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1755WRCAM24182London 1755. 18pp. Text in parallel French and English. Quarto. Dbd. Titlepage and final leaf a bit tanned. Else quite good. Detailed military alliance treaty between Great Britain and Russia setting forth the need for a capable defense force in case of attacks on dominions of both nations. One of the secret articles at the end stipulated that Great Britain shall pay Russia 100000 pounds a year to maintain a strong military force on the borders of Livonia. unknown books
193034630Russia 1930. 1 vols. Folio 39 x 24 1/4 inches. Linen backed. 1 vols. Folio 39 x 24 1/4 inches. unknown books
187737504St. Petersburg 1877. 56 x 40. Thirty-two printed panels mounted on canvas. 1 vols. Pinholes at corners faint age darkening else very good. 56 x 40. Thirty-two printed panels mounted on canvas. 1 vols. Shows Eastern Europe from Scandinavia to Constantinople Russia eastward to Perm and south to the Caucasus and Iran. The inset map shows Central Asia Mongolia and the Russian Far East. unknown books
179821930London: Printed and Published by G. Cawthorn British Library No. 132 Strand 1798. First Edition in English. Frontispiece and plates in text. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in quarter maroon morocco and buckram boards. First Edition in English. Frontispiece and plates in text. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by the elder George Kennan on front free- endpaper in pencil in both volumes. Printed and Published by G. Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand unknown books
177131423Paris: Chez Humblot 1771. First edition published in France and probably the first edition in French. Also published in French in Leipzig and Amsterdam the same year. Large folding map at the back. xxviii 584 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black boards manuscript paper label on spine. Boards very rubbed some knocking spine repaired but worn stamp on title and a few leaves of text browning of text pencilled marginalia else a very good copy. First edition published in France and probably the first edition in French. Also published in French in Leipzig and Amsterdam the same year. Large folding map at the back. xxviii 584 12 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce edition. Hume translated the English edition and published it in 1770 though the author of this edition says that the English edition is full of errors which may be correct as Hume published the second edition greatly corrected etc. Chez Humblot unknown books
179731896Paris: Chez Desenne 1797. First edition. Leaf "i" excised which may have contained the "Decret concernant les Contrefacteurs" 5 pages publisher's advertisements at the back half-title. xxiv 186 6pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf. Rubbed leaves spotted and browned some short marginal tears contemporary signatures on blanks else very good. First edition. Leaf "i" excised which may have contained the "Decret concernant les Contrefacteurs" 5 pages publisher's advertisements at the back half-title. xxiv 186 6pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With "Discours en Vers sur Les Disputes par M. De Rulhiere" on pp. 177-186. Chez Desenne unknown books
184019185London: Henry Colburn Publisher 1840. First edition. Frontispiece portraits facsimiles. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Head of spines pulled shaken some light browning and soiling of text mostly marginal. A Very good copy. First edition. Frontispiece portraits facsimiles. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed form the editor. Inscribed from Mrs. Bradford the editor to J. Arabella Holt March 28 1840 with clipped fragments from two letters from Mrs. Bradford pasted to endpapers. Henry Colburn, Publisher unknown books
1721262775London 1721. 43 1 pp. Removed slight foxing. 43 1 pp. ESTC N12949 unknown books
188225318Sergiyev Posad Russia: I. Efimova 1882. 186 4 pages. Including a double-page color tinted lithograph view of the monastery grounds and architecture; at back is a double-page map-plan giving the geographical position of the monastery and the layout of the grounds within the wider community; a number key with description is on the following pages. Text entirely in Cyrillic describing in a chronology the history of the monastery established by one of the most important Russian Orthodox patron saints of Russia the monk Sergius of Radonezh Saint Vartholomei Kirilovich. With the occasional marginal pencil comment and mark. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" size; bound in the original finely pebble-textured dark teal cloth. Edge-wear tips wear-through; spine cloth fraying and loosening at bottom. Remains of old label old sticker with number on front board; no blank free endpapers; a couple of pencil numbers and a pen number and with the stamp of a church library with a central illustration of the same & another rectangular stamp that is partially incomplete throughout. Text generally clean and very good; lithographed plate & the map also in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. I. Efimova hardcover books
182533191London: James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son 1825. Two folding engraved maps two engraved views some offsetting to maps and plates. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Later maroon morocco-backed cloth. some rubbing of extremities library stamp on contents page and a few other leaves bookplate on pastedown else a very good copy. Two folding engraved maps two engraved views some offsetting to maps and plates. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. James Duncan and Thomas Tegg and Son unknown books
185120015London: n. p. 1851. Folio printed on blue paper 10.81 x 8.63 inches 4 pages. Addressed in ink autograph to Messrs. Smith and Dove Andover Mass. with a canceled three cent U.S. stamp and a red round stamp for Boston 20 December. <br /><br />"The prospects for contract business during the approaching season may be considered favorable since the reports from the Interior respecting the crops are in every instance satisfactory." <br /><br />A detailed prospectus for Russian flax futures contracts and various other export goods with a list of goods exported from Archangel in 1851 from the merchant bankers Brandt & Sons which had agencies in Archangel Riga and London. <br /><br />The mailing address of this copy of the circular gives some idea of the international markets of New England textile mills; Smith and Dove ran an industrial spinning mill for linen thread in Andover. Prices are quoted in Roubles and Pounds Sterling at an exchange rate of 38d per Silver Rouble. <br /><br />A few small separations along old creases with loss of a letter or two; some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. n. p. books
192361783New York: The Macmillan Company 1923. Second impression. Illustrated. ix 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth decorated in green and gilt. Fine. Second impression. Illustrated. ix 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1742WRCAM241811742. 27pp. Text in parallel English and French columns. Quarto. Later plain wrappers front wrap detached. Untrimmed. Clean and very good. A treaty of military alliance between Great Britain and Russia. unknown books
197528631New York: G.P. Putnam's Son 1975. First American Edition. Photographs by Klaus Beyer. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. First American Edition. Photographs by Klaus Beyer. 1 vols. 4to. G.P. Putnam's Son unknown books
188121931London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1881. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern quarter black morocco and boards. Very Good. First Edition in English. With map and Illustration. 1 vols. 8vo. George Kennan's Copy. Signed by the elder George Kennan on endpaper in blue pencil. A great Russian-American Association<br/><br/>George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday.<br/>Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels.<br/>In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C.<br/>George Kennan February 16 1845 - 1924 was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed with whom he shared his birthday.<br/>Kennan was born in Norwalk Ohio and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. Family finances however meant he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office aged twelve. In 1864 he secured employment with the Russian American Telegraph Company to survey a route for a proposed overland telegraph line through Siberia and across the Bering Strait. Having spent two years in the wilds of Kamchatka he returned to Ohio via St. Petersburg and soon became well-known through his lectures articles and book about his travels.<br/>In 1870 he returned to St. Petersburg and travelled to Dagestan a northern area of the Caucasus region taken over by Russia only ten years previously. There he became the first American to explore its highlands a remote Muslim region of herders silversmiths carpet-weavers and other craftsmen. He travelled on through the northern Caucasus area stopping in Samashki and Grozny before returning once more to America in 1871. In 1878 he became an Associated Press reporter based in Washington D.C. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge unknown books
1898318338London: C. Arthur Person 1898. Second edition. Illustrated.x. 275pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters brown mottled calf red leather title label marbled boards. Fine. Second edition. Illustrated.x. 275pp. 8vo. C. Arthur Person unknown books
1930317605London: Herbert Jenkins 1930. First Printing. Illus. 320pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarters mottled brown calf marbled sides leather title label. Fine. First Printing. Illus. 320pp. 8vo. Herbert Jenkins unknown books
1917318401Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. London : Chapman & Hall 1917. First edition. With numerous Illustrations. xi 1 232 pp. 8vo. Bound in light tan mottled modern three quarters polished calf brown leather title label and marbled boards. Fine. First edition. With numerous Illustrations. xi 1 232 pp. 8vo. J.B. Lippincott. London : Chapman & Hall unknown books
14498Archive of 13 Vintage Horse Racing photos 3.2" x 2.3" Part of an album. Russian Military Officers Horseback riding on a manege or racetrack. The riders are wearing typical Russian outfits of 1920's. unknown books
16790Russia bond Irkutsk 1917 This bond dates from the year of the Bolshevik revolution. 200 rubles P-S886. During the Russian Civil War which broke out after the October Revolution the city of Irkutsk to whom this Bond was issued became the site of many furious bloody clashes between the "White movement" and the "Red Bolsheviks". In 1920 Aleksandr Kolchak the commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces was executed in Irkutsk. This effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance. Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the Provisional government subsequently creating the Soviet government. The amounts of payments in default were enormous. the repudiation of the old debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and triggered unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers. The revolutionary Russia completely fell out of the world economy and sealed itself up in isolation. unknown books
1950D15992Moscow: Iskusstvo 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Full red cloth with decoration and titling gilt to upper board. 1f. title 19 ff. with 17 full-color and gilt illustrations 1f. colophon. In Cyrillic. Binding slightly faded and stained. Beautiful plates. <br/><br/> Iskusstvo hardcover books
19930000466Paris: Alain de Gourcuff 1993. First edition. Traces of wear at extremities & corners easily Near Fine in like box. Complete in two folio volumes The Palace and the Park 254 pp. in yellow cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in black on the spine & upper cover; The Collections 223 pp. in light blue cloth-patterned paper over boards. Both volumes profusely illustrated in color from photographs & housed in a grey cloth clamshell case with a wrap around pictorial paste on. Please note international orders will incur additional shipping charges at cost. <br/><br/>"In these pages the reader is guided - with discernment and sensitivity - through one of the most beautiful residences in Russia: Pavlovsk the palace of Paul. Room by room we follow an evocative tour of these magnificent interiors bathed in the soft northern light and furnished with innumerable objets d'art conceived especially for them ." Alain de Gourcuff hardcover books
197390052Stanford: Hoover Institution Press 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 photos index xii 325p. Original red cloth. 22cm. Modest cover soil. Former owner's name and sticker on front free endpaper. No jacket. Foreword by Ivan Bydzan later known as Afred J. Bittson who had been a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. Laid in is a friendly 2-page 1976 letter on both sides of a single note-sized sheet from Bittson in which he describes in rapturous terms spending a couple of hours with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the morning after attending a dinner at the Hoover Institution honoring Solzhenitsyn. <br/><br/> Hoover Institution Press hardcover books
1803WRCLIT66738London: Printed for T.R. Longman and O. Rees 1803. xii708pp. Large octavo. Original paper boards wholly untrimmed. Engraved frontis portrait. Upper board neatly detached with spine paper partially chipped away scattered foxing heavy foxing offset from portrait to title ownership signature on title last name only of U.S. diplomat and Congressman Samuel Sitgreaves but a good copy. First edition of this early work by the prolific miscellaneous writer and novelist published when he was in his early twenties while at work on his MA at Pembroke. Printed for T.R. Longman and O. Rees hardcover books
198846769New York: Atlantic IntÕl Pub 1988 . First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Atlantic IntÕl Pub 1988 . First American edition. Numerous b/w photographs. 262 17 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark red cloth. A very good tight clean copy in a very good dust wrapper. Very good/Very good. Atlantic IntÕl Pub hardcover books