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193543235Varshe Warsaw: Ko'operativer Farlag "Kultur Lige 1935. Original boards. 8vo 442 pages 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Before the Flood.â€<br> <br> First volume of a three volume series of novels written by Sholem Asch while he was living in Bellevue France. Each volume describes Jewish life in a major city in the early 20th century. Volume 1 describes St.Petersburg Volume 2 describes Warsaw and Volume 3 describes Moscow.<br> <br> “Asch’s monumental trilogy Farn mabl Before the Flood.was in scope and treatment a work of major importance that translated into several languages consolidated his international reputation. Written and published in stages between 1921 and 1931 Farn mabl was translated into English in 1933 by Edwin and Willa Muir under the title Three Cities. This panoramic tale is told over three volumes each bearing the name of a city central to events immediately prior to and during the Russian Revolution of 1917: Petersburg Petersburg; 1929 Varshe Warsaw; 1930 and Moskve Moscow; 1931. <br> <br> To enable his readers more easily to grasp the complicated religious philosophical and sociopolitical problems of that period Asch deployed the genre of the bildungsroman depicting everything through the eyes of his hero Zachary Mirkin the only son of an enormously rich merchant. <br> <br> Petersburg examines the way entrepreneurial Jews contrived to share in the great commercial and industrial expansion of the turn of the century rising to positions of power and prestige in the dying days of tsarism. <br> <br> Warsaw by contrast sympathetically depicts the poverty and sociopolitical turmoil that made the Russian revolution inevitable while Moscow attempts to analyze the destructive social forces unleashed by the revolution and the subsequent conflict between individual freedom and the dictates of the Bolshevik party. <br> <br> In bridging the action between all three parts Zachary becomes the supreme example of Asch’s favorite character an existentially troubled being in search of faith and conviction able neither to accept nor to fight the drastic social transformations taking place all around him.†YIVO Encyclopedia.<br> <br> SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature. OCLC: 14920876<br> <br> Period Arbeiter Ring Mitl Shul stamp on title page. Spine separated and paper somewhat fragile but text is complete and legible. Fair Condition. YID-48-50-CCLGGX-’em. Varshe [Warsaw]: Ko'operativer Farlag "Kultur Lige unknown
2003396201Saint Petersburg : Palace Editions 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in illustrated boards in a near-fine slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical Description: 350 pages : illustrations some color portraits ; 30 cm. Subjects: 1900-1999; Artists Russian France Paris Biography; Arts russes France Paris 20e siècle; Arts Russian; Arts Russian France Paris 20th century. [Saint Petersburg] : Palace Editions hardcover
198743199New York: Rizzoli 1987. Thick 4to. 618 pp. 1544 photos illusts. diagrams plates. Red cloth blk lettrng w/ d.j. couple sml clsd tears very mnr sunng to spine edgewear VG/VG copy from the collection of Dr. Rochelle Martin w/ ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this first exhaustive work on the history and examples of Soviet architecture from 1917-32. Included are sections on Classicism rationalism Constructivism nationalism and much more. Rizzoli, hardcover
190564112New York: Harper & Brothers 1905. Tall 8vo. 505 1 pp. With 100’s of text woodcuts & engravings maps on endpapers. Brick-red decorated publisher’s cloth black & gilt lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. chipping & loss to spine minor chipping to fore-edges closed tears still NF/G- copy. Later printing of this fairly scarce installment in the Boy Travellers series set against the backdrop of a follow-up to the Far East and Americas adventures with Frank Bassett & Fred Bronson journeying from Vienna to Warsaw & St. Petersburg Moscow the great fair in Nijni Novgorod the Caspian Sea and across Central Asia. Knox 1835-1896 famed Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald later worked for the Russo-American Telegraph Company which inspired his Boy Travellers series featuring an industrialist father and two sons traveling the world. Exceedingly rare in dustjacket. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
1940209821Los Angeles.: Los Angeles Examiner. 1940. Printed colour pictorial map on a single newspaper leaf 42.3 x 39.9 cms; 54.3 x 42.5 cms sheet archivally laid down on linen slight discoloration to lower centrefold and sheet slightly age-toned but in very good condition. A striking geopolitical map by Los Angeles Examiner artist Howard Burke covering China Japan Southern Russia and the northern part of French Indochina and Siam showing how the "Aggressors Divide China." Areas under Japanese occupation are shown in red and their naval blockade shown by an arc of naval vessels with vivid arrows indicating lines of supply. Text labels including sources of agricultural and raw materials provide a dynamic overview of the geopolitical situation and show the influence of American scientific illustrator and cartographer Richard Edes Harrison who argued for examining geographic issues from multiple perspectives and Los Angeles Times artist Charles Owens. . Los Angeles Examiner. unknown
198081760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
180319922London: for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer 1803. First edition. Illustrated with 73 hand-colored stipple engravings text in both English and French. Folio bound in contemporary full blue straight-grain morocco gilt lettered in two panels richly decorated in gilt in the remaining three and on the bands; the covers with a fine gilt dentelle border enclosing a blind-tooled border gilt turn-ins a.e.g. 73 plates and 73 text leaves the text is in English on the recto and French on the verso. A very handsome copy with just light rubbing to the binding. The plates are fine and clean. With the engraved bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale. A BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND SCARCE NOW. Abbey records a copy printed for Miller by S. Gosnell and states that "the Cat. Russica records what it calls another edition in 1803 and an edition printed by Howlett and Brimmer in 1803 but other references to these have not been found"<br> The others in the series were THE PUNISHMENTS OF CHINA THE COSTUME OF TURKEY THE COSTUME OF AUSTRIA and THE COSTUME OF GREAT BRITAIN. For a full account of the series see Abbey Travel 533. The plates for this book are closely copies but somewhat enlarged from a book by J. G. Georgi published by Müller in St. Petersburg four volumes quarto in 1776-80 under the patronage of the Empress. for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer unknown
42350issued by the City of Moscow in 1908 with coupons text in both English and Russian folio with attractive vignette at the head of a knight slaying a Dragon Moscow At the end of the 19th century Europe lived under the law of alliances. As Germany and Russia move away Saint Petersburg and Paris get closer. Russia needed money and France needed friends to face the Triplice Germany Austria and Italy. "Slovophily" turns into hysteria. In 1888 Moscow issued four loans of 500 million gold francs under the blessing of the French public authorities. The Franco-Russian Alliance of 1891 ensured the success of the loans which multipled. Savers then rushed to the bank counters to show their patriotism and lend to Alexander III we will even build a bridge in Paris over the Seine that bears his name and then to Nicolas II and the City of Moscow. In 1904 the Russo-Japanese war caused panic but the banks were reassuring though after the October Revolution Lenin decided to stop recognising the debts of the old regime. unknown
42351Imperial Government of Russia 4% State Loan of 1902 bond issued by virtue of the Imperial Ukase of the 1st March 1902 to realise the contribution due to Russia in compensation for the "loses incurred in consequence of the Chinese disorders." the Boxer Rebellion "the annual payments to exactly correspond with the annual payments of interest and amortisation of the part of the contribution due to Russia which China engaged to pay in virtue of the Edict of the Chinese Empoer of of the 29th May 1901." folio A consortium of Russian German and Dutch banking and financial institutions were involved in the administration of this loan and payment of interest against coupons was paid from 18th June-1st July and from 19th December-1st January at various locations. An interesting anomaly is the denomination of the bond which is stated in Reichsmarks. The Reichsmark was not formally adopted as the German currency until 1924. The bonds were negotiable and accepted as security for Government contracts for deferred excise duties and for payment of customs duties at prices to be fixed half-yearly which would be not less than 90% of the face value of the bonds. The Boxer Rebellion in China had been followed by the combined military expedition of the powers to the Relief of Peking in which the US shared and the exaction of a huge indemnity of which the States relinquished nearly half of its share as in excess of the actual losses. The US protested against Russian demands upon China and actively participated in the negotiations which resulted in Russia's agreement to evacuate Manchuria. Russian delays and their policy have led Japan to declare war Secretary of State Hay's diplomacy was influential in limiting the zone of hostilities and the good offices of President Theodore Roosevelt brought about the conference between the two powers at Portsmouth N.H. which terminated hostilities. unknown
42352issued by the Russian Government for one Billion Roubles in 1916 with 6 of the original 20 coupons still attached 1 side folio printed in Green Ink with the Czarist Eagle at the head Moscow unknown
184235303New York: Harper and Brothers 1842. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. 1 pages v-xii pages 13-302 2. Folding map present. Dark brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Moderate toning to the end sheets. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents. Map is folded with light toning and occasional light foxing. Former institutional copy with a book label from "Athens Georgia Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association" on the front paste down. Fair to good condition. Harper and Brothers hardcover
199839784Moscow: Interbook Business Publishers 1998. Folio. 241 7 pp. 100s of colour illusts. Black boards gilt lettrng vry slght bmpng to crnrs w/ d.j. vry slght bmpng to lwr crnrs VG/VG. First edition of this spectacularly illustrated work on the traditional Russian lacquers lace embroidery scrimshaw porcelain ceramics weaving metalwork jewelry textiles and more. Printed in only 5000 copies. [Interbook Business Publishers, hardcover
7752Original paper binding with handwritten text on the front hard to read the date 1859 is good visible. Text in French and Russia. Foreword by Levansky.On the titlepage a handwritten dedication to Baron Gevers ministre Plenipotenciaire de S.M. le Roi des Pays-Bas signed by Son tres humble et tres obeittant serviteur L. Leving.Paper binding with some frayes and discoloration yotal Size: 25 x 16 cm. Interior with some discoloration but complete and good.Titlepage with stamp ""Koninklijk instituut van ingenieurs"". unknown
191755871N.p. 1917. Some light creasing and a few short marginal tears; otherwise fine. Folio. Printed from a photographic plate of the original letter. With typescript translation into English. Nicolas II granted the constitutional reforms that altered the entire political outlook of Russia. He was forced to abdicate and he and his family were executed at Ekaterinburg July 1918. This facsimile was most likely printed for circulation in Russia. unknown
190428398New York: Harper's 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Lg 4to 994pp of bound weekly issues. This half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly January 2 1904 to June 25 1904 features the Russo-Japanese War double page War map p464; war images pp967-975; X Ray invention p49; Steamer "General Slocum" on p99; San Juan Hill p955; Walter Travers golf p931; St. Louis World Fair p677; Southern California The Story of Its Development. pp504-519. With woodblock illustrations on the covers of the weekly issues. Complete with the supplements.<br /> <br /> Weekly issues bound up into a large single volume with 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Leather spine chipped cracked along the hinges but the binding is holding. Internally bright & very clean. Harper's hardcover
1854177799Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock kawaraban printed on two joined sheets vertical central crease 41 x 63cm a little worming mainly on margins and repaired with paper on the reverse a little light browning but still presents very well. This kawaraban reports on how foreign visitors from the United States and Russia were treated in order to keep the peace and safety of God's country Japan. <br> <br>It reports that foreigners had arrived in Uraga this being the time of the second visit of Perry to Japan in 1854. The kawaraban goes on to list official gifts from the Shogunate to the President and his delegation members from the United States as well as to the Russian delegation. The gifts include lacquer boxes silk textiles as well as rice and chickens for the crew. <br> <br>The attractive black and white image at the foot of the report depicts a meeting in Yokohama at which a high ranking Tokugawa official received foreign visitors. The visitors are shown prostrating themselves in the open outdoor space in front of the building where the official sits. . unknown
2013003399Voronezh: Cossack Camp 2013. Hardcover. Very Good . 4to. 260 pp. Bound in illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated chiefly full color. Text in Russian. Very Good some rubbing and wear to extremities of binding otherwise clean and tight. <br/><br/> [Cossack Camp] hardcover
171959230Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1917; 1930. Two vols. 8vo. ix 1 4 364 pp.; 19 mimeograph leaves. With 2 large folding colour map. First vol. in black publisher’s buckram silver lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight interior toning shelfwear 2nd vol. mimeographed typescript & stapled at gutter margin minor dustsoiling edgewear predation to lower fore-edge tear to last leaf of blank lower portion still a VG set. First editions of these coast pilot guides to Arctic waters during and after World War I issued about the time of the Russian Revolution and offered key navigational guides for Naval forces during the ill-fated White Russia Revolution and over 13000 troops in the Polar Bear Expedition. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from Russian & British sources but also sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The two maps serve as indexes to sailing charts to be ordered from the Hydrographic Office and keyed to sailing instructions within the coast pilots. The supplement is uncommon no copies located in Worldcat. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, hardcover
192659234Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1926; 1930. Two vols. 8vo.viii 478 pp.; 1 22; 1 leaves. With 1 large folding colour map. First vol. in tan publisher’s buckram black lettering front cover & spine minor soiling spotting fore-edges of covers darkening to spine very slight uniform interior toning; 2nd. vol. w/ self-printed softcovers toning to fore-edges minor chipping still VG set. Second edition stated of vol. I and 1st edition of Supplement. These uncommon coast pilot guides to Eastern Mediterranean waters the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov draw upon British Royal Navy Ottoman Empire & Turkish coast pilots Russian & U.S. Navy reports. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions. The maps outlines the available charts for the designated areas surrounding the Black Sea as well as detailing those for the extensive set of the Mediterranean Sea. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
109898St. Petersburg Lithographic Department of the Military Settlement 1835. . First edition small folio 31 x 22 cm; lithographic title and 10 unnumbered coloured by contemporary hand title soiled at foot where mark of ownership erased bottom corners of leaves with very light staining pl. 7 with printed Russian caption and early manuscript German translation; contemporary green Russian morocco upper cover lettered in gilt both covers with elaborate panelling in gilt and blind flat spine in gilt panels gilt turn-ins blue endpapers gilt edges extremities rubbed tiny split in joint at head of spine a fine copy.<br /> Remarkably fine series of hand-coloured prints of military costumes after Paul I in an exceptional contemporary Russian binding. The book was printed at the personal bequest of his son Tsar Nicholas I in an incredibly small edition. The short reign of Paul I ended with his murder in 1801 and was marked by his obsession with dress uniforms. All ten of the figures in this rare suite are drawn in the same posture at attention with arms firmly clasped to sides and though this gives them a slightly doll-like quality they are painstakingly and beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Nicholas I viewed his father with deep reverence and also admired the pomp and order of the Imperial army this publication was an attempt to honour his father's legacy.<br /> [St. Petersburg], Lithographic Department of the Military Settlement, 1835. unknown
194984391New York: Macmillan 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. ix; 342pp. Lightly sunned to spine with some light bumping and fading to the extremities; internally clean with a name and military ID number stamped on the top-edge of the page block and another numerical stamp to the bottom edge; in a priceclipped dustjacket with shalow fraying and chipping to the spine ends and extremities some light soiling to the pale paper and toning to the spine panel. A very good copy in a dustjacket that has seen some use.<br /> <br /> An extremely readable history of the social hierarchies and structures of Russia prior to the Revlution and the manner in which a nation deals with the overturning of all that it held familiar and enduring. Macmillan unknown
194683794Stanford CA: Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War Revolution and Peace 1946. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xv; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth mostly confined to some shallow cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges some toning of the spine panel and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy in a dustjacket with some light wear.<br /> <br /> A sizeable biography of the life of Ipatieff who managed to be a respected scientific figure before the Revolution and an even more respected one afterwards. It can have been no mean feat to have been head of Imperial Russian chemical warfare research during WW1 and then post-revolution to be held responsible for the revitalization of the chemical industry of the newly minted USSR. A joint memoir of the last days of Imperial Russia and the early days of the USSR with all the turbulence fear and uncertainty that must have engendered. Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace unknown
193683612New York: The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson 1936. Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain pale grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xi; 241pp. Some wear and discoloration to extremities very light it's a very solidly produced book so wear and tear is represented by darkening of the cloth at the edges and some softening of the spine ends rather than anything more drastic; internally clean ownership to front pastedown author's signature to front flyleaf; in a handsome example of the gold and black dustjacket with some chipping and shallow loss to the spine ends scuffing and rubbing to the gilt paper coating and some marginal creasing and soiling. A very good solid copy. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. <br /> <br /> For a man named by his father after the logo of the American Socialist Labor Party after slipping out of Odessa in the 1870's Armand Hammer's journey to become one of the world's most influential businessmen and "Lenin's Favorite Capitalist" must have been a dramatic one. <br /> His father Julius had spent much of the early 20th century consolidating his role at Allied Drug and Chemical which was essentially at times a smuggling front shipping embargoed goods to Russia during the US trade sanctions. After Julius was sentenced to 3 years in Sing Sing allegedly for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Russian woman from subsequent pneumonia although modern research suggests that Armand a medical student might have been the one who performed the abortion and Julius took responsibility as the qualified senior medical professional present Armand took over Allied Drug and Chemical and raised it to new heights of corporate success. <br /> During Prohibition Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. <br /> <br /> Acting under the instructions of his imprisoned father Armand began taking numerous business trips to the Soviet Union. A young J. Edgar Hoover at that point basically an analyst at the Justice Department very strongly believed that the equally youthful Hammer was a COMINTERN courier and essentially placed him under surveillance for the rest of his life. <br /> Hammer's trips to Russia were ostensibly to recoup bad debts but this quickly developed into a number of lucrative business deals not least of which was selling cheap wheat to starving famine hit areas of Russia. Hammer developed a close co-operative no pun intended relationship with Lenin which resulted in a number of very high status business contracts and deals ranging from medical import contracts to 25 year's worth of asbestos mining in the Urals; one of Hammer's greatest coups was arranging payment for various services in furs caviar jewellery and antiquities seized by the Party from its long tail of enemies making him essentially a conduit for looted and otherwise dubious art jewels and antiques. <br /> At the height of Lenin's New Economic Policy Armand Hammer was the sole trade liason between the enormity of Soviet Russia and 38 major US corporations seeking to build trade deals through him. His grasp of the downrange necessities of dealing with the Soviets; graft bribery corruption and palm greasing was legendary and by the 1970's when his methods were starting to be inspected more closely there was no doubt that Hammer's understanding of legitimate business was secondary to his instinctive abilities in the fields of corporate and beaurocratic bribery and manipulation. <br /> This book is one personal perspective on the empire of treasure that Hammer accumulated; there are others and the entangled ephemeral traces of looted artworks forged and unfinished Fabergé eggs specially manufactured jeweller's tools designed to copy Fabergé's style exactly and a wealth of other foggy rumors and suspicions ranging from Armand the KGB stooge to Armand the James Bond Villain bent on Soviet domination through capitalism will continue to follow in his wake whether he be considered a legitimate businessman or a highly successful 20th century robber baron of legendary proportions. The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson unknown
1900L7NBLF1PS3N8Russia 1900. Each photo ca. 27 x 37 cm. Pasted on cardboard. Series of 12 fine large and sharp photographs of Russian race horses. Pasted below each photo a slip with text written in cyrillic script names the horse owner pedigree and breed of horse in the photograph. Each horse is accompanied by a man holding the reins dressed in possibly a matching costume. They were all photographed at the same track in the yard of what seems to be a palace. The names of the horses are: Prezes Jako Velizarij Fanfara Taran Lenta Mon Barry Karina Lusty Nord-Ost Lena and Forteca.With a blind stamped signature of the photographer unidentified by us. Paperboard supports slightly warped. One photo with a minor tear otherwise all in very good condition. unknown
178318774St. Petersburg: J.J. Weitbrecht 1783. Contemporary half calf marbled sides sprinkled edges. 8vo. Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river which was under the government of Siberia which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.This publication is very rare WorldCat lists only 1 copy Kress Library of Business and Economics Harvard University. Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16. J.J. Weitbrecht, unknown
