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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
24739‘P Place Portland Place London / June 24 1798.’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB and the History of Parliament ‘the foremost diplomat of his age’. It was Malmesbury who went to Brunswick to fetch the Prince Regent’s betrothed Princess Caroline and whom he asked to get him a brandy on his first encounter with her three years before the present letter was written. A legible script was clearly not a prerequisite for a successful diplomat as the handwriting of this missive is scandalously bad: practically on a level with that of Dr Parr. 1p 4to. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium the verso of the second being franked with partial ‘HENLEY’ postmark and red wax seal ‘Henley June twenty four 1798 / Revd Mr Tawcence / Partridge / near Cranbourn / ’. The franking signature ‘Malmesbury’ appears between two lines in the customary bottom-left corner. Heavily aged and worn with short closed tear to letter and repaired long closed tear across leaf carrying address. The whole of the following transcription is tentative ‘Dear Sir / After consulting with Mr Wilt & with my bailiff they both agree that is not let for Portland sheep & that as plantation that it will be my to keep them from there so much wilder than there it is for that reason that I have to thank you & I beg you to thank your Father for the trouble you have taken in this subject which for for the present at least I have given you uselessly. / I should hope your affair will be settled to yr satisfaction. I am glad yr brother & are so well.’ See Image ‘P Place [Portland Place, London?] / June 24 1798.’ unknown
198081760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
1977stela377n.p.: n.p. 1977. 1977. 4to. pp. 286 2. Russian English German & French text. profusely illus. in colour some b/w. cloth. dw. corners bumped with wear chip to foot of spine. slipcase corners & edges worn. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. n.p.: n.p., [1977]. Hardcover
2003006042Moscow: Avanta 2003. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Fine/Fine Dustjacket. 29.7 Cm Tall. Color Photographs Throughout. A finely illustrated history with Russian text. <br/> <br/> Avanta hardcover
#[33546]Amsterdam H.W. & C. Dronsberg 1781. Folio. 4 pp. Sea-treaty between Russia Denmark and Norway concluded in Kopenhagen in 1780. Sweden and the Netherlands became a party to the treaty in St. Petersburg. - Some staining. - Rare. Knuttel 19490. unknown
22708Nice 13 Fevrier 1916. Card 13 x 10cm text on both sides card with attractive coloured and embossed royal insignia. "Permettez-moi de vous dire combien je suis touchee de votre don genereux d'un tableau par vous-meme qhe vous verrez de m'envoyer pour l'hopital russe. Il est bien joli et nous tacherons de le mettre au lotterie pour augmenter les fonds de l'Hopital dont il a besoin souvent. Avec mes vifs remerciements ." See image of first side. Nice, 13 Fevrier 1916 unknown
ria9783337351137_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Chicago - Catalogue of the Russian section is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and sc paperback
B9783337351137Paperback / softback. New. paperback
3337351131.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
B9781345728569Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781345728569Hardback. New. hardcover
1330385101.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0265614856.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1981HIRU00005New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Ian Boland introduction by Heinrich Böll. Quarter green cloth drab paper-covered boards gilt titles on spine xxi 423 pp. Spine slightly cocked light edge wear small abrasion on front endpapers pencil notes scattered throughout. DJ has a few ½-cm tears slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. This is the second volume of Ginzburg's autobiography. In Vol. 1 published in English as "Journey into the Whirlwind" Ginzburg recounted the events leading to her 1937 arrest in Stalin's purges. Vol. 2 deals with her 18 years in Stalin's prisons. According to the DJ "Ginzburg was repeatedly snatched from extinction by assignments to inside work in hospitals nurseries kitchens farms all of which with their hapless inmates and all-powerful supervisors she describes in vivid fascinating detail never losing her keen interest in human nature and her powers of observation." Shipping weight 3 lbs. First US Edition. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Hardcover
19136307London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. Hinges not tight but holding together. Occasional foxing mostly to the first half of book. ; Fold-out map at rear and 50 photographs ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages . John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1997002573Frank Cass 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo <br/><br/> Frank Cass hardcover
21203On letterhead of Hawarden Castle Chester. 13 December 1883. 2pp 12mko. In fair condition aged and worn with slight discoloration along central horizontal fold. Addressed to 'Her Imperial & Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh'. Reads: 'Madam At Windsor Your Imperial & Royal Highness was good enough to say I might send these specimens of labour performed in a field which is now not much frequented Under cover of the permission thus accorded I take the liberty allowed and add my request that it may not entail the trouble of any acknowledgment I have the honour to be Your I. R. Highness's most faithful humble servant W E Gladstone'. On letterhead of Hawarden Castle, Chester. 13 December 1883. unknown
18986Leningrad: RSFSR Artist. Hardcover. Very Good. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; A coffetable book with old Russian Stone Architecture. In decorative slipcase with minimal soiling and shelfwear. Edition in English and Russian. Nd 1970-71; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 243 pages . RSFSR Artist hardcover
192054935NY: Boni & Liveright. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Front flyleaf removed corners rounded . jacket lightly tattered. 1920. Hardcover. xvii 172pp. Light blue cloth binding. Foreword by Matthew F. Boyd. The British Labour Party politician and activist presents an overview of Soviet social industrial and political conditions just several years after the Russian Revolution. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . Boni & Liveright hardcover
1981mon0000030844Aurora 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post Aurora hardcover
197888722Leningrad : Aurora Art Publishers 1978. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw spine uniformly sun-toned in a slip case now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. ; 301 pages; Description: 301 p. : ill. some col. ; 29 cm. Subjects: Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh Russia --Catalogs. Painting --Russia Federation --Saint Petersburg. Notes: Title on spine: The Hermitage. Includes bibliographical references and index. Leningrad : Aurora Art Publishers hardcover
1978mon0000082289H. N. Abrams 1978T. hardcover. Good. 1.4000 in x 13.6000 in x 10.7000 in. Ex Portland Art Museum library hardcover. No dust jacket. Library stickers labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean free of markings notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton Oregon library. H. N. Abrams hardcover
1978mon0000011556H. N. Abrams 1978-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.4000 13.6000 10.7000. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minimal cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. H. N. Abrams hardcover
1964031153Moscow: Books 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Photographs Throughout. 404 Pp. Cream Cloth.10 1/2" Tall. Text In Russian. One Of 5000 Copies But Scarce In The West Only Four Institutional Holdings Recorded In Worldcat. <br/> <br/> Books hardcover
