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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
18028128<p>First American edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait large folding map of Russian empire. Appendixes index. 3/4 green morocco over green cloth by Zucker spines with raised bands and gilt stamped floral designs within gilt ruled compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. spines faded to brown. Fine. 2 volumes. Conestogawagon Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham designed by D. Stoffer on the front free endpaper of each volume.</p> William Fry hardcover books
183331422London: Seeley & Sons Hatchard & Son 1833. First edition. 8 handcolored lithgraphic plates of the people one spotted errata at the back. 1 vols. 4to. Later half roan red and black labels chipped. Joints and extremities rubbed short crack at top of upper joint some light browning of text else very good. First edition. 8 handcolored lithgraphic plates of the people one spotted errata at the back. 1 vols. 4to. He writes of the history of the country and its present state with comments on its religion customs and social life including slavery hospitals prisons the state of the Jews of Russia Freemasonry the army and navy its agriculture and commerce and manufacturing. One of the plates shows men playing Svalka another the village amusements and another a national dance.The appendix contains specimens of the style of preaching among the Russian clergy. Colas 2395; Abbey Travel 230; Hiler p. 712; Tooley 380 Seeley & Sons, Hatchard & 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
1841306977Dresden und Leipzig: Arnold 1841. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers ads on back wrappers; uncut and unpressed. Wrappers toned losses to spine with old repairs some marginal chipping. Internally clean. About very good. First edition. Lithographic title in each volume folding plan of St. Petersburg. xii 324; viii 392 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. With a Plan of St. Petersburg. The standard guide to mid-century St. Petersburg with chapters on the palaces markets street life ice-sleds the Hermitage and the notable collections of the city including a descriptive tour of libraries and archives. Arnold unknown books
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
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
18841397881884. BINDING. La Russie et les Russes. By Victor Tissot. 4 423 1 pp. Illustrated with 7 plates and 240 illustrations in the text. 4to. 275 x 195 mm bound in publisher's polychrome binding. Paris: Librairie Plon E. Plon Nourrit et Cie. 1884. First Illustrated Edition. The text appeared in a smaller format without illustrations in 1882. A handsome copy of this celebrated survey of Russia in its original polychrome binding with a view of the Kremlin on the front cover. Of the illustrations 67 are by F. de Haenen and 115 are by Pranischnikoff. Scattered foxing a near fine copy. unknown books
189258067St. Pétersbourg: Stadler & Pattinote 1892. Oblong folio 3 p.l. plus 56 chromolithograph plates each with descriptive text on the verso of the preceding plate 1 leaf of index; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and black on the upper cover; front hinge reglued the contents slightly shaken otherwise on the whole very good the plates clean. With explanatory letter-press in Russian and French. Four copies in OCLC only the U.S. Navy and Miami University in the U.S. <br/><br/> Stadler & Pattinote hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
