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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
1698112625London: R. Baldwin 1698. First edition of this work. Octavo bound in modern wrappers 28 p<span class="match">a</span>ges. In very good condition with some browning and toning to the text. Rare with no other examples appearing at auction in the last 80 years. R. Baldwin unknown 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
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
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
1996133639Moscow: Moscow Regional Organization of Union Artists of Russia 1996. Signed by artist. Softcover. As new. White stapled wraps. 24 pp. 31 reproductions of etchings in color. In Russian and English. Includes a chronology various appreciative remarks by those who attended his exhibition or like his work and sizeable images of his etchings. Beautifully done. Moscow Regional Organization of Union Artists of Russia paperback books
1993257591993. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. 47 pp. 71 color & mostly bw plates. A four-page introductory essay by Mark A. Schaffer accompanies the illustrated and annotated catalogue of 71 works. Wonderful illustrations. paperback books
1933184675Garden City Publishing Co. 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. 1933. Red cloth boards no dust jacket. Book is clean has a tight binding no marks or notations. Corners are lightly bumped and scuffed spine is slightly sunned but otherwise in excellent condition. Published the year of the Grand Duke's Death. HB HS Garden City Publishing Co. hardcover books
1933298648Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co 1933. hardcover. very good. Illustrated in black and white. 299 pages 8vo red cloth lightly worn at extremities. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. 19.3. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Garden City Publishing Co unknown books
1916List1025Siberia Petrograd et al. 1916. First Edition. Various documents and letters most legal format roughly 200 pages in total with three publications and several newspapers on the subject and thirteen hand drawn architectural plans for a new camp at Omsk measuring between 25 x 17 and 13 x 8 inches. During World War One a staggering number of prisoners - roughly 2.4 of the five million in total who were sent to the Eastern Front - ended up as prisoners of war in Russia. Of that number roughly two million were from Austria-Hungary. Though often neglected by historians due to the attention given to the Russian Civil War and the atrocities of World War Two the subject has drawn increased historical interest with the historian Gerald H. Davis and others calling attention to its importance in the 1980s. Davis and others have written on the relationship between the large prisoner population and the dissolution of their nations as well as the abhorrent conditions many were forced to endure partially due to hierarchical structure of treatment due to differing attitudes by their Russian hosts toward different nations and ethnicities and partially due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure and resources to support such a large prisoner population. <br /> <br /> Offered here are the papers of Herbert H.D. Pierce the Special Aide to Embassador George T. Marye in Petrograd containing a substantial amount of firsthand accounts of prison conditions from the early years of the war as well as a striking series of manuscript architectural plans for a new prison camp that was built in Omsk. Pierce a diplomat who was most famously involved with a case involving seal fishing in the Berings Strait was appointed as a Special Aide out of his retirement and served until his death in 1916. It is possible that he was assigned the task of dealing with the prisoner of war situation as nearly all of his papers that we recovered from his estate from this period deal with the subject. Pierce was involved specifically with the disbursal of relief funds received from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments that were to be disbursed to their citizens. <br /> <br /> The highlight of the collection is a series of hand drawn architectural plans for a series of POW camp structures in Omsk bearing the signature of a N. Alexandrow architect. It is unclear what Pierce's exact relationship was to this project. The plans are translated into English in ink. Of particular interest are the separate officers' barracks plans as one of the violations of POW laws in Russia was the varying levels of treatment given to different prisoners in particular in their recognition of German and Austro-Hungarian ranking officers. There were twenty-eight prison camps in Omsk this one is not identified specifically. The Siberian camps often held up to 35000 prisoners this one shows plans for 10000. There were 128 camps in the Moscow region where camps typically housed 2000-5000 prisoners. The conditions of the camps were generally abysmal with camp capacities routinely exceeded by roughly 50-100%. Frequent disease outbreaks killed thousands of prisoners during the conflict in Omsk Novo-Nikolaevsk Sretensk and Totskoe specifically. <br /> <br /> The group includes letters written to Marye describing conditions in the camps as well as reports of the Americans' own observations in Siberia Moscow and elsewhere. Most are in English though several original documents in German are included. Also included are Pierce's working copies of the Second Hague Convention guidelines of 1907 Order 697 of the War Department that established the regulations regarding prisoners of war in 1914 and a copy of the agreement made between Germany and Russia in August of 1914 which allowed for all women and all men over 45 years and younger than 17 to leave the country unheeded. Some of the letters document violations of this agreement for example a fifty-five year old Austrian man writing to the embassy stating that he had been detained. The authorship of some of the reports is often unclear - one report is credited to "A Russian Lady" another from Krasnaya-Ratchka near Khabaraovsk is an uncredited 18 page description of prisoner conditions. One uncredited report nineteen pages long on the conditions of prisoners in the Moscow Circuit may have been written by Pierce himself and is addressed to Marye. Another 44 page report on Siberian prison conditions is uncredited and likely produced by the embassy itself. A portion - perhaps 25% or so - of the reports are incomplete or unclear in origin though there is much to glean from them regardless. <br /> <br /> Also included are three printed publications. The first is entitled Rapport du Conseiller Prive E.G. Chinkevitch Membre du Comte special de secours aux prisonniers de guerre sur la visite des camps des prissoniers Austro-Hongrois dans l'arrondissement militair d'Omsk printed in 1915. OCLC locates a single copy in France. The report outlines the observed conditions and includes twenty-six photographs of prisoners. The second is a forty-three page report addressed to James Gerard the American ambassador in Berlin by an unidentified author which outlines the prisoner of war conditions in England written in February of 1915. The third is a scarce map of Russian prisoner of war camps printed by L. Friederichsen in Hamburg in 1915 entitled Karte vom Europäischen und Asiatischen Russland mit Angabe der hauptsächlichsten Orte in denen sich Kriegsgefangene und zurückgehaltene Zivilpersonen befinden sowie mit Bestimmungen über den Postverkehr nach diesen Orten. The map shows locations of prison camps throughout the Russian Empire and also shows the mail routes. It is in fine condition overall and we locate six copies in OCLC. <br /> <br /> Overall a scarce survival of primary source material on a somewhat overlooked but important period in Russian history with relevance to diplomatic historians as well worthy of further study. <br /> <br /> Works cited: <br /> <br /> Grekov N. V.: Germanskie i avstriiskie plennye v Sibiri 1914-1917 German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia 1914-1917 in: Vibe P. P. ed.: Nemtsy. Rossiia. Sibir' Germans. Russia. Siberia Omsk 1997 p. 159.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard: Seuchen unter militärischer Aufsicht in Rußland. Das Lager Tockoe als Beispiel für die Behandlung der Kriegsgefangenen 1915/16 in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48/3 2000 pp. 367-368; Brändström Kriegsgefangenen 1922 pp. 41-48.<br /> <br /> Nachtigal Reinhard; Radauer Lena: Prisoners of War Russian Empire. In: 1914-1918 Online. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/prisoners_of_war_russian_empire Accessed 5/21. unknown books
1921234513No place 1921. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. Fold mark across middle. Expertly backed with linen. Browned three short tears can be seen though repaired by the backing. Very good. Printed broadside. 1 vols. Folio 375 x 285 mm. This appeal printed above the names of A. Kerensky Victor Tchernoff Chernov and other Russian Social Revolutionaries for the 32 former members of the Russian Constituent Assembly protests the hardships inflicted upon Russia by communism. They accuse the Bolshevik government and its New Economic Policy of selling Russia's natural resources to the greed of international capitalism. The NEP was announced by Lenin in March 1921 and inaugurated an interim policy guaranteeing freedom of trade in internal commerce and a system of concessions for the investment of foreign capital. European states and busineses were pleased with the NEP and saw in it Lenin's capitulation to capitalism. However what they considered a weakness eventually turned out to be a mark of strength and flexibility of Bolshevik policy. 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
19019716Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1901. 1st edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering/design. VG sp sunned. 401 pp 8vo. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
13295RUSSIA COMPTE-RENDU DE LA COMMISSION IMPERIALE ARCHEOLOGIQUE. Pour L'Annee 1863 1864 and 1874. Folio volumes in contemporary half-morocco bindings ex-library with some cov wear. unknown books
192035817New York 1920. Paperback. Very Good. 89p. Wrapper. 19cm. Modest cover soil. Name stamp on wrapper. Reprinted from "The Nation." <br/><br/> paperback books
1960475Marc Chagall B. 1887 VITEBSK RUSSIA; D. 1985 SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE FRANCE DRAWINGS FOR THE BIBLE as published for Verve.<br /> Verve Vol. X no. 37/38. 1960. Text by Gaston Bachelard. Folio. With 24 original lithographs in color including the cover by Chagall and 96 reproductions in black and white. Complete as issued. Verve hardcover books
P4601Berlin und Stettin: bey Friedrich Nicolai 1788. Octavo 15.5 Ã 9.2 cm. Contemporary half calf; spine richly gilt and with green title lable; edges red; XVI 347 pp. Frontis engraving by E. Henne. Bookplate of Martin E. Winkler to front pastedown. Boards very lightly rubbed; tiny ink shelfmark to first leaf; a few small smudges but overall a very good copy. First collected edition and the first edition printed in Germany of these three anti-Masonic plays by Catherine the Great which were first staged in Russia in 1786 at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg. At the same time they were published in German translation by Christian Gottlieb Arndt 1743-1829 by at least two Russian publishers evidently to great acclaim. Catherine's plays were in particular a reaction to the arrival of Alessandro Cagliostro 1743-1795 in St. Petersburg where he sought to spread word of his system of "Egyptian Freemasonry" but was exposed and ridiculed. The publisher the German writer critic and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai 1733-1811 was one of the key representatives of the Berlin Enlightenment. His lengthy preface praises Catherine's wisdom and reaffirms the need for ridiculing occultism and superstition of all forms in this "century of philosophy." Curiously he also mentions that the Russian editions of Catherine's plays earned their publishers over twenty thousand rubles. Cat. Russica C344. From the collection of the German historian and icon collector Martin E. Winkler 1893-1982. KVK and OCLC locate no copies in North America only microform. hardcover 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
1931W42344New York: The Viking Press 1931. Original black cloth gilt top edge stained magenta. Map endpapers. Many photographs. Author extravagant signature on the half title. Dust jacet chipped at spine ends and on edges with some small closed tears. . Signed by Author. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Viking Press Hardcover books
303815by Horace Vernet and John Sartain. 4 1/4" x 5 58" on stock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. Engraved for The Eclectic Magazine. Very good fresh. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
19985385NY: Abrams. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0810932776 . Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz and Antonina W Bouis. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Abrams hardcover books
1983127872New York: A La Vieille Russie 1983. Softcover. VG. Dark blue wraps with gold lettering color illustration; 154 pp. with color photographs throughout. A catalogue showing and describing works for sale by ALVR April 22-May 21 1983. A La Vieille Russie unknown books
199744813Novato CA: Presidio Press 1997. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xviii240pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with light wear to extremities vertical fold to front flap and a short tear to upper edge of rear panel. Recently published memoir of a 25 year old American soldier a drafter school teacher who fought the Bolshevik's in Russia between 1918-1919. Presidio Press 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
199734973St. Petersburg Russia: The State Russian Museum 1997. Palace Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. Gray cloth with silver lettering on front and spine pictorial dust jacket 419pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Text of book is in English though text on dj flaps is in German. Represents a major retrospective of the work of Austrian-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein b. 1948. With essays by Alexander Borovsky Peter Selz Klaus Honnef Heiner Muller and William S. Burroughs. VERY visual. The State Russian Museum hardcover books
