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[FELINSKA, Ewa] [1793-1859].
Revelations Of Siberia. By A Banished Lady. Edited By Colonel Lach Szyrma.
London: Colburn And Co., Publishers, 1853..
8vo. pp. xxiv, 295 + 16(ads); x, 325. with half-title in Vol. II. original blind-stamped cloth (spine ends frayed). Second Edition. The authoress, a Pole by birth and education, was stripped of her property and exiled to Berezov, a town in the far north of Siberia, 1839-41, on charges of having conspired to bring about a new insurrection in the Polish provinces and for having established schools for the education of her serfs. She describes her experiences in Siberia, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, their hunting and fishing expeditions, and their amusements at home, their religious rites, festivals, popular traditions and prejudices, their trade and commerce, and local flora and fauna. The present work was translated from the original Polish manuscript. Not in Nerhood.
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FIGES, Orlando.
Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-121).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989..
8vo. pp. xvii, [3], 401. 13 illus. on 4 double-sided plates. 5 text maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. Review Copy. First Edition.
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FISHER, H.H.
The Famine In Soviet Russia 1919-1923 The Operations Of The American Relief Administration.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1927..
8vo. pp. x, [2], 609. 1 plate, 7 full-page maps & plans, & several tables in the text. index. cloth (spine ends chipped, nick in lower joint). First Edition.
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FRASER, Sir John Foster [1868-1936].
The Real Siberia Together With An Account Of A Dash Through Manchuria.
London.: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1902..
8vo. pp. xvi, 279, [1] + 16(ads). map & 48 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). original cloth (soiled, front joint partly cracked, head of spine chipping, institutional bookplate). First Edition. Account of a journey east on the new Trans-Siberian Railway in 1901 made at the invitation of Henry John Palmer, editor of the Yorkshire Post and president of the Institute of Journalists. Fraser sees the Siberia of convicts and prisons passing away and the new land becoming "the ultimate great food-producing region of the earth". Nerhood 480.
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FRESHFIELD, Douglas W[illiam] [1845-1934].
The Exploration Of The Caucasus.
London: Edward Arnold, 1902.
2 Volumes. large 8vo. pp. xii, 278; viii, 295, [1]. with half-titles. profusely illus. incl. 2 frontis. (1 folding) & 4 folding maps (3 in colour; 1 with partial colour). untrimmed in original cloth (joints & extremities frayed). Second Edition. During the course of three journeys, in 1868, 1887, and 1889, Freshfield traversed the main chain of the Caucasus eleven times by eight different passes, and crossed in and out of Suanetia eight times by seven different routes. He took part in the ascent of three of the great peaks, Elbruz, Kasbek, and Tetnuld, in addition to several lesser summits. Also included here are accounts of the ascents of other peaks by several of his friends in the Alpine Club, H.Wooley, J.G.Cockin, and H.W.Holder. The illustrations are after photographs by Vittorio Sella, M. De Déchy, H.Woolley, W.F.Donkin, and S.Sommier. Neate 288.
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FRESHFIELD, Douglas W[illiam] [1845-1934].
Travels In The Central Caucasus And Bashan Including Visits To Ararat And Tabreez And Ascents Of Kazbek And Elbruz.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1869.
8vo. pp. xiii, [1 leaf], 509, [1] + [26]ads. with half-title. chromolithographed frontis. 3 folding lithographed maps (2 with partial colour), 4 wood-engraved plates, & 16 wood-engraved text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities bit frayed, spine ends repaired, outer edge of large folding map bit ragged). First Edition. Freshfield, together with A.W.Moore and C.Tucker of the London Alpine Club and a Swiss guide, were the first to climb the east peak of Mount Elbruz (18,407 feet) and the summit of Mount Kazbek (16,559 feet) in 1868. Neate 285.
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FÜLOP-MILLER, René & Joseph GREGOR.
The Russian Theatre Its Character And History With Especial Reference To The Revolutionary Period.
London...: George G.,Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1930]..
folio. pp. 136, [ff. 12]. 357 half-tone & 48 colour illus. including scenery and costume designs by Bakst, Goncharova, Larionov, Exter, Matrunin, Vachtangov & others. cloth, t.e.g. (spine dull, some spotting to covers, inner hinges reinforced, else very good). First Edition of the English Translation by Paul England, Limited to 1,000 copies, this no. 4 of 650 comprising the English issue.
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GALLENGA, Antonio [Carlo Napoleone] [1810-1895].
A Summer Tour In Russia.
London: Chapman And Hall, 1883..
8vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 426, [2]ads. complete with half-title. folding partly coloured lithographed map. original black-stamped cloth. Second Edition. An account of the author's travels from St. Petersburg to Moscow, Astrakhan, Tiflis, Batoum, Odessa, Kiev, and Warsaw in 1881, including remarks on rural economic conditions, the exile system, Nihilism, &c. cfNerhood 344.
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GAPONENKO, L. S. ET AL. (Editors).
The Revolutionary Movement In Russia After The Overthrow Of The Autocracy [Translated Title]. [The Great October Socialist Revolution, Documents and Materials].
[Moscow]: The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957..
4to. pp. xxii, [1], 855, [1]. text in Russian. cloth.
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GEDDIE, John.
The Russian Empire: Its Rise and Progress. With A Description Of The Country, Its History, Government, And Peoples, And An Account Of The Latest Conquests In Central Asia.
London: T.Nelson And Sons, 1885..
8vo. pp. vi, [2], [9]-538, [2]ads. 3 folding colour maps & 8 wood-engraved plates. original decorative cloth (rubbed & slightly soiled, library bookplate, faint number on spine, tear in frontis. map - no loss, some foxing to outer leaves).
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GOLIKOV, G.N. ET AL. (Editors).
The October Armed Uprising In Petrograd [Translated Title]. [The Great October Socialist Revolution, Documents and Materials].
Moscow: The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957..
4to. pp. 1040, [3]. tipped-in errata. text in Russian. cloth.
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[GREENER, William].
Greater Russia The Continental Empire Of The Old World.
New York & London: Macmillan, 1904..
8vo. pp. xiii, 337, [2]ads. 63 plates (incl. frontis.). A very good copy in original cloth (tail of spine slightly frayed). Second Printing.
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GREGORY, Paul R.
Before Command: An Economic History Of Russia From Emancipation To The First Five-Year Plan.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1994]..
8vo. pp. viii, 188. index. cloth. dw. Fine copy. First Edition.
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GUILD, Curtis [1827-1911].
Britons And Muscovites Or Traits Of Two Empires.
Boston: Lee And Shepard & New York: Charles T.Dillingham, 1888..
8vo. pp. xii, 230. with half-titles. original cloth (spine ends frayed, small paper label on lower spine). First Edition. Nerhood 364. Smith G69.
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GUTHRIE, Maria.
A Tour, Performed In The Years 1795-6, Through The Taurida, Or Crimea, The Antient Kingdom Of Bosphorus, The Once-Powerful Republic Of Tauric Cherson, And All The Other Countries On The North Shore Of The Euxine, Ceded To Russia By The Peace Of Kainardgi And Jassy.
London: Printed By Nichols And Son For T.Cadell, Jun. and W.Davies, 1802.
4to. pp. xxiv, 446, [2]errata & ads. 2 folding engraved maps, 3 engraved plates & numerus text illus. of medals (8 full-page). Uncut in original bds, appropriately rebacked (hint of foxing to 1 map, dampmark to upper outer corner of the 3 plates). First Edition. The author was acting Directress of the Imperial Convent for the Education of the Female Nobility of Russia. The present account of her tour through the southern provinces of Russia, with observations on ancient Greek and Roman ruins and antiquities, is written in the form of letters addressed to her husband, Matthew Guthrie, who was physician to the Imperial Corps of Noble Cadets in St. Petersburgh, and Councillor of State to the Emperor. Guthrie edited the letters for publication following his wife's death, and added a supplement on the same region in classical times. The illustrations show coins and antiquities. Crowther 2080. Nerhood 127. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 282-83.
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