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Item #70 [CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee...

[CHEBYSHEV'S POLYNOMIAL] Two imprints on functions: 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous Fractions].

Chebyshev, Pafnuty

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1866. 1. O funktsiyakh, naimenee uklonyaushchikhsya ot nulya [i.e. On the Functions with the Smallest Deviation from Zero]. St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1873. 32 pp. 25x16 cm. 2. O razlozhenii funktsiy v ryady pri pomoshchi nepreryvnykh drobey [i.e. On Functions Decomposition Using Continuous..... More

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Item #45 [LOMONOSOV AS CHEMIST, PHYSICIST AND MINEROLOGIST] Trudy Lomonosova v oblasti...

[LOMONOSOV AS CHEMIST, PHYSICIST AND MINEROLOGIST] Trudy Lomonosova v oblasti estestvenno-istoricheskikh nauk. Izvlecheniya i obyasnitel'nye statyi B.N. Menshutkina, N.A. Iossy, U.M. Shokal'skogo, V.I. Vernadskogo [i.e. Lomonosov's works on natural science and history. Excerptions and articles by B.N. Menshutkin, N.A. Iossy, U.M. Shokal'sky, V.I. Vernadsky].

Menshutkin, B.N.

St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademiya nauk, 1911. [4], 240 pp.; charts, 3 plans. 25x16 cm. Original wrappers. Stains on the wrappers and the title-page, soiling, tanning, small tears. Good or better. In this book for the first time the overview of Lomonosov's contributions to chemistry and physics were described by..... More

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Item #980 [IVAN PAVLOV – LIFETIME EDITION] Proba fiziologicheskogo ponimaniya simptomologii...

[IVAN PAVLOV – LIFETIME EDITION] Proba fiziologicheskogo ponimaniya simptomologii isterii [i.e. An Attempt to Understand the Symptoms of Hysteria from Physiological Point of View]

Pavlov, I.

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

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Item #69 [BASICS OF FIELD SURGERY] Grundzüge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie [i.e. Basics of...

[BASICS OF FIELD SURGERY] Grundzüge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie [i.e. Basics of General Military Field Surgery]

Pirogov, N.I.

Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, 1864. [4], 1168, [1] pp. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding with a blind-stamped title on the spine and sprinkled edges. Covers rubbed, pre-revolutionary library label on front endpapers. Otherwise fine. The first edition of the major work on field surgery by one of the greatest military surgeons..... More

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Item #2 [THE FATHER OF RUSSIAN PHYSIOLOGY] Refleksy golovnogo mozga [i.e. Reflexes of the Brain]....

[THE FATHER OF RUSSIAN PHYSIOLOGY] Refleksy golovnogo mozga [i.e. Reflexes of the Brain].

Sechenov, I.

St. Petersburg: A. Golovachov, 1866. [4], II, 186 pp. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-leather binding. The name of the author and the book title as well as owner’s initials in gilt on the spine. Owner’s private stamp on the title. Some side foxing on the first seven pages of the text and..... More

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Item #421 [FIRST SLAVIC BIBLE] Bibliya [i.e. The Bible

[FIRST SLAVIC BIBLE] Bibliya [i.e. The Bible]

Ostrog: Ivan Fedorov, 1581. A fragment. Leaves 185-276, 1-53 (144 in total). 31x20 cm. 18th century European full leather binding. Few pieces of the spine are missing. Binding is a bit scuffed, but generally a good well-preserved copy. Our copy contains the following books of the Old Testament: 1 &..... More

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Item #5 [PIONEERS OF SPACE-TRAVEL: GAGARIN AND TSIOLKOVSKY] K.E. Tsiolkovsky: Stranitsy velikoy...

[PIONEERS OF SPACE-TRAVEL: GAGARIN AND TSIOLKOVSKY] K.E. Tsiolkovsky: Stranitsy velikoy zhizni / Tekst M. Arlozorova, il. A. Kotelnikova [i.e. Pages of a Great Life / Text by M. Arlozorov, illustrated by A. Kotelnikov]

Kaluga: Kn. izd-vo, 1964. 55 pp.: ill. 4vo. A fine copy. Original cloth binding with the decoration in ink. The title page is signed by Yuri Gagarin. Together with: a postcard, ‘The Day of Cosmonautics’ (1965) depicting the monument in Tsiolkovsky’s honor in Kaluga. The postcard is signed by..... More

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Item #6 [THE ONLY RUSSIAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego...

[THE ONLY RUSSIAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS] Ekonomicheskii raschet nailuchshego ispolzovaniya resursov [i.e. The Best Use of Economic Resources].

Kantorovich, L.

Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1960. 348 pp. Publisher's binding. Very good condition. Previous owner’s inscription, spotted to edges, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, pencil marks. First edition. Second printing. Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986) is best known as the only Russian economist to have become a Nobel Laureate. In 1942 Kantorovich..... More

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Item #425 [ LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski,...

[ LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski, izdavaemye Imperatorskim Kazanskim Universitetom

[Lobachevsky, N.I.]

Kazan: University press, 1856. 4to. Contemporary owner’s wrappers. Fine. First edition of the last work on non-Euclidean geometry by the ‘Copernicus of Geometry’. Nikolay Lobachevsky (1792-1856) without a doubt was one of the brightest minds that came out of Russian scientific field in the last 300 years. His..... More

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Item #72 [MENDELEEV ON AETHER] Popytka khimicheskogo ponimaniya mirovogo efira [i.e. The Attempt...

[MENDELEEV ON AETHER] Popytka khimicheskogo ponimaniya mirovogo efira [i.e. The Attempt to Understand Aether Chemically]

Mendeleev, D.I.

St. Petersburg: M.P. Frolova, 1905. 40 pp. 26x17 cm. Original printed wrappers. Good. Minor foxing on the wrappers and title-page, tiny bit is missing from the top of the front cover. Very rare. Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907) throughout his life believed that his periodic table can be supplied with..... More

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Item #426 [FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov...

[FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the Relation of the Properties to the Atomic Weights of the Elements]

[Mendeleev, D.I.]

... // Zhurnal Russkogo khimicheskogo obshchestva [i.e. Journal of the Russian Chemical Society]. Vol.1, parts ii-iii. St. Petersburg, 1869. Pp. 60-77 (journal: [4], 2, 274, [1] pp.). 21x14 cm. In contemporary quarter leather with gilt lettering on the spine. Very good. Binding slightly rubbed with loss of small fragments of..... More

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Item #1 [PAVLOV’S MAIN WORK] Lectures on the Work of the Principal Digestive Glands. I. P Pavlov

[PAVLOV’S MAIN WORK] Lectures on the Work of the Principal Digestive Glands

Pavlov, I.P.

St. Petersburg: I.N. Kushnereff & Ko. 1897. [Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritelnykh zhelyoz] [6], II, 223 p. 8vo. Contemporary owner’s cardboards, original wrapper is glued to the front board. The owner’s inscription (dated 15/XII/1902) on the wrapper. The private stamp of L.E. Gakkel on the title verso. Good clean..... More

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Item #642 [DARWINISM IN RUSSIA] Kratkii ocherk teorii Darvina [i.e. A Brief Outline of Darwin’s...

[DARWINISM IN RUSSIA] Kratkii ocherk teorii Darvina [i.e. A Brief Outline of Darwin’s Theory].

Timiryazev, K.A.

St. Petersburg: Glybov lithography, 1865. [4], 2, [2], 90 pp., frontis. 23x15,5 cm. Contemporary quarter leather with marbled card boards. Good, with occasional foxing and damp stains, a small closed tear of the t.p. First separate edition. Very rare. A very important piece by Kliment Timiryazev (1843-1920), who..... More

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Item #267 [MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad...

[MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad chetviortomu Mendeleevskovu s’ezdu po chistoi i prikladnoi khimii 17 sentiabria 1925 g. [i.e. D.I. Mendeleev and Marxism: Report to the Fourth Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry on 17th of September, 1925]

Trotskii, L.D.

Moscow: GIZ, 1925. 24 pp., 1 port. 22x14,6 cm. In original printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, foxing, a few pencil marks in text, bookshop’s stamp on the recto of the rear cover. Otherwise very good. Extremely rare. In the beginning of 1925 Lev Trotsky (1879-1940) was smashed from Stalin..... More

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Item #810 [SIGNED BY TSIOLKOVSKY] Rastenie budushchego. Zhivotnoe kosmosa. Samozarozhdenie [i.e....

[SIGNED BY TSIOLKOVSKY] Rastenie budushchego. Zhivotnoe kosmosa. Samozarozhdenie [i.e. Plant of the Future. Animal of the Space. Spontaneous Generation]

Tsiolkovsky, K.E.

Kaluga: Self-published, 1929. 32 pp. 17x13 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers. In custom made cardboard case. Very good. Faded signature of the former owner on the front cover (pencil), markings in text (pencil). Author’s inscription on the verso of the front cover in Russian in red ink: “To greatly respected..... More

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Item #73 [TSIOLKOVSKY DEFENDING HIS IDEAS] Zashchita aeronata [i.e. The Defence of the Aeronat]....

[TSIOLKOVSKY DEFENDING HIS IDEAS] Zashchita aeronata [i.e. The Defence of the Aeronat].

Tsiolkovsky, K.E.

Kaluga: Izdaniye avtora; E.T. Archangelskaya, 1911. 12 pp.: ill., photos. Original illustrated wrappers. Fine. Very rare pre-revolutionary brochure in mint condition. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is a man whose ideas made the space exploration possible. In the 1910s he has already proven that it’s not impossible to send some..... More

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