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LE BRUYN, Cornelius.
Voyages de Corneille Le Brun Par La Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. 1718
£10,000
First French edition of one of the principal accounts of Russia published during the eigteenteenth century, originally published in Dutch, Amsterdam 1711. Cornelis de Bruyn, the...
2 volumes folio (330 × 206 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully rebacked with the original spines laid down, new red and green labels, spines gilt in... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
A Russian Journal 1948
£9,750
First edition, first printing. An astonishing presentation copy to Nathaniel Benchley inscribed by Steinbeck on three full pages, "Well now, Capa and I went to Russia, a big country...
Large octavo. Original yellow/grey/tan cloth backed blue boards, titles to upper board and spine in blue, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent... Read more
VERESHCHAGIN, Vasilii Vasilevich.
Turkestan', ztiudy s' natury. 1874
£9,500
First edition. Extremely uncommon pictorial record of the khanates of central Asia by the recognised master of the Russian Realist school, who recorded the people, the architecture,...
Folio (470 × 325 mm). Modern half calf on marbled boards to style, black morocco title label to spine. Plates mounted on guards. Title page in Russian, German... Read more
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret.
Photographs of U.S.S.R. 1934
£6,500
First edition, first printing. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy is number 23 and one of a small number signed by the photographer. An astounding collection of images and one...
Folio. Unbound sheets in the quarter brown cloth portfolio, buff boards, decoration and titles to upper board in red, red ties. 24 photogravures. Some typical creasing... Read more
PALLAS, Peter Simon.
Travels Through the Southern Provinces of The Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. 1812
£3,750
Second edition of one of the chief travel narratives describing Russia in the late eighteenth century. Pallas, an eminent German naturalist, describes what he saw "with Teutonic...
2 volumes, quarto. Recent antique-style sprinkled calf, red morocco labels. 52 plates (44 hand-coloured, 21 of these folding), 28 vignettes (23 hand-coloured), and 3... Read more
BELL, John.
Travels From St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia. 1763
£3,750
First edition of the account of the author's "remarkable journey" from St. Petersburg through Siberia and into China on behalf of the Russian tsar. Bell's narrative includes detailed...
2 volumes, octavo (239 × 181 mm). ?publisher's calf-backed marbled boards, contrast labels, edges sprinkled red. Folding map frontispiece to volume I, shows the... Read more
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PALLAS, Peter S.
[Atlas Volume] Voyages du Professeur Pallas, [1794]
£3,000
This was based on Pallas's second trip to the South of Russia during the years 1793 and 1794 and included observations on antiquities, towns, costumes, landscapes, views, maps and is...
Large quarto. Bound in contemporary full red morocco, two green labels, titles and decoration to spine gilt, all edges gilt, green endpapers. 98 engraved full and... Read more
BADDELEY, John F.
The Rugged Flanks of Caucasus. 1940
£3,000
First edition. Baddeley's career began as a South American correspondent on the Observer, but around 1873 a meeting at a family dinner party with Count Shuvalov, the Russian...
2 volumes, quarto. Original dark sand, flecked buckram, titles gilt to spines, top edge trimmed others uncut. In the dust jackets. Photogravure portrait frontispiece... Read more
MACPHERSON, Duncan.
Antiquities of Kertch and Researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus. 1857
£2,875
First and only edition, uncommon. "An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithography, giving plates brilliant in effect, the equivalent of modern...
Folio. Original black wavy-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, and to the upper board together with a central large roundel, blind panelling to both boards and... Read more
PORTER, Robert Ker.
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 1813
£2,000
Second edition, first published 1809. An artistic prodigy, admitted to the Academy at the age of fifteen, Porter made his reputation as a painter of spectacular battle scenes and...
2 volumes quarto (287 × 229 mm). Contemporary half diced russia, drab boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rules forming compartments which are blind-tooled.... Read more
DEMIDOFF, Anatole de
Travels in Southern Russia, and the Crimea; 1853
£1,500
First edition in English, originally published in four volumes in French, 1840-2. This translation presumably issued to capitalize on the interest in the region stimulated by the...
2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green wavy-grained cloth, titles in gilt to the spines, panelling in blind to the boards, Russian Imperial eagle gilt to the upper... Read more
JAWORSKIJ, Ivan Lavrovich.
Reise der Russischen Gesandtschaft in Afghanistan und Buchara in den Jahren 1878-79. 1885
£1,500
First edition in German. At the height of Great Game tensions, the Russian explorer J. L. Jaworskij accompanied General Stolietov's 1878-79 military mission to Afghanistan....
2 volumes bound as one, octavo (221 × 138 mm) slightly later half vellum on marbled boards, title inked to the spine, marbled edges, original wraps of the first... Read more
BIDDULPH, M.A., Captain.
Assault of Sevastopol. Two Topographical & Panoramic Sketches, [1855]
£1,375
First edition. Uncommon and attractive visual memoir of the famous siege operations at Sebastopol in the Crimea. Only 4 complete sets on COPAC, with OCLC adding just 3 more. Biddulph...
Folio Original brown ripple-grained cloth, title gilt to the upper board, rebacked. 5 folding lithographic panoramas, one extending to almost 1m in length. A... Read more
ABBOTT, James, Major.
Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, 1856
£1,250
First published in 1843, here considerably expanded and issued in a timely fashion when Britain was confronting Russia in the Crimea. Abbott was commissioned second lieutenant in the...
2 volumes, octavo (209 × 126 mm). Contemporary purple morocco, large gilt crest of the Royal Artillery to the upper boards, panels in gilt and blind to all... Read more
HOLMAN, James.
Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, &c. &c. 1825
£1,250
Second edition in the same year as the first. In 1798, Holman, aged just 12, joined the Navy as a first class volunteer, and served until 1810, when he was invalided out with severe...
Octavo (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary sage green, straight-grained morocco by Bentley of Poland Street, red morocco label, flat bands gilt tooled, compartments with... Read more
[ALEXANDER, William]
The Costume of the Russian Empire. 1803
£1,250
First edition (but a later issue), with the uncommon imprint of Howlett and Brimmer on the title and verso of the last page of letterpress. Both Abbey and Colas call for S. Gosnell...
Folio. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spine, blind stamped and gilt decoration to boards. With 73 fine handcoloured... Read more
[?MULLALY, Sir Herbert]
Russia's March towards India. By 'An Indian Officer.' 1894
£950
First edition, uncommon. Intended by the author as "a clear historical account of Russia's March through Central Asia in all its stages." (Preface) The title page has been annotated...
2 volumes octavo ( 221 × 138 mm). Modern red half calf on marbled boards, title gilt to spines. Folding coloured map at the rear of volume II. Map with some... Read more
HELLWALD, Frederick von.
The Russians in Central Asia. 1874
£950
First and only edition in English, originally published for the author in Vienna in 1869, and subsequently in Augsburg in 1873. Study on based "on thorough and careful use of the...
Octavo. Original green pimple-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine and to the upper board together with Russian Imperial eagle in a roundel, bands in black around... Read more
DEMIDOFF, E[lim], Prince San Donato.
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus. 1898
£950
First edition. "Hunting on the sprawling hunting preserve of Grand Duke Mikhailovitch, the author bagged tûr near the Kisha River, with additional hunts after ollen and aurochs....
Octavo (218 × 156 mm) Contemporary tan pigskin on linen boards, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from the author's photographs,... Read more
GRIERSON, J[ames] M[oncrieff], Captain.
The Armed Strength of Russia. 1886
£850
First edition, print run of 300 copies only. Highly detailed analysis of every aspect of the organization of the Russian Army, compiled by the British Army's foremost expert on the...
Octavo (234 × 137 mm) Modern red half calf on matching boards, title gilt to spine, edges sprinkled red. 2 folding lithographed maps, coloured in outline, 5... Read more
KHANDAN, Jafar.
Bound presentation volume of war-time poems. 1942-4
£850
First edition. War-time publications of the noted Azeri poet and literary critic, here bound for presentation to Stalin. The text on the engraved ?steel plate reads, "To the Great...
Octavo (153 × 114 mm). Contemporary floral-printed silk backed with red on blue patterned cloth, white metal presentation plaque mounted on the upper board,... Read more
BADDELEY, John F.
The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus. 1908
£750
First edition. Author's first book, a study of the development of Russian influence in the region, beginning with Peter's campaigns in the early eighteenth century an concluding with...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panel to the upper board. Frontispiece and 12 other plates, 5 folding maps and plans, 3 full-colour, 2 in... Read more
[MURRAY, Charles Adolphus,] 7th earl of Dunmore
The Pamirs. 1893
£750
First edition. "He started from Rawalpindi in April 1892, reached Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan in December 1892, and continued west through Ferghana and Transcaspia, reaching...
2 volumes, octavo. Original pale blue ribbed moiré cloth, title in silver to the spines, and to the upper boards together with a large block of a Buddha, sepia... Read more
STUMM, Hugo.
Chiwa. 1874
£750
First edition in French, originally published in Berlin the previous year. Stumm, a lieutenant in the Westphalian Hussars, was attached to the Headquarters of Kaufman's Russian...
Octavo (241 × 152 mm) contemporary black cloth with black leather label. 2 folding coloured maps, 3 coloured plans. Slightly rubbed and soiled, foxing and... Read more
BYRON, Robert.
First Russia Then Tibet. 1933
£750
First edition, in a remainder binding with the Macmillan's Miscellany dust jacket.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 24 plates. Ownership inscription partially erased from front free endpaper.... Read more
