![Item #1339 [AN OLD-BELIEVER MANUSCRIPT] Sviatsy s miasetseslovom [i.e. A Calendar and Memorials...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1339.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650335619)
Vyg., 1835. 175 ff. 13,5x10,6 cm. A manuscript. 14 lines. Black and copious red ink. Each chapter starts with vyaz - a calligraphic script with ornamentation. Eleven decorated headpieces. Eight chapters have decorated endings that include birds and flowers in compositions. Gold is used in all of the headpieces and..... More
![Item #1348 [FAR EASTERN FUTURISM] K dialektike iskusstva. Ot realizma do iskusstva, kak odnoi iz...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338784)
Chita: Dal’pechat’: Tip. Ob’edin. Soiuza Zabaik. Kooperativa, 1921. 120 pp. 26,5x19 cm. Original front cover. The back cover and spine renewed, edges of pages and front cover restored, few stains on the front cover, otherwise very good and clean internally. First and only edition. Scarce. A collection of..... More
![Item #1345 [JEAN COCTEAU’S AUTOGRAPH] Orphée: film [i.e. Orpheus: Film]. J. Cocteau](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1345.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338117)
Paris: La Parade, cop. 1950. [16], 116 pp., 8 ills. 18x11,5 cm. In contemporary cloth binding with title in Russian mounted on the spine. Spine faded, otherwise near fine. A screenplay of the French experimental film Orpheus (1950). The edition is supplemented with photographs by Roger Corbeau (1908-1995) printed..... More
![Item #947 [MENDELEEV ON AERONAUTICS] O soprotivlenii zhidkostey i o vozdukhoplavanii [i.e. On...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/947.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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 #1346 [SHOSTAKOVICH’S AUTOGRAPH] 24 preliudii: dlia fortep’ano, Op. 34 [i.e. 24...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1346.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338227)
Moscow: Muzgiz, 1934. 43 pp.: sheet music. 30x23 cm. In original constructivist wrappers. Small tears of the spine, soiling of the back cover, with a small fragment lost, central double-leaf detached from the block, otherwise very good and clean internally. Signed by the composer on the title page: To..... More
![Item #1203 [STRAVINSKY - SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH] Signed portrait, ‘A Monsieur Jantos Baruro Sinceres...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1203.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1615202144)
A vintage gelatin silver print photograph, head and shoulders portrait in part profile with shadow [by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1934], inscribed and signed in blue ink on the upper right-hand area of the photograph, 8,5x13,5 cm, original mount, framed, and glazed. This original vintage photograph of Igor Stravinsky (1882 -..... More
![Item #1337 [THE RUTHENIAN LANGUAGE] Vertograd dushevniy [i.e. The Vertograd for the Soul] /...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1337.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650334847)
Vilnius [Vilna]: the typography of Vilna Orthodox Holy Spirit Brotherhood, 1620. 131 leaves. 20x15 cm. Original full leather with elaborate blind gilt on the front and back covers. Later end-papers. Owner’s inscriptions on the half-titles from the 18th century onwards. One later clasp preserved. Ink stamps of the previous owner..... More
![Item #1347 [AVANT-GARDE IN GEORGIA] Fakt: Stikhi [i.e. Fact: Poems]. I. Terentyev](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1347.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650338413)
Tiflis: 41°, 1919. 32 p. 17×14 cm. In publisher’s illustrated cover designed by Ilia Zdanevich. Printed on pink paper. The block is clean. The illustration on p. 16 was also used in the collection Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantasticheskiy kabachiok [i.e. To Sofia Georgievna Melnikova. Fantastic Tavern]. Some rust on the..... More
![Item #1342 [THE FIRST EDITION OF TURGENEV’S FATHERS AND SONS] Otsy i deti [i.e. Fathers and...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1342.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1650336721)
Moscow: tip. V. Grachiova, 1862. 304 pp. In contemporary Italian half-leather. Gilt ornament on the spine. 24x17 cm. Pre-revolutionary stamps of the Russian library in Rome on the title page alongside the inventory numbers, otherwise a good tall fresh copy of an important and rare book. The first..... More