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[TSAR GIRL] Tsar-devitsa. Poema-skazka [i.e. The Tsar Girl. The Fairytale Poem]

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Moscow: GIZ, 1922. 159 pp.: ill. 18x14 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine is slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Illustrated throughout by modernist artist Dmitriy Mitrokhin (1883-1973). The first edition of the famous poem by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1932), the poem was based on...

Price: $2,500.00

[TOLSTOY’S AUTOGRAPH] Sochinenia grafa L.N. Tolstogo [i.e. Works of Count L.N. Tolstoy]

Tolstoy, L.N.

9th ed. Moscow: Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko., 1893. [2 - t.p.], 367 pp., 2 port. 25x16 cm. In contemporary half leather with art nouveau decorations, gilt lettering and floral decor on the spine. Moire boards and endpapers. Near fine. Occasional foxing, small margin tear on p. 353 (text not...

Price: $15,000.00

[DOSTOEVSKY’S FIRST EDITION] Podrostok [i.e. The Adolescent]

Dostoevsky, F.M.

St. Petersburg: A. Transhel, 1876. Parts 1-3. [2], 247, [2], 184, [2], 277 pp. 21x14 cm. Contemporary half leather. The ticket of Borodin’s bindery in Saint Petersburg on the rear endpaper. Gilt lettering on the spine. Very good, some foxing. First edition. The fourth of the ‘Dostoevsky’s big...

Price: $13,000.00

[FIRST EDITION OF THE DEAD SOULS] Pokhozhdeniya Chichikova, ili Myortvye dushi: Poema N. Gogolia [i.e. The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls: N. Gogol’s Poem]

Gogol, N.V.

Moscow: Universitetskaya tipografia, 1842. 475 pp. 23x15 cm. Contemporary half leather. Some bleak water staining on the corner of first pages, pale stain on p.387, as well as the restoration of the spine, but generally a very good copy. From our experience, the condition is ‘better than usual’. First...

Price: $28,000.00

[LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST]

The sammelband on electricity: 1. Lomonosov, Mikhail. Oratio de Meteroris vi Electrica Ortis [i.e. Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force]. St, Petersburg: Academy of Science typography, [1753]. [6], 68 pp., 3 pl. 21x17 cm. In modern period styled half leather. The original endpapers of the sammelband preserved...

Price: $14,000.00

[CABARET THEATRE ‘FALSE MIRROR’] The archive of ‘Krivoe zerkalo’ [i.e. The False Mirror]

[Leningrad, 1920s]. 46 items. Archive consists of 3 photos of the actors (signed), 3 posters on the performances of the theatre, 2 programs, the folder with numerous newspaper clippings with the articles on the theatre, 6 typescripts of the plays that passed censors in different republics of the Union (it...

Price: $4,500.00

[COLLECTION OF CLIPPINGS ON MEYERHOLD]

The clippings originate from newspapers ‘Pravda’, ‘Krasny Putilovets’, ‘Leningradskaya Pravda’, ‘Pravda Severa’, ‘Bolshevistskaya Borozda’, ‘Sovetskoe Iskusstvo’, ‘Teatr i dramaturgiya’, ‘Separator’, etc. Some of the papers are provincial like the newspaper ‘Podporozhskaya Pravda’ (printed in Podporozhie, a small town close to Finland) or ‘Bolshevistksaya borozda’ (printed in Okulovka near Novgorod)... ...

Price: $1,200.00

[MIDDLE EAST – ISRAEL, PALESTINE (HOLY LAND)] [Album with 50 Large Original Albumen Photographs Showing Religious Sites and Views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jaffa]

Maison Bonfils

Ca. 1867-81. Large folio album ca. 46x33 cm with 50 large original albumen photographs, each 28x22 cm, mounted loosely one per leaf on brown paper leaves. All captioned in French and/or English, and signed and/or numbered in negative by the studio ‘Bonfils’. Period red quarter leather with marbled boards. Mild.....

Price: $3,750.00

[AFRICA - WEST] [Album with over Forty Original Watercolours and Pencil Drawings and Over Forty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing Douala, Lome, Luanda, Lüderitz Bay, Environs of Swakopmund and Cape Town, Libreville, Fernando Po Island, Gorée Island, Tenerife, African Flowers, and Others, Titled:] Habicht

Hennig, Friedrich Lothar

10 October 1904. Ca. 1904-1905. 26x20,5 cm. Thirty-one card leaves with tissue guards. Thirty watercolours and over a dozen pencil and/or ink drawings, from ca. 4x5,5 cm to ca. 18x23 cm; and over forty gelatin silver photos from ca. 5x6,5 cm to ca. 14x20,5 cm, mounted on the leaves or...

Price: $4,500.00

[AFRICA - ALGERIA - TLEMCEN] [Album with 124 Original Albumen Photographs, Taken by a Cavalry man from the Second Regiment of the “Chasseurs d’Afrique” of the French Armée d’Afrique, while Stationed in Tlemcen (Northwestern Algeria), with Interesting Views of Tlemcen, Portraits of Fellow Officers, and Several Views of Tunis, Constantine and Annaba]

Ca. 1880s. Oblong Folio ca. 25x33 cm. 49 stiff card leaves (12 blank). With 124 mounted albumen prints, including 36 larger photographs, from 17,5x23 cm to 15x21,5 cm; the rest are from 11x18 cm to 7x10,5 cm. The majority captioned in French in period manuscript black ink on the mounts...

Price: $3,250.00

[BAKU] Russko-Tatarky Slovar’, Sostavlenny v poryadke Russkogo Alfavita po Tolkovomu Slovaryu Vladimira Dalya/ Samoychitel Tatarskogo Yazyka Sultan-Mejida Ganiyeva. Chast III [i.e. Russian-Tatar Dictionary, Compiled in the Order of the Russian Alphabet on the Basis of the Explanatory Dictionary of Vladimir Dal/ A Self-Teacher of the Tatar Language by Soltan-Mejid Ganiyev. Part III]

Ganizade, Soltan Majid

Baku: Typ. of the Administrat. of the province, 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 184 pp. 20,5x14 cm. Contemporary brown half leather with the original publisher’s printed wrappers pasted on the boards. Occasional ink notes and pencil markings on the first few leaves. Wrappers soiled, title page with minor staining...

Price: $1,500.00

[AFRICA GUIDE BOOK] Afrika Delili [i.e. The Guide on Africa]

Muhsin, Mehmed

Cairo: El-Felah Gazetesi Typ. 1894. 13, 11, 769 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 28x19,5 cm. With eight lithographed plates (two folding) and three large folding lithographed maps at rear. Text in Ottoman Turkish, the book includes table of contents, errata pages, the panegyric by Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, and the...

Price: $3,500.00

[ARABIC LINGUISTICS] Sharh-e nizam fi sarf [i.e. Selected Explanation]

Nisaburi, Nizām al-Dīn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad

Tehran: Typ. Of ‘Ālish ān Karbal ā ī Muhammad Qullī a-Karbal ā’ ī Muhammad Humayun, 1872. Lithographed edition. 111 unnumbered leaves. 21,5x16,5 cm. Text in Arabic with commentaries in Farsi on the margins. Verso of the first page houses the title in a calligraphic medallion and stamps of the previous...

Price: $3,250.00

[ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Tarih-İ İskender Bin Filipos [i.e. A History of Alexander the Great, the Son of Philip]

Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838. 8, 263 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 23,5x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first page decorated with traditional geometric ornaments. A small ink note on verso of the last leaf. Period Ottoman brown half sheep with black papered boards and gilt...

Price: $2,500.00

[RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER CATHERINE THE GREAT] İcmal-i eva’il-i ahval-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi [i.e. General Overview of the History of the Russian Empire [or] The History of Catherine]

Castéra, Jean Henri & Argyropolous, Iakovos [transl.]

Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1830. Second edition. [9], 225 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 27x17 cm. Text in Ottoman Turkish within a double border, first text page decorated with traditional floral ornaments. Occasional pencil notes in Turkish in text. Contemporary Ottoman green quarter leather, spine with gilt tooled ornaments and...

Price: $2,500.00
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[HINDUSTAN & MUGHAL EMPIRE] Ara’ish-I muhfil, being a history in the Hindoostanee language of the Hindoo Princes of Dihlee, from Joodishtur to Pithoura, compiled from the Khoolasut-ool-Hind and Other Authorities. [Urdu Title:] Kitāb-i ārāyish-i mahfil hāsil-i mazmūn-i Khulāsat al-Hind

Afsos, Mir Sher Ali

Calcutta: the Hindustani Press, printed by Th. Hubbard, 1808. 310, [1], 21 pp. (numbered in Eastern Arabic system). 31x21,5 cm. With two title pages – in Urdu and English. Text in Urdu printed in Nastalīq script. Contemporary Indian brown treed full leather with gilt lettered title in English ‘Araish I....

Price: $6,750.00

[YOKOHAMA PRINT] . [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Most Likely Depicting Felice Beato Taking a Photo of a European Lady, Titled:] Furansu [i.e. French Photographer]

Utagawa, Yoshikazu

Yokohama: Izumiya Ichibei, 1861. Coloured woodblock print. 37x24,5 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp ‘Issen Yoshikazu ga’, title and date on the right margin. Paper slightly age toned and soiled on extremities, otherwise a very good print. The print depicts ‘‘a photographer wearing western clothing adjusting a camera beneath a......

Price: $1,500.00

[CHINA, VIETNAM AND SINGAPORE] 米僊漫遊画乗 Beisen Manyu Gajo [i.e. Beisen’s China Travel Album]

Kubota, Beisen

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...

Price: $3,500.00

[CHINA] Morokoshi Meisho Zue [i.e. Description of Famous Places In China]

Okada, Gyokuzan Yusho; Oka, Yugaku Bunki & Ohara, Toya Minsei

Osaka: 1806. Osaka: Kawachiya Kichibei et al., Bunka 3 [1806]. 6 vols. 26x18 cm. With ca. 250 woodcut views and maps, of which approx. 170 are double-page. Original publisher’s orange wrappers each with printed paper title labels and housed in a later cloth slip case. Wrappers with some mild signs...

Price: $7,500.00

[SAKHALIN] [Original Manuscript Plan of the First Russian Trading Post on Sakhalin Island – Fort Muravyovsky, Now the Town of Korsakov in Southern Sakhalin]

1859. Ca. 1859. Ca. 54x75 cm. Black ink on rice paper, hand coloured in yellow, red, black, and grey. Extensive text in Japanese on the right and left margins. Fold marks, otherwise a very good plan. Interesting early detailed Japanese plan of the first Russian settlement on Sakhalin...

Price: $4,500.00

[SAKHALIN] [Original Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print Showing the Delegation of Count Muravyov-Amursky Coming to Yokohama in August 1859,Titled:] Rossia-jin Joriku Gyoretsu Ongaku no Zu [i.e. Russians Landing and Marching]

Yokohama: 1859. Ukiyo-e woodblock print ca. 19,5x26,5 cm. With a printed title in the right upper corner and dense printed text on the upper margin. Paper slightly age toned, four small worm holes on the right margin, but overall a very good copy of this very rare print. Rare...

Price: $3,250.00

[YOKOHAMA PRINT] [Coloured Oban ‘Ukiyo-e’ Woodblock Print Showing an American Sailor Smoking a Pipe, a Servant and a Young Japanese Courtesan, Titled:] America jin Yuriya no Zu [i.e. American in a Brothel].

Ichiryusai, Yoshitoyo

Yokohama, Kikuya Ichibei, ca. 1860s. Coloured woodblock print. 37x25 cm. Printed artist’s name stamp, names of the publisher and the block cutter, title in the upper right and lower left corners. Paper slightly age toned, otherwise a very good print. A colourful print showing a scene in a geisha.....

Price: $1,250.00

[SIBERIAN ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea]

Belyavsky, F.I.

Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs’ Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes...

Price: $12,500.00

[MALY THEATRE] Malyi teatr. Sto let Malomu teatru: 1824-1924 / Red. A. Kugel’ and V. Filippov [i.e. One Hundred Years of Maly Theatre. 1824-1924 / Ed. by A. Kugel’ and V. Filippov]

Moscow: Russkoe teatral’noe obshchestvo, 1924. 132, [4] pp.: ill., 3 pl. 31x15 cm. Original illustrated wrappers designed by Boris Titov. Very good. Spine is fully preserved. Bleak foxing of the front wrapper. First and only edition. The classical publication on the history of the theatre looks more up-to-date...

Price: $450.00

[FUTURISTIC SCHOOLS] Proekty zdanii dlia uchrezhdenii sotsial’nogo vospitaniya [i.e. Designs of Buildings for Social Education]

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1930. 125, [2] pp.: ill. 36x26 cm. In original oversized wrappers. Very good. Some restoration of the wrappers, slightly rubbed and age toned, ink stains. Owner’s ink stamp on the t.p. (from the books of famous Soviet architect Leonid Grinshpun (1906-1981)). First and only edition. One of...

Price: $2,000.00
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