Search Results: Titles starting with E from BiblioAxes

In Russian. Short description: Masquerade by Lermontov in the Sketches of Golovin, Edited by Academician of Painting E.E. Laxer, Moscow-Leningrad, 1941. Portraits of M.Y. Lermontov, A.Y. Golovin, and 69 illustrations on separate sheets are executed using the color autotype technique. The binding, endpapers, vignettes, and finials are based on the drawings by E.E. Lansere and I.A. Timofeev. Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin (1863-1930) was a renowned artist and set designer, an active member of the ""World of Art"" movement, an interior and furniture designer. Together with K.A. Korovin, he participated in the design of the Russian pavilion at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and the ""Metropol"" hotel in Moscow. In 1902, he was invited to St. Petersburg as the chief artist of the Imperial Theaters, where he created some of his most vivid stage designs. In 1914, it was planned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of M.Y. Lermontov's birth with a production of the play ""Masquerade"" at the Alexandrinsky… Read More

In Russian. Short description: E. Renan, translated by Varshavsky, The Life of Jesus, St. Petersburg, 1906. Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892), a philosopher-positivist, historian, and writer. He is known as the author of a series of books on the history of early Christianity, Semitic studies, and philosophical dramas. ""The Life of Jesus"" is Renan's most famous work, which enjoyed enormous success among readers and was repeatedly reissued in various countries. Ernest Renan was deprived of his professorship for nine years due to the publication of the book ""The Life of Jesus."" In this book, he used a new method of synthesis of historical and literary sources. He was one of the first to investigate the New Testament as a historical source and compare the events described in it with other historical testimonies, becoming one of the central figures in the critical school of biblical studies. The biography of Jesus Christ soon after its publication in 1863 gained worldwide fame. The author seeks to… Read More

In Russian. Short description: Ernest Seton-Thompson, ""Animal Stories."" State Publishing House of Children's Literature, Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, Moscow, 1955. Author's drawings. Translated from English by N. Chukovsky. Ernest Seton-Thompson (1860-1946) was a Canadian writer, animal artist, and naturalist. He incredibly accurately and truthfully describes the actions, behavior, and habits of animals, fearlessly portraying the life of forests, mountains, and prairies as it is, both beautiful and cruel. The sense of the mighty earthly life permeates all the work of this amazing writer. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002117

In Yiddish. Short description: Sommer E. Rise of the Doomed Moscow: OGIZ State Publishing House Der Emes, 1945. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002030

In Russian. Short description: Edited by E.V. Anichkov, History of Russian Literature. Volumes 1 and 2, Moscow, 1908. This richly illustrated encyclopedic edition was published under the editorship of E.V. Anichkov, A.K. Borozdin, and D.N. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky. The first volume is dedicated to folk literature, with its foundation being folklore. ""Folk literature is one of the finest ornaments of Slavic literature, and this ornament is their most characteristic feature. In the West, folk literature disappeared long ago, breathing its last breath into the poetry of the Middle Ages. In contrast, here it partly even develops further."". The themes of the volume include Slavic folk poetry and beliefs, poetry of spells and incantations, Christian legends in popular transmission, fairy tales, epic narratives, spiritual verses, and historical songs. The second volume presents the history of Russian literature from ancient times to the 19th century. The authors provide detailed accounts of all significant… Read More

In Russian. Short description: Passek, E.V. Non-Pecuniary Interest in Obligations / E.V. Passek. - Yuryev: K. Matisen Printing House, 1893. - [2], 214, [1] p.; 22.7x15.8 cm. The author, Evgeny Vyacheslavovich Passek (1860-1912), was a Russian jurist and professor of Roman law. He served as the rector of Yuryev University. The book is bound in half-leather with a design resembling bindings of the era, featuring gold stamping on the spine. There are rare owner's pencil underlinings throughout the book. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000431

In Russian. Short description: Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Letters, Diaries, Memoirs, 1948, Moscow, Leningrad. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUSU000114

Short description: ESSENINE Serge, Confession d un voyou, J. Povolozky. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000878

In Russian. Short description: Sagatelov, Mikhail Egorovich. Economic sketches of Erivan province"" and ""Lake Gokcha. Tiflis: 1879, type The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU4540906

In Russian. Short description: ed. M. Alikhanov-Avarsky. Tarihi Derbent-Name. Makhachkala, 2007. The Dagestan historical chronicle Derbend-name is one of the most widespread, most complex, and most demanded literary monuments. Researchers have about 40 lists of chronicles in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, in many languages ??of the peoples of Dagestan, the work has been translated into many European languages. At the same time, this historical work has not been sufficiently studied and requires the serious attention of historians, philologists, orientalists, textual critics, and folklorists. The text is printed according to the edition: Tiflis, Ya.I. Lieberman, 1898. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002043

In Spanish. Short description: Jose Marti. Edad de Oro, Havana, 1979. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUZLO000344

In Russian. Short description: Edwards, D.D., Freri, F., Jeffries, Z. Aluminum industry. Aluminum and its production. Vol. 1. - Moscow, Leningrad: Metallurgizdat, 1933. - 210, [2] p.: ill. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000254

In Spanish. Short description: Edwin E. Tolon Jorge A. Gonzalez. Historia dek teatro en la Habana, Havana, 1961. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUZLO000334

In Russian. Short description: Clothe Bay, Antoine Barthelemy. Egypt in its former and present state. St. Petersburg: 1843, V. Polyakov The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU4560242

In Russian. Short description: Ehrenburg, I. UHP. Spain [Ispaniya]. Volume 1. Until 18 July 1936. Leningrad, OGIZ - IZOGIZ, 1937. 102 pp.: ill. In original cloth with colored lettering and debossed design. Photo chronicle of the 1936 Spanish Civil War. Lifetime edition with El Lissitzky's illustrations. Format: 31 x 22.6 cm. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001950

In Russian. Short description: Einstein A. Teoriya otnositelnosti. [Theory of Relativity]. Public presentation. Translated from German by G.B. Itelson. Berlin: Slovo, 1921. - 150, [2] p., 1 sheet portrait. Publisher's cover. Format 215x140 mm. Lifetime edition of one of the founders of modern physics, Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein (1879-1955). First Russian edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001965 kn_nat

In Russian. Short description: Eisler, M. Metallurgy of gold: A practical guide to the metallurgical processing of gold-bearing ores, which includes the methods of concentration and chlorination, as well as the production of samples, smelting and refining of gold / M. Eisler, Horn. Ing. and the plant. chemist, former Assistant Assayer Monet. courtyard in San Francisco, etc.; per. K.A. Kulibin from the second add. ed. - SPb.: F.I. Bazilevsky, 1890. - XVI, 502 p.: ill.; 19x13 cm. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001009

In Russian. Short description: Franklin's Expeditions to the Polar Seas and Searches Beyond, St. Petersburg, Published by the bookseller Ya.A. Isakov, 1872 Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001800 kn_nat

In Spanish. Short description: Dora Alonso. El Ano 61, Havana, 1981. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUZLO000572

In Spanish. Short description: El Anuncio en Cuba. Signos 23, Havana, 1979. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUZLO000160