![Stoglav [The Stoglav, i.e. proceedings of the 1551 Synod].](/pictures/medium/4786.jpg?v=1506590186)
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... More
![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.](/pictures/medium/4596_1.jpg?v=1508492861)
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... More
![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]. o. M. Burnashev.](/pictures/medium/2789.jpg?v=1543677632)
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
[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... More
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... More
![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.](/pictures/medium/4462.jpg?v=1494873683)
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... More
Munich: R. Oldenbourg (Ol'denburg), [1924]. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched self-wrappers; [3], 4-11 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... More
![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.].](/pictures/medium/4282.jpg?v=1493043890)
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
