![Item #1554 [AN IMPORTANT SOVIET WORK ON THE PROBABILITY THEORY] Teoriya veroyatnostey: uchebnik...](/pictures/thumb/1554.jpg?v=1669211827)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye uchebno-pedagogicheskoye izdatel’stvo, 1937. 136 pp.: tables. 22x15.1 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Boards are slightly worn. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. Edited by V. Molodshy. Technical editor V. Ivanov. An important Soviet work about probability theory used as a textbook for higher pedagogical educational..... More
![Item #1552 [RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF KOHLER’S LANDMARK WORK] Issledovaniye intellekta...](/pictures/thumb/1552.jpg?v=1669211387)
Moscow: Izdatel’stvo kommunisticheskoy akademii, 1930. 4, XXIX, 5-207 pp., 7 ill.: tables, ill. 21.3x15.6 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust-jacket. Dust-jacket with tears and loss of fragments. Otherwise internally clean. First Russian edition. 1 of 4,100 copies. Scarce. The original edition was published in 1917..... More
![Item #1551 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF LOBACHEVSKY IN PRINT] Catalogus praelectionum in Universitate...](/pictures/thumb/1551.jpg?v=1669210861)
Kazan’: Universitatis Officina Typographica, 1816. [1], 62, 6, 2, 8 pp. 28x21,6 cm. Wrappers. Soiling, tears of the wrappers, losses of the pieces of the spine, rubbed, worn out. Otherwise in good condition. Extremely scarce. First edition. This valuable piece of early Russian printing contains the..... More
![Item #1467 [MANUAL ON HOW TO DETERMINE ANY LANGUAGE] Opredelitel’ iazykov [i.e. Languages...](/pictures/thumb/1467.jpg?v=1660906697)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1941. 44 pp. 22x15 cm. In original printed wrappers. Slightly rubbed, with some creases, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 3000 copies. The earliest Soviet identification guide of world’s languages written by eminent Russian linguist, Semitics scholar Nikolai Iushmanov (1896-1946)..... More
![Item #1416 [THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEECH] Myshlenie i rech’ [i.e. Thinking and Speech]. L. Vygotsky](/pictures/thumb/1416.jpg?v=1658798966)
Moscow; Leningrad: GIZ, 1934. XXXVI, 324 pp., 1 ill. (front). 23x15 cm. Original publisher’s cloth. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Bumped and slightly rubbed, some soiling of the covers, minor tear of the title page, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 10,000 copies. Rare. Lev..... More
![Item #1324 [ONE OF THE GREATEST SOVIET PHYSICIANS] Glaz i solntse: O svete, solntse i zrenii...](/pictures/thumb/1324.jpg?v=1642542254)
Moscow: Izd-vo Akad. nauk SSSR, 1938. 96 pp.: ill. 16,3x12,5 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Couple of pale small stains on the wrappers, otherwise in very good condition. Previous owner’s stamp and inventory number on the title page. Scarce. Third edition. First and second editions published in 1927..... More
![Item #1246 [LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam...](/pictures/thumb/1246.jpg?v=1631710057)
Petropoli: Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1756]. [2], 40 pp. 21,9x17,5 cm. Modern half-leather. Very good internally. First edition. One of the major works by Mikhail Lomonosov and his main contribution to optics. On the basis of many years of research and numerous experiments, Lomonosov developed a theory of light..... More
![Item #1173 [AN EARLY SOVIET STUDY OF SLEEP] Son: Biologicheskiy ocherk [i.e. Sleep: Biological...](/pictures/thumb/1173.jpg?v=1612378785)
Vologda: Severnyy pechatnik, 1927. 65 pp. 19x12 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Tears of the spine, wrappers detached. Otherwise internally clean copy. Scarce. First edition. AN INTERESTING WORK DEDICATED TO THE STUDY OF SLEEP PHENOMENON. Published in 1927, this brochure attempts to illuminate biological peculiarities of sleep..... More
![Item #1171 [HYPNOSIS IN MIDWIFERY AND GYNECOLOGY] Opyty primeneniya gipnoza v akusherstve i...](/pictures/thumb/1171.jpg?v=1612378424)
Leningrad; Moskva: Gos. med. izd-vo, 1930. 12.5x17.5 cm. Printed wrappers. Fine. Scarce. First edition. This is the first comprehensive Soviet study of the use of hypnotic suggestion in midwifery and gynecological practice. Printed in 1930, the publication is based on Professor Zdravomislov’s 5-year experience of conducting over 1,000..... More
![Item #1104 [FIRST AERODYNAMIC INSTITUTE IN EUROPE] Aerodinamicheskiy institut v Kuchine:...](/pictures/thumb/1104.jpg?v=1604437075)
Moscow: tipo-lit. t-va I.N. Kushnerev i K°, 1914. 7 pp., 4 ill. 28x19.5 cm. In original publisher’s wrappers. Soiling of the wrappers, loss of the upper left piece of the front wrapper, loss of the pieces of the spine, pencil markings on the wrappers, several pages detached. Otherwise a good..... More
![Item #1085 [LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie...](/pictures/thumb/1085.jpg?v=1604425836)
Bruxelles: Hayez, 1901. 132 pp., 9 plates. 23.5x16.1 cm. Contemporary owner’s half-leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Near fine. Minor tear at the hinge of the spine. Ex Libris on the verso of the front board Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), a Swedish mathematician and a member of the Nobel..... More
![Item #1068 [Orthopaedics IN RUSSIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENT.] Ortopedicheskaia klinika...](/pictures/thumb/1068.jpg?v=1601556020)
St. Petersburg, 1913. 58 pp.: ill., 9 ills. 21x15,5 cm. In original illustrated covers. Some stains on covers, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Extremely rare with no copies in Worldcat. Interesting evidence of the early period of orthopedic surgery in Russia. In contrast to..... More
![Item #1018 [SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik...](/pictures/thumb/1018.jpg?v=1595852672)
Moscow: Izd. i tip. Oborongiza, 1947. 240 pp.: photos, drawings, charts. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original full-cloth with white lettering and light-blue illustration. Near fine. First edition. Scarce. This is a collection of articles by a pioneer of rocketry Friedrich Zander (Tsander; 1887-1933) who was the first Soviet engineer..... More
![Item #980 [IVAN PAVLOV – LIFETIME EDITION] Proba fiziologicheskogo ponimaniya simptomologii...](/pictures/thumb/980.jpg?v=1591794107)
Leningrad: izd. i tip. Akad. nauk, 1932. 36 pp. 17x13 cm. In original illustrated publisher’s wrappers. Fine. First edition. Very rare. With the dedication leaf: “Dedicated to the deeply respected comrade Alexei Vasilyevich Martynov on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his outstanding scientific, teaching and practical work from..... More
![Item #948 [MENDELEEV ON GASES] Ob uprugosti gazov: Otchet, predstavl. pred. Imp. Rus. tekhn. o-va...](/images/noimage.png)
1875. XVI, 262, [1] pp., 12 ill. 34x17 cm. Contemporary binding. Overall in a very good condition. First edition. One of the most important works on the elasticity of gases. Mendeleev became engaged in the study of the topic in the early 1870s, after the publication of the final..... More
![Item #947 [MENDELEEV ON AERONAUTICS] O soprotivlenii zhidkostey i o vozdukhoplavanii [i.e. On...](/pictures/thumb/947.jpg?v=1582649372)
Issue 1 [and all]. St. Petersburg: V. Demakov, 1880. [2], 160, 80 pp., 14 folding plates, printed separately at the cartographer A.Iliyin in Saint-Petersburg. Contemporary quarter-leather binding. Slightly foxed. Pre-revolutionary stamps of Tiflis Arsenal on the title page, p.1 and front endpapers. The most important Mendeleev’s work on the..... More
![Item #800 [ON THE WAY TO AERODYNAMICS] O prochnosti dvizheniia [i.e. On the Strength of Motion]....](/pictures/thumb/800.jpg?v=1567045880)
Moscow: V Universitetskoi tipografii, 1882. [2], 104 pp. 25x16,5 cm. In original printed wrappers with decorative frame. Tears of the spine with small fragments lost, some foxing, otherwise very good. First and only separate edition. Extremely rare. This is a thesis in applied mathematics that was written by Nikolay..... More
![Item #641 [MENDELEEV AS ECONOMIST] K poznaniiu Rossii: S prilozheniem karty Rossii [i.e. To the...](/pictures/thumb/641.jpg?v=1550675181)
St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. M.P. Frolovoi, 1906. [2], 122 pp., 1 folding map. 25x17 cm. In contemporary card boards with mounted core pieces of original wrappers. In good condition, small fragments of spine lost, the map is in parts, tear of map repaired, minor defects of few pages’ outer edge... More
![Item #636 [RUSSIAN INVENTOR OF THE RADIO] Pribor dlya obnaruzheniya i registrirovaniya...](/pictures/thumb/636.jpg?v=1550677362)
St. Petersburg: V. Demakov, 1896. Contemporary half leather with gilt lettering on the spine and marbled boards. Tears of the spine’s and corners’ leather. Otherwise a very good clean copy. First publication. Very rare. In Russian tradition, Alexander Popov (1859-1909) is considered the inventor of the radio and..... More