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5021 Relié, demi-maroquin bordeaux, plats en papier marbré, dos lisse titré en long en doré, couvertures illustrées conservées. In-8°, 21,5 x 15 cm, 38 ff.n.ch., ill. hors-texte en litho- graphie. Bruxelles, Se vend chez tous les marchands de papier noirci, s.d. [1854]. Edition originale
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; original wrappers, upper cover with paper label printed in black, a near fine copy housed in custom-made board solander case with printed paper labels. With the following additional items: (1) typescript resume on author's printed stationery of the British Military Mission in Siberia 1918-1920 (with MS corrections); (2) draft T.L. on the author's printed stationery. A request by the author for information regarding Lieut.-Col. L.C. Morley, Royal Hampshire Regiment, senior officer i/c British Military Mission at Irkutsk in 1919; (3) T.L.s. from Captain H. Flint, Royal Hampshire Regiment, responding in some detail to the author's request; (4) publisher's printed order form for the published work. Apart from the author's book we have been unable to trace any published dedicated account of BRITMIS, which accordingly remains a well-nigh forgotten component of the immediate aftermath of WWI. A UNIQUE COLLECTION NOW SAFELY PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.
185811572Londres, Hurst and Blackett ; 1858 ; in-8, cartonnage de l’éditeur en percaline verte décorée et dorée, titre doré ; VIII, (4), 611, (1) pp., 20 planches hors-texte en chromolithographie, 32 gravures sur bois in-texte, 1 grande carte dépliante hors-texte.
185515126Paris, Garnier-Frères, 1855 ; grand in-8 ; demi-veau glacé rouge sang, dos à faux-nerfs plats noirs à froid, caissons décorés et dorés aux petits fers dans un encadrement de filet doré, titre doré, plats de papier gauffré rouge (reliure de l'époque) ; VII, 528 pp., 18 planches hors-texte finement gravées sur acier d'après Allom, Beutley, Salmon et Leitch, très grande carte dépliante par L. Berthe, lithographiée et coloriée à la main.
14420Pithiviers, Imprimerie Nouvelle, 1880. In-8 relié demi-toile verte, pièce de titre et fleuron sur dos, 137 p. Mention manuscrite de Jules Dumesnil, frère de l'auteur, sur page de faux-titre. Quelques lignes explicatives manuscrites de Michel Gondinet. Très bon état. Edition originale. Ouvrage rare.
5151 Reliure à la bradel en demi-maroquin lapis-lazuli, titre en long en lettres dorées, témoins, couv. ill. par la lithographie conservées, mention de seconde édition sur la couv., variante signalée par Rouir. In-8° (in-12° selon Rouir, in-16° pour de le Court) oblong, 12,5 x 19,5 cm, [2]-43pp-[3], ill. hors-texte en lithographie de Félicien Rops sur 20 feuillets non compris dans la pagination. [Bruxelles], Chez tous les Libraires, 1854. Edition originale
5151 Reliure à la bradel en demi-maroquin lapis-lazuli, titre en long en lettres dorées, témoins, couv. ill. par la lithographie conservées, mention de seconde édition sur la couv., variante signalée par Rouir. In-8° (in-12° selon Rouir, in-16° pour de le Court) oblong, 12,5 x 19,5 cm, [2]-43pp-[3], ill. hors-texte en lithographie de Félicien Rops sur 20 feuillets non compris dans la pagination. [Bruxelles], Chez tous les Libraires, 1854. Edition originale
89624Mailand Milan am 8. Juli 1852. . Pencil drawing captioned in Russian and French below 15.5 x 16 cm. 6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in some spotting in contemporary mount.<br /> Fine detailed pencil drawing of a mounted officer from the Caucasus Line Cossack Host. Apparently drawn in Milan it is strongly reminiscent of the military plates published in Vienna by Matthäus Trentsenskiy or the costume drawings of François Hippolyte Lalaisse. The Caucasus Linear Cossack Army was established in 1832 in the Northern Caucasus. Along with the Black Sea Cossack army it defended the Caucasus fortified line from the mouth of the Terek River to the mouth of the Kuban. y 1860 following the end of the Caucasus War it had divided into the Kuban and Terek troops.<br /> Mailand [Milan], am 8. Juli 1852. unknown
88913J. Langlumé Paris ca.1815 . Engraved broadsheet 48 x 64 cm; rubbed some small holes repaired with losses closed marginal tears.<br /> A rare and interesting tabletop game played with dice where the aim is to get to the Cossack camp on the Champs-Élysées. The text in the middle explains the rules of the games and the consequences of landing on certain numbers. The illustrations include cossacks from the Don Siberia the Black Sea as well as Tatar Kalmuk and Bashkir tribesmen.<br /> J. Langlumé, Paris, [ca.1815] unknown
1820ZB1313344London: R. Ackermann 1820. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 52 text pp. 12 plates publisher's contemporary 8 page catalogue tipped in at the back; original boards & leather backstrip covers very worn hand stamp to the verso of the title page and the bottom margin of the last page of text light to moderate foxing else good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: R. Ackermann hardcover
Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
