Map, notes, bibliography. Book about Sergei Mironovich Kirov. Publisher series: Modern European History. Locale: Caucasus--Russia. (History--Russia, History--Russia, Russian Revolution).

New York: Doubleday & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean reddish-brown cloth with black title on spine. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover has a few small closed edge tears. Text tight, clean & intact. An authentic picture of the workings of the Soviet system. A lengthy inscription by the author dated January 11, 1962. Soviet Union; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages; Signed by Author .

London: John Stockdale, 1812. Second Edition . Full Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 4to. 552 pages, plus 24 of 25 plates (lacking #20; nine folding), 3 folding maps; 523 pages, plus 26 of 27 plates (lacking #4; 15 folding). Each volume with 14 vignettes, of which 13 are colored in volume I and 10 are colored in volume II. Early, though likely not contemporary, polished leather with raised spine bands and gilt stamped lettering. Marbled end leaves. Covers show scattered rubbing and light wear at spine ends. Joints of boards at spine are tender, though still hold. Contents show scattered light offsetting, a little foxing, and occasional smudges, but overall are fairly clean and intact.

Tatarstan kitap Nasrijaty / Tatarskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 914, 960, and 1013 pages. Text in Tatar; Russian title from colophon: Tatarskiye narodnyye poslovitsy. The classic collection of Tatar proverbs, more than 38,000, compiled by an acclaimed writer of songs and plays. A new edition was issued in 2010. Scarce in the West, with just one US holding (Harvard, OCLC 83619595) and two incomplete sets in Germany. First edition (first printing). Very good to near fine volumes; no dust jackets, perhaps as issued. Bookplate in each volume.

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.

Livourne, France: Didier Robert de Vaugoundy, 1777. Very Good. Folio, [12.5x14.25in neat lines, 17.25x21in sheet]; Title in top center with four inset maps labeled I- Partie Nord-ouest de l'Amerique, II- Nonvelle Grenade, III- Region des Conibas et pays voisins, IV- Extremites de la partie occidentale de la Californie; map covers a large area from 25 to 80 North latitude, Norway to Alaska, and 20 east to 155 west longitude China to the Arctic Circle; Copper engraving on heavy watermarked paper with pictorial relief with mountains, forests and major rivers with location grid and names, both mythical, real and related to present day; Little age toning and small spots, close -tear at bottom edge, single vertical crease fold, top right margin "Suppl 2 Carte", lower left "181-182" and right "R.S" [Wagner maps 637]. This map was one of a 10 map series for the Supplement to Diderot's "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" published in 1777. From Rumsey, "This… Read More

1792 1ed RUSSIA English Ivanovich on Russian Empire Military Catherine Great

Sergei Pelcheev Ivanovich's 'Survey of the Russian Empire' is perhaps the best 18th-century account of the politics, military, and social customs of the Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It provides commentary on the different governments in the Russian Empire, including a section of the governing bodies in Estonia, and notes on different ethnic peoples throughout Northern Asia and Eastern Europe
This 1792 English edition was translated from the original Russian by James Smirnove. Note the huge folding table of arms and uniforms of the Russian Empire.
Item number: #11596
Price: $1500
IVANOVICH, Sergei Pelscheev

Survey of the Russian Empire: according to its present newly regulated state, divided into different governments, shewing their situation and boundaries, the capital and district towns of each government...
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. 1st English edition

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Title: Sötétség délben (Darkness at Noon)
Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Ujváry Griff Verlag
Place: München
Year: 1981
Edition: Samizdat
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 144
Language: Hungarian
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 106 x 150Description: Hungarian bootleg edition of Koestler's most influential work published in West Germany and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain. Cover art is based on "The Power and the Man" by Kazimir Malevich. A rare and interesting addition for any Koestler completist.

Paris: Maison La Briffe, 1799. Fine binding signed Hatchards-Piccadilly, the oldest bookshop in London. Three volumes in modern half polished calf over buckram boards, the backs with two black morocco labels and intricate gilt decorations, tops gilt, marbled end papers, Near Fine, the lightest of edge wear. iv, 360, 360, 312 pp. Half-titles in Vols. II and III. Each volume with a frontis illustration, Fine in all volumes. An uncommon history in lovely binding with exceptional plates. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

This is a small book of poetry by Madame de Basily in English. Her story can be read on the Hoover Institution website. She is American born and the donor of the items in the Nicolas de Basily room. This book was published in Paris the year after her marriage in November, 1919. Her husband was the Diplomat of Imperial Russia 1903 - 1917. The poetry in this 31 page book is dated 1915 - 1917. It appears to be one of a kind. There are marbled end papers plus three from, front and back. The cover has wear as shown. There is foxing from page 21 onward. The poems are titled: In Tifles, The Cry of Holy Russia, Anarchist Lullaby, Human Wreckage, Afternoon Service in the Alexander Newsky Monastery, The Kremlin, White Night on the Gulf of Finland,Republic of Cronstadt, ProphesyTo Life. There is also a dedication to her mother. Mr. and Mrs. de Basily are buried in Baltimore. Land, Estates, and Wealth were never recovered in Russia.

"We embarked – Pierre, Gatti, Vierny and me – at the end of August 1957 on an adventure …" – Chris Marker
In 1957, the group of Chris Marker, Armand Gatti, André Pierrard and Sacha Vierny was one of the first to travel and work in Siberia during the Cold War. Two independent works emerged from this trip – Chris Marker's Letter from Siberia (1957) and Armand Gatti's Sibérie – zero + l'infini (1958), which was one of the first Western reports on Siberia since 1917.
Armand Gatti, one of the most acclaimed theater playwrights of the 20th century, had already written eight plays and had received the Albert Londres Prize for his earlier work before pursuing a career as a journalist. Gatti came back from Siberia with eleven articles about the region, which were published in Libération, the underground newspaper of the Résistance movement.
The following year Armand Gatti continued to work on these articles, which then became the book Sibérie – zero + l'infini, accompanied by Chris Marker's… Read More

Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1840.
Large 8vo [255 x 163 mm] of (2) ll., vii pp. (preface), viii pp. (dedication), 621 pp., (3) and 25 plates.
Some slight foxing on few pages. Bound in full red shagreen, blind-stamped border on the covers and wide baroque style composition including foliage, spine ribbed decorated with gilt baroque patterns, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of this work in which Demidoff relates his travel in Russia and Crimea in 1837.
Atabey 337; not in Blackmer; Brunet, II, 583.
"This is the first part of Demidov's account of his mission in Russia and the Crimea, an account of the voyage itself. The scientific observations by Huot, Leveille, Rousseau and Nordmann were published in three volumes in 1842, together with an atlas of natural history plates.'' (Atabey)
Very few copies contain a dedication to 'his Majesty the Emperor of all Russias" in viii pp. bound at the beginning of the volume, and the present copy is one of them.
The rich illustration consists of the portrait… Read More

Contemporary binding rubbed to extremities. Life time edition of Karamzin's most important work on Russian history. Volumes - 2,4,5,6,7,9,10

Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilyevich. Russian Placards, Le Placard Russe, 1917-1922. 1st. part, Petersburg office of the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA. Petersburg branch of the News of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee ("Isvestia VCIK"), Petersburg, 1923. Executed by "STRELETZ" (The Archer).
Small 4to (218 x 186mm.), 4 leaves and 23 coloured lithographs of posters produced by Lebedev, with accompanying tissue guard sheets carrying captions in English and French. Title-pages in English and French. Limited to 1700 copies.
Bound in maroon buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to front, with green end-papers. Front of original orange wrapper with lithograph illustration bound in – lacking the blank rear of the original wrapper. Housed in a custom-made maroon cloth covered clamshell box, with gilt title to the front and spine.
Buckram faded to spine and top board – a 3.5cm strip alongside the front hinge (see photo below). Small piece of tissue paper attached near to the upper hinge of the… Read More