The sammelband on electricity: 1. Lomonosov, Mikhail. Oratio de Meteroris vi Electrica Ortis [i.e. Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force]. St, Petersburg: Academy of Science typography, [1753]. [6], 68 pp., 3 pl. 21x17 cm. In modern period styled half leather. The original endpapers of the sammelband preserved... More about LOMONOSOV AS A PHYSICIST
Convolute of two works on mathematical analysis: Tikhomandritskiy, M. Kurs teorii konechnykh raznostey [i.e. The Course of Calculations of Finite Differences]. Kharkiv: D.N. Poluekhtov, 1890. [2], III, V, 274 pp. Markov, A. Ischislenie konechnykh raznostey [i.e. Calculations of Finite Differences]. Complete in two parts. Part 1. Interpolirovanie [i.e.... More about MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
![NEUROGENETICS] Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy:...](/pictures/thumb/353.jpg?v=1513338091)
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 about NEUROGENETICS] Problema polimorfizma nasledstvennykh boleznei nervnoi sistemy:...
![CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby...](/pictures/thumb/361.jpg?v=1513593862)
Sevastopol: tip. N.A. Kovaleva, 1910. [3], 60 pp.: diagr. 22,5x16,5 cm. In original wrappers. Lacking back wrapper and spine, loose, tears and owner’s signature on the front wrapper, foxing and stains on the title page with small holes on the margin. First and only Russian translation (original was published... More about CALCULATION OF PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION] Vozdushnye vinty: Teoriya vintovykh dvigatelei i sposoby...
[4], IV, 134 pp., 2 pl. including 29 ill. 22,5x15 cm. Contemporary quarter-leather. Binding is rubbed. Extremely rare textbook, one of the first examples of the medical book written by a female doctor Lyubov Izmailova from Kutaisi (Georgia). The textbook was created for the female schools. The book has... More about FEMALE DOCTOR] Uchebnik gigieny, anatomii, fiziologii [i.e. The Textbook on Hygiene, Anatomy and...
![MENDELEEV AS ECONOMIST] K poznaniiu Rossii: S prilozheniem karty Rossii [i.e. To the Cognition of...](/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 about MENDELEEV AS ECONOMIST] K poznaniiu Rossii: S prilozheniem karty Rossii [i.e. To the Cognition of...
St. Petersburg: Prakticheskaya meditsina, 1912. With 49 ills. 126 pp. 23,3x17 cm. In contemporary binding. Bound together with 6 other Russian medical papers of the time. The first edition of this book by the founder of Russian radiation therapy Polien Grigorievich Mezernitskiy (1878-1943). In 1909 he was working alongside... More about MARIE CURIE’S FOLLOWER] Radiy i ego primenenie v terapevticheskoy klinike [i.e. Radium and Its...
Tomsk: 1910. 2nd edition. With 60 ills. 294 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Contemporary quarter leather. Good condition. The first edition came out in 1910 and was called by its author ‘the first attempt to create the guide to autopsy by a Russian’. That statement is correct, prior to that the... More about AUTOPSY IN SIBERIA] Rukovodstvo k vskrytiyu trupov dlia nachinaushchikh [i.e. The Guide to...
![RUSSIAN INVENTOR OF THE RADIO] Pribor dlya obnaruzheniya i registrirovaniya elektricheskikh...](/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 about RUSSIAN INVENTOR OF THE RADIO] Pribor dlya obnaruzheniya i registrirovaniya elektricheskikh...
![Soyuz-Apollon [i.e. Apollo-Soyuz]. M. Rebrov, L., Gilberg](/pictures/thumb/655.jpg?v=1555139087)
Moscow: Mashinostroenie, 1975. [1], 72 pp., [12] plates. 21,5x17 cm. Near fine. Association copy: signed on the title page by four Soviet cosmonauts: Anatoly Filipchenko (from the backup crew of Apollo–Soyuz, 2 spaceflights) , Vasily Lazarev (2 spaceflights), Vitaly Sevastyanov (2 spaceflights), Alexei Gubarev (2 spaceflights). The book comes... More about Soyuz-Apollon [i.e. Apollo-Soyuz
Moscow: University Press, 1855. XII, 582, [2] pp. 26x17 cm. Contemporary half-leather with gilt lettering on the spine. All edges gilt. Paper loss of the rst 100 pages at the bottom margin (no text affected). Pre-revolutionary stamp on the title page. Otherwise a good clean copy. This book is... More about FIRST BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY] Istoriya imperatorskogo moskovskogo...
Moscow: University press, 1895. XIV, 325, [1] pp. 24,5x17 cm. Contemporary quoter-leather. Small crack of the spine. Otherwise good. The stamp of the private library on the title page as well as the signature of the author. The owner was Alexander Nikolaevich Linkov, the St. Petersburg collector in the beginning... More about FIRST SYSTEMATIZED BOOK ON ACOUSTICS IN RUSSIAN] Vvedenie v akustiku I optiku [i.e. The...
![DARWINISM IN RUSSIA] Kratkii ocherk teorii Darvina [i.e. A Brief Outline of Darwin’s Theory]....](/pictures/thumb/642.jpg?v=1550677509)
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 about DARWINISM IN RUSSIA] Kratkii ocherk teorii Darvina [i.e. A Brief Outline of Darwin’s Theory
![HOW TO INSPIRE PEOPLE FOR INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL] Vne Zemli [i.e. Beyond the Planet Earth]. K. E....](/pictures/thumb/640.jpg?v=1550676065)
Kaluga: 4-ia Sovetskaia tipografiia, 1920. [4], X, 188 pp. 24,5x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small fragments of covers and spine lost, lack of blank corner of p. 89, but clean internally. First complete edition. Extremely rare. This is a science fiction novel written by the Russian father... More about HOW TO INSPIRE PEOPLE FOR INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL] Vne Zemli [i.e. Beyond the Planet Earth
![COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA] Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei [i.e. The...](/pictures/thumb/449.jpg?v=1524134168)
Three brochures on comparative psychology: Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei. Vypusk pervyi: Donervnaia zhizn’ [i.e. The Emergence and Development of Psychic Abilities. The First Issue: Life Before Neural System]. 50, [2] pp.: ill. One of 3000 copies. Vypusk tretii: Ot refleksov do instinktov vysshego tipa u cheloveka i.... More about COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA] Vozniknovenie i razvitie psikhicheskikh sposobnostei [i.e. The...
![MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior,...](/pictures/thumb/176.jpg?v=1483893275)
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 about MENDELEEV’S FAMILY CHRONICLE] Semeinaia khronika v pis’makh materi, otsa, brata, sestior,...
![THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the...](/pictures/thumb/474.jpg?v=1528816246)
St. Petersburg: v tipogra i Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk, 1846. [4], XVII, [3], 478, [2] pp., 1 table. Modern half leather. Very good, foxing throughout. First edition. Rare. Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (1804-1889) was a celebrated Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent. He got his Bachelor degree from the Sorbonne in... More about THEORY OF PROBABILITY] Osnovania matematicheskoy teorii veroyatnostey [i.e. Foundations of the...
![MAIN WORK OF THE FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN COSMISM] Filosofiya obshchego dela. Stat’i, mysli i pisma...](/pictures/thumb/268.jpg?v=1492001583)
Verniy, 1906; Moscow, 1913. V.1. [2], XII, 731, [3] pp.; V.2. IX, 473 pp. 24,5x16 cm. In two modern half-leather bindings. Good condition. Extremely rare set of the first edition of the main work by Fyodorov. Vol. 1 was printed locally in Verniy (now Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan), only 480... More about MAIN WORK OF THE FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN COSMISM] Filosofiya obshchego dela. Stat’i, mysli i pisma...
![MENDELEEV’S LESSER KNOWN WORK] Analiticheskaya khimia: Kachestvennyi analiz [i.e. Analytical...](/pictures/thumb/481.jpg?v=1531140808)
St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaya pol’za, 1864. [2], VI, 547 pp.: ill. 22x15 cm. In later half leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine and stained edges. Very good. Bleak stain on margins throughout the book, ink and pencil markings on the t.p., few spots. First edition. Very rare. ‘Analytical... More about MENDELEEV’S LESSER KNOWN WORK] Analiticheskaya khimia: Kachestvennyi analiz [i.e. Analytical...
![LOBACHEVSKY’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT] O rezonance ili vzaimnom kolebanii vozdushnykh stolbov...](/pictures/thumb/473.jpg?v=1528815806)
Kazan: University Press, 1828. Pp. 213-224. 21х12.5 cm. Very rare. No copies in libraries according to worldcat. This publication is a retelling of the article by Charles Wheatstone printed the same year in Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts. Lobachevsky mentioned the author as a third... More about LOBACHEVSKY’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT] O rezonance ili vzaimnom kolebanii vozdushnykh stolbov...
![LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski, izdavaemye...](/pictures/thumb/425.jpg?v=1519818004)
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 about LOBACHEVSKY’S GEOMETRY ] Pangeometriya [i.e. Pangeometry] Uchionye zapiski, izdavaemye...
St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia po’lza, 1861. [543] pp. 23x14 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding. Spine is restored. Some foxing in the text. Otherwise very good. First edition. Extremely rare. 27-year-old Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907) famously wrote this book in 61 days. The study on the organic chemistry was awarded with Demidov prize... More about FIRST RUSSIAN BOOK ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY] Organicheskaia khimia [i.e. The Organic Chemistry
![FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the...](/pictures/thumb/426.jpg?v=1519818339)
... // 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 about FIRST MENDELEEV’S PERIODIC TABLE] Sootnoshenie svoistv s atomnym vesom elementov [i.e. On the...
![SOVIET GENETICS BEFORE IT WAS BANNED] Itogi poluvekovykh rabot po vyvedeniyu novykh sortov...](/pictures/thumb/639.jpg?v=1550673736)
Vol. 1-2 [all published]. Moscow; Leningrad: Novaya Derevnia, 1929-1932. V.1: 159 pp.: ill., 25 pl. (32x23 cm, one of 3000 copies); V.2: 168 pp.: ill., 1 port. (29,5x23 cm, one of 7000 copies). Vol.1. is in fine condition, with deckle edges, some water stains near the spine (t.p. and last... More about SOVIET GENETICS BEFORE IT WAS BANNED] Itogi poluvekovykh rabot po vyvedeniyu novykh sortov...
![MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad chetviortomu...](/pictures/thumb/267.jpg?v=1492001001)
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 about MENDELEEV AND TROTSKY. CHEMISTRY IS REVOLUTION] D.I. Mendeleev i marksizm: Doklad chetviortomu...