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Russlands glorreiche Selbstaufopferung zur Rettung der Menschheit. Nebst einem Versuche zur Erörterung der Frage: Was brachte die Revolution für Gewinn? [Russia's glorious self-sacrifice for the salvation of mankind. With an essay on the question: what has been gained by the Revolution?].

Anonymous.

Leipzig: G. Fleischer d. Jüng, 1815. Octavo (21.5 × 13 cm). Later marbled card binding; part of front wrapper affixed to front board; 255 pp. Engraved frontis showing, in profile, Alexander I, Paul I, and Catherine the Great (signed Fr. Bolt). Rather foxed and a bit musty; private bookplate to...

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Rodina. Sbornik dlia detei i iunoshestva [The motherland. An anthology for children and youth].; Wrapper title: Den' Russkoi Kul'tury. Russkomu Iunoshestvu [Russian Culture Day. For the Russian youth].

Burnashev, o. M. (editor).

Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. 1926. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 88 pp. 60 illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers lightly worn, with small nicks and creases; spine ends chipped, with some loss of spine strip; internally very good, with...

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Rus'. Sbornik statei po russkoi istorii [Rus'. A collection of essays on Russian history.; Den' Russkoi Kul'tury. Russkomu Iunoshestvu.

Burnashev, o. M. (editor).

Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. 1927. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 111, [1] pp. Publisher's ads for the emigre journal "Perezvony" inside rear wrapper. Numerous illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers very lightly creased from use; else very good, with...

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Ukase dated April 16, 1776, announcing the sudden death of the Great Princess Natalia Alekseevna (Princess Wilhelmina Luisa of Hessen-Darmstadt).

Catherine the Great.

St. Petersburg: Senate, 1776. Single leaf of laid paper with watermark and woodcut printer's device (unresized, ca. 34 × 21 cm). Apparently disbound from a Sammelband, with crease and old sewing holes; large stain to upper right corner. A solemn ukase occasioned by the sudden death in childbirth of the...

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Nouvelle carte de l'Empire de Russie, partie occidentale: jusqu'a au delà des Monts Ourals en Asie.

de Bouge, Jean Baptiste.

Berlin: Cabinet de Géographie chez Simon Schropp et Compagne (Simon Schropp'sche Hof-Landkartenhandlung), 1812. Engraved map, measuring 84 × 113 cm, sheet size 94 × 124 cm, hand-colored. Dissected into fifty-five segments and mounted on linen. Folds into the original marbled-paper slipcase (18.8 × 11.5 cm), with printed label affixed to...

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Aufruf des kaiserl. russischen General-Feldmarschalls, Fürsten Kutusow-Smolenskoi, an die Teutschen, vom 25. März 1813, wieder abgedruckt im Juli 1814, nebst einem kurzen Vorwort.

Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich (1745-1813); preface by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860).

[Frankfurt am Main]: 1814. Octavo (18.5 × 11.5 cm). Sewn brochure with ochre paper spine strip; 15 pp. Old shelf mark to title verso; else a very good copy. Scarce pamphlet reproducing the text of an appeal to the German people by Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1845-1813), one of the...

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Three original lithographed posters and programs for the Pushkin centenary in 1937.

[Pushkin centenary].

Riga, Daugavpils, and Liepaja: Puskina Komiteja, 1937. Lithographed posters in two colors, in Latvian; 91 × 60; 94 × 60; and 99 × 66 cm. Faint horizontal and vertical fold lines. The celebration of the centenary of Alexander Pushkin's death in 1937 by the Russian diaspora would become one of...

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Křížník Potemkin. Zápisky o vzpouře na křížníku Kňaz Potěmkin Tavrický. Přeložil A. Rudin [Battleship Potemkin. Notes about the mutiny aboard the battleship Prince Potemkin of Tauris. Translated by A. Rudin].

Rakovský-Kiril.

Prague: Nákladem Komunistického nakladatelství a knihkupectví v Praze, 1926. Octavo (19.3 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photo-montage design by Karel Teige; 254, [2] pp. Frontis photograph showing sailors aboard the ship. About very good; light wear to overlapping wrapper edges and foreedges; nick to lower spine. Scarce.....

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Who Shall be the Emperor of Russia?

["Union of Russian Legitimist Monarchists;" H.I.H. the Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich].

Munich: R. Oldenbourg (Ol'denburg), [1924]. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; 11 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of the Grand Duke on coated paper and one chart (The male descendants of Emperor the Nikolai I [sic!]). Oxidation from staples; light wear to wrappers and lower left corner of...

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Bezposhchadnyi sud nad starym pravitel'stvom. Raskryt tainyi zagovor, byvshago, opasno-vrediashchago pravitel'stva [Merciless trial of the old government. A newly uncovered secret plot by our former, harmful and dangerous government.].

Odessa: Tip. E. P. Karlik, [1917]. Single leaf, measuring 46 × 33 printed to recto. Printed on thin stock; old creases and a few old closed tears; some small holes and fraying to edges, without loss to text. Unrecorded popular broadside from the time of the Revolution of 1917, issued...

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Program ceskoslovenského vecera 16. XII 1918, Omsk, Sibir. Programm of the Czechoslovak Evening Given 16th of December 1918, Omsk, Siberia.

Omsk. Single leaf, measuring 75.5 × 30 cm, printed recto and verso with elaborate lithographed calligraphic text and images; folded three times to create a booklet containing both the evening's program and the lyrics of three songs in Czech, English, French, and Russian, as well as a decorative cover design...

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Stoglav [The Stoglav, i.e. proceedings of the 1551 Synod].

Kazan': V Tipografii Gubernskogo Pravleniia, 1862. Octavo (23 × 14.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf with title to spine; red marbled paper boards; VII, 438, II pp. Book plate and shelf label of the Imperial Nikolaevsky Orphanage library in Gatchina, dissolved after the 1917 Revolution, and a later private bookplate. Boards lightly...

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Doklad na pervom vysochaishe utverzhdennom s"ezde russkikh zodchikh v S-Peterburge (O neobkhodimosti ustroistva dolgovechnykh i nesgoraemykh postroek dlia krest'ian v Rossii) [Speech held at the first Imperial Congress of Russian Architects in St. Petersburg (on the necessity of building long-lasting and fire resistant houses for the Russian peasants].

Charnotskii, Eduard Feliksovich (Czarnocki).

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina, 1894. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Gilt-stamped decorative brown silk binding; white silk moire end papers; [3], 4-28 pp. With a four-page bibliography. Gilt faded; lower left corner of binding soiled and faded; front hinge broken; text very good. Rare pamphlet reproducing a speech...

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Sviatii Strastoterpets Khristov Feodor Stratiliat. Slavonisch-Russisches Heiligthum mitten in Teutschland; Das ist: der grosse Heilige und Maerthyrer, Pheodor Stratilat, oder Theodorus Dux, aus einer, in der Hoch-Adel-Rieterischen Kirche zu Kalbensteinberg, unweit Weissenburg am Nordgau, aufbehaltenen, mit Uhr-alten Gemählden und Alt-Russischen, oder Slavonischen Beyschriften gezierten sehr alten Tafel, nach unterschiedlichen Menaeis und Martyrologiis, beeder, so wohl der Morgen- als Abendländischen Kirchen.

Döderlein, Johann Alexander.

Nürnberg: J. E. Adelbulner für W. M. Endter Erben, 1724. Small quarto (24 × 15 cm). Contemporary colored-paper over boards; 142 pp. Folded engraving, measuring 50 × 42 cm, tipped in. Two private book plates; earlier signature to p. 133. Lower spine worn; binding lightly shaken, but still intact and...

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Suffrazhistki i suffrazhetki: doklad, chitannyi v Peterburge v marte 1910 goda [Suffragettes. A lecture delivered in St. Petersburg in 1910].

Kal’manovich, Anna Andreevna.

St. Petersburg: Tipografiia B.M. Vol’fa, 1911. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 75, [1] pp. Light soil to wrappers; spine extremities frayed; spine cracked; pages evenly toned due to stock. Still good or better. First and only edition of this pamphlet on the history and strategy of the...

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Karta Kubanskogo kraia, 1791-1920 [Map of the Kuban region]. Two variant states of an émigré map of the home of the Kuban Cossacks in the Northern Caucasus.

Naumenko, Gen. V. G. and N. L. Kisil'.

Orangeburg, NY: Izdanie "Kubanskogo Sbornika" V. G. Naumenko, 1960. Two leaves, measuring 85 × 55 cm, thrice folded, blue line print or related reproduction method. Very good; one leaf with trace of rust from paper clip to verso. Two different states of this rare map of the Kuban region in...

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