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12331Moscow: Foreign Lang. Publishing House. N.D. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Small tears light chipping to DJ. Slight browning to endpapers. 'Printed in USSR' inkstamp in front free endpaper; Forty-eight B&W plates at rear illustrate this overview of Moscow circa late 1950s ; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 169 pages . Foreign Lang. Publishing House hardcover
192854688Berlin: Albertus. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and worn owner signature on verso . of front flyleaf splits at spine pages toned owner name on front free . endpaper. 1928. Hardcover. xxi 200pp. Red cloth binding. 200 lovely photogravures of Moscow street scenes and architectural landmarks during the 1920s. Text in German photo captions in German Russian French and English. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Albertus hardcover
1935029571Moscow 1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Color Map Of Moscow In 1935. Single Sheet Approximately 26" X 30" Printed On One Side In Black Text Green Parks Tan Public Areas/0 And Brown City Blocks Red Outlines For City Limits Red Dotted Lines For Administrative Security Area. Scale 1:50000. An Important Map Of Moscow Showing All Streets And Depicting The New General Plan For The City. 1935. Light Wear Torn Along Many Folds Browning To Exposed Lower Right Panel. One Of 50000 Copies Printed But Now Scarce. <br/> <br/> unknown
199845839Gosudarstvennyi russkii muzei January 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. Some shelf wear with slightly bumped corners and light edgewear but binding is tight and the pages are all clean with no markings. Russian language version. Gosudarstvennyi russkii muzei hardcover
1923HD-KJBH-Z4HW1923. Hardcover. Good. First edition in English Dodd Mead 1923. No jacket. Moderate wear an edge-bump extremities rubbed with slight fraying at top of spine. Pages lightly yellowed with an occasional minor blemish several pages nicked/creased at the edge. Binding firm. Front endpaper has a 1920s owner inscription in ink and later pencil signature of Russia scholar Marshall Winokur. hardcover
1932biblio508<p>Tight binding Unmarked text. No DJ. Photos. Inscribed by Baskerville on the first blank page Green FEP. 4 full page maps 43 illustrations on rectos and versos of 15 plates 1 other full page illustration. Special Bonus: Rare 64 page Cruise Program of the Raymond-Whitcomb 1931 North Cape Russia Cruise Sailing June 30 on the "Carinthia" Featuring ICELAND - MIDNIGHT SUN NORWEGIAN FJORDS & CITIES RUSSIA LENINGRAD & MOSOW DANZIG - SWEDEN & DENMARK included.</p> Privately printed by the author for distribution among his friends by Whittet & Shepperson, Printers hardcover
19250005088Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co. 1925. Popular Edition. Full Leather. Fine. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Thick octavo full leather top edge gilt. <br/><br/>Handsomely rebound in full yellow-gold morocco by Kalmbacher of Toledo. Gilt spins with six raised bands with a soaring crane giltstamped on the top cover inner gilt rules. Reading travel books inspired the Swede Hedin to become an explorer. He became one in 1885 when he trekked through Russia Persia and Turkey. Later he went through the Gobi Desert to eastern China and then into Tibet and the Himalayas. Sketches by Sven Hedin. Garden City Publishing Co. hardcover
1944HIRU00006New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth red titles on spine vii 269 1 pp. Extremities rubbed. DJ has two 2 cm tears other small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. The author Russian-born wife of American journalist Louis Fischer and herself a gifted translator and interpreter writes about her personal experiences living in the Soviet Union during 1921 and 1927-39. As a personal memoir it hardly mentions the disastrous famines first under Lenin and in the 1930s under Stalin. However while impressed by attempts at improving health care and housing and providing mass education for the first time in Russian history she was not blind to the crimes and absurdities of Communist government and particularly its frequent reversals of policy and criminalization of those who had most loyally implemented the previous party line. It is especially enlightening for its view of everyday life in Moscow during the 1930s even if it is the life of a privileged foreigner. Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. . VG/VG-. 21 X 13½ cm. Harper & Brothers Hardcover
191658060Petrograd St. Petersburg 1916-22. 4to. In 6 parts with original printed wrappers 1 wr. lacks. The issues separately paginated. In all ab. 800 pp. Margins of a few leaves with nicks. unknown
1950003344Moscow USSR: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Khudozhestvenoi Literatury Goslitizdat 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1-6 GOOD brown cloth with white lettering decorative endpp. Some covers show lt wear or scuffing closed upper page edges tanned vol 5 edges lt soiled; contents clean in firm sewn bindings. Vol 1: Village Evenings Near Dikanka; Vol 2: Mirgorod; Vol 3: Stories; Vol 4: Plays; Vol 5: Dead Souls; Vol 6: Essays Letters. All include frontispiece author illustration b&w plates throughout. Biographical/critical essay text notes. All Russian text. Sold as set only $3.00 additional shipping applies. rs-8 715 Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Khudozhestvenoi Literatury (Goslitizdat) hardcover
1770648241770. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. St. Petersburg 1770. 4th & best ed. "The Best and Most Luxurious" Four-Language Edition of Catherine the Great's Nakaz Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Kozitzki Grigorii Vasil'yevich d. 1775 Latin Translation. Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii Proekta Novago Ulozheniia. Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the Projected New Code of Laws. St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademii Nauk 1770. viii 403 pp. Four title pages one in each language. Printed in double columns Russian and Latin on one page and German and French on the opposite page. Allegorical engravings by C. M. Roth at head and tail pieces. Latin translation by Grigorii Vasil'yevich Kozitzki. Quarto 9-1/2" x 8". Contemporary calf raised bands lettering piece and black-stamped ornaments to spine edges rouged patterned endleaves. Light rubbing faint stains scratches and ink marks to boards which are slightly bowed moderate rubbing to extremities corners bumped and worn. Large copperplate vignettes at beginning and end of text. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places faint dampstaining to margins in a few places internally clean. A nice copy. $3000. Only four-language edition the fourth and best edition overall. Described by Count M.A. Korf then director of the Imperial Library as "The Best and Most Luxurious Edition." 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. Catherine's manuscript was written in French and she later produced a Russian translation. Editions in German and Russian were published in Moscow in 1767. The book was initially banned i. 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. 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
1907653411907. The First Edition of the Nakaz Published in the Twentieth Century Catherine II 1762-1796 Empress of Russia. Chechulin Nikolai Dmitrevich 1863-1927 Editor. Nakaz Imperatritsy Ekateriny II Dannyi Kommissii o Sochinenii Proekta Novago Ulozheniia. St. Petersburg: Izd. Iurid. Knizhnago Sklada "Pravo" 1907. ii cliv 174 pp. Three folding plates of facsimile manuscript leaves. Text of Nakaz in Russian with parallel French translation. Contemporary pebbled cloth light rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners which are bumped. Light toning to text a few leaves have carefully repaired tears. Early inscription and owner inkstamp to title page interior otherwise clean. $1250. The first edition published in the twentieth century. Title two in the series Pamiatniki Russkago Zakonodatel'stva 1649-1832. 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. Our 1907 edition may have been inspired by a spirit of reform fired by the Russian Revolution of 1905. 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 19. 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
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
2007008993St Petersburg Russia: Atlant 2007. 520 pp 670 b&w and color pictures. In Russian. A comprehensive survey of the swords and daggers carried by naval personnel around the world from the 17th Century to virtually the present day. This book will be of most use to relatively advanced collectors or to collectors who already possess a modest knowledge of Russian. Clean. 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Atlant hardcover
4678JOSEPH SLOCUM 1800-1853. Slocum was a merchant from Syracuse New York who attempted to sell farm equipment to Russia in the nineteenth century. He was unable to turn a profit from his endeavors and his family fell into financial hardship. His daughter Margaret Olivia Scolum Sage became an influential philanthropist and teacher. She endowed a building and a now-defunct agricultural school at Syracuse University both named after him.Archive. 9 pieces. 1830s-40s. An archive related to Joseph Slocum and his business with Russian agriculture. There are nine letters and documents predominately letters written to Slocum from various Americans and Russians. Highlights are listed below and the best piece is the first one the lengthy manuscript detailing Russian agriculture and natural resources:Handwritten document. 4pgs. September 12 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. The four page handwritten manuscript is entitled Some Rough Hints About the Productive Power of Russian Agriculture. It states in part: European Russia it may be divided grosso muto in three great regions or belts running from East to West. 1st - The first region extends between the White Sea and the provinces of Tver Smolensk Nijni-Novogorod & Kazan - it contains more wood low marshy ground intermixed the sand Baron then arable land. Rye oats barley potatoes hemp and flax are the main products of that region. 2nd - the second section of the Empire being comparatively densely populated forms a central part of the European Russia it is particularly addicted to manufacturing pursuits. It's Southern limits is about the course of the Oka River & the Central Valley of the Volga. The agricultural products are nearly the same as aforesaid. 3rd - the third region extending to the south and southeast as far as the Black Sea the provinces of Ashnaklan and the Ural Mountains reaches the Carpathian mountains Galicia & Moldavia in the West. It is mostly covered with a rich strata of black earth with a subsoil of clay lime & sandstone. Minoru is generally not used in this part of the country vulgarly called the step or prairie count the staple products of the fertile district are rye winter and summer wheat especially summer wheat - the summer frosts in the autumn preventing the seeds of the winter week to start up well millet oats barley peas buckwheat field poppy hemp flax & linseed. Cotton & Vine are raised merely in the most remote districts of the South such as Georgia Astrakhan the territory of the Cossacks of the Don Crimea & Bessarabia. Three other very important staples of Steph region are livestock & saltworks & fisheries. The stock consists mainly of horned cattle and horses grazing in large herds on the pastorate of the steps of the Black Sea As well as on both sides a lower Volga. Sheep both Merinos Saxon & form and main object of the agricultural industry of the step and owners. The Russian or common sheep is generally the property of the peasantry. The wool and tallow are usually sent overland in the winter to the manufacturing districts of the central belt of Russia Moscow. Or exported via Odessa Taganrog Riga & Petersburg to England and France. The saltworks are especially remarkable on the left sure the Volga on the verge of the province of Astrakhan as well as near the Ural River not far from the city of Orenburg. The Lake Elton alone of a circumference of nearly 180 miles is a solid mass of salt inexhaustible in its mineral riches. The stone saltworks of Gletznaia.As well as the saltworks a Crimea produce an immense quantity of that precious mineral. Besides that all the basin of the Caspian is full of an infinity of small salt lakes. The main fisheries are at the mouth of the Volga on the Caspian they produce an enormous quantity of fish of all kind. Besides that of the fisheries of the Ural River on the Don. The main fluvial artery of Russia is the Volga it is a Mississippi of our country. Its length is upwards 3000 miles. Unfortunately it is frozen up during nearly 6 months of the year. There are but very few steamboats in it. This year a large steam tow boat has been put into action on the Volga attended with great success. The manuscript continues extolling Russias natural resources. It is uncertain who wrote it and the condition is good with folds and fold separations. A partial typewritten transcript is included.LS. 1pg. August 1843. Russia. A letter signed L. Perovsky by Russian nobleman Lev Perovski 1792-1856 as Russian Minister of the Interior. Perovski thanked Slocum: The Directo fo the AgronomicalSchool having informed me that you presented to the museum of this Institution several agronomical instrument I feel myself much gratified to acknowledge. Agronomy is crop and soil science. The letter is in very good condition with folds and short fold separations.ALS. 4pg. 5 x 8 . November 7 1846. St. Peterburg Russia. An autograph letter signed by an American working for the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. He wrote in part to Slocum: The only reproach I ever heard from the Minister as I told you at that time and which certainly stands on a misunderstanding concerns the establishment of a cast iron fabrication. The Minister is in full belief you had spoken to him about ain the Union that as soon as a new colony any where is establishedThis seemed to His Excellency excellent means to introduce in Russia and toin this way thepossibility to the peasants to have their implements cheap & well one. The letter is in fine condition.ANS. 1pg. 1834. New York. A brief note acknowledging money received from Slocum signed Ja J Roosevelt by Jacobus James Roosevelt III 1760-1847 the New York state businessman and politician who was great-grandfather of FDR. In fine condition.ALS. 1pg. June 6 1834. New York. An autograph letter signed Jab J Roosevelt by Jacobus Roosevelt. Roosevelt wrote to Slocum requesting the return of an item. In very good condition.ALS. 3pgs. October 22 1846. St. Petersburg Russia. A lengthy letter to Slocum signed Chas Cramer to Slocum. Charles Cramer 1799-1879 was an important trader to Russian and his letter concerns finance: he gave you an order for the purchase of Implements for Agricultural purposes & that he assigned you a credit againstof the Government. He fully confirmed the contents of the letter you communicated to me & promised to reply to your letterMr. Clay stated when I asked him on your behalf that he could do nothing in the case to further your interest. Major Whistler whom I called on several time but missed has not yet returned my calls. I rather think he will not be able to serve you better than I can with the Government of this EmpireWe merchants often meet with heavy losses Do consider your Adventure to Russia misfortune & think no more about it for you will not gain anything. The penciled letter is in very good condition with a tear in the address leaf.Letter. 1pg. 5 x 8 . 1846. St. Petersburg. A contemporary copy of an 1846 letter by Rhesa Griffin a Syracuse area merchant: Received St. Petersburg 31 July 1846 of the Russian Imperial Departmentfive hundred thirty six silver rubles and sixteen seven coppers in full satisfaction of all and every claim or Demand on the above Department or if any other Department of the Russian Government and in full satisfaction of all and every agreement or understanding made by me with Joseph Slocum as an agent of the Russian Government. The document is wrinkled and in very good condition. unknown
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