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Item #1830 [CRIMINOLOGY IN DESTALINIZATION ERA] Raskrytie prestuplenii. Sovremennye metody...

[CRIMINOLOGY IN DESTALINIZATION ERA] Raskrytie prestuplenii. Sovremennye metody rassledovaniia ugolovnyh del [i.e. Crime Detection. Modern Methods of Criminal Investigation]

Svensson A., Wendel O.

Moscow: Izdatel’stvo inostrannoi literatury, 1957. 475, [1] pp.: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated cloth with two-color letterpress design. Binding slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. Russian edition of the book “Crime Detection. Modern Methods of Criminal Investigation” (1955) by Swedish criminologists Arne Svensson and Otto Wendel. Translation was undertaken..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #1829 [SOVIET NUCLEAR PHYSICS] Lektsii po teorii atomnogo iadra [i.e. Lectures on Nuclear...

[SOVIET NUCLEAR PHYSICS] Lektsii po teorii atomnogo iadra [i.e. Lectures on Nuclear Theory]

Landau Lev, Smorodinsky Yakov

Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1955. 140 pp. 20,5x13,5 cm. In original cloth with colored lettering. Shelf-wearing, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 10,000 copies. Scarce. The book contains lectures on the main concepts of nuclear theory by Nobel laureate, Lev Landau and his former student Yakov Smorodinsky. In..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #1784 [THE ONLY RUSSIAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego...

[THE ONLY RUSSIAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego ispol’zovaniia resursov [i.e. Economical Calculation of the Most Expedient Use of Resources]

Kantorovich, L. V.

Moscow: Izd. Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1959. 344 pp. 22,5x15 cm. In original cardboards. Extremities rubbed and bumped, signature on t.p., previous owner’s marks and underlines, otherwise very good. First original edition. Early economic planning by Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986) who entered the ranks of the greatest scientists of the 20th..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Item #1554 [AN IMPORTANT SOVIET WORK ON THE PROBABILITY THEORY] Teoriya veroyatnostey: uchebnik...

[AN IMPORTANT SOVIET WORK ON THE PROBABILITY THEORY] Teoriya veroyatnostey: uchebnik [i.e. Probability Theory: A Textbook]

Glivenko, V.

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

Price: $250.00
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Item #1552 [RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF KOHLER’S LANDMARK WORK] Issledovaniye intellekta...

[RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF KOHLER’S LANDMARK WORK] Issledovaniye intellekta chelovekopodobnykh obez’yan [i.e. The Mentality of Apes]

Kohler, W.

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

Price: $450.00

Item #1551 [FIRST APPEARANCE OF LOBACHEVSKY IN PRINT] Catalogus praelectionum in Universitate...

[FIRST APPEARANCE OF LOBACHEVSKY IN PRINT] Catalogus praelectionum in Universitate Caesarea Litterarum Casanensi habendarum promulgatus Auctoritate Senatus Academici 1816/1817 [i.e. A Catalog of Lectures at the Imperial Kazan University for the Academic Year 1816/1817]

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

Price: $1,950.00
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Item #1467 [MANUAL ON HOW TO DETERMINE ANY LANGUAGE] Opredelitel’ iazykov [i.e. Languages...

[MANUAL ON HOW TO DETERMINE ANY LANGUAGE] Opredelitel’ iazykov [i.e. Languages Identification Guide]

Iushmanov, N.

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

Price: $850.00

Item #1416 [THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEECH] Myshlenie i rech’ [i.e. Thinking and Speech]. L. Vygotsky

[THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPEECH] Myshlenie i rech’ [i.e. Thinking and Speech]

Vygotsky, L.

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

Price: $1,200.00

Item #1324 [ONE OF THE GREATEST SOVIET PHYSICIANS] Glaz i solntse: O svete, solntse i zrenii...

[ONE OF THE GREATEST SOVIET PHYSICIANS] Glaz i solntse: O svete, solntse i zrenii [i.e. The Human Eye and the Sun: About Light, the Sun and Vision]

Vavilov, S.

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

Price: $550.00

Item #1246 [LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam...

[LOMONOSOV’S THEORY OF COLOR] Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam colorum in publico conventu Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae propter nominis festivitatem serenissimi principis magni duci Pauli Petridae habita calendis Juliis anni 1756 a Michaele Lomonosow consilario academico. Ex Rossica in Latinam linguam conversa a Gregorio Kositzki

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

Price: $4,550.00

Item #1173 [AN EARLY SOVIET STUDY OF SLEEP] Son: Biologicheskiy ocherk [i.e. Sleep: Biological...

[AN EARLY SOVIET STUDY OF SLEEP] Son: Biologicheskiy ocherk [i.e. Sleep: Biological Essay]

Plavil’shchikov, N.N.

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

Price: $350.00

Item #1171 [HYPNOSIS IN MIDWIFERY AND GYNECOLOGY] Opyty primeneniya gipnoza v akusherstve i...

[HYPNOSIS IN MIDWIFERY AND GYNECOLOGY] Opyty primeneniya gipnoza v akusherstve i ginekologii [i.e. Experience of the Appliance of Hypnosis in Midwifery and Gynecology]

Zdravomislov, V.

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

Price: $450.00

Item #1104 [FIRST AERODYNAMIC INSTITUTE IN EUROPE] Aerodinamicheskiy institut v Kuchine:...

[FIRST AERODYNAMIC INSTITUTE IN EUROPE] Aerodinamicheskiy institut v Kuchine: 1904-1914 [i.e. Kuchino Aerodynamic Institute: 1904-1914]

Riabouchinsky, D.

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

Price: $750.00

Item #1085 [LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie...

[LOBACHEVSKY IN FRENCH] Nouveaux principes de la géométrie avec une théorie complète des parallèles [i.e. New Principles of Geometry with a Complete Theory of Parallels]

Lobachevsky, N.

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

Price: $2,950.00

Item #1068 [Orthopaedics IN RUSSIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENT.] Ortopedicheskaia klinika...

[Orthopaedics IN RUSSIA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENT.] Ortopedicheskaia klinika Imperatorskoi voenno-meditsinskoi akademii: 1900/1901 - 1912/1913 [i.e. Orthopedic Clinic of the Imperial Military and Medical Academy. 1900/1901 - 1912/1913]

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

Price: $1,200.00

Item #1018 [SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik...

[SPACECRAFT ENGINEERING] Problema poleta pri pomoshchi raketnykh apparatov: Sbornik statei pod red. M.K. Tikhonravova [i.e. Problem of Flights by Rocket Apparatuses: Collection of Articles Edited by M. Tikhonravov]

Zander, F.

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

Price: $1,250.00

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