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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
1803ST15927London: Cadell and Davies 1803. ONE OF 60 LARGE PAPER COPIES of the "considerably enlarged" Fourth Edition ours a variant retaining the date of 1803 on the title-page rather than 1804. 330 x 252 mm. 13 x 9 7/8". xviii 4 xix 1 380 pp. Two leaves usually bound at the end and containing the "List of Principle Books Referred to in this Work" and "Works by the same Author" bound between pp. xvii and xix here. <br/> VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY SPRINKLED CALF raised bands flanked by plain and decorative gilt rules and chain roll spine panels with star centerpiece red morocco label marbled endpapers. With six engravings: five maps two folding and one view. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Marcus Gage; title page with ink inscription at head: "M. Gage's Book got from Mr. Asperne London April 15th 1805." Lada-Mocarski 29 note; Howes C-834; Sabin 17309; Streeter VI 3501; Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica pp. 2447-48. ◆Small chip to tail of spine corners a bit rubbed flyleaves somewhat foxed the usual minor foxing to plates and a bit of offsetting to adjacent pages otherwise A VERY FINE COPY OF AN ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE EDITION clean and fresh internally with vast margins and the binding firm lustrous and with only very minor wear to the joints.<br/> <br/> This is an extremely well-preserved copy in an elegant contemporary binding of the most sought-after edition of a key source on Russian exploration and that country's efforts to expand trade with China and Alaska. Eminent historian William Coxe 1747-1828 studied the voyages and exploration by Bering and others to the regions of Kamchatka the Aleutian Islands and Siberia to prepare this overview of the geography and cultures of the lands between Russia and North America and to analyze the economic potential of trade--particularly in furs--with the region. According to Sabin "Mr. Coxe's book contains many curious and important facts with respect to the various attempts of the Russians to open a communication to the New World." The 1780 first edition of this work covered Russian voyages of discovery between 1740 and 1769; the 1787 third edition added a supplement comparing these explorations to those of Captains Cook and Clerke. Our much-expanded fourth edition gives in the words of the Preface "a complete series of voyages from 1711 to 1792 comprising all that is known on the subject." Some of this supplementary information was gleaned from earlier accounts by German historians G. F. Muller and P. S. Pallas and some from Coxe's own travels in Russia. According to Lada-Mocarski Coxe "also succeeded in securing additional material: for instance the narrative and maps of Krenitzin and Levashev's 'secret' expedition the first official Russian government expedition since Bering's 2nd expedition of 1741. He was able to secure this particular information not widely known at the time even in Russia from Dr. Wm. Robertson who in turn obtained it through his friend Dr. Rogerson first physician to the Empress Catherine II. . . . In view of the above additions one should consider the fourth edition of 1803 as the most desirable." He concludes: "Coxe's work particularly the fourth edition is a result of contemporary and authoritative sources translated into English not to be overlooked by scholars and collectors alike." There are also distinct aesthetic advantages to the present Large Paper version over the octavo printing. Not only is the type beautifully re-set and laid out as well as surrounded by vast margins but as Streeter notes there are two charts here that are not included in the octavo issue of 1803. The original owner of this volume Marcus Gage is known to have assembled a substantial library of beautifully cared-for books on travel and discovery see for example "Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939 Books from the Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching" passim. Gage notes that he got the book from "Mr. Asperne"—no doubt the London publisher and bookseller James Asperne 1757-1820. ABPC and RBH find just four other Large Paper copies at auction in the past 45 years two of which had condition issues. One could wait a considerable time to find a copy as attractive and desirable as the present one. Cadell and Davies 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
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
181315666Nepveu Paris 1813 6 vol. 6 volumes in-12 (15 x 9 cm, grandes marges) de XXXII 163 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 186 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 190 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 196 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), 2 ff.n.ch. 192 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table) et 2 ff.n.ch. 198 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), plein cartonnage illustré de l'époque, dos lisse orné.
1801138259Au Comptoir d' Industrie, Leipzig, [1801-1804] 1801 In-4, demi-basane, dos lissedeux titres, un en français et un en allemand, ainsi que le descriptif à chaque planche, XII- 95 pp. & 40 planches gravées sur cuivre coloriées à la main. Rousseurs soutenues pour le texte, légères et éparses pour les planches. Quelques taches de peinture sur la première planche.
1854es293J. Bry Ainé, éditeur Sélection Le Seanachi, Sélection Abraxas-libris Relié 1854 "EDITION ORIGINALE--LETTRE MANUSCRITE DE GUSTAVE DORE. ""Histoire dramatique, pittoresque et caricaturale de la sainte Russie, d'après les chroniqueurs et historiens Nestor, Nikan, Sylvestre, Karamsin, Ségur, etc. commentée et illustrée de 500 magnifiques gravures de Gustave Doré gravées sur bois par toute la nouvelle école sous la direction générale de Sotain, graveur de l'histoire de Russie, de batailles, de protraits, de paysages, de genre, de fleurs, d'animaux, de crustacés et de plantes rares"". Un volume in-4 (20,8 x 31 cm), reliure pleine toile beige de Behrends, dos lisse orné d'une pièce de titre et d'un fer estampé à froid, ex-libris de Maurice Decroix, couverture conservée, 207 pages imprimées uniquement au recto, la page 89 porte la tache rouge caractéristique de l'édition originale rare et recherchée de cet ouvrage satirique critiquant les menées de la Russie en Europe, notamment en Crimée, qui fut par la suite censuré par le gouvernement de Napoéon III en 1856. Il est aussi considéré comme la première bande dessinée française. Notre exemplaire est en outre doté d'une lettre manuscrite de Gustave Doré à son éditeur. ""Cher Monsieur, je vous prie de croire que je ne donnerais pas un dessin à un graveur sans que vous le vissiez et sans qu'il vous l' [apporte?]. Aussi je m'empresse de vous écrire pour vous exprimer mon étonnement de ce que M. Viand n'ait pas, comme je le lui ai recommandé expressément, été vous porter son bois. Il [demeure?] 133 avenue de Châtillon au Grand Montrouge. Vous aurez demain deux nouveaux dessins sans faute. Votre bien dévoué, Gustave Doré ; dos bruni, rousseurs et taches aux plats, manque dans le coin inférieur de la page 49 avec légère atteinte de quelques mots au texte et sans atteinte à l'illustration, par ailleurs intérieur frais et bien conservé, bel exemplaire. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
180213695Londres, Paris, Rouen, Buisson, Mongie l'aîné, Frère, 1802. In-8 de (4)-VIII-390 pp., demi-veau aubergine, dos lisse orné de filets dorés (relié vers 1850).
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
188884805New York: Harper and Brothers 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Publisher's green pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. vi; 1; 401pp.6pp. ads to rear. Light rubbing to corners slight scuffing and some minor bumping to spine ends with a small spot stain at the very head of the spine small dent to upper edges of the boards; internally clean with some superficial soiling to the page edges ownership of Pennsylvania historian Gertrude Bosler Biddle to front flyleaf. A very good clean and handsome copy.<br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> London: 1890-93. Three ALS autograph letters signed on folded stationery sheets as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Dated "March 31" without year; from context ca. 1888-1890. 2pp ca. 250 words in black ink; datemarked St. John's Wood March 31. Requesting the publisher's permission to commission a German translation of his Russian Peasantry which first appeared in 1888 with a second edition in 1890. Stepniak proposes 50/50 division of royalties and identifies the translator as Victor Adler who has just been sentenced to three months in prison and thus now has "ample leisure" for undertaking the translation. Adler 1852-1918 was founder and first chairman of the Austrian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in 1888. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Near Fine. <br /> <br /> 2. Dated November 6 1890. 1pp ca. 75 words in blue ink. Declines a request from his publisher to undertake a book on the Jewish Question: ".it is impossible for me to write upon any question upon Jews or anything else for I am quite full with preparing a series of American lectures." Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Slight smudging final two lines and left margin not affecting legibility. Very Good. <br /> <br /> 3. Dated May 15 1893. 2pp ca. 120 words in black ink. Addressed to "Dear Mrs i.e. messieurs Sonnenschein" accepting an invitation to visit but stating he cannot arrive early. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Light soil; Near FIne. <br /> <br /> Sergei Stepniak aka Sergius; aka Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskii 1851-1895 made his revolutionary bones during the Narodnik Rebellion of 1877-78 by openly assassinating Nikolai Mezentsov the head of the Czar's secret police on the streets of St. Petersburg. Kravchinskii committed the act in broad daylight and made no attempt to disavow his guilt living publicly if dangerously for several months before finally escaping to Switzerland. He arrived in London around 1880 and quickly became the center of a lively Russian revolutionary exile scene. He founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in 1891 and wrote a number of well-received books on revolutionary Russia including Underground Russia which had in fact been published in translation prior to his exile The Russian Peasantry 1888; and a fictionalized account of his own exploits The Career of a Nihilist 1889. He was killed somewhat mysteriously we think by an onrushing train in December of 1895 depriving him of any opportunity to witness the fruit of his labors in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Dying young Stepniak did not leave a great body of manuscript material behind him and relatively few letters with good content have appeared in commerce. Harper and Brothers unknown
1824LCPCVOY-0033(Un excéptionnel guide de Moscou en édition originale. Un séduisant exemplaire tel que paru, à toutes marges, non rogné et en très grande partie non coupé) LE COINTE DE LAVEAU Georges. "GUIDE DU VOYAGEUR A MOSCOU, CONTENANT CE QUE CETTE CAPITALE OFFRE DE CURIEUX ET D'INTERESSANT... ET SUIVI D'UN ITINERAIRE DES PRINCIPALES ROUTES DE LA RUSSIE". 1824, Moscou, A. Semen. 1 volume in-8° (238x144 mm) (dimensions pages 238x153 mm) (2) ff. (faux-titre et titre), 1 frontispice gravé, (1) f. (dédicace), VI pp. (avertissement), pp. 11 à 459 (y compris la table des chapitres et des matières), (1) p. (errata), 6 tableaux dépliants et 5 in texto, 7 planches lithographiées h.t. ((2) ff., (7) ff., 2-12(8), (1) f. ajouté au f. 12(8), 13-26(8), 27-29(4), 30(8), (1) f.) Brochure beige imprimée originale. Exemplaire conservé dans une boîte de plexiglass. Edition Originale, très rare, du premier guide de Moscou. Quelques déchirures et un petit manque de papier dans la partie supériure du dos. Quelques petites brunissures éparses au début et en fin de l'ouvrage. Légères traces de poussière dans les marges extérieures. Mais superbe exemplaire tel que paru, à toutes marges, non rogné et avec de nombreux cahiers non coupés. Conservé dans sa brochure beige imprimée originale. Très curieuse guide de Moscou, avec la description de son histoire, de ses monuments et de ses institutions civiles et politiques. L'auteur précise que "malgré les relations nombreuses que Moscou entretient avec tous les états d'Europe... cette ville qui se trouve maintenant sur une multitude d'itinéraires, n'est cependant pas encore connue sous ses véritables rapports. Des erreurs qui ont été répétées par des voyageurs qui la visitèrent dans les premiers tems de son origine, se sont perpetuées jusquìà nos jours ; et il n'est pas rare de trouver à son sujet, dans les géographes, de fausses notions encore empreintes de la grossièreté des siècles dans lesquels elles ont été puisées". Nombreuses sont les pages dédiées aux collections particulières d'oeuvres d'art, de peinture et de livres précieux. Une Bible de Gutemberg, par exemple, est mentionnée dans les collections du Prince Michel Pétrovich Gallitzin. Le dernier chapitre du livre s'occupe des postes et des diligences et offre des tableaux avec tous les itinéraires et les correspondances de Moscou vers les principales villes de la Russie et vers les frontières du pays. L'auteur offre des conseils aux voyageurs en précisant que la diligence "n'attend pas le voyageur qui tarde, et qui perd sa place s'il ne parvient pas à rejoindre à la première poste..." et que le bagage "doit être de nature à se laisser facilement emballer et ne doit pas être d'un poids au dessus de 20 livres...". (LCPCVOY-0033) (1.700,00 €)
1802654041 vol. in-12 reliure de l'époque plein veau blond, A St Petersbourg, De l'Imprimerie de l'Académie Imp. des Sciences, 1802, frontispice, 247 pp.
182119877Paris, J.L.J. Brière, 1821-1823 ; 22 tomes. Suivi de : Mémoires, correspondance et ouvrages inédits de Diderot, publiés d’après les manuscrits confiés, en mourrant par l’Auteur à Grimm. Deuxième édition augmentée. Paris, Paulin, 1834, 4 tomes, soit en tout 26 tomes in-8 en reliure uniforme : demi-veau fauve, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièces d’auteur et de tomaison rouge et de titre vert empire, tête dorée. Cet ensemble comprend :T1-2 : Philosophie, avec la préface de Naigeon dans l’édition de 1798. Frontispice : Portrait de Denis Diderot par Mme Therbouche 1823, gravé par Bertonnier ; planche I et II dépliante montrant le système de Saunderson (pour les aveugles) ; 3 planches HT au tome II ; les quatre textes en fin de volume sont aujourd’hui attribués à Mme D’Epinay.T3 : Mélanges de littérature et de philosophie.T4 : Théâtre.T5-6-7 : Romans et Contes.T8-9-10 : Salons ; Mathématiques.T11-12 : Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron ; Essai sur les études en Russie ; Plan d’une université pour le gouvernement de Russie ; Correspondance.T13 à 20 : Dictionnaire encyclopédique. T1 p.20 Tableau dépliant du Système figuré des connaissances humaines. Histoire complète de l’Encyclopédie et table des matières et table générale des articles.T21 : Oeuvres inédites de Diderot : Le Neveu de Rameau. Voyage de Hollande. Correspondance. Table générale et analytique des matières contenues dans les Oeuvres de Diderot.T22 : Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de D. Diderot par J.A. Naigeon. A la mémoire de D. Diderot par M. de Meister, 1786.T23-26 : Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Diderot, par Madame de Vandeul, sa fille. Mémoires de Diderot. Lettres à Mademoiselle Voland de 1759 à 1774. Voyage à Bourbonne et à Langres. Correspondance avec Falconet. Paradoxe sur le comédien. Entretien entre D’Alembert et Diderot. Rêve de D’Alembert. La Promenade du sceptique ou les Alliées, 1747. Est-il bon ? Est-il méchant ? ou l’officieux persifleur.
190011373Paris, Librairie académique Didier, Perrin et Cie, 1900. 3 parties en 2 volumes in-8 de [8]-448 et [8]-138-[2] pages, demi-chagrin rouge, dos lisses avec titre et date dorés, étiquettes de titre et de dates noires, couvertures conservées. Non rognés.
181394425Paris, Nepveu 1813 6 volumes in-16, basane mouchetée, dos lisses ornés, fine dentelle dorée encadrant les plats, roulette dorée sur les coupes et les chasses, tr. dorées, XXXII- 163- [4]- 186- [4]- 190- [4]- 195- [4]- 192- [4]-198 pp, 110 figures hors-texte finement gravées sur acier, certaines dépliantes, 105 en couleurs et 5 en noir. Un mors fragilisé, une brunissure en pied.
1803160461803 un volume, reliure plein veau brun in-folio (binding full calfskin in folio) (Large quarto 13x11 inches) (37 x 28 cm), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands), décoration or (gilt decoration) à filets or (gilt lines) et à froid (blind-stamping decoration), entre-nerfs à fleuron au fer plein (between the raised bands floweret with full blocking stamp), titre frappé or (gilt title), pièce de titre sur fond bordeaux (label of title) avec filet or (label of title with gilt line), dos trés frotté (spine very rubbed), avec manque de cuir sur le dos (lack of leather on the spine), manque de cuir au niveau de la pièce de titre (lack of leather on the label of title), coiffes manquantes (are missing the head and tail of the spine), charnière du premier plat fendue et cassée complètement (joint of the front cover cracked), du quatrième plat trés fendue (joint of the back cover cracked), plats frottés et épidermés aux armes de la Famille Innes Ker Duc de Roxburghe (armes sur les plats du volume avec la devise: Pro Christo et Patria) RELIURE A RESTAURER (Intérieur parfait), toutes tranches lisses, orné de 73 planches aquatintes hors-texte (full page engraving) couleur de costumes de Russie avec les explications en français et en anglais gravées par J. Dadley( ILLUSTRATED WITH 73 FINE HAND COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES OF COSTUMES - engraved by J. Dadley), 1803 London William Miller Publisher,
1855LBW-8025Chez tous les M.ds de cartes & d'estampes de Paris & de la province, 1855. 457 x 564 mm, sur papier fin.
18095451809 LONDON RICHARD PHILLIPS 1809 reliées en un volume gd.IN4 1/2 cuir de russie à coins -dos orné -complet des 41 planches gravées à l'aquateinte et la plus part coloriées à la main ,11 pl. en 2 tons (fond sépia)-27 coloriées -3 dépliantes dont 2 coloriées - 14 vues de ville et 27 de costumes civils et militaires -303+296p.- edition originale. The author (1777-1842) went to Russia in 1804 at the Czar's invitation to depict Russian historical events. An affair with a Russian princess forced him to leave the country, but he later returned and married the lady. Stadler's colored aquatints after Porter's sketches of Russian, Finnish and Swedish costume and scenery are among the liveliest illustrations of the early nineteenth century. Abbey 13; Lipperheide Kaa 25; Colas 2407; Tooley 195.
1893653421893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. The Last Edition of the Nakaz Published in the Nineteenth Century Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Bezgin Il'ia Grigor'evich Editor. Nakaz Eja Imperatorskago Velicestva Ekateriny Vtoryja Samoderzicy Vserossijskija Dannyj Kommissii o Socinenii Proekta Novago Ulozenija. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. 53 201 pp. Text of Nakaz in Russian with parallel French translation. Original printed stiff wrappers bound into recent quarter calf over cloth gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Gilding mostly rubbed away from lettering piece light soiling and edgewear to wrappers moderate toning to text faint dampspotting to a few leaves. Small early owner label to front free endpaper internally clean. $1750. The last edition published in the nineteenth century. The Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II between 1764 and 1766. It was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Infused with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All- Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and denounced torture and the death penalty. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. The first two editions one with parallel texts in Russian and German were published in 1767. OCLC locates 1 copy in a North American law library Columbia. Another copy located at Harvard Law School. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 526 Entry 18. unknown
1893653421893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. The Last Edition of the Nakaz Published in the Nineteenth Century Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Bezgin Il'ia Grigor'evich Editor. Nakaz Eja Imperatorskago Velicestva Ekateriny Vtoryja Samoderzicy Vserossijskija Dannyj Kommissii o Socinenii Proekta Novago Ulozenija. St. Petersburg: Izd. L.F. Pantelieeva 1893. 53 201 pp. Text of Nakaz in Russian with parallel French translation. Original printed stiff wrappers bound into recent quarter calf over cloth gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Light soiling and edgewear to wrappers moderate toning to text faint dampspotting to a few leaves. Small early owner label to front free endpaper internally clean. $1750. The last edition published in the nineteenth century. The Nakaz or Instruction is a statement of legal principles written by Catherine II between 1764 and 1766. It was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Infused with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and copied mostly from the work of Voltaire Montesquieu and Beccaria it was compiled as a guide for the All- Russia Legislative Commission convened by the Empress in 1767 to create a new code to replace the 1649 Muscovite Code. Revised in consultation with Frederick the Great and Voltaire the Instruction proclaimed the equality of all men before the law and denounced torture and the death penalty. Unfortunately her proposed code was never completed. The first two editions one with parallel texts in Russian and German were published in 1767. OCLC locates 1 copy in a North American law library Columbia. Another copy located at Harvard Law School. Butler The Nakaz of Catherine the Great 526 Entry 18. unknown books
1822255760London: R. Ackermann 1822. First edition. 72 hand-colored engraved plates. 4 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and embosed varnished paper boards rubbing to joints vol. IV hinges split contemporary owner's signature to front pastedowns. First edition. 72 hand-colored engraved plates. 4 vols. 12mo. The complete four-volume Russia set from this celebrated work consisting of descriptions and plates "to increase the store of knowledge concerning the various branches of the great family of Man not only for adults but . the instruction and amusement of the juvenile student.". Abbey Travel 6 R. Ackermann unknown books
1862499501 vol. in-folio reliure de l'époque demi-chagrin rouge, dos à 4 nerfs orné, Imprimerie de Ch. Lahure et Cie, 1862 [1862-1865], 392 pp. et 6 ff. n. ch., 1 f. blanc ; 376 pp. et 6 ff. n. ch.
188053786Moscow 1880. 10 hand-colored albumenprints some captioned in type in French and Russian. Oblong 4to. Contemporary quarter maroon morocco and boards cover titled in gilt "Photographs." Front joint cracked photographs in fine condition. 10 hand-colored albumenprints some captioned in type in French and Russian. Oblong 4to. Beautifully and finely hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Provenance: Baldur Bookshop Richmond Surrey receipt laid-in unknown
188053786Moscow 1880. 10 hand-colored albumenprints some captioned in type in French and Russian. Oblong 4to. Contemporary quarter maroon morocco and boards cover titled in gilt "Photographs." Front joint cracked photographs in fine condition. 10 hand-colored albumenprints some captioned in type in French and Russian. Oblong 4to. Beautifully and finely hand-colored photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Provenance: Baldur Bookshop Richmond Surrey receipt laid-in unknown books
189717354Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1897. Second Edition. Stiff Wraps. Very Good. Boards browned and with small ink soiling to front and a larger ink stain to back. ; The rare supplement to the French edition of the Russia Baedeker; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 108 pages . Karl Baedeker paperback
