St. Petersburg: V drukarniakh Tiblena i komp. i Kulisha, 1864. Large octavo (26 × 17 cm). Recent half-calf binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine and marbled edges; [VII], [1], 2-304, [1], [II-XVII] pp. Owner signature to title page (Zinovii Bilenko). Occasional markings in pen in the... More
![Novoe russkoe pravopisanie [The new Russian orthography]. Prof. P. N. Sakulin](/pictures/medium/6520_1.jpg?v=1554392466)
Moscow: Tipografiia T-va I. D. Sytina, 1917. Octavo (20.8 × 14.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 16 pp. Wrappers with old vertical crease and moisture stain (not affecting text); else very good. Evidently the first stand-alone publication to treat the complex changes to Russian orthography initiated long before WWI, but famously... More
[Harbin]: self-published, [1931-32]. Gerasimov. Octavo (17.6 × 13.3 cm). Original printed wrappers; 162 pp. Very good, save for light moisture stain to front wrapper. Very rare self-published textbook for Russians beginning to learn Chinese, authored by Ivan S. Skurlatov (1874-after 1937), a Russian-born Sinologist and scholar of Far Eastern linguistics... More
Uzhhorod: Drukarnia, 1937. Octavo (22.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed card boards; 75 pp. Occasional underlining and annotations in pencil; else about very good. Scarce primer for Ukrainians, printed in the Carpatho-Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod (Uzhhorod). As the preface shows, the book was written with an eye toward standard Ukrainian... More
Odessa: self-published, 1960. Small octavo (15 × 10.5 cm). Original string-bound printed wrappers; 48, [2] pp. Photo-reproduced manuscript and printed text. Owner signature to front wrapper; else very good. An unrecorded Soviet samizdat publication from Odessa, Ukraine, by one of two surviving members of the Sovetrespublikara Esperantista Unio, or Union... More
Kazan: v tipografii Imperatorskogo universiteta, 1875. Large octavo (24 × 16.5 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf; VIII, 279 pp. Spine rubbed; pre-revolutionary stamps of the Kazan Theological Seminary; tiny Soviet bookstore stamp. A few pages lightly toned; one with old creases; a few unevenly cut edges; contemporary pencil annotations and corrections by... More
