Russian History

Fresno: Board of Christian Literature 1978. (Hardcover) 1065pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, glossary, notes, indices. The dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Originally published as Alt-Evangelische Mennonitesche Bruederschaft in Russland (1789-1910) Im Rahmen Der Mennonitischen Gesamtgeschichte. Book about Menno Simons. Preface by Peter J. Klassen. Foreword by Cornelius J. Dyck. Locale: ; Prussia. (Mennonites, Anabaptists, Mennonite Brethren Church, Mennonites--Russia, Missionaries).

Paris: Chez Fantin, Librarie, 1812. Quarter leather. Very Good. 8vo, 5 x 8, xiv + 514 pages Attractive red leather binding with marbleized boards and scuffing, primarily along edges. Interior foxed. Found two pages with small pieces torn off, not affecting the text.

New York: Doubleday & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean reddish-brown cloth with black title on spine. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover has a few small closed edge tears. Text tight, clean & intact. An authentic picture of the workings of the Soviet system. A lengthy inscription by the author dated January 11, 1962. Soviet Union; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages; Signed by Author .

London: John Stockdale, 1812. Second Edition . Full Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 4to. 552 pages, plus 24 of 25 plates (lacking #20; nine folding), 3 folding maps; 523 pages, plus 26 of 27 plates (lacking #4; 15 folding). Each volume with 14 vignettes, of which 13 are colored in volume I and 10 are colored in volume II. Early, though likely not contemporary, polished leather with raised spine bands and gilt stamped lettering. Marbled end leaves. Covers show scattered rubbing and light wear at spine ends. Joints of boards at spine are tender, though still hold. Contents show scattered light offsetting, a little foxing, and occasional smudges, but overall are fairly clean and intact.

London: Crosby, Lockwood And Son, 1908. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Maps, Charts, Photographs. Xix, 504 Pp + 5 Pp Ads At End. Second Edition, Revised And Expanded. Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, Beveled Edges. Inscribed In London By The Author To California Petroleum Geologist Ralph Arnold, And Dated In 1921. Covers Clean, All Gilt Still Brilliant, Light Fraying At Tips And Top Edge. Very Scarce, Only Three Institutional Holdings Of This 1908 Second Edition Are Shown In Worldcat. For An Excellent Summary Of Beeby-Thompson's Unparalleled Association With Baku See"Arthur Beeby-Thompson: Oil Pioneer" On The Internet. Of Little Interest Today, The Oil Fields Of Baku Were Hitler's Major Interest In His Attempted Subjugation Of Russia In World War Ii, A Fact Well Known To Many Russians But Known By Few Living Westerners. There Is A Plausible Argument That The National Economics, Politics, And Militarization Of Oil And Gas Is So Important That Twentieth Century And… Read More

Hugh Rees. London. 1911. First English edition. xvi, 304pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, 2 trench plates, 6 folding maps. Original cloth, gilt. Bumped and rubbed to extremities. Occasional minor spotting.

Nikolai A. Tretyakov (1854-1917) Military Engineer and General in the Imperial Russian Army, commanding the Fifth East Siberian Rifles during the Battle of Nan Shan and the siege of Port Arthur. "Heroic".

August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.

New York: H. C. Brewer Check Company, 1935. Probable First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 171 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs. An engaging description of life in changing Russia during the years before and during the fall of the Russian empire. Original blue boards with gilt titles and decorations on front cover and spine. Cover scrubbed and stained, gilt on front bright but fading on spine, light edge wear, a little bumping of corners and spine ends, end papers tanned with a little staining, interior pages bright and clean, binding tight.

Tatarstan kitap Nasrijaty / Tatarskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 914, 960, and 1013 pages. Text in Tatar; Russian title from colophon: Tatarskiye narodnyye poslovitsy. The classic collection of Tatar proverbs, more than 38,000, compiled by an acclaimed writer of songs and plays. A new edition was issued in 2010. Scarce in the West, with just one US holding (Harvard, OCLC 83619595) and two incomplete sets in Germany. First edition (first printing). Very good to near fine volumes; no dust jackets, perhaps as issued. Bookplate in each volume.

Livourne, France: Didier Robert de Vaugoundy, 1777. Very Good. Folio, [12.5x14.25in neat lines, 17.25x21in sheet]; Title in top center with four inset maps labeled I- Partie Nord-ouest de l'Amerique, II- Nonvelle Grenade, III- Region des Conibas et pays voisins, IV- Extremites de la partie occidentale de la Californie; map covers a large area from 25 to 80 North latitude, Norway to Alaska, and 20 east to 155 west longitude China to the Arctic Circle; Copper engraving on heavy watermarked paper with pictorial relief with mountains, forests and major rivers with location grid and names, both mythical, real and related to present day; Little age toning and small spots, close -tear at bottom edge, single vertical crease fold, top right margin "Suppl 2 Carte", lower left "181-182" and right "R.S" [Wagner maps 637]. This map was one of a 10 map series for the Supplement to Diderot's "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" published in 1777. From Rumsey, "This… Read More

Moscow USSR, Progress Publishers, 1981, hardcover, 293 pp, First edition in English translation, First printing stated, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine roll, heel of spine lightly bumped. Dustjacket, rubs, light edge nicks, short closed edge tears, sticker lift to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An overview of the theories of law in the former Soviet Union. Chapter headings include; Class Society and Law, The Essence of Law, Objective Law, Subjective Law (Right), The Execution of Law, Law Breaking.

1792 1ed RUSSIA English Ivanovich on Russian Empire Military Catherine Great

Sergei Pelcheev Ivanovich's 'Survey of the Russian Empire' is perhaps the best 18th-century account of the politics, military, and social customs of the Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It provides commentary on the different governments in the Russian Empire, including a section of the governing bodies in Estonia, and notes on different ethnic peoples throughout Northern Asia and Eastern Europe
This 1792 English edition was translated from the original Russian by James Smirnove. Note the huge folding table of arms and uniforms of the Russian Empire.
Item number: #11596
Price: $1500
IVANOVICH, Sergei Pelscheev

Survey of the Russian Empire: according to its present newly regulated state, divided into different governments, shewing their situation and boundaries, the capital and district towns of each government...
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. 1st English edition

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Title: Sötétség délben (Darkness at Noon)
Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Ujváry Griff Verlag
Place: München
Year: 1981
Edition: Samizdat
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 144
Language: Hungarian
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 106 x 150Description: Hungarian bootleg edition of Koestler's most influential work published in West Germany and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain. Cover art is based on "The Power and the Man" by Kazimir Malevich. A rare and interesting addition for any Koestler completist.

This is a small book of poetry by Madame de Basily in English. Her story can be read on the Hoover Institution website. She is American born and the donor of the items in the Nicolas de Basily room. This book was published in Paris the year after her marriage in November, 1919. Her husband was the Diplomat of Imperial Russia 1903 - 1917. The poetry in this 31 page book is dated 1915 - 1917. It appears to be one of a kind. There are marbled end papers plus three from, front and back. The cover has wear as shown. There is foxing from page 21 onward. The poems are titled: In Tifles, The Cry of Holy Russia, Anarchist Lullaby, Human Wreckage, Afternoon Service in the Alexander Newsky Monastery, The Kremlin, White Night on the Gulf of Finland,Republic of Cronstadt, ProphesyTo Life. There is also a dedication to her mother. Mr. and Mrs. de Basily are buried in Baltimore. Land, Estates, and Wealth were never recovered in Russia.

Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1840.
Large 8vo [255 x 163 mm] of (2) ll., vii pp. (preface), viii pp. (dedication), 621 pp., (3) and 25 plates.
Some slight foxing on few pages. Bound in full red shagreen, blind-stamped border on the covers and wide baroque style composition including foliage, spine ribbed decorated with gilt baroque patterns, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
First edition of this work in which Demidoff relates his travel in Russia and Crimea in 1837.
Atabey 337; not in Blackmer; Brunet, II, 583.
"This is the first part of Demidov's account of his mission in Russia and the Crimea, an account of the voyage itself. The scientific observations by Huot, Leveille, Rousseau and Nordmann were published in three volumes in 1842, together with an atlas of natural history plates.'' (Atabey)
Very few copies contain a dedication to 'his Majesty the Emperor of all Russias" in viii pp. bound at the beginning of the volume, and the present copy is one of them.
The rich illustration consists of the portrait… Read More

Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilyevich. Russian Placards, Le Placard Russe, 1917-1922. 1st. part, Petersburg office of the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA. Petersburg branch of the News of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee ("Isvestia VCIK"), Petersburg, 1923. Executed by "STRELETZ" (The Archer).
Small 4to (218 x 186mm.), 4 leaves and 23 coloured lithographs of posters produced by Lebedev, with accompanying tissue guard sheets carrying captions in English and French. Title-pages in English and French. Limited to 1700 copies.
Bound in maroon buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to front, with green end-papers. Front of original orange wrapper with lithograph illustration bound in – lacking the blank rear of the original wrapper. Housed in a custom-made maroon cloth covered clamshell box, with gilt title to the front and spine.
Buckram faded to spine and top board – a 3.5cm strip alongside the front hinge (see photo below). Small piece of tissue paper attached near to the upper hinge of the… Read More