Russian History

William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 Volume set. Suitable for a gift. Beautiful half calf, brown levant morocco leather and marbled boards. Gold lettering. Bindings are near fine. Clean, unmarked pages, with sparse foxing. William Blackwood and Sons, published 1863-1887. 2nd edition of Vols I & II; rest are 1st editions. Kinglake based his history of the Crimean War both on his own experiences and on the papers of Lord Raglan given to him by Raglan's widow. Kinglake ordered that Raglan's papers be destroyed after Kinglake's death, thus rendering his own work the only secondary source describing Raglan's account of the War. Several dozen battle plans and other maps (many folding) demarcating each army's units in red, blue, and green. Pictures available upon request. Ships daily. (RARE)

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

2 volumes with Atlas. [4]+xxiv+385 pages with xxii-xxiv lists books of voyages available from the publisher; [4]+418 pages with appendix containing vocabularies of the languages of Yukagir, Yakut, Tungoose, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and Kadiak and inex. Atlas with title, list of plates, 14 engraved plates & large folding engraved map. Text volumes are small octavo (7¾" x 4½"), 19th century quarter calf & boards, spines tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces; atlas is quarto (11" x 7½") in period tree calf, spine tooled in gilt. Translated by J Castéra. (Howes S-117) First French Edition.Martin Sauer was an English civil servant who knew Russian, French and German. He became acquainted with Joseph Billings in St Petersburg in the 1780s. He agreed to join Billings expedition as his secretary and interpreter. It was agreed that he would write the official account, but there is some controversy about his actives when he returned to St Petersburg in 1794. It has been suggested that he left… Read More

London: Printed for W. Owen; J. Dodsley; J. Rivington; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Presentation copy, signed on title page "For Mr. William Richardson, From the Author." B&W 2-page frontis + 12 plates, engravings by P. Mazell. Half-bound in calf with marbled paper boards. Original spine label with gilt titling laid on to rebacked spine with raised bands. Wear to boards and edges and chipping to leather corners. Library stamp of the Mercantile Library, New York. [8], xix, [5], 477 p.p. [7 - index w/ errata]. Foxing throughout commensurate with age, a few small stains and light soiling. Damp stain to index. Some offsetting from plates. Small chip to page 190. Tanning to text block edges. John Glen King (1732-1787) was a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and Chaplain to the British Factory at St. Petersburg. ESTC # T95407.

Soviet Union , 1979. Dated 1979-1982, a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album, 13 1/2" w x 9" h, in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard, with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in, and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships, 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships, on rice paper, with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good, small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist. . Photograph Album. Very Good. 13 1/2" w x 9" h.

1810 RUSSIA Costume of Russian Empire Color Illustrated Clothing Travel Voyages

An extremely valuable and important illustrated account of history of costumes and clothing from the Russian Empire. Published in 1810, Edward Harding gathered English and French descriptions of impressive, aquatint engravings. The first edition of this work was published 1803 but is considered inferior to this edition because of the lack of engraved title and shorter explanations of the illustrations.

Item number: #8792
Price: $2950
HARDING, Edward [publ.]
Costume of the Russian Empire
London: Printed by T. Bensley for John Stockdale, 1810.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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o 72 hand-colored engravings + frontis
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Provenance: Armorial Bookplate
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Campbell of Succoth, Bart.
Sir Ilay Campbell, Lord Succoth FRSE LLD (1734–1823) was a Scottish advocate, judge and politician.
Founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783)
Director of the Highland Society… Read More

Lithogr. title within decorative Art noveau frame, 3 unnumb. ll. introduction and dedication, 66 collotype plates with horses mostly against a landscape or architectural backdrop, after paintings and photographs, each with printed captions in French, Russian, English and German, printed on thick glazed paper sheets, 30 unnumb. ll. with letterpress text on verso of thin tissue guard-like sheets in four languages. One errata leaf printed on red paper stock bound in. Cont. dark green morocco, gilt stamped Russian title to front cover, all edges gilt. Endpapers lined with white glazed paper with a moiree pattern. Oblong folio (495 x 400 mm). Extremeties worn and rubbed, front cover discoloured, spine evenly sunned and spine-ends bumped. Rare large-format work with magnificent depictions of horses with KVK and OCKC showing only four copies (ÖNB, Madrid, NYPL, and Chicago) with 31 plates only (?). A number of the thin letterpress leaves with short tears else fine. The author was a master of the guard.

Schlesswig:: Bey Jacob zur Glocken. Jm Jahr [1645]-1647., 1645. Large 4to. [13] ff., 546 [i.e. 536] pp., [1] f., 42 pp., [6] ff. With full-page engraved half title, 10 double-page engraved plates, 11 full-pages engraved plates, 60 text figures, engr. head and tail pieces, initial letters. Title with vignette "Allah" in Arabic script. First edition of Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Reise, 1645-7. This is an important and widely-read seventeenth century account of travels through Russia and Persia, and into India and the Far East. The maps include the large folding plan of the Volga, plus the Baltic regions, Muscovy, Persia, Asia, China, etc. In addition to the OLEARIUS book, this HAND-COLORED DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED MAP depicting Adam Olearius' [Olschlager] route, from the atlas of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638). The map is fully hand-colored in a contemporary hand. The map is entitled: Nova et Accurata Wolgae Fluminis olim Rha dicti deline atio Auctore Adamo Oleario. /… Read More

A New and Complete System of Universal Geography; Describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their Subdivisions of Republics, States, Empires and Kingdoms; the Extent, Boundaries, and Remarkable Appearances of each Country; Cities, Towns, and Curiosities of Nature and Art. [1798, 1800, 1799, 1799 sequentially]Also giving a general account of the Fossil and Vegetable Productions of the Earth, the History of Man, in all Climates, Regions, and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments, and Religions; the State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures, and Knowledge...To Which is Added, A View of Astronomy, as Connected with Geography; Of the Planetary System to Which the Earth Belongs; ...with a Copious Index annexed to each volume, Being a large and comprehensive Abridgement of Universal Geography.By John Payne. with Additional Corrections and Improvements from the Latest and Best Authors. by James Hardie, A.M. Author of Principles of Latin Grammar, the American Remembrances, and… Read More

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

Rare in full set. Good condition.

An Account of a 1785-1794 Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the River Kovima; of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the Aleutian islands in the Eastern Ocean, stretching to the American Coast. By command of Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress of all Russians. One of the most important Russian expeditions to Siberia and Alaska, with much material on the land and people, views of Kadiak, Aleutians, Kamchatka, etc. Captain Joseph Billings, who had sailed with James Cook on Cook's last voyage, became an officer in the Russian navy and was given command of this expedition by the Empress. He had, as his secretary, Martin Sauer, who was responsible for this, the fullest account of this important expedition. Visits were made to Kodiack, Montague Island, and Prince William Sound. Eventually a scarcity of provisions forced the return of the expedition to the mainland. The… 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

London, John Murray, 1845.. FIRST EDITION 1845, Volume I ONLY of 2, DEFECTIVE COPY LACKING 3 LITHOGRAPHS NOW REPLACED WITH SLIGHTLY SMALLER FACSIMILES. 4to, approximately 305 x 230 mm, 12 x 9 inches, engraved Dedication leaf, addressed to Emperor Nicholas I, 12 monotinted lithographic plates of views including frontispiece, 3 in facsimile, 2 lithographed plates of fossils in the Appendix, 5 folding hand coloured engraved plates of sections and 2 large folded hand coloured engraved maps, the last large map of Russia and Ural Mountains approximately 780 x 620 mm, 31 x 24 inches, numerous drawings and diagrams in the text, pages: xxiv, (pages 1-8 wrongly inserted between pages xvi-xxiv), 40 leaves with facing pages with the same number, 41-700 including index, lacks half-title. Rebound in modern quarter morocco, 2 gilt lettered red labels to spine, blue cloth covers, all edges gilt, new cream endpapers. Frontispiece and Dedication page laid down on cream paper, both with pale staining, pale staining to… Read More