Moscow, 1958. Handmade photo album. 27 photographs and 1 newspaper clipping are mounted on 8 leaves, 3 photographs are loosely inserted. Handwritten lettering on the front cover and captions. 20,5х29 cm. Some tears of the spine and edges, otherwise very good. Some photographs signed by Korney Chukovsky, Agniia..... More

Saint Petersburg: Vezenberg i Ko, [1900s]. 16,5x11 cm. Albumen photo mounted on cardboard paper with a printed workshop’s signature. Very good. Stamp of pre-revolutionary Daziaro shop on the back side along with the pencil note in Russian: ‘Darvin’. This is a reproduction of the well-known portrait of Charles Darwin..... More

Moscow: GIKhL, 1931. 64 pp.: ill. 18,5x13 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Restored, some creases, otherwise very good. First edition. Very rare. This is one of the well-known Soviet photobooks and one of the earliest literary works on triumphal projects of the First Five-Year Plan. The poem by..... More

Tbilisi, 1938. In original full-cloth with gilt lettering and two small photographs (ca. 3.3x3.4cm) mounted on the front cover. Date “7 November 1938” printed on the label and mounted on the front pastedown. Twenty-five vintage prints ca. 9x14.3cm. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, a couple of photos..... More

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

Moscow: Pravda, 1963. 128 pp.: ill. 26,5x20,5 cm. Original cloth binding. Illustrated dust-jacket. Fine condition. The photo book is dedicated to the first visit of Castro to Moscow. In 35 days he managed to see the country from Murmansk to Tashkent. As a result of this trip two..... More

[Dalian], ca. 1902. 26,5x38 cm. With 36 photogravures, each with a printed title and a number on a paper label pasted to the lower margin. Original colour lithographed publisher’s wrappers, with a large gilt lettered title on the front wrapper. The leaves and wrappers fastened with original strings. Wrappers slightly..... More

Moscow: 1937. 25 leaves with 47 mounted photographs, 5 charts. 29x41 cm. In original full-cloth with lettering on mounted metal plate. One photograph lost, otherwise very good. A unique photo album depicting the mechanization and experimental projects of the largest ceramic tile factory in the USSR with extraordinary constructivist styled..... More

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..... More

Ca. 1900. Eighteen albumen prints mounted on the official photographer’s card leaves with printed name and credentials on the lower margins, images ca. 12,5x17,5 cm (5 x 6 ¾ in), mounts ca. 21x27 cm (8 ¼ x 10 ½ in). All but two images captioned and numbered in negative. Several..... More

Ca. 1929. Thirty-three loose gelatin silver prints from ca. 12,5x18 cm (5x7 in) to ca. 11,5x16 cm (4 ½ x 6 ¼ in). One photo with a period pencil inscription in Russian on verso. Overall a very good collection. Interesting collection of early original photographs of views and scenes..... More

Moscow, [1910s]. Paper, ink. Phototype made by K. Fisher. 22x14,3 cm. Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (1843-1920), famous Russian botanist and physiologist, highly-regarded popularizer of science widely known for his enthusiastic public lectures, and moreover, a confirmed Darwinian, a point of view rarely espoused in czarist Russia. In 1910s Timiryazev was..... More