![[LENINGRAD SIEGE EXHIBITION] Vystavka Geroicheskaya oborona Leningrada. Ocherk-putevoditel’ [i.e. Exhibition ‘Heroic Siege of Leningrad’. Guidebook]](/pictures/thumb/365.jpg?v=1513597186)
Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1945. 131, [1] pp.: ill. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tiny tears of outer edges of extended yapped wrappers. One of 5000 copies. Very rare. The guide book includes thorough description of all 26 halls with historic details on the side. Even more valuable are black... More
![[BABY FOOD] Detskaya kukhnya: Prigotovlenie pishchi malym detyam. 119 retseptov [i.e. Children’s Food: Cooking for Little Children. 119 recipes]. V. B. Kiseleva.](/pictures/thumb/364.jpg?v=1513596961)
Leningrad: Biomedgiz, 1935. 64 pp. 19x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Wrappers rubbed with small tears on the extremities, a front cover and few pages in the beginning with small closed tear near the spine (not affecting text). Otherwise a very good, internally clean copy. First and only edition... More
![[FEMALE RUSSIAN WRITERS] Nashi pisatel’nitsy: (‘‘Bibliographichesky slovar’ russkikh pisatel’nits knyazya N.N. Golitsyna. SPb. 1889. VI i 308’’: Statiya S.I. Ponomareva) [i.e. Our Female Writers: (‘‘Biographical Index of Russian Female Writers by Count N.N. Golitsyn. SPb. 1889. VI and 308’’: Article by S.I. Ponomarev]. S. I. Ponomarev.](/pictures/thumb/363.jpg?v=1513596662)
St. Petersburg: typ. Akademii Nauk, 1891. [2], 78 pp. 22,5x15,5 cm. Without wrappers. Very good, occasional foxing, with later spine and back cover. Very rare. Offprint from Sbornik otdeleniya russkogo yazyka i slovesnosti Akademii nauk (V. 52, #7) [i.e. Digest of the Department of Russian Language of Academy of... More
![[MARIE CURIE’S FOLLOWER] Radiy i ego primenenie v terapevticheskoy klinike [i.e. Radium and Its Use in the Clinical Therapy]. P. G. Mezernitskiy.](/images/noimage.png)
St. Petersburg: Prakticheskaya meditsina, 1912. With 49 ills. 126 pp. 23,3x17 cm. In contemporary binding. Bound together with 6 other Russian medical papers of the time. The first edition of this book by the founder of Russian radiation therapy Polien Grigorievich Mezernitskiy (1878-1943). In 1909 he was working alongside... More
![[CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby ikh vychislenii / S frantsuzkogo N. Gvozdev [i.e. Air Propellers: The Theory of Screw Engines and Methods of Its Calculation / From French by N. Gvozdev]. S. K. Drzewiecki.](/pictures/thumb/361.jpg?v=1513593862)
Sevastopol: tip. N.A. Kovaleva, 1910. [3], 60 pp.: diagr. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original wrappers. Lacking back wrapper and spine, loose, tears and owner’s signature on the front wrapper, foxing and stains on the title page with small holes on the margin. First and only Russian translation (original was published... More
Tomsk: 1910. 2nd edition. With 60 ills. 294 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Good condition. The first edition came out in 1910 and was called by its author ‘the first attempt to create the guide to autopsy by a Russian’. That statement is correct, prior to that the... More
[4], IV, 134 pp., 2 pl. including 29 ill. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Binding is rubbed. Extremely rare textbook, one of the first examples of the medical book written by a female doctor Lyubov Izmailova from Kutaisi (Georgia). The textbook was created for the female schools. The book has... More
![[HISTORY OF SOVIET CINEMA] Ocherki po istorii sovetskogo kino: Rabochaya programma [i.e. Essays on the History of Soviet Cinema: Work Program].](/pictures/thumb/357.jpg?v=1513592922)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1951. 180 pp. 19,5x13 cm. In original wrappers. Very good, tears and loss of small fragments of the spine. First and only edition. One of 850. Very rare. Classified as manuscript with mark on the cover and title page. This book was produced in... More
![[NEUROGENETICS] Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy: Kliniko-geneticheskoe issledovanie [i.e. The Problems of Polymorphism in Hereditary Disorders of the Nervous System: Clinical Genetic Research]. S. N. Davidenkov.](/pictures/thumb/353.jpg?v=1513338091)
Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoyuznogo instituta eksperiment. medetsiny, 1934. 139 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Some general wear of the wrappers, small cracks of the spine. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. One of the milestone textbooks and second published book on neurogenetics by Sergei... More
![[SOVIET WOMEN STORIES] Zhenshchiny strany sotsializma [i.e. Women of the Country of Socialism]](/pictures/thumb/352.jpg?v=1513337866)
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1939. 164 pp.: port. 20x14 cm. In original blue cloth with gilt title, blind stamping of the imprint and embossed image on the front board. Near fine, slightly bumped on the corners and spine, couple of erased pencil markings on endpapers, bookshop’s stamp on p.51. Twenty five... More
![[REVOLUTIONARY ART] Oktyabr’ v iskusstve i literature. 1917-1927 [i.e. October in Art and Literature. 1917-1927]](/pictures/thumb/350.jpg?v=1513337442)
Leningrad: Krasnaya gazeta, 1927. 85, [2] pp.: ill. 25x19 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. A very good and clean copy. A fragment of the outer edge of yapped front wrapper is missing, closed tear of the front wrapper, small spots and tears of the margins, text block is detached from... More
![[WOMAN WALKS] Zhenshchina idet / Per. s nemetskogo M.S. Zhivova [i.e. A Woman Walks / Translated from German by M.S. Zhivov]. G. Lorbeer, K., Kleber.](/pictures/thumb/348.jpg?v=1513337133)
Moscow: Izd-vo MOPR SSSR, 1929. 30, [2] pp. 17x13 cm. In original constructivist wrappers designed by V. Dobrovol’sky. Fine, uncut. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and small pen mark on the rear wrapper. Titled ‘‘A Woman Walks’’ this book with a fierce woman on the cover includes two short stories about..... More
![[FONTS FOR MAPS] Al’bom topograficheskikh i khudozhestvennykh shriftov: Metodicheskoe posobie pri vycherchivanii topograficheskikh planov, oformlenii kart i drugikh inzhenerno-tekhnicheskikh chertezhei [i.e. Album of Topographical and Artistic Fonts: Toolkit for Delineation of Topographic Plans, Making Maps and Other Engineering and Technical Drawings]. G. F. Goncharov.](/pictures/thumb/343.jpg?v=1507834829)
Second edition. [N.p.]: Dinamo, 1947. [2], 16 pp., [2], 80 pl. 20x29 cm. In custom made binding with lettering on the front board (without original card boards). Small tears of the spine, inscription on the front pastedown, otherwise very good. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The... More
![[HOW TO SHOOT NEWSREEL] Kinokhronika i kak ee snimat’ [i.e. Newsreel and How to Shoot It]. G. M. Boltiansky.](/pictures/thumb/340.jpg?v=1507834338)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 75 pp.: ill. 17x13 cm. In original photomontage wrappers. Some wear of the wrappers, loss of the small piece of the rear cover, Soviet bookshop’s ink stamp on the rear cover, very rare foxing in text, otherwise very good. Rare. First edition of the second book... More
![[SOVIET KAMA SUTRA]](/pictures/thumb/330.jpg?v=1507831801)
Two books on sex, originating from the same source: 1. Entsiklopediya intimnoi zhizni [i.e. The Encyclopedia of Intimate Life]. [N.p., 1970s]. 44 leaves. 30x22 cm. Typescript. In owner’s plastic folder. Soiling and deformations of the folder, clean text block. The Soviet underground translation of an American book from... More
![[FAR EASTERN HUNTING] Zapiski okhotnika Vostochnoi Sibiri (1856-1863), Zaklyuchayushchie v sebe: nekotorye zamechaniya, kasayushchiyesya sobstvenno tekhnicheskoy chasti okhoty... [i.e. Notes of a Hunter from Eastern Siberia (1856-1863), Including: Some Notes Regarding the Technical Part of Hunting; Description of Different Animals Inhabiting the Spanless Forests and Steppes of Eastern Siberia, and Methods of Hunting in All Possible Ways, with the Demonstration of the Hunting Devices, and Some Notes on Siberian Nature and Siberian Hunters, their Everyday Life, Superstitions and Habits]. A. A. Cherkasov.](/pictures/thumb/326.jpg?v=1542898704)
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
St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1821. T.p., [2], 98 pp. Octavo. Contemporary half straight-grained morocco with gilt tooled title labels on the spine (gilt renewed). Pencil markings on the title page, mild water stains on the lower margins of the text leaves, ink stamp of a Soviet bookshop on... More
![[CHINA] Rezultaty Poezdki po Hulan-Chenskomu Futudunstvu [i.e. Results of a Travel to the Province of Hulan-Chen]. A. P. Tsererin.](/pictures/thumb/321.jpg?v=1542898141)
Vladivostok: Typ. of Sushchinsky & Co., 1902. [2], 46 pp. Octavo. With a folding lithographed plate and a folding lithographed map at rear. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. Wrappers with very minor chipping on extremities. First and only edition. Very rare. The account of a travel to Harbin across... More
![[AMUR RIVER: NEW RUSSIAN TERRITORIES] Na Vostoke: Poezdka na Amur (v 1860-1861 godakh). Dorozhnye zametki i vospominaniia [i.e. On the East: A Travel to Amur in 1860-1861. Notes and Memoirs]. S. V. Maksimov.](/pictures/thumb/320.jpg?v=1542897246)
St. Petersburg: Obschestvennaya Polza, 1864. [4], 588 pp. Octavo. Contemporary gilt tooled quarter leather with blind stamped brown cloth boards. Head and tail of spine with minor chips, first few pages with some mild water staining of upper outer corner of blank margin of pages, mild foxing throughout and a.... More
[An offprint from: Proceedings of the Society of Research of the Amur Region, a Branch of the Amur Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Vol. 5, issue 2]. Vladivostok: Typ. of N.V. Remezov, 1896. 147 pp., including three folding leaves. 16,5x11,5 cm. Original publisher’s printed wrappers. Front wrapper with... More
![[KAMCHATKA] Po zapadnomu beregu Kamchatki: S kartoy [i.e. On the West Coast of Kamchatka: With a Map]. [An offprint from:] Zapiski Imperatorskogo Russkogo Geographicheskogo Obshchestva po obshchey geografii. Tom XXXVII, no. 2 [i.e. Proceedings of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society on the General Geography. Vol. 27, no. 2]. V. N. Tyushov.](/pictures/thumb/318.jpg?v=1507295050)
St. Petersburg: Typ. of M. Stasyulevich, 1906. [2], xii, 521 pp. 25x17,5 cm. With a large folding lithographed map and over thirty illustrations in text. Title page in Russian and French. In original publisher’s wrappers, rebacked with similar paper. Faded previous owner’s ink inscription on the title page, wrappers with..... 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
St. Petersburg: Typ. of D.I. Shemetkin, 1883. In 2 vols. bound together. [2], xv, 318, [2]; [2], iii. 288 pp. Octavo. Period Russian olive quarter leather with marbled boards and faded gilt lettered title on the spine. Faded ink inscription on the first free endpaper, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the... More
St. Petersburg: Typ. of Maikov, 1875. 265 pp. 24,5x15,5 cm. Modern (period style) half leather. Weak old library stamps on the title page and p. 1, mild foxing of the text, last page with the repair of the lower outer margin. Otherwise a very good copy. Very rare (only... More
St. Petersburg: Typ. of A. Transhel, 1871. 3rd enlarged edition. [2], v, [2], 690 pp. 22x16 cm. Contemporary Russian boards rebacked with brown leather, spine with gilt lettered title in Russian. Few library markings and some mild foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare Russian imprint. The first... More