Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoiuznoi akademii s.-kh. nauk im V. I. Lenina, 1936. 336 pp. 21 ×14 cm. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Tears to the spine, mild foxing of front wrapper, otherwise in very good condition. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Very rare. The collection is primarily interesting as a printed..... More

1. Tikhomandritskiy M.A. Kurs teorii konechnykh raznostey [i.e. Course on the Theory of Finite Differences ] / [By] M. Tikhomandritsky, Ordinary Professor at Kharkov University. Kharkov: D.N. Poluekhtov, 1890. 288 p. 2. Markov, A. A. (Senior). Ischisleniye konechnykh raznostey [i.e. Calculus of Finite Differences]. In 2 Parts. Saint Petersburg: Printing..... More

St. Petersburg: 1st Mendeleev congress, 1908. [2], 239 pp.: ill., 8 port. and 5 ill. on separate leaves. 23x15.5 cm. Original publisher’s wrappers. Very good. The frontispiece is detached from the text block, some minor tears to the wrapper. Rare. One of the first books about Dmitry Mendeleev’s life..... More

Moscow: Narkomzdrav SSSR: Medgiz, 1939. 209, [2] pp.: ill, 3 ills. 22,5x15,5 cm. In original cloth binding with colored lettering on front cover and spine. Good. Rubbedсand soiled covers, water stain on the lower margin throughout the copy, blank corner of last page lost, ink signatures on front flyleaf and..... More

St. Petersburg: Tovarischestvo Khudozhestvennoi Pechati, 1910. 3-38 p.: ill.; 24,4x15,6 cm. Printed without the title page. First and only edition. Signed by Bekhterev on the title page ‘To Pavel Alekseevich Neznamov. From V.Bekhterev’. Speech delivered at the ceremonial meeting of the Council of the Psychoneurological Institute, dedicated to the..... More

Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoyuznogo instituta eksperiment. medetsiny, 1934. 139 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original wrappers. Very good. Some general wear of the wrappers, small cracks of the spine. First edition. One of 4000 copies. Very rare. One of the milestone textbooks and second published book on neurogenetics by Sergei..... More

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

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

St. Petersburg: Academy of Science, 1975. 272 p. 25,8×16,8 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. First edition. Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing..... More

Tbilisi: elektropech. Gruz. izd. t-va, 1915. 32 pp. 22,1x15,3 cm. In original publisher’s printed wrappers. Author’s period ink inscriptions on the front wrapper: “To the esteemed comrade N. G. Dzasokhov, the finest manager, with kind regards from the author and pedagogue, 1927, 8/III” and “Corrected by the author.”..... More

Kazan: V Universitetskoy tipografii, 1834. X, 528, [2 -errata] p. 21,5x13 cm. Contemporary half-leather. Neatly rebacked. Period inventory number on the title page in ink, likely of private library. No other marks throughout the block, book was not used in any educational library. Overall in very good condition... More

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

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