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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.

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[JOHNSTONE, Catherine Laura].
Life And Times Of Alexander I. Emperor Of The Russias. By C.Joyneville [Pseud.].
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875..
3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, 391, [1]; vii, 347, [1]; viii, 371, [1]. with half-titles. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (Vol. II recased preserving endpapers, 2 inner hinges partly cracked, extremities slightly frayed, cloth bit puckered). First Edition.
$205 USD Book Number: ROHfe[JO9 Order / Enquire

KELLY, Walter K.
The History Of Russia, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time. Compiled from the most Authentic Sources.
London: Henry G.Bohn, 1854-55..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. x, 502; viii, 528. 3 engraved portraits. original blind-stamped cloth (small stain to spine of Vol. II). First Edition.
$128 USD Book Number: RLLeKELL26 Order / Enquire

KENEZ, Peter.
The First Year of the Volunteer Army Civil War In South Russia, 1918 [and] The Defeat of the Whites Civil War In South Russia, 1919-1920 [2 volumes].
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1971 [& 1977]..
8vo. pp. [8], 351; xviii, 378. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: aly1428 Order / Enquire

KENNAN, George [1845-1924].
Siberia And The Exile System.
New York: The Century Co., 1891..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xv, 409; x, [2], 575. 2 frontis. & numerous text illus. & maps (some full-page). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine ends little worn & frayed, covers slightly soiled, spotting to upper spine & upper front cover of Vol. I, staining to 2 pages in Vol. II). First Edition. Armed wsith a letter from the Russian Minister of the Interior, Kennan travelled through Siberia investigating the Russian penal system. Intending to disprove the allegations of brutality, Kennan, instead, produced a shocking exposé of the Siberian exile system. Smith K14. Nerhood 359.
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KLIER, John Doyle.
Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [2011]..
8vo. pp. xxiv, 492. text illus. & maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (corners worn, edges of wrs. bit chipped, small dampstain to lower inner edge of rear cover & dw., some marginal pencil markings). First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: dola2599 Order / Enquire

KOENKER, Diane P. & William G. ROSENBERG.
Strikes And Revolution In Russia, 1917.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1989]..
8vo. pp. xix, [1], 393. biblio. index. bds. dw. Fine copy. First Edition.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2689 Order / Enquire

KOHL, J[ohann] G[eorg] [1808-1878].
Reisen in Südrussland.
Dresden & Leipzig: in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1841..
2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. x, 330; viii, 270. 2 additional wood-engraved titles. folding map. A nice copy in original patterned cloth (light wear, foxing to wood-engraved titles & first few leaves in each vol.). First Edition. Kohl travelled extensively throughout the Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Russian Steppes, visiting Poltava, Kremenchuk, Nikolaeff, Odessa, Yalta, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Bender, Kirschenew, &c. cfNerhood 207.
$350 USD Book Number: elala5412 Order / Enquire

[KRAVCHINSKII, Sergei Mikhailovich] [1852-1895].
The Russian Peasantry Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life And Religion By Stepniak.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888..
16mo. pp. vi, [1], 401, [4]. original cloth (light foxing to margins & fore-edges, small numbered label on spine). From the library of Canadian author, Thomas Conant [1842-1905]. First American Edition.
$225 USD Book Number: elala2708a Order / Enquire

[KRAVCHINSKII, Sergei Mikhailovich] [1852-1895].
Underground Russia Revolutionary Profiles And Sketches From Life By Stepniak.With A Preface by Peter Lavroff Translated From The Italian.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1883..
12mo. pp. xiv, 320, [2]ads. with half-title. original black-stamped cloth (bit soiled). Second Edition of the English Translation.
$115 USD Book Number: elala2708 Order / Enquire

KROPOTKIN, P[etr Alekseevich, Prince] [1842-1921].
Russian Literature.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-vii, [2 leaves], 341. untrimmed in original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted. First Edition. The book originated in a series of eight lectures on Russian literature in the nineteenth century which Kropotkin delivered in March, 1901, at the Lowell Institute in Boston. Included are chapters on Pushkin and Lermontoff, Gogol, Turgueneff and Tolstoy, Gontcharoff, Dostoyevskiy, and Nekrasoff, the drama, folk-novelists, political literature, satire, art-criticism, and contemporary novelists.
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LAKE, [Sir Henry] Atwell [1808-1881].
Kars And Our Captivity In Russia: With Letters From Gen. Sir W.F.Williams, Bar., of Kars, K.C.B.; Major Teesdale, C.B.; And The Late Captain Tompson, C.B.
London: Richard Bentley, 1856..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xv, 367. with half-title. 2 engraved portraits (incl. frontis.). modern bds. (light foxing to frontis. & surrounding leaves). Second Edition. Colonel Lake of the Royal engineers was sent to Russia as a prisoner-of-war after the capitulation of Kars. Nerhood 255.
$300 USD Book Number: elala2711 Order / Enquire

LANG, David Marshall.
A Modern History Of Soviet Georgia.
New York: Grove Press, [1962]..
8vo. pp. xiv,, 298. 3 text maps & 40 illus. on 12 double-sided plates. cloth. First Edition.
$70 USD Book Number: dola2601 Order / Enquire

[LAVEAUX, J.C. Thievault De].
Histoire de Pierre III, Empereur de Russie.Suivie de L'Histoire Secrète des Amours et des Principaux Amans de Catherine II.
Paris: Maison La Briffe, An VI [1799]..
3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., iv, 360; 2 p.l., 360; 2 p.l., 312. with half-titles. 3 engraved plates by Huot. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (head of spines chipped, some browning to outer leaves). First Edition. This account was allegedly written by a secret agent of France at the Tzar's court in an attempt to refute earlier accounts by Rulhière and Castéra, which portrayed Peter III in a less than favourable light. Barbier II 731.
$450 USD Book Number: elala2724 Order / Enquire

[LEFEVRE, Sir George William] [1798-1846].
The Life Of A Travelling Physician...Including Twenty Years' Wanderings Through The Greater Part Of Europe.
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843..
3 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf]plate list, 312; viii, 304; viii, 294, [2]ads. with half-titles in Vols. I-II; none required in Vol. III. 3 hand-coloured lithographed frontis. contemporary half calf, gilt backs (worn but sound). First Edition. The author served as physician to a Polish nobleman, a post he obtained through the influence of Benjamin Travers, and travelled extensively with him for nine years in France, Austria, Poland, and Russia. He left his post at Odessa and went on to St. Petersburg, where he began in private practice and became physician to the British Embassy. In 1831 he was given charge of a district during the cholera epidemic. After a brief stay in England, Lefevre returned to Russia, where he was knighted by patent as a reward for his services to the embassy. His work also includes an account of his visit to the Château de Pau, undertaken for health reasons in 1819. The hand-coloured plates depict the Château de Pau, Ice Hills at the Carnival in St. Petersburg, and the mines of Dannemora. Despite the extensive Russian content the book is not listed in Nerhood. Abbey, Travel, 36. Wellcome III p. 478.
$400 USD Book Number: elala5413 Order / Enquire

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