Rossica, Russisches Antiquariat, Berlin W. 50, Rankestrasse 9; Iulii S. Veitsman.

[A RUSSIAN ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER IN BERLIN] Katalog no. 8, December 14, 1825 (14 dekabria 1825 goda).

Berlin: Rossica, Russisches Antiquariat, 1925. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 16, [1] pp. With the publisher's mark by Aleksandr Arnshtam to rear wrapper. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled; else about very good. Loosely laid in is a blank order form in Russian and German. Item #54096

Rare catalog of this Berlin-based rare book shop, which was active from 1921 to 1932, and issued twenty-three catalogs of rare Russian titles. It was established by the Russian immigrant Iulii S. Veitsman after fleeing Russia following the October Revolution of 1917. Each of the catalogs was devoted to a particular topic; this particular one gathers 140 titles about the Decembrist Uprising of 1825, a liberal reaction against the ascension of Nicholas I and one of the early antecedents of what would later become the Russian revolutionary movement. Among Veitsman's customers were the book historian Nikolai Rubakin, the writer Mikhail Osorgin, and the publisher and ballet critic Sergei Diaghilev. He also aided numerous North American libraries in the creation of their Russian collections. Little is known to this day about Veitsman, a Jew of Polish origin, who fled Berlin in 1932 and later perished in a Polish ghetto. The fate of his books, some 6000 in number, likewise remains unknown. See also O. Lasunskii, "Iu. S. Veitsman - vladelets berlinskogo antikvariata 'Rossica'" (1992). His catalogs are extremely uncommon in the trade. Of this issue, KVK, OCLC show copies at Yale, NYPL, and Wisconsin.

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