![MIDDLE EAST - ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY] Ta’likat Mir Sayyid Sharif fi sharh-e shamsiya [i.e....](/pictures/thumb/721.jpg?v=1563407617)
Tehran (?)., n.d. Commentaries added in 1283 H. [1866]. Octavo (ca. 22x16,5 cm). Lithographed edition. 48 unnumbered leaves. Text and commentaries on the margins in Arabic: main text in ruq’ah script, commentaries - in nastaaliq script. Weak typography stamp on verso of the first leaf. Pastedown endpapers are leaves from... More
![FIRST EDITION OF BROTHERS KARAMAZOV] Brat’ia Karamazovy [i.e. The Brothers Karamazov]: [In 2...](/images/noimage.png)
St. Petersburg: Brothers Panteleev, 1881. Vol.1. 509 pp. Vol.2. [2], 699 pp. 8vo. Two modern period-style binding. Very rare, especially in contemporary binding. The first edition of the one of the most important books in the Russian language, a masterpiece of immense influence. This was the final work by... More
Moscow: Nauka, 1989. 400 pp. Original cloth. Very good. This is the most detailed account of the Russian expeditions to the North Pacific at the time. Supplied with the indexes of ships, names and geographical places. The documents themselves include letters, orders, short accounts of the trips undertaken, etc. More
Moscow: Mysl, 1964. 623 pp.: ill., folding maps. Cloth binding with the illustrated dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout. Very good, the dust wrapper is slightly torn. Translation of: Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, v. 2, Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure / edited by J.C. Beaglehole... More
![NEW ZEALAND] Na schastlivikh ostrovah Ao-Tea-Roa (Novaia Zelandiya) [i.e. On the happy islands of...](/pictures/thumb/716.jpg?v=1563405847)
Rostov-On-Don: D. Paramonov, 1904. 52 pp. , 4 ills. Original wrappers. Very good. First edition. Rare provincial edition of the anonymous Russian (from Odessa) who decided to change his life and move to New Zealand. For that he found a boat that delivered lard to Odessa and as a.... More
Warsaw: PWN, 2018. More
![DON QUIXOTE IN RUSSIAN] Don-Kihot Lamanchskiy [i.e. Don Quixote, the Night of Sad Countenance and...](/pictures/thumb/714.jpg?v=1562883236)
St. Petersburg: A.F. Devrien, 1883. [2], 64 pp., 6 chromolithographic plates. 26x19 cm. Original cardboard binding. First edition. The spine is scuffed, the pages are soiled towards the end, few tears. Generally in good condition for the Russian children’s book of the 1880s. More
![SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets]. W. Shakespeare](/pictures/thumb/713.jpg?v=1562883060)
[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I’ll be home”. More
The archive consisting of one signed photo by Shostakovich, 6 letters (with the envelopes in maestro’s handwriting), 1 congratulatory telegram with the photo pasted on it and one family photo. All of the letters are addressed to Kazan to Isaia Sherman. Isai Sherman (1908-1972) the Ukrainian born conductor, who has... More
![JAPAN] Edinstvenniy iaposnko-russkii slovar [i.e. The Only Japanese-Russian Dictionary]. K....](/pictures/thumb/710.jpg?v=1562881279)
Tokyo; Osaka: Marusen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1910. [2], XII, 596, 6 pp. Original cloth binding, with tape over it. Two private stamps in Russian and Japanese on the title verso. Otherwise good. The third edition of the first Japanese-Russian dictionary written in Japan. The first edition came out in 1906, second in... More
![SOLOMON TELINGATER] Mao Tze Dun. Biograficheskiy ocherk. [i.e. Mao Zedong. The biography](/pictures/thumb/708.jpg?v=1562726716)
Moscow: OGIZ, 1939. 104 pp. Frontispiece by A. Suvorov. Book design by Solomon Telingator. First edition. Rare. The first Russian biography of Mao is designed by Solomon Telingater (1903-1969), the student of El Lissitsky and the artist who set the golden standard for the Soviet typography design... More
![AUSTRALIAN TANKS] Tanki. Spravochnik. 1943-1957. [i.e. The tanks. The reference book. 1943-1957](/pictures/thumb/706.jpg?v=1562725636)
Moscow: Voennaya Ordena Lenina Akademiya Bronetankovikh Voysk, 1961. 482 pp. 19x13 cm. Original cloth binding. Binding is slightly deformed. Otherwise good. Owner’s signature on the endpaper. The book is largely based on the book by F. Von Senger und Etterlin ‘Taschnbuch der panzer. 1943-1957’ with additional material and... More
Handwritten note by Leo Tolstoy dated 2 March 1893. No envelope or address: “It’s difficult to answer your question in writing. In words I might be able to advise you. Evening after 7 o’clock I'll be home”. More
![AUSTRALIAN METHOD] Samouchitel sportivnogo plavaniya. Avstraliyskiy sposob [i.e. The tutorial on...](/pictures/thumb/702.jpg?v=1562724200)
Pskov: printed by the author, 1913. 18 p., 7 full-page ills. Original illustrated wrapper. Block is slightly bent and the wrappers are soiled, otherwise good. This curious self-published regional brochure is dedicated largely to the Australian crawl stroke. First recorded in Australia in 1870s, this is probably the... More
![NEW ZEALAND] Novaya Zelandiya i Okeania, ili Ostrova Yuzhnogo Moria [i.e. New Zealand and...](/pictures/thumb/701.jpg?v=1562723939)
St. Petersburg-Moscow: Obschestvennaya polza, 1874. 638 pp., ill., 2 folding maps. Modern half-leather binding. Uncut. Front wrapper is preserved in the binding. Illustrated throughout with the steel engravings (in text, full-page and double-page). First book in Russian dedicated to New Zealand. The Russian translation of the book ‘Ozeanien... More
![CAPTAIN COOK] Podrobnoye i Dostovernoye Opisaniye Zhizni i Vsekh Puteshestviy Slavneyshago...](/pictures/thumb/700.jpg?v=1562722488)
Saint Petersburg: B.L. Gek [Heck], 1790. First and only Russian Edition. Octavo (ca. 20,5x12 cm). 2 vols. bound together. 271; 275 pp. With a copper engraved portrait frontispiece of Captain Cook. Period brown Russian full calf; spine with black gilt lettered title label and gilt tooled decorative ornaments, marbled endpapers... More
![THE MOST IMPORTANT UKRAINIAN BOOK OF THE 17th CENTURY] Paterik ili Otechnik Pecherskii](/pictures/thumb/699.jpg?v=1562721679)
First edition. Kiev, 1661. 314 leaves, 1 engraved title page, 2 plans of the caves as well as 49 woodcuts of Lavra saints. 31x18 cm. The first Old Slavonic edition of arguably the most important book printed in Ukraine in the 17th century. Complete with the folding plans of... More
![MOSCOW ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY] Arkhitektura: Ezhemesiachnik. 1-2 [i.e. Architecture: Monthly...](/pictures/thumb/698.jpg?v=1561148013)
[Moscow]: Moskovskoie Arkhitekturnoie Obshchestvo, 1923. 50, [14] pp.: ills. 32,2х25 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Small tears of the front wrapper, light restoration of the tears and spine, spots on the title page. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. Early constructivist wrapper designed by A. Vesnin (one... More
![FIRST MOSCOW BIBLE] Bibliya sirech knigi vetkhogo i novogo zaveta [i.e. The Bible, or the Books...](/pictures/thumb/696.jpg?v=1562551218)
Moscow: Pechatnyi Dvor, 1663. [540 leaves]. 35x23 cm. Contemporary full leather. Modern clasps. [540 leaves]. 35x23 cm. Contemporary full leather. Modern clasps. Binding is restored: pieces of leather are added. The copy is complete. Old restoration of the title page and the leaf with Moscow’s plan and Russian coat of... More
[End of 19th cent.] 220 leaves. 36x24 cm. Manuscript. The title page and frontispiece is decorated in colors. Every chapter starts with illuminated headpiece and initial. Contemporary red morocco with raised bands and gilt and blind stamping. One of two claps preserved. The covers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise very good... More
Petrograd, 1917. 20 leaves. 20x13 cm. Original printed wrapper. Losses of the parts of the wrapper, otherwise good and clean internally. Owner’s stamp on the front wrapper. Contemporary notes in pencil on the last page, drafting the plan to create ‘the storage of maps’ in the Bureau, mentioning that somewhere..... More
![SPRS rupnecibas izbuve [i.e. New Dots on the Map of USSR]. G. Ostroglazovs](/pictures/thumb/692.png?v=1559611397)
Riga: Jauna kultura, 1934. 202, [6] pp. 22x15 cm. Original cardboard binding, near fine condition. Book design by Solomon Teligator (1903-1969) and I.Tsarevich. The first and only Latvian edition. The interesting photobook that was produced in Riga after the Russian original title that came out in Moscow in Molodaya... More
![Posle Rossii [i.e. After Russia. 1922-1925]. Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva](/pictures/thumb/691.png?v=1559609657)
Paris: I.E. Povolotzky, 1928. 160 pp. 18,8x12 cm. In original printed wrappers. The spine is restored. Wrapper is slightly soiled. Rare. One of 500 copies produced. The first edition of Tsvetaeva’s last book of poems, including the poems written after she emmigrated to France from Soviet Russia. Tsvetaeva wanted... More
![Traktor STZ-NATI [i.e. The tractor STZ-NATI]. Z. Zaretskiy](/pictures/thumb/690.png?v=1559608412)
Moscow: Nauchno-issledovatelelskiy institut poligraficheskoy i izdatelskoy tekhniki OGIZ’a pri SNK RSFSR, [1945]. [65] pp. 24x37 cm. Original card boards. Tear on the inside of the front endpaper, binding is slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. First and only edition. The album is dedicated to the tractor STZ-NATI that was in... More