Moscow: Vneshtorgizdat, 1934. 195 pp. 20x14,5 cm. Original illustrated wrapper. Fine condition. First and only edition. One of 2000 copies. Very rare. A very interesting and unique in its kind publication on the northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus). The title of the book suggests that the content is..... More

Moscow: LEF, 1923. 36 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Near fine. One of 3000. Very rare. Constructivist cover designed by Anton Lavinsky (1893-1968), Soviet artist and designer, member of LEF and artist for LEF magazine. He was close with Mayakovsky and the group of artists of Institute..... More

Leningrad: Izdanie Akademii Khudozhestv, 1929. 120 pp.: ill., 1 ill. In original cardboards. Very good. First edition. One of 600 copies. Very rare. Cover design produced by the author, graphic artist Georgy Brylov who contributed to the Soviet design of books and posters and wrote 5 works about his..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdanie khudozhstvennoi literatury, 1966-1967. Pp. 6-127 (#11, 1966), pp.56-144 pp. (#1, 1967). 24,9x16 cm. In two issues, both in original printed wrappers, with marbled edges. Restored, water stains and pale stamps in issue of 1966, otherwise good and clean. Scarce on the market. The first printed..... More

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1866. 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1873. 32 pp. 25x16 cm. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous..... More

St. Petersburg: S.V. Zvonaryov, 1867. [4], iv, [4], 707 pp. 23,5x16,5 cm. With several woodcuts in text. Contemporary quarter leather with original pebbled papered boards; rebacked in style. Title page with a minor loss on the blank outer margin neatly repaired, some mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy..... More

Warsaw: Zwiazek Nar. Polskej Młodz. Akad. 1926. [4], 80 pp., [3] tabl.: ill. 21x16 cm. Added title page in French (Lettres de Frederic Chopin a Jean Bialoblocki). Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Few tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. First edition of Frederic Chopin’s (1810-1849) letters to..... More

Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. [16] pp.: ill. 27,8x21,8 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some restoration of the spine and last page, some general wearing. Otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition. One of 8000 copies. Illustrated by Vladislav Tvardovsky (1888-1942), Russian Soviet children’s book graphic artist, was working as..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Gos. izd-vo, 1927. 64 pp.: ill., schemes. 19.8x13.5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Loss of the small pieces of the spine, Soviet bookshop stamp on the rear wrapper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Wrappers by an unknown artist. With black-and-white photographs and schemes throughout..... More

Moscow: Izd. Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1939. 228 pp.: ill. 26,5x18 cm. In original full cloth with colored lettering on the spine and the front cover. Covers soiled and slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. One of 2500 copies. Scarce. A valuable..... More

St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1833. Octavo, 2 vols. Xxxvi [i-ii - t.p., iii-vii – table of contents, ix-x - dedication to K. Bulgakov, xi-xii - second dedication, xiii-xxxvi – translator’s preface & Dobell’s biography], 237, [1 - errata]; [2 – t.p.], vii – table of contents, 272 pp. With two..... More

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 127 pp.: ill. 18,5x12,5 cm. In original constructivist style wrappers and original illustrated dust jacket with portrait of the author by Hugo Gellert. Near fine, previous owner’s stamp on t.p. and few ink marks, two stains on dust jacket.  First thus edition. One of 7000..... More

Tiflis: Gosizdat, 1930. 79 pp. 19x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original wrapper illustrated by Irakly Gamrikeli. Illustrations of the decorations from different performances throughout the text. Very good. Some tears at the edges of the wrapper. Very rare. The book is dedicated to the main Georgian..... More