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HAMM, Michael F. (Editor).
The City In Russian History.
[Lexington]: The University Press of Kentucky, [1976]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 349, [2]. 2 maps on 1 folding double-sided plate. several maps in text. biblio. index. cloth. Prof. Robert Johnson's copy with some occasional pen & pencil notes & scoring). First Edition.
$60 USD                          Book Number: dola2583                         Order / Enquire



HEALY, Ann Erickson.
The Russian Autocracy in Crisis 1905-1907.
[Hamden, CT]: Archon Books, 1976..
8vo. pp. 328. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (dw. rubbed, wrinkled & with few tears). First Edition.
$60 USD                          Book Number: dola2585                         Order / Enquire



HERBERT, Agnes.
Casuals In The Caucasus The Diary Of A Sporting Holiday.
London & New York: John Lane, 1912..
8vo. pp. xi, 331 + [24]ads. with half-title. 22 plates (incl. frontis.; 2 double-page). original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed (intermittent foxing). First Edition of a woman's hunting experiences in the Caucasus in search of ollen (deer) and tûr, a Caucasian species of wild goat.
$250 USD                          Book Number: elala3409                         Order / Enquire



HOFFMANN, David L.
Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941.
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, [1994]..
8vo. pp. xiii, [3], 282, [6]. text plan. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (1 short tear in dw., few pencil markings). First Edition.
$75 USD                          Book Number: dola2587                         Order / Enquire



HOLMAN, James [1786-1857].
Travels Through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, &c. &c. Undertaken During The Years 1822, 1823, And 1824.
London: Printed For W.Simpkin And R.Marshall, 1826..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, iv, 408; 1 p.l., 383. 2 engraved frontis. (incl. portrait) & 8 lithographs by Gauci. lacking half-titles? modern cloth (damage to lower outer margin of 5 leaves, 2 of which have margin trimmed & another also with other tears but no loss of text, outer edge of frontis. portrait cropped). Second Edition. Account of the blind traveller's trip to Russia in 1822-24. From St. Petersburg he journeyed to Moscow and Novgorod before undertaking to cross Siberia to Irkutsk without official permission. Arrested as a spy he was brought back from eastern Siberia to Moscow, where he was held for eighteen months before being escorted to the Polish border. The veracity of Holman's story was questioned by some of his contemporaries including John Dundas Cochrane, who had travelled across Russia to Kamchatka in 1820-21. cfNerhood 176.
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HOLME, C.G. (ed).
Art In The U.S.S.R. Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Graphic Arts, Theatre, Film, Crafts (Special Autumn Number of The Studio, 1935).
London: The Studio Limited, [1935]..
4to. pp. 138, [3]. Profusely illus. in b/w, colour illus. of Lenin on ffep. cloth. (previous owner's pencil notes to pastedowns). dw. (possibly newer flaps, some soiling, some surface loss to extremities, a couple tears with repairs).
$75 USD                          Book Number: stela1993                         Order / Enquire



HOMMAIRE DE HELL, [Ignace] Xavier [Morand] [1812-1848].
Travels In The Steppes Of The Caspian Sea, The Crimea, The Caucasus, &c.
London: Chapman And Hall, 1847.
8vo. pp. viii, 436. contemporary polished calf, gilt back. First Edition of the English Translation. Hommaire de Hell, a French geologist, explored the regions which border the Black and Caspian Seas from 1838 to 1842. He was principally concerned with the physical structure of the Crimea and the Steppes of New Russia, and the communication between the Black and Caspian Seas before the Bosphorus erupts into the Sea of Marmara. This English edition contains a narrative of the journey and description of the country and its inhabitants, largely written by de Hell's wife, but omits the scientific and geological data and observations and plates contained in the original French version of 1844-45. Nerhood 214.
$549 USD    Book Number: elala3412         Order / Enquire




INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE USSR - MUNICH.
Genocide in the USSR: Studies In Group Destruction. Series 1. No. 40.
Munich: 1958..
8vo. pp. viii, 280. index. wrs. (short split in upper rear joint). First Edition.
$75 USD                          Book Number: dola859                         Order / Enquire



ISITT, Benjamin.
From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19.
Vancouver & Toronto: UBC Press, [2010]..
8vo. pp. xiii, [8], 299, [4]. 37 illus. on 13 double-sided plates. 5 text maps. wrs. (some pencil markings). Review Copy. First Edition.
$30 USD                          Book Number: dola2592                         Order / Enquire



ISSRAELJAN, V. & L.KUTAKOV.
Diplomacy Of Aggression: Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis, Its Rise And Fall.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, [1970]..
8vo. pp. 438, [2]. cloth. dw. (some wear to dw.). First Edition.
$100 USD                          Book Number: dola2593                         Order / Enquire



IVANOV-RAZUMNIK, [Razumnik Vasilyevich].
O Smysle Zhizni. On The Meaning Of Life. (Rarity Reprints No. 21).
Letchworth: Bradda Books Ltd., [1971]..
8vo. pp. 310. introduction by P.D.Rayfield in English. text in Cyrillic. quarter cloth. dw. (upper rear dw. slightly soiled, else very good). Reprint of the 1920 second edition.
$50 USD                          Book Number: elala5809                         Order / Enquire



JAMES, J[ohn T[homas] [1768-1828].
Journal Of A Tour In Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, During The Years 1813 And 1814.
London: John Murray, 1817..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 454, [1 leaf]; iv, 435, [1]. wood-engraved text plan of Moscow. 12 aquatints (incl. frontis.) by I.Clark after the author's sketches. modern half calf (some light foxing & offsetting). armorial bookplate of Sir Montague Cholmeley. Second Edition; the first, published in one quarto volume in 1816 contained 6 additional plates. James describes his travels in Sweden, northern Germany, Finland, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine and his visits to Petersburg, Moscow, Borodino, Smolensk, Kiev, Cracow, &c. The aquatint plates include views of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Stockholm and Lake Maelar, the Cathedral Church of the Virgin of Casan in St. Petersburg, the Palaces of Pashkov, Menzikov, Apraxin, &c. and the Imperial Palace of Petrovski in Moscow, Smolensk from the banks of the Dnieper, the Column of Vladimir in Kiev, Palace of Lubomirski, the University of Cracow, &c. Nerhood 162. Prideaux p. 341. cfAbbey, Travel, 16.
$899 USD                          Book Number: elala2515                         Order / Enquire



JESSE, [William] [1809-1871].
Notes Of A Half-Pay In Search Of Health: Or Russia, Circassia, And The Crimea, In 1839-40.
[London]: James Madden And Co., 1841..
12mo. pp. xii, 298; ix, [1 leaf]errata, 335. folding engraved map with outline colour. folding engraved plan of Sevastopol. 19th century half roan, gilt backs (rubbed, edges worn, outer margin of map & plan bit ragged, offsetting on titles). First Edition. A description of Captain Jesse's journey from Odessa to St. Petersburg with observations on the Russian army. Nerhood 217.
$461 USD                          Book Number: RSSteJES19                         Order / Enquire



JOHNSON, Robert Eugene.
Peasant and Proletarian: The Working Class of Moscow in the Late Nineteenth Century.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [1979]..
8vo. pp. xii, 225. 2 text maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (2 short tears in dw. else fine). First Edition.
$50 USD                          Book Number: dola2596                         Order / Enquire



JOHNSTON, Robert [1783-1839].
Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland; Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic.
London: J.J.Stockdale, 1815.
4to. pp. 1 p.l., vii, [1]errata, [1 leaf]list of plates, xiv, [2], [17]-460. complete with half-title. 2 engraved maps, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1 wood-engraved plate, & 1 wood-engraved text illus. modern half red morocco, gilt back, t.e.g. (spine slightly faded, some light foxing & toning to text, offsetting from plates). First Edition of this account of a British scholar's journey from St. Petersburg through Moscow to Smolensk in 1814. Johnston visited Dantzig, Memel, Cronstadt, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Smolensk, Grodno, Doubrovna, Borisoff, Minsk, Mir, Warsaw, and Berlin, and comments on the difficulties of travel, commerce and trade, the effects of slavery, religious superstition, the devastation wreaked by the Napoleonic army, agriculture, the Russian frontiers, &c. The charming hand-coloured aquatint plates by H.Daw, C.J.Canton, F.C.Lewis, and others, after drawings by the author, include depictions of Hamburg, Tilsit, Cronstadt boatmen, Casan Church and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Igiora, Moscow, the Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensk, Borisoff, &c. Abbey, Travel, 15. Cat. Russica J557. Martin Hardie pp. 141-42. Nerhood 164. Prideaux pp. 227 & 341. Tooley 286.
$1998 USD    Book Number: elala3773         Order / Enquire



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