![[FIRST RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO AFRICA] Puteshestvie vo Vnutrenniuiu Afriku [i.e. Travel to Inner Africa]. E. P. Kovalevsky.](/pictures/thumb/599.jpg?v=1549627487)
St. Petersburg: Typ. Of Eduard Pratz, 1849. 2 vols. bound together. [6], 162, [2]; [4], 197, [2] pp. 215x14 cm. With two woodcut frontispieces,large folding lithographed map, folding table, woodcut vignettes on the title pages of both volumes and 13 woodcut illustrations in text (including two full-page). Pagination mistake in... More
![[RUSSIAN FUTURISTIC BOOK] Russkaya futuristicheskaya kniga [i.e. Russian Futuristic Book]. F. F. Kovtun.](/pictures/thumb/64.jpg?v=1466171903)
Moscow: Kniga, 1989. 246 pp.: ill. 28x14,5 cm. In publisher's illustrated binding. Fine. This is the first Russian account of 19 Russian futuristic books, particularly litographed editions appeared in 1910s. Those books were experiments of Russian poets and artists like M. Larionov, N. Goncharova, K. Malevich, V. Tatlin, V.... More
![Slonik Moka i Mishuk u sebia doma [i.e. Little Elephant Moka and Bear Mishuk at Home]. V. N. Krestianov.](/pictures/thumb/47.jpg?v=1446527311)
St. Petersburg: Devrien, 1913. [4], 28 pp. 21x30 cm. Illustrated by the author (on every page alongside the text). Slightly rubbed, both pages and boards. Spine restored, otherwise good. Rare pre-revolutionary edition (comparing to more common Berlin one printed in 1920s). More
![[DECOR OF THE BUILDINGS] Kamenye shtukaturki [i.e. The Stone Plasters]. M. A. Krestov.](/pictures/thumb/281.jpg?v=1494862821)
Moscow: Vsesoiuznaia akademiia arhitektury, 1938. 68 pp.: ill. 22,5 x 15 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Small tears and some losses of the spine, crease of the front cover and the title page, owner’s pencil underlinings. The first edition. This is a unique edition containing the plaster materials... More
![[ONE OF THE NEW ERA TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS] Elementy arkhitekturno-prostranstvennoi kompozitsii [i.e. Elements of Architectural and Spatial Composition]. V. F. Krinsky.](/pictures/thumb/291.jpg?v=1500466658)
Moscow: Gosstroiizdat, 1934. 172 pp.: ill., 5 ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. In publisher’s cloth with red lettering. General soiling, title page is toned, owner’s signature on the front board and title page. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white drawings and photographs. The... More
![[YENISEY DURING THE SIBERIAN GOLD RUSH] Yeniseyski okrug i yego zhizn [i.e. The Yeniseysky District and Its Life / Published by the Russian Geographical Society on the funds of V.A. Kokorev]. M. F. Krivoshapkin.](/pictures/thumb/24.jpg?v=1446527309)
St. Petersburg: Imp. Rus. geogr. o-vo, na izhdivenii V.A. Kokoreva, 1865. [4], v, [4], 378; [2], 188, 68 pp. 8vo. With two folding lithographed plates and a folding lithographed map. Contemporary quarter leather binding with marbled boards and gilt lettered title on the spine. 19th century Russian library stamp on... More
![[FUTURIST COVER BY KLIUN] Ironiada. Lirika. Mai-iyun’ 1930 g. [i.e. Ironiada. Lyric. May-June of 1930]. A. Kruchyonykh.](/pictures/thumb/122.jpg?v=1472299990)
Moscow: 1930. 19 pp., ill. 21,5х18 сm. In original illustrated wrappers. Rubbed, two small closed tears of the spine. Otherwise a near fine copy. One of 250 copies. Very rare. Published by the author. Cover design by I. Kliun. Illustrations by I. Terentyev. This is one of the last... More
![[ARCTIC: POLAR URALS] Puteshestviya P.I. Krusensterna k Severnomu Uralu v 1874-1876 godakh dlya issledovaniya vodyanogo soobshcheniya mezhdu pritokami Pechory i Obi [i.e. Travels of P.I. Krusenstern to the Northern Urals in 1874-1876, for the Survey of Communication by Water between the Tributaries of the Pechora and Ob Rivers]. P. I. Krusenstern.](/pictures/thumb/316.jpg?v=1507292533)
St. Petersburg: ‘‘Slavyanskaya Pechatnya’’, 1879. [4], 172, [1] pp. Large octavo. With a large folding lithographed map at rear. Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Very minor tears of extremities, otherwise a very good uncut copy in its original state. First and only edition. Very rare. An account of the last..... More
![[MUTEFERRIKA - PERSIA] Târîh-i seyyâh der beyân-i zuhûr-i Afgânîyan ve sebeb-i inhidâm-i binâ-i devlet-i Sâhân-i Safevîyân [i.e. The History of the Afghan Wars in Persia and the Reasons of the Fall of the Safavid Empire]. Jan Tadeusz Krusinski.](/pictures/thumb/518.jpg?v=1539119611)
Istanbul: Typ. Of Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1729. [7], 97 leaves (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 20,5x14,5 cm. Black stamps on the first and the last leaves, short manuscript notes in Ottoman Turkish on leaves 1, 7 and 8. 19th century dark brown quarter sheep with black pebbled paper boards. Binding slightly... More
![[CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]. Beisen Kubota.](/pictures/thumb/398.jpg?v=1519383242)
Tokyo: Jihei Tanaka, 1889-1890. 2 vols. 16x23 cm (oblong large octavo). Vol. 1: t.p., 28 leaves, with 16 double-page and 17 singlepage woodblock illustrations in text.; Vol. 2: 28 leaves, with 19 doublepage and 13 single-page woodblock illustrations in text. Text and illustrations within single border. Original Japanese fukuro toji... More
![[EAST COST OF NORTH AMERICA & CUBA] Puteshestvie po Severo-Amerikanskim Shtatam, Kanade i ostrovu Kube [i.e. Travel across the North-American States, Canada and the Cuba Island]. A. B. Lakier.](/pictures/thumb/308.jpg?v=1505817859)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of K. Wolf, 1859. 2 vols. bound together. [4], iv, 374; [4], [iv], 399, vii. 21x14,5 cm. With a large folding lithographed map. Contemporary quarter leather, spine with gilt lettered title. Binding mildly rubbed on extremities, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very... More
![[FIRST BOOK BY LANDAU] Elektroprovodimost’ metallov [i.e. The Metal Conductivity]. L. Kompaneets Landau, A.](/pictures/thumb/74.jpg?v=1450242570)
Kharkiv: ONTI, 1935. 60 pp. 18x13 cm. 1 of 3000 copies. Original publisher's wrappers. Front wrapper is slightly rubbed. Otherwise a near fine copy, partly uncut. Extremely rare. The first printed book by Nobel laureate Lev Davydovich Landau (1908-1968) best known for his contributions in the field of... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN PLAN OF BEIJING] Dnevnye Zapiski Karavannomu Puti cherez Naunskuyu Dorogu ot Tsurukhaitu do Pekina, 1736 godu / [i.e. Daily Notes on the Caravan Travel along the Nenjiang River Route from Tsurukhaitu to Beijing in 1736]. In: Akademicheskiye Izvestiya na 1781 god, Soderzhashchiye v Sebe Istoriyu Nauk i Noveyshiye Otkrytiya Onykh… [i.e. Academic Newsletter for 1781, Containing the History of Sciences and the Latest Discoveries in Them…]. Lorenz Lange.](/pictures/thumb/538.jpg?v=1542896544)
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1781. Parts 7 & 8 bound together. 942 pp. 20,5x12 cm. With one folding copper engraved plan and three folding copper engraved plates, bound without one copper engraved plate (a blueprint of a handmill). Contemporary Russian full leather with green title label on the... More
![[FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT LINCOLN] Avraam Linkol'n i velikaya bor'ba mezhdu Severnymi i Yuzhnymi amerikanskimi shtatami v prodolzheniye 1861-1865 godov. Per. s nem. [i.e. Abraham Lincoln and The Great Struggle between the North and South during 1861-1865. Translated from German]. M. Lange.](/pictures/thumb/139.jpg?v=1472301241)
St. Petersburg: tip. Kukol'-Yasnopol'skogo, 1867. [2], 474, IV pp., 1 port. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with gilt-lettering and decoration on the spine, decorations on boards in blind. Very good. Rubbed, few spots and owner's ink stamp on the title-page. First edition. The book is translated from German the year... More
![[FIRE IN IRKUTSK] Gubernsky Gorod Irkutsk (Pozhary 22-go i 24-go Iyunya 1879) [i.e. Provincial City of Irkutsk: Fires of June 22 and 24, 1879]. D. D. Larionov.](/pictures/thumb/584.jpg?v=1548765387)
Irkutsk: Typ. Of N.N. Sinitsyn, 1880. With a large folding lithographed map at rear. Original publisher’s wrappers. Paper slightly age toned, wrappers with minor creases, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare East Siberian imprint with no paper copies found in Worldcat. First-hand account of..... More
![[RUSSIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION: AMERICA - AUSTRALIA - PACIFIC] Plavaniye Vokrug Sveta na Shlyupe Ladoge v 1822, 1823 i 1824 godakh. Shlyupom Nachalstvoval Kapitan-Leytenant Andrey Lazarev, Nyne Kapitan I-go Ranga, Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva Fligel-Adyutant. Izdano po Vysochaishemu Poveleniyu [i.e. Voyage Around the World on Sloop Ladoga in 1822, 1823 and 1824. The Sloop was Commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Andrey Lazarev, Now Captain of the 1st Rank and Aide-de-camp of His Imperial Majesty. Published on the Highest Order]. A. P. Lazarev.](/pictures/thumb/589.jpg?v=1548767756)
St. Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1832. [2], [4], [2], [6], 275, [1] pp. 21x13,5 cm. Mistake in pagination with p. 96 being followed by p. 98, but no gap in text. With a folding copper engraved map at rear. Remnants of a label of a 19th-century bookshop of Alexander Smirdin on... More
![[SOVIET CRITICS OF USA IN 1930] Sovremennaya Amerika [i.e. Modern America]. A. G. Lebedenko, A., Rashkovskaya.](/pictures/thumb/146.jpg?v=1475057390)
Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1929. 100 pp.: ill. 17х13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restoration of the spine, previous owner's ink stamp on the title page, margin of p.65 is cut off (the text is not affected). Cover design by Georgy Fitingof (1905-1975), Soviet artist and illustrator well known... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON KURDS] Izsledovaniya ob Iranskykh Kurdakh i ikh Predkakh, SevernykhKhaldeyakh [i.e. A Research of the Kurds and their Ancestors, Northern Chaldeans]. P. I. Lerch.](/pictures/thumb/596.jpg?v=1549626630)
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856-1858. 3 vols. bound together. Vii, 121, [1]; vii, 139, [1- errata]; [6], xxxvii, 113, [1] pp. 24x16 cm. Period style green half morocco. Paper slightly age toned, a couple of mild water stains in text, but overall a very good copy. First... More
![[AVANT-GARDE CINEMA] Chelovek i kino: Estetiko-sotsiologicheskii etiud [i.e. Mankind and Cinematography: An Aesthetic and Sociological Study]. M. Levidov.](/pictures/thumb/283.jpg?v=1494863494)
Moscow: Kino-izdatelstvo RSFSR Kinopechat, 1927. 112 pp. 13,5 x 17,5 cm. Original illustrated photomontage wrappers. Tiny tears of the spine, Georgian stamp on the title page ‘From books of Nico Mitsishvili’. Otherwise very good. Very rare. First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. The constructivist edition by Mikhail... More
![Mark Tven. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel russkikh perevodov i kriticheskoi literatury na russkom yazyke. 1867-1972 [i.e. Mark Twain. Bibliography of Russian Translations and Critical Literature in Russian, 1867-1972]. I. M. Levidova.](/pictures/thumb/140.jpg?v=1472424184)
Moscow: Kniga, 1974. 175 pp.: ill., 1 port. 22x13 cm. In original publisher's cloth. The first bibliography of Mark Twain's works in Russian. The book consists of two sections: translations into Russian and literature about Twain in Russian. Every section is divided by subjects, translations – by kind... More
![[FIRST RUSSIAN CIRCUMNAVIGATION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR] Puteshestvie vokrug Sveta v 1803, 4, 5 i 1806 godakh, po poveleniyu Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Alexandra Pervago, na korable Neve, pod Nachalstvom Flota Kapitan-Leytenanta, nyne Kapitana I-go Ranga i Kavalera Yuriya Lisyanskogo [i.e. Voyage Round the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 Performed by the Order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia in the ship Neva, under Command of Captain-Lieutenant of the Fleet, Now Captain of the 1st Rank and Chevalier Yury Lisiansky]. Y. F. Lisiansky.](/pictures/thumb/590.jpg?v=1548768056)
St. Petersburg: Typ. Of F. Drekhsler, 1812. In 2 vols. [6], ix, 246, iii, [1 - errata]; [2], 335, iii, [1 - errata] pp. Small Octavo. With a stipple engraved frontispiece portrait of Yuri Lisiansky by A. Ukhtomsky after a drawing by G. Geuzendam. Preface to vol. 1 (p. Vi)... More
![Mamatsi mgzavrebi [i.e. Brave Passengers]. Stepan Lisiciani.](/pictures/thumb/81.jpg?v=1450242570)
Tbilisi: Progress, 1907. [12] pp. 26x18 cm. Lithographed illustrated wrappers by unknown Armenian artist as well as plates and illustrations in text. Near fine. Minor stains on the wrapper. Very rare. The first edition of this Armenian folktale. Stepan Lisiciani (1865-1947) who adapted it for this book was... More
![[HISTORY OF RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE GROUPS] Khudozhestvennye gruppirovki za poslednie 25 let [i.e. Art Groups for the Last Twenty Five Years]. V. M. Lobanov.](/pictures/thumb/568.jpg?v=1547728546)
Moscow: Khud. izd. akts. o-vo AKhR, 1930. 148 pp. 19x13 cm. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Very good. Restoration of the wrappers (original spine is lost), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the recto of the rear cover, a few underlining in text (pencil). First edition. One of 5000 copies. Scarce. Viktor Lobanov... More
![[LOMONOSOV’S EPIC POEM ABOUT PETER THE GREAT] Piotr Velikiy [i.e. Peter the Great]. M. V. Lomonosov.](/pictures/thumb/246.jpg?v=1490789333)
St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1760. [4], 44 pp. 24x19 cm. Period styled full leather, some pages are restored (not affecting the text itself), the last page has some stains. 1 of 600 copies printed. Extremely rare first edition of Lomonosov’s epic poem about Peter the Great. Complete with... More
![[ARCTIC: NORTHEAST PASSAGE] Proekt Lomonosova i ekspeditsiya Chichagova; [and:] Kratkoe opisanie raznikh puteshestvii po severnim moryam… [i.e. Lomonosov’s Project and Chichagov’s Expedition; with: A Brief Description of Various Voyages in the Northern Seas and Indication of a Possible Passage via the Siberian Ocean to the East Indies/ Published by the Hydrographical Department of the Naval Ministry]. M. V. Lomonosov.](/pictures/thumb/247.jpg?v=1549625610)
St. Petersburg: Morskaya Typ. 1854. Second enlarged edition. [4], c, 150 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with marbled papered boards, new endpapers. Papers lightly age toned, barely visible water stain on several leaves at end of text, but overall a very good copy of this rare book... More