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187754562Upsal Edquist 1877. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. gilt lettering. Light wear to spine. 644 pp. and folded lithographed map. unknown
187554628London: Chapman and Hall. Good with no dust jacket; Library stamps and markings halfmoon missing . from fore-edge of front free endpaper front hinge cracked boards lightly . worn. 1875. Hardcover. Ex-library copy bound in ¾ leather with marbled sides edges and endpapers. xv 389pp. Index. Sweeping survey of imperial Russian history geography religion literature and culture. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Chapman and Hall hardcover
1855010816London: The London Printing and Publishing Company 1855. 3 vols. Volume 1: 383pp Volume 2: 380pp Volume 3: 338pp plus 34 pp /chronological precis of the events of the war & index. .ca 1855-58 Each volume has full page steel engravings of battle scenes and portraits of military leaders and royals which are very detailed with decorative and illustrated margins the maps are mostly double page hand colored with inset engravings. Each volume clean and tight with mnimal foxing. Text presented in two columns per page and enclosed in double line border. by Henry Tyrrell. Front board separating on Vol 1. Overall nice set. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The London Printing and Publishing Company Hardcover
1857001799London: London Printing and Publishing Company 1857. 354 pages plus index with 11 beautiful steel engravings 1st part and 546 pages and 29 beautiful steel engravings and 2 beautiful double page steel-engraved/hand-colored maps of historical Russia. Both have steel engraved frontis and title pages. Some light foxing does not affect maps. Beautiful Crimean War history. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. London Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
180448024Frankfurt am Main Johann Daniel Simon 1804. Contemp. boards but with later modest clothbacking. Endpapers renewed. Stamp on titlepage. 414 pp. <br/><br/><em>The scarce first edition. </em> hardcover
1876011123St Petersburg Russia 1876. 438pp 132pp appendix. A detailed history of Roman Catholicism in Russia during the time of Catherine II and Alexander I. Russian Text. Rare. Light foxing and shelfwear otherwise clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover
18841369372New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes. In Good condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banner. Boards in brown cloth with small gilt image on front. Wear to spine caps and corners light wear to title banners mild shelf wear. Text blocks have bookplate on front paste-down. Illustrated with frontispiece in each volume b&w plates and folded color map at rear of volume two. <br /> <br /> CONTENTS: Vol. 1. Chapters I-XLV xix 445 pages - Vol. 2. Chapters XLVI-LXXVIII xi 560 pages.<br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1369372. FP New Rockville Stock. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1815120459London: Printed for Edward Orme 1815. Magnificent hand-coloured views of St Petersburg First edition "one of the most beautiful plate books of St Petersburg" Bobins Collection offering a wonderfully evocative picture of the city in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars issued during the lifetime of one of its most famous inhabitants Alexander Pushkin. Published at 6 guineas coloured this is a superb record of the city of Peter the Great and is divided into two sections: the first 12 plates represent the months of the year through characteristic views of the city; the other 8 illustrate different modes of transport various types of sledges and carriages but include excellent character studies showing diverse types of costume by class and by season. The 26-page introduction entitled "The present state of St Petersburgh" includes a brief historical survey and a few statistics along with descriptions of the main sites and monuments. "Though unsigned the letterpress was chiefly compiled from Robert Ker Porter's Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805-1808 as many sections repeat his text verbatim" Giroud p.72. Mornay the artist responsible for the original sketches upon which Clark and Dubourg's aquatints were based eludes identification and does not appear in Thieme-Becker. Martin Hardie in characteristically waspish fashion describes the plates as "lurid in colouring very much in the style of toy theatre scenery" English Coloured Books 1906 p. 138; this is entirely unfair the colouring in the present copy is certainly not "lurid" and the "toy theatre" quality of the views only lends them a most appealing charm: many of them are composed in such a way that they resemble vues d'optiques - symmetrical and theatrical middle-distance perspectives - which combine well with the small scaling figures staffage adding splashes of bright colour against backgrounds of snowy streets grey skies and yellowish-brown buildings of this "city of stone" forming a satisfyingly picturesque effect. Two of the buildings shown - the Exchange 1809 and the Kazan Cathedral 1811 - had only recently been completed. Edward Orme - "Publisher to His Majesty and HRH the Prince Regent" - was "after Rudolph Ackermann the most important publisher of illustrated books during the short golden age of the coloured aquatint" ODNB. He would have had a prudent eye on the visit of the Allied sovereigns to London in June 1814 which celebrated the Treaty of Fontainebleau 11 April 1814 and the peace following the defeat and abdication of Napoleon. Among them was Tsar Alexander I who stayed with his sister the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg at the Pulteney Hotel on Piccadilly. "In 1809 Edward Orme had begun buying land and property in Bayswater London. He exploited the gravel deposits built houses and in 1818 added a chapel of ease. Orme Square developed between 1823 and 1826 was named after him and Moscow Road and St Petersburgh Place nearby may have commemorated the state visit of Tsar Alexander I in June 1814. In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events" ibid. This is a marvellous survey of one of the world's great cities captured at the time when it served as the backdrop for Tolstoy's War and Peace. Folio 469 x 310 mm. Additional engraved title page incorporating a large double-headed Russian eagle 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Clark & Dubourg after Mornay; watermarks: plates J. Whatman 1825 text W. Balston 1813. Late 19th-century dark brown morocco-grain half skiver professionally refurbished marbled sides gilt edges drab grey endpapers. From the library of noted bibliophiles Maxine and Joel Spitz with their "Trail Tree" bookplate Joel Spitz was a member of Chicago's prestigious Caxton Club. Light offsetting from frontispiece to engraved title. An excellent copy the plates fresh and bright and with the four leaves of explanation of the plates in French and English. Abbey Travel 226; Bobins Collection 203; Tooley 355; Vincent Giroud St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City Yale University Press 2003. unknown
1894TSSnfRUS8St. Petersburg: 1894. 1894. Russian Text. 8vo. pp. 133. 3 folding coloured maps several text illus. original quarter cloth over printed bds. bit soiled label on upper spine insitutional rubberstamp on title & front flyleaf stain to small portion of second map. Description of Poti a seaport in West Georgia on the Black Sea at the mouth of Rion River important for export trade in manganese lumber and grain. Also including information respecting Ochakov Mariupol Dunay and Kerch. Hardcover. St. Petersburg: 1894. Hardcover
1893LM-II2E-7IZG1893. Hardcover. Good. First edition Houghton Mifflin 1893. Average wear top and bottom of spine frayed cover gilt bright spine gilt somewhat dulled. Messy removals to inside front cover and front endpaper. Pages yellowed with a few smudges creases and minor blemishes. Owner names in pencil. Binding cracked at front and rear remains serviceable. hardcover
181671411London: Robert Bowyer. c.1816. A very fine hand coloured aquatint by Robert Bowyer 1758-1834 published in 1815. From; 'An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe During the Years 1812 1813 1814 & 1815 Comprising a series of Views of Paris Moscow The Kremlin Dresden Berlin. together with a History of those Momentous Transactions'. This delightful view shows Muscovites in the foreground with parts of The Kremlin and the greater city in the background whilst The Moskva River is seen carrying mercantile craft. The colouring is soft and subtle and gives a this view a wonderful depth and clarity. Size: 465 x600 mm. Original hand coloured aquatint. In good condition. Central fold with old repairs to splits some soiling and minor staining. unknown
181335052London: Printed By C. Baldwin/ Sherwood Et Al. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1813. Hardcover. frontis; xii pages; Napoleonic Wars. 8vo early 20th-century 3/4 black morrocco over cloth with nicely gilded spine . 5.5 x 8" a few minor foxed spots. With half-title. Untrimmed washed. Mid-19th-century litho portrait of Czar Alexander I tipped in as frontis. OCLC 29343893. WorldCat locates 12 copies. Related topics touched upon according to WCat Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia. France -- History Military -- 1789-1815 -- Sources. Napoleon -- I -- Emperor of the French -- 1769-1821 -- Invasion of Russia 1812. Translation of: Les Bulletins Francois concernant la guerre en Russie. Napoleon in Russia etc. . Printed By C. Baldwin/ Sherwood Et Al hardcover
1866030652London: Chapman And Hall 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Vi 298 Pp. Modern Blue Cloth Gilt Stamped Black Leather Spine Label. The Modern Binding Is Fine Contents Just Very Good With Wear At Corners And Slight Even Foxing To Title Page. Scarce. Morley Reports That The Observations Were Provided By A Friend Who Brought Them From A Doctor Long Resident In Russia. The Quality And Immediacy Of The Observations Are Remarkable. <br/> <br/> Chapman And Hall hardcover
1900193393Paris: Paul Dupont 1900. First Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 989 pages; Physical description.: 989 p. 10 maps ; 24 cm. Subject: Russia : in Europe and Asia - Agriculture - 1900 - Maps. Russia : in Europe and Asia - Industry - 1900 - Maps. Paris: Paul Dupont paperback
1900148061Paris: Paul Dupont. Guillaumin Et Cie 1900. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in paper-labelled cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. ; 989 pages; Physical desc. : pp. Xx. 989. Subject: Russia : in Europe and Asia - Agriculture - 1900 - Maps. Russia : in Europe and Asia - Industry - 1900 - Maps. Paris: Paul Dupont. Guillaumin Et Cie hardcover
1900032076UK 1900. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. An Original Paper Written and Signed by Marie Duchess of Edinburgh Grand Duchess of Russia. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia 1853-1920 was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She was the younger sister of Alexander III of Russia and the paternal aunt of Russia's last emperor Nicholas II. Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee 1869-1949 wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton 1864-1937. Emily was the daughter of William Lee Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886 and granddaughter of John Lee 1779-1859 Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859.Size is 113mm x 78mm. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17163 <br/> <br/> unknown
189121073New York: The Century Company. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. A few pages unopened. ; "Sponsored by the Century magazine and accompanied by the Boston artist and photographer George Frost Kennan arrived in Russia for his fourth visit in May 1885. He came prepared to give a favourable assessment of the penal system in Siberia but subsequent meetings and events in Siberia radically changed his views and through his subsequent book and lectures those of America. In the course of eight months between June 1885 and March of the following year they covered some 8000 miles within Siberia." Cross Anthony. “REIGN OF ALEXANDER III 1881–1894. ” In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire 1613-1917 1st ed. Open Book Publishers 2014 pp. 273–309. - Green boards with gilt lettering. Blindstamped decorative floral design. Volume 1 with frontispiece 4 maps and 90 illustrations. Volume 2: frontispiece and 104 illustrations as well as 3 maps. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; xv 409; x 575 pages . The Century Company hardcover
1855056106Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1855. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xvi 339 16 pages. Hardcover bound in original red publisher's cloth embossed in blind and with spine titles in gilt. Rebacked in red cloth with the original spine laid down. New black endpapers. A sound tight copy. The text appears quite clean. Collates complete with 9 full page plates and a folding map. All plates have tissue guards. 3 plates are color. The other 6 plates are tinted and one of the tinted plates is a folding plate. 16 page Publisher's Catalogue at the rear. A sturdy usable and complete copy. <br/> <br/> William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
187421526New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's inscription to first blank page. Very light foxing to first and last pages. Front hinge a bit tender.; Including 13 tissue guarded engravings and one fold-out charts. "Fox 1821-83 was sent by Congress to congratulate Alexander II on his escape from assassination and sailed on the monitor Miantonomoh to St Petersburg where he arrived on 5 August 1866. Over the following weeks until their departure on 27 September the Americans were fêted wherever they went which included Moscow and towns along the Volga pp. 78-409. The visit was chronicled in minute and fascinating detail by Vasa’s secretary 1831-1927 and the appendices included the score of the ‘Miantonomoh galop’ composed for the piano by Heinrich Fürstnow in Fox’s honour pp. 430-35." from: Anthony Cross: REIGN OF ALEXANDER II 1855–1881. In the Lands of the Romanovs. An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire 1613-1917 .; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii 444 pages . D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1860010818Washington D. C: George W.Bowman Printer 1860. xxiv 277pp.with 24 lithographed views incl. additional title most tinted some folding 2 with some hand-colouring & 57 folding maps plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies furnishing and distributing supplies medical and hospital arrangements kinds of arms ammuniition and equipment including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon the construction of fortifications methods of transportation &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there the military hospital at St. Petersburg the Turkish Barrack at Scutari used by the English Army as their general depot hospital and as a residence by Florence Nightingale folding plans of fortifcations in Paris Cherbourg Sebastopol Constadt and other cities and plates showing weapons hospitals batteries storehouses military structures. Text plates and maps in excellent condition - no tears foxing. However the binding is in very poor condition. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. George W.Bowman, Printer Hardcover
1854025450New York: Harper & Brothers 1854. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Map and Woodcuts. 226 Pp. Original Cloth Gilt And Blind Stamped. Contents Clean Light Aging. Covers With Wear Cloth Lightly Frayed Across Top Of Spine And Down 3/4" At Top Front Spine Edge A Few Other Points Of Fraying. Spine Has Been Wet Gilt Is Dulled Cloth Of Spine And Adjacent Areas Of Covers And Endpapers Damp Stained This Damage Not Reaching The Printed Pages. Anecdotes And Observations Made While Curzon Was Part Of A Commission To Resolve The "Turkish And Persian Problem In Kurdistan And Armenia" Seeking The Most Arbitrary And Least Democratic Solution For All Residents Of The Area And Achieving Enduring Success. Library Label Franklin Institute On Front Pastedown Four Digit Number At Base Of First Page. This Copy Fairly Crisp And May Never Have Been Read. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
18394933Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1839. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 4to 138 pages some foxing. modern binding in 3/4 morocco light tidal line on top margin. <br/><br/>" . the editors of the present edition which is carefully reprinted from the first 4to edition of 1810 have found it necessary in point of justice to neutralise some of the authors statements by means of foot-notes of an opposite character and more consonant with what was some years ago and now is the condition of the Russians. They have also supplied a few deficiencies and additional statements in reference to places of importance visited by the author so as to give the work much of the interest of a fresh production . an account has been given of Poland Siberia and other districts which were not visited by him in the course of his travels - Prefatory Memoir." William and Robert Chambers hardcover
1890154515Vladivostok: Livay Studio No. 11 Svetlanskaya Street c.1890. A scarce late 19th-century record of styles of clothing and foot-binding followed by well-to-do Chinese women in the Russian border city of Vladivostok. The Livay photographic studio catered specifically to Chinese residents and visitors and we have not been able to trace any other surviving examples of its work. Following China's transfer of the Haishenwei region to the Tsar in 1860 Vladivostok became a thriving centre of economic activity and cultural interchange between Russians and Chinese with both of these communities served by the Livay studio based on the city's main boulevard. This photograph is a pleasing corrective to the many surviving photographs of late-imperial Chinese women often produced in cities such as Shanghai which adopt an orientalizing gaze. While photography was introduced into Russia soon after its invention it remained a preserve of the very wealthy until the 1860s when technological changes fuelled an explosion in the number of photographic studios in major cities. "In the hands of commercial studio photographers the medium retained its original social function namely "to solemnize and to immortalize" the portrayed subject. The studio photograph was an index and a means of communicating one's status; it indicated the sitter's place in the social hierarchy both as a commodity object and as information. But more importantly photography dominated the market for portraiture and democratized visual self-representation. It captured people from across the social spectrum and brought about a visual levelling whereby the social benefits and drawbacks of this type of publicity was showered equally on kings nobles lawyers merchants and cobblers. Photography as a mechanized medium of self-representation pulled members of different social class onto the same visual level in the public sphere" Stolarski pp. 4-5. Cabinet card 164 x 108 mm mounted gelatine photograph 140 x 103 mm with glossy finish card lettered in red in Russian and Chinese. Small scuff to upper right corner of photograph image substantially unaffected couple of faint stains to card verso skinned where sometime mounted. A very good example. Christopher Stolarski "The Rise of Photojournalism in Russia and the Soviet Union 1900-1931" PhD Diss. 2013. hardcover
1895011034St. Petersburg Russia: V. A. Tikhanov 1895. 387pp. Light brown cloth. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky 1828-1889 was a Russian writer socialist and literary critic whose novel "What is to be done" became a classic of the Russian revolutionary movement. Text in Russian. Clean and unmarked. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. V. A. Tikhanov Hardcover
1857056107London: John Murray 1857. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. xi 445; viii 459 pages. Hardcovers bound in original red publisher's cloth embossed in blind and with spine titles in gilt. Rebacked in red cloth with the original spine laid down. New off-yellow endpapers. A sound tight copy. The text appears quite clean. Collates complete with a frontis and three folding maps or plans all in the first volume. A sturdy usable and complete copy. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover