![[SECHENOV ON NERVOUS SYSTEM] Fiziologiya nervnoy sistemy [i.e. Physiology of the nervous system]. I. Sechenov.](/pictures/thumb/44.jpg?v=1446527310)
St. Petersburg: A. Golovachyov, 1866. [2], vi, [2], 503, [1], xii pp.: ill., 1 ill. 22x15 cm. With 1 folding engraved plate and 37 illustrations in text. Contemporary half-leather binding. Rubbings and occasional foxing, owner's signature on the title-page. Very good. First edition. One of the fundamental works by Ivan... More
![[EARLY PLAN OF BAIKAL] Noveyshie, Lyubopytnye i Dostovernye Povestvovaniya o Vostochnoi Sibiri, iz Chego Mnogoe Donyne ne Bylo Vsem Izvestno [i.e. The Newest, Curious and Reliable Descriptions about Eastern Siberia Previously Unknown to the Public]. N. V. Semivskii, I. A. Losev, artists.](/pictures/thumb/586.jpg?v=1548766005)
St. Petersburg: Military Typography of His Imperial Majesty’s General Staff, 1817. Title page, engraved title page, engraved dedication leaf, [18], 230, 185- 186, 183 pp. 25,5x17,5 cm. With ten copper engraved plates, two large folding copper engraved maps of Lake Baikal and Eastern Siberia (the latter hand coloured), and a.... More
![[THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA] Kreiserstvo Semtera i Alabamy. Per. s angl. Sost. po lichnomu dnevniku i prochim materialam kap. R. Semza i drugikh ofitserov ekipazha [i.e. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter. Translated from English. Compiled from Personal Diary and Other Documents of Captain R. Semmes and Other Crew Officers]. R. Semmes.](/pictures/thumb/90.jpg?v=1450415364)
St. Petersburg: Kom. po ustroistvu dobrovolnogo flota, 1878. VIII, 490 pp. 25x18 cm. Later cloth binding. Owner's signature on the last page, very rare light foxing. Otherwise a near fine crispy copy. First edition. Interesting book regarding the influence of American navy on Russian naval system. Raphael Semmes... More
![[ASIA - TURKESTAN - TIAN-SHAN] Puteshestviia po Turkestanskomy Kraiu i Issledovanie Gornoi Strany Tian-Shania, Sovershennye po Porucheniu Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva [i.e. Travels Across Turkestan and Survey of the Mountainous Country of Tian-Shan, Undertaken on the Assignment of Russian Geographical Society]. N. A. Severtsov.](/pictures/thumb/597.jpg?v=1549626896)
St. Petersburg: Typ. Of K.V. Trubnikov, 1873. Part 1 and only. [4], vi, 461, [1] pp. Octavo. With a large folding lithographed map. Period style green half morocco with marbled papered boards; spine with raised bands and gilt lettered title. Both original publisher’s wrappers bound in. Mild very minor water... More
![[REMEMBERING REVOLUTION] Revoliutsia 1905 goda v Zakavkazii [i.e. Revolution of 1905 in Transcaucasia]. I. Shakhdin.](/pictures/thumb/184.jpg?v=1483900863)
Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1930. 72 pp. 17,5х12,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrapper design by Mayakosvky. Tears of the spine, owner’s signature on the title page. Otherwise very good. Rare. 1 of 5000 copies. Front-cover is illustrated with one of ROSTA’s images by Vladimir Mayakovsky. No copies in Worldcat. More
![[FROM AGRARIAN COUNTRY TO INDUSTRIAL POWER] Chto i kak my stroim [i.e. What and How We Build]. B. Shakhmatov.](/pictures/thumb/468.jpg?v=1526398016)
Moscow; Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1930. 94, [2] pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original illustrated constructivist wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine, small tear of the front wrapper, stain on the lower margin on the rear cover and throughout pages, last page slightly scuffed, private library ink stamp on p.2, 17... More
Moscow: 1898. 15,7х10,6 cm. Photographed in the studio by V. Chekhovsky. Early Shalyapin’s autographs are very rare. Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin (1873-1938) was a remarkable Russian opera singer whose vivid declamation, great resonance, and dynamic acting made him the best-known singer-actor of his time. He was very involved in... More
![[AMERICA: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE EARLIEST EDITIONS OF ALL SHELEKHOV’S ACCOUNTS] Rossiyskogo kuptsa imenitogo Rylskogo Grazhdanina Grigorya Shelekhova Pervoye Stranstvovaniye c 1783 po 1787 god iz Okotska po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam, i vozvrashchenie ego v Rossiiu... [i.e. The Russian Merchant and Notable Citizen of Rylsk Grigory Shelekhov’s First Journey from 1783 to 1787, from Okhotsk over the Eastern Ocean to the American Shores, and His Return to Russia...]. G. I. Shelekhov.](/pictures/thumb/587.jpg?v=1549619596)
With: Rossiyskogo Kuptsa Grigorya Shelekhova Prodolzheniye Stranstvovaniyya po Vostochnomu Okeanu k Amerikanskim beregam v 1788 godu... [i.e. Continuation of the Russian Merchant Grigory Shelekhov’ Voyage in the Eastern Ocean to the American Shores in 1788...]. St. Petersburg: Published on account of V[asily] S[opikov], 1793 and 1792. Two parts bound together... More
![[NATIONAL COSTUMES OF KALUGA] Krestianskaya odezhda Kaluzhskoi Gamayunshchiny: Etnografichesky ocherk [i.e. Peasants Clothing of Gamayunshchina of Kaluga: Ethnographical Study]. M. E. Sheremeteva.](/pictures/thumb/366.jpg?v=1513597510)
29, [2] pp., 9 pl. 22x17 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears and rubbings of the wrappers, Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Extremely rare. One of 1150 copies. First and only edition. Published by History Society of Kaluga... More
![[CLASSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ishchem kupit'. Our desiderata [i.e. In Search to Buy. Our Desiderata]. P. Shibanov.](/pictures/thumb/131.jpg?v=1474969391)
Mezhdunarodnaya kniga: Moscow, 1927. 16 pp. 21x13,6 cm. Original wrappers. Very good condition. The brochure was compiled by Petr Shibanov (1864-1935), the most well-known antiquarian bookseller of the time containing the short list of rarest Russian books. There are only 378 books in the list with prices that Mezhdunarodnaya... More
![[BOOK DESIGN BY SOLOMON TELINGATER] Napostovsky svistok: Stikhi i epigrammy [i.e. Post Whistle: Poems and Epigrams]. S. A. Shvetsov.](/pictures/thumb/500.jpg?v=1533142567)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1932. [42] pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. In original illustrated cardboards. Very good, loss of the spine, covers rubbed, illustrated bookplate on the front pastedown (from the collection of O.S. Kuzmy). First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. A rare poetry book by satire poet Sergei Shvetsov... More
![[SINCLAIR FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS] Izbrannye rasskazy: Rasskaz dlya nachal'nogo chteniya na angliiskom yazyke [i.e. Peter Gudge Becomes a Secret Agent / from "100 Percent". Story for beginners studying English]. U. B. Sinclair.](/pictures/thumb/158.jpg?v=1475084763)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 35 pp. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Front cover is separate from the text block, some rubbings of wrappers, slightly rusted staples. Cover design by illustrator D.A. Bazhanov (1902-1946). The story is followed by small vocabulary. More
![[SOVIET ‘ELITE’ SCHOOL] Radishchevka nashikh dnei [i.e. Radishchevka of Our Days]. B. Slivkin, G., Goldberg.](/pictures/thumb/498.jpg?v=1533141777)
Moscow: Uchgiz-Narkompros RSFSR, 1931. 124 pp.: ill. 22x16 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Very good, foxing of the wrappers and endpapers. First and only edition. Very rare. One of 5000 copies. This book is written by two former students of the Radishchevka - the A.N. Radishchev model school... More
![[THE BEST COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN CLASSICS] Moya biblioteka [i.e. My Library]: [In 2 vols]. Bibliographical catalog. N. P. Smirnov-Sokolsky.](/pictures/thumb/58.jpg?v=1466166595)
Moscow: Kniga, 1969. 22x18 cm. In two original green cloth binidngs. Both volumes in original illustrated dust-jackets. Good. Minor tears of dust-jackets. The first and only edition of the catalog of the main Soviet bibliophile. Nikolay Smirnov-Sokolsky (1898-1962) was an artist but became best-known for his book collection. His... More
![[NORTH PACIFIC: RUSSIAN SHIPWRECKS FROM 1713 TO 1854] Letopis' Krusheniy i Pozharov Sudov Russkogo Flota on Nachala yego po 1854 god [i.e. A Chronicle of Wrecks and Fires on the Vessels of the Russian Fleet from its Inception to 1854]. A. P. Sokolov.](/pictures/thumb/222.jpg?v=1485343767)
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1855. Xxi, [2], 365 pp. 23,5x16 cm. With an additional woodcut title page (decorated with a vignette), a woodcut vignette on p. 365, and nine folding engraved maps at rear. Contemporary half leather, rebacked in style with gilt lettered title. Previous owner’s ink inscriptions... More
![[FIRST SOLZHENITSYN] Dlya pol'zy dela. Rasskaz [i.e. For the Good of the Cause. A Story]; Dva rasskaza. Sluchai na stantsii Krechetovka. Matryonin dvor [i.e. Two Stories: An Incident at Krechetovka Station. Matryona's Place]; Zakhar-Kalita; Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha [i.e. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]. A. I. Solzhenitsyn.](/pictures/thumb/78.jpg?v=1450415362)
Moscow: Novy Mir, 1962-1964. Dlya pol'zy dela. Rasskaz [i.e. For the Good of the Cause. A Story] // Novy Mir. №7. 1963. Pp. 58-90. Dva rasskaza. Sluchai na stantsii Krechetovka. Matryonin dvor [i.e. Two Stories: An Incident at Krechetovka Station. Matryona's Place] // Novy Mir. №1. 1963. Pp. 9-63. Zakhar-Kalita... More
![[HONG KONG, CANTON & SAIGON IN 1850S] Iz Krugosvetnogo Plavaniya: Ocherki Morskogo Byta [i.e. From a Voyage Around the World: Sketches of Everyday Life at Sea]. K. M. Staniukovich.](/pictures/thumb/225.jpg?v=1542898512)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of V. Golovin, 1867. [2], 381, [1] pp. 14x11,5 cm. Period style quarter leather. Title page with a minor restoration on the lower margin, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only one paper copy found in Worldcat (The British Library)... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN STEINBECK] Grozdiya gneva / Perevod s angl. N. Volzhinoi [i.e. The Grapes of Wrath / Translated from English by N. Volzhina]. J. Steinbeck.](/pictures/thumb/97.jpg?v=1450212613)
Moscow: Gosizdat, 1940. 504 pp.: ill., 1 front. (ill.). 20x13,5 cm. Illustrations by L. Brodaty. In original publisher's illustrated card boards. Covers slightly rubbed, owner's signature on the front endpaper, owner's ink book stamp on the title page, pp. 17, 41, 504; a small wormhole on the lower side of... More
![[EAST SIBERIA] Yeniseyskaya Guberniya [i.e. Yeniseysk Governorate]. Stepanov, A P.](/pictures/thumb/594.jpg?v=1549622464)
St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Conrad Wingeber, 1835. 2 vols. bound together. [4], ii, [1], 7-276, [2]; [4], ii, 139, xiv pp. 27x17 cm. With two large folding copper engraved plates at rear. Period dark green quarter leather. Gilt lettered initials of a previous owner “P.G.” on the bottom of the... More
![[PETRUSHKA BY STRAVINSKY] Suita z ballet Petrushka [i.e. The Suite to Petrushka Ballet. Piano Version by the Author]. I. Stravinsky.](/pictures/thumb/503.jpg?v=1533143319)
Kiev: Muzgiz, 1927. 35 pp. 34x25.5 cm. Some tears and stains on the wrappers and lower margin, otherwise very good. First Ukrainian edition. Rare. This is a piano transcription of Igor Stravinsky’s early composition ‘Petrushka’. He began to create the ballet in Ukrainian town Ustyluh in 1907. Performed... More
![[ON SATURN] Sur les Dimensions des Anneaux de Saturne // Memoires de L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg. Sixieme Serie. Sciences Mathematique et Physiques. Tome V. [i.e. The Dimensions of the Rings of Saturn // Memoirs of Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. 6 series. Mathematics and Physics. Vol. 5]. Otto Struve.](/pictures/thumb/4.jpg?v=1446527307)
St. Petersburg: de L'Imprimerie de L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1853. 403-548, [2] pp. 4vo. Original blue wrappers with a decorative border on the covers. Uncut. A very good copy. The front cover detached from the spine, tears on the spine and covers, two spots on the end cover. Rare... More
![[CHINA - FIRST OPIUM WAR] 海外餘話 Kaigai-Yowa [i.e. Additional Strange Tales from Overseas]. Suimu Chijin, Crazy Man in a. Drunken Sleep.](/pictures/thumb/530.jpg?v=1542803470)
[Japan]: Gyoyo-do, Ansei 2 [1855]. Second, but first illustrated edition. 5 vols. T.p., 19; 24; 23; 19; 19 double-ply leaves; with 20 double-page woodblock illustrations in text. 26x18 cm. Text and illustrations within single border, main text ten vertical lines. Original Japanese fukuro toji bindings: brownish paper covers with leaves... More
![[THOREAU IN RUSSIAN] Filosofiya estestvennoi zhizni. Izbrannye mysli Genri Davida Toro / S angl. perevel I. Nakashidze [i.e. The Philosophy of a Natural Life. Selected Thoughts of Henry David Thoreau / Translated by I. Nakashidze]. H. D. Thoreau.](/pictures/thumb/104.jpg?v=1472302866)
Moscow: Posrednik, 1903. 82 pp.: port. 20,5x15 cm. In later plain wrappers. Rubbed wrappers, with some soiling and owner's pencil markings in the text, bookshop markings on the inner side of the back cover. Otherwise a very good copy. Thoreau had a major influence on a lot of writers... More
![Inscription by K. Timiryazev on a phototype of his portrait: “Georgiyu Kuz’michu Fel’tdenu ot serdechno predannogo K. Timiryazeva [i.e. To Georgy Kuz’mich Fel’tden. Your sincerely K. Timiryazev]. Kliment TIMIRYAZEV.](/pictures/thumb/136.jpg?v=1472299403)
Moscow, [1910s]. Paper, ink. Phototype made by K. Fisher. 22x14,3 cm. Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (1843-1920), famous Russian botanist and physiologist, highly-regarded popularizer of science widely known for his enthusiastic public lectures, and moreover, a confirmed Darwinian, a point of view rarely espoused in czarist Russia. In 1910s Timiryazev was... More
![[FIRST BOOK BY TOLSTOY] Voyennyie rasskazy [i.e. The War Stories]. L. N. Tolstoy.](/pictures/thumb/210.jpg?v=1483923728)
St. Petersburg: Tipografiya glavnogo chtaba e.i.v. po voenno-uchebnym zavedeniyam, 1856. [4], 382, 1 pp. 19,5x13 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Raised bands, the title, author’s name and previous owner’s initials gilt on the spine. The first book by the author. Rare. According to N. Smirnov-Sokolskii it took him ‘quite a...... More