![JAMES COOK] Vtoroe krugosvetnoe plavanie kapitana Dzheimsa Kuka [i.e. The Second Circumnavigation...](/images/noimage.png)
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. This amply illustrated reference book on Georgian book design in the 1920s and '30s is based on a broadly representative private collection of a hundred works. It traces the main trends and developments in Georgian book design at that time, and identifies the main artists involved. The book..... 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
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
![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
![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
![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
![Sto dnei v Kitae [i.e. Hundred days in China]. Dmitrii Baltermants](/pictures/thumb/685.png?v=1559602821)
Moscow: Pravda, 1955. 160 pp. 33x24 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dustjacket. Dustjacket is slightly teared and worn, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. Book deisgn by I.Dolgopolov. The photo book is dedicated to the five year anniversary of People’s Respublic of China and the trip that Pravda photo correspondent..... More
![INDEPENDENCE IN THE RUSSIAN FURNITURE CRAFT] Obmery mebeli. Vypusk 1. Obraztsy mebeli russkoi...](/pictures/thumb/677.png?v=1558656303)
Moscow: Izd. Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940. 159 pp.: ill. 27,5x20,5 cm. In the original illustrated green cloth with decorative composition and lettering. Very good, curious contemporary pencil notes on the front flyleaf (in verse and prose). The unknown inscriber calls the book ‘the album that measures human feelings’ but then..... More
![MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN GEORGIAN PRISON] Met’ekhis k’rialosani = Chetki Metekha [i.e. Metekhi...](/pictures/thumb/674.png?v=1558654763)
Tbilisi: Sp’etsdanishnulebis izoliat’oris (met’ekhis) k’ult’-k’omisiis ga-ma, 1928. 24 pp.: ill. 26x17 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Tears of the spine with small losses, soiling of the covers, water stain on the lower margin throughout the copy, otherwise very good internally. This is a unique survival of..... More
Petrograd: Komitet skul’pturiv Sorabis, 1922. 10 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original illustrates wrappers. Lithographed edition. Written and drawn by G.P. Liubarsky. Fine. Very rare. One of 500 copies. This is a catalogue of the exhibition which was held in autumn of 1922 and it had a numbered list..... More
Moscow: Shk. FZU 1-i tip. Gosizdata, 1925. 31 pp. 17x13 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine, some creases of the wrappers and wear of the spine. Very rare, one of 1000 copies. This is the catalogue for the exhibition held in 1925 by a short-term association of young..... More
Moscow: Izd-vo Assotsiatsii khudozhnikov rev. Rossii, 1926. 121, [7] pp.: ill. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Good, small tears of the spine and extremities, Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover, damp stains. One of 3100 copies. Rare. Wrappers, head and end pieces by S. Pavlov. The..... More
[Moscow]: Ob-vo russkikh skul’pturov, 1929. 14 pp.: ill. 22,15 cm. In original wrappers. Near fine. Very rare. One of 1000 copies. The catalogue for the 3rd exhibition (of only 4 held by the Society) that was held in 1929 includes introduction “ORS in 1929” by A. Bakushinsky (short..... More
![RUSSIAN FEMINISTS] Original photograph of Alexandra Kollontai and female delegates at the...](/pictures/thumb/658.png?v=1558560579)
[Moscow, 1921]. 22,5x28 cm. Creases and minor tears of the edges, pencil notes on the back. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was one of the leaders of Soviet emancipation. In 1905 during the revolution she organized The Society of Help for the Female workers. Accusations from the state have forced her..... More
![AVANT-GARDE CIRCUS] Tsirk i estrada [i.e. The Circus and Stage](/pictures/thumb/657.png?v=1558558577)
#1, 3, 5 for 1926; #20 for 1927; #5, 7, 16 for 1928. Overall 7 issues. Moscow: Teakinopechat’, 1926-1928. 26x17,5 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Very good. Tears of the spine (#3, 16, 20), Soviet bookshop’s stamp on the back cover (#3, both #5), a few spots. Very..... More