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1854177799Japan. Circa1854. Black and white woodblock kawaraban printed on two joined sheets vertical central crease 41 x 63cm a little worming mainly on margins and repaired with paper on the reverse a little light browning but still presents very well. This kawaraban reports on how foreign visitors from the United States and Russia were treated in order to keep the peace and safety of God's country Japan. <br> <br>It reports that foreigners had arrived in Uraga this being the time of the second visit of Perry to Japan in 1854. The kawaraban goes on to list official gifts from the Shogunate to the President and his delegation members from the United States as well as to the Russian delegation. The gifts include lacquer boxes silk textiles as well as rice and chickens for the crew. <br> <br>The attractive black and white image at the foot of the report depicts a meeting in Yokohama at which a high ranking Tokugawa official received foreign visitors. The visitors are shown prostrating themselves in the open outdoor space in front of the building where the official sits. . unknown
182620463Dublin:: Bentham and Hardy 1826. 12mo. Contemporary sheep minor edge wear hinges neatly mended holds strong some light foxing a few small dog-ear corners overall a very good copy. 12mo. With frontispiece and 4 full-page woocuts. The travels of James Leech and Mr. Gorodek and the author through Russia. Early edition scarce. Bentham and Hardy, unknown
18394933Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1839. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 4to 138 pages some foxing. modern binding in 3/4 morocco light tidal line on top margin. <br/><br/>" . the editors of the present edition which is carefully reprinted from the first 4to edition of 1810 have found it necessary in point of justice to neutralise some of the authors statements by means of foot-notes of an opposite character and more consonant with what was some years ago and now is the condition of the Russians. They have also supplied a few deficiencies and additional statements in reference to places of importance visited by the author so as to give the work much of the interest of a fresh production . an account has been given of Poland Siberia and other districts which were not visited by him in the course of his travels - Prefatory Memoir." William and Robert Chambers hardcover
1855056106Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1855. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xvi 339 16 pages. Hardcover bound in original red publisher's cloth embossed in blind and with spine titles in gilt. Rebacked in red cloth with the original spine laid down. New black endpapers. A sound tight copy. The text appears quite clean. Collates complete with 9 full page plates and a folding map. All plates have tissue guards. 3 plates are color. The other 6 plates are tinted and one of the tinted plates is a folding plate. 16 page Publisher's Catalogue at the rear. A sturdy usable and complete copy. <br/> <br/> William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
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
1855010816London: The London Printing and Publishing Company 1855. 3 vols. Volume 1: 383pp Volume 2: 380pp Volume 3: 338pp plus 34 pp /chronological precis of the events of the war & index. .ca 1855-58 Each volume has full page steel engravings of battle scenes and portraits of military leaders and royals which are very detailed with decorative and illustrated margins the maps are mostly double page hand colored with inset engravings. Each volume clean and tight with mnimal foxing. Text presented in two columns per page and enclosed in double line border. by Henry Tyrrell. Front board separating on Vol 1. Overall nice set. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The London Printing and Publishing Company Hardcover
1857001799London: London Printing and Publishing Company 1857. 354 pages plus index with 11 beautiful steel engravings 1st part and 546 pages and 29 beautiful steel engravings and 2 beautiful double page steel-engraved/hand-colored maps of historical Russia. Both have steel engraved frontis and title pages. Some light foxing does not affect maps. Beautiful Crimean War history. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. London Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
181335052London: Printed By C. Baldwin/ Sherwood Et Al. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1813. Hardcover. frontis; xii pages; Napoleonic Wars. 8vo early 20th-century 3/4 black morrocco over cloth with nicely gilded spine . 5.5 x 8" a few minor foxed spots. With half-title. Untrimmed washed. Mid-19th-century litho portrait of Czar Alexander I tipped in as frontis. OCLC 29343893. WorldCat locates 12 copies. Related topics touched upon according to WCat Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Russia. France -- History Military -- 1789-1815 -- Sources. Napoleon -- I -- Emperor of the French -- 1769-1821 -- Invasion of Russia 1812. Translation of: Les Bulletins Francois concernant la guerre en Russie. Napoleon in Russia etc. . Printed By C. Baldwin/ Sherwood Et Al hardcover
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
181328745St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften. 1813 1813. Soft cover. 8vo 19.8cm 1131p. including title with blank interleaves original plain pattern wrappers a fine copy tds. - A fine clean copy of this Russian almanac for 1814 containing much information on the climate demography leaders an events etc. St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften. [1813] unknown
181428746St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften.1814 1814. Soft cover. 8vo 19.4cm 1101p. including title with blank interleaves original plain pattern wrappers a fine copy tds. - A fine clean copy of this Russian almanac for 1814 containing much information on the climate demography leaders an events etc. St. Petersburg. bey der Raiferl. Ufademie der Biffenschaften.[1814] unknown
1866030652London: Chapman And Hall 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Vi 298 Pp. Modern Blue Cloth Gilt Stamped Black Leather Spine Label. The Modern Binding Is Fine Contents Just Very Good With Wear At Corners And Slight Even Foxing To Title Page. Scarce. Morley Reports That The Observations Were Provided By A Friend Who Brought Them From A Doctor Long Resident In Russia. The Quality And Immediacy Of The Observations Are Remarkable. <br/> <br/> Chapman And Hall hardcover
189121073New York: The Century Company. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. A few pages unopened. ; "Sponsored by the Century magazine and accompanied by the Boston artist and photographer George Frost Kennan arrived in Russia for his fourth visit in May 1885. He came prepared to give a favourable assessment of the penal system in Siberia but subsequent meetings and events in Siberia radically changed his views and through his subsequent book and lectures those of America. In the course of eight months between June 1885 and March of the following year they covered some 8000 miles within Siberia." Cross Anthony. “REIGN OF ALEXANDER III 1881–1894. ” In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire 1613-1917 1st ed. Open Book Publishers 2014 pp. 273–309. - Green boards with gilt lettering. Blindstamped decorative floral design. Volume 1 with frontispiece 4 maps and 90 illustrations. Volume 2: frontispiece and 104 illustrations as well as 3 maps. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; xv 409; x 575 pages . The Century Company hardcover
180876978Londres. London 1808. Liten 8vo. Nyere shirtingryggbind med marmorerte dekler. 2 41 2 s. Small 8vo. More recent cloth bound marbled covers. 2 41 2 pp. Fransk. <br/><br/><em>Ex libris “Bibliotheca Trolleholmiæâ€. Med navntrekk G. Sparre pÃ¥ tittelbladet. Krigserklæringen endte til slutt med Sveriges tap av Finland. Name on tiltle page “G. Sparreâ€. This declaration of war ended finally with the loss of Finland from the Swedish crown. </em> hardcover
1833143387London: Seeley & Sons 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Seeley & Sons 1833 first edition. Large octavo xii 486 2 plate list and errata pages plus 8 hand-coloured lithographs. Original quarter pebble-grained green cloth and plain papered boards with a black paper title-label on the spine; all edges uncut; cloth a little worn and unevenly stained; boards rubbed marked and worn at the extremities; early ownership signature 'Francis Marriage' on the front free endpaper; scattered light foxing; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy. Seeley & Sons hardcover
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
1876011123St Petersburg Russia 1876. 438pp 132pp appendix. A detailed history of Roman Catholicism in Russia during the time of Catherine II and Alexander I. Russian Text. Rare. Light foxing and shelfwear otherwise clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover
1860010818Washington D. C: George W.Bowman Printer 1860. xxiv 277pp.with 24 lithographed views incl. additional title most tinted some folding 2 with some hand-colouring & 57 folding maps plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies furnishing and distributing supplies medical and hospital arrangements kinds of arms ammuniition and equipment including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon the construction of fortifications methods of transportation &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there the military hospital at St. Petersburg the Turkish Barrack at Scutari used by the English Army as their general depot hospital and as a residence by Florence Nightingale folding plans of fortifcations in Paris Cherbourg Sebastopol Constadt and other cities and plates showing weapons hospitals batteries storehouses military structures. Text plates and maps in excellent condition - no tears foxing. However the binding is in very poor condition. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. George W.Bowman, Printer Hardcover
18715818New York 1871. Good. 32pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and spotting to wrappers. Some marginal insect damage to lower right corner not costing any text. Faint dampstain to upper margin of most leaves. A scarce work in which an "Evangelical Alliance" of American and British religious leaders petition Tsar Alexander II to grant religious freedom to Catholics and Protestants in 1871. The report begins with some background on the "Evangelical Alliance and Religious Liberty" religious persecution in the Baltic States some information on the penal laws in Russia and then the alliance's work in arguing for religious freedom beginning with their "Prepatory Labors" and "Meetings in London and Stuttgart" and ending with the "Final Promise of the Prime Minister" and "The Result." The latter included "partial relief" from religious persecution with hopes for "further improvements." The report is signed at the end by its President Samuel F.B. Morse. The report is followed by an Appendix printing "Prince Gortschakoff's Report to the Emperor of Russia" and three other memorials and interviews pertaining to the alliance's activities in Europe. An early example of religious diplomacy from American and British leaders. Ten copies in OCLC. unknown
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. 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
18841369372New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes. In Good condition. Spines are brown with gold print on black banner. Boards in brown cloth with small gilt image on front. Wear to spine caps and corners light wear to title banners mild shelf wear. Text blocks have bookplate on front paste-down. Illustrated with frontispiece in each volume b&w plates and folded color map at rear of volume two. <br /> <br /> CONTENTS: Vol. 1. Chapters I-XLV xix 445 pages - Vol. 2. Chapters XLVI-LXXVIII xi 560 pages.<br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1369372. FP New Rockville Stock. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
185921717Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley. 1859. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards a bit discolored and with light rubbing to extremities. Else a very handsome and tight copy.; Expedition of the 1850s to remote regions of Siberia Mongolia the Kirghis Steppes Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia including present-day Kazakhstan. The author an English artist and architect was traveling 29000 miles by carriage horseback and boat. Buckram boards. Fronispiece and 17 b&w illustrations.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 483 10 pages . J. W. Bradley hardcover
1856056108London: John Murray 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xvi 236 pages. Hardcover bound in original red publisher's cloth embossed in gilt and in blind and with spine titles in gilt. Rebacked in red cloth with the original spine laid down original spine is chipped about the edges. Original brown endpapers. The binding is worn and bumped and soiled from handling. Spine is darkened. Inner hinges tender. There is a large brown bookplate Bridgewater Library on the front flyleaf and some pencil notations including an early signature on the front pastedown. Title page is toned; the text is generally clean. Contains a color folding map of Sevastopol frontis and a folding battle plan at the rear. Laid in loosely is a clipping of a 1990 bookseller's catalogue listing presumably of this book which reads "A most informative account of how the Army was supplied and what went wrong. Major-General Sir RIchard Airey Quartermaster-General who also acted as Raglan's chief of staff was generally acknowledged to be a most efficient officer; here he defends himself ably giving the facts and figures. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
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
