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LENIN, N[ikolai] [Pseud., i.e. Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov] [1870-1924].
K lozungam. Izdanie Zamoskvoretskago Komiteta R.S.D.R.P. [To slogans. Publication of the Zamoskvoretsk Committee of the R.S.D.W.P. [Russian Social Democratic Workers Party]].
Moscow: "Dawn" Printing House, 1917..
8vo. pp. 15. self-wrs. (some light foxing). First Edition? Lenin's attempt to moderate sloganeering on the part of the ultra-left and to provide a more sophisticated approach.
$923 USD Book Number: ENIloLEN42 Order / Enquire
LENIN, N[ikolai] [Pseud., i.e. Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov] [1870-1924].
Proletarskaya Revoluziya I Renegat Kautskii [Proletarian Revolution And The Renegade Kautsky].
Moscow & Petrograd: "Communist" Publishing House, 1918..
8vo. pp. 135, [1]. original printed wrs. (wrs. soiled & chipped). First Edition.
$923 USD Book Number: ENIolLEN62 Order / Enquire
LEROY-BEAULIEU, Anatole.
The Russian Peasant. Edited by Henry J.Tobias.
Sandoval, New Mexico: Coronado Press, 1962..
16mo. pp. xi, [1], 248. 1 text illus. wrs. Fine copy.
$60 USD Book Number: dola2603 Order / Enquire
LYALL, Robert [1790-1831].
Travels In Russia, The Krimea, The Caucasus, And Georgia.
London: Printed For T.Cadell & Edinburgh: W.Blackwood, 1825..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxi, [1 leaf]list of illus. & ads, 527, [1]; 1 p.l., [v]-xiv, [1 leaf]list of illus., 534. lacking half-titles. 24 wood-engraved text illus. 19th century half calf (corners worn, cloth of upper cover of Vol. I wrinkled). First Edition. Lyall acted as secretary-guide to two Italian noblemen, Marquis Pucci and Count Salazar, and an English gentleman, Edward Penrhyn, on a journey through the southern provinces of Russia in 1822-23. The travellers visited Tula, Orel, Kiev, Odessa, Nikolaef, Kherson, Kaffa, Kertch, Kasrass, Kazbek, Tiblis, Nigni Novgorod, &c. Among other things, Lyall describes and comments on agriculture, trade and commerce, manufactures, mining, religion, education, military organization, manners and customs of the Jews, Tartars, and Cossacks, Russian relations with Persia, &c. Nerhood 174 (listing Vol. I only).
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MARSDEN, Kate [b. 1859].
On Sledge And Horseback To Outcast Siberian Lepers.
London: The Record Press Limited, [c1892]..
8vo. pp. xv, [1], 243, [1], [24]ads. map & 25 plates. 2 facsimile letters on 4 leaves. uncut in original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (lower front cover stained, extremities frayed). Second Edition (so stated on front cover). The author was an English nurse who journied in 1890 to the Vilyuysk district to minister to the leper colony there. Nerhood 397. cfArctic Bib. 10964.
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MARTYNOVA, M.V.
Precious Stone in Russian Jewelry Art in XIIth - XVIIIth Centuries.
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973..
Folio. unpaginated. English & Russian text. profusely illus. in colour & b/w. cloth (spine sunned, previous owner's inscription to fep). dw. (couple chips & tears).
$100 USD Book Number: stela1880 Order / Enquire
MAXWELL, John S.
The Czar, His Court And People: Including A Tour In Norway And Sweden.
New York: Baker And Scribner, 1848..
8vo. pp. xii, [13]-368 + 16(ads). with half-title. original blind-stamped cloth (extremities frayed & chipped, front free-endpaper wanting, some foxing throughout, occasional marginal stains). First Edition. An account of the author's travels in Scandinavia, Russia and Poland in 1848. Smith M62. cfNerhood 236 (Dublin: 1849).
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MAXWELL, John S.
The Czar, His Court And People: Including A Tour In Norway And Sweden.
London: Richard Bentley, 1854..
8vo. pp. xii, 284. with half-title. engraved frontis. portrait. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities chipped & frayed, covers spotted, manuscript notes on paste-downs & endpapers). An account of the author's travels in Scandinavia, Russia, and Poland in 1848. cfNerhood 236 (Dublin: 1849). cfSmith M62 (New York: 1848).
$175 USD Book Number: elala965 Order / Enquire
McCORMICK, Richard C[unningham] [1832-1901].
A Visit To The Camp Before Sevastopol.
New York: D.Appleton And Company, 1855..
12mo. pp. 212, 4(ads). with half-title. 9 tinted lithographed plates (incl. 2 double-page & folding frontis. map). original blind-stamped cloth (bit rubbed, extremities trifle frayed, short tear in blank portion of title, some scattered light foxing). First Edition. McCormick was in the Crimea during the war and acted as news correspondent for the Morning Courier and New York Enquirer and other New York journals.Smith M13.
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McCORMICK, Robert R[utherford] [1880-1955].
With The Russian Army Being The Experiences Of A National Guardsman.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915..
12mo. pp. xi, 306, [6]ads. frontis. portrait, 6 maps & charts (3 folding), & 24 plates. A very good copy in gilt-stamped cloth (text block skewed). First Edition. The author, owner, editor, and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and a major in the First Cavalry of the Illinois National Guards, was invited to travel with the Russian army on the front lines as an observer by the Commander-in-Chief Grand Duke Nicolas Nicolaievitch. His father, Robert Sanderson McCormick had served as ambassador to Russia in 1902-05 and was held in high esteem by the Grand Duke. The Grand Duke "permitted me to see the inside of the Russian military organization and frontier fortresses, so that our country might have the benefit of Russia's unequalled experience in military affairs and might be able to adopt such of her methods applicable to our particular conditions." (Dedication to the Grand Duke) Nerhood 621.
$125 USD Book Number: elala5268 Order / Enquire
MEIGNAN, Victor [b. 1846].
From Paris To Pekin Over Siberian Snows.Edited From The French By William Conn.
London: W.Swan Sonnenschein And Co., 1885.
8vo. pp. xix, 428. with half-title. folding map & 15 plates (incl. frontis.). A nice copy in original brown & gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (occasional light foxing). First Edition of the English Translation, including an additional supplementary chapter. Narrative of a journey by sledge over the snows of European Russia and Siberia, by caravan through Mongolia, across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by mule palanquin through China to Pekin, made in 1873-74 by a French traveller. Nerhood 316. Cordier, Sinica, III 2139.
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MELANCON, Michael & Alice K. PATE (Editors).
New Labor History: Worker Identity And Experience In Russia, 1840-1918.
Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2002..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., v, [1], 248. index. wrs. First Edition.
$60 USD Book Number: dola2607 Order / Enquire
MELANCON, Michael.
The Lena Goldfields Massacre & the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State.
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, [2006]..
8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 238. illus. biblio. index. wrs. (numerous pencil markings). First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: dola2606 Order / Enquire
[MEYERBERG, Augustin MAYER, Freiherr von] [1612-1688].
Voyage En Moscovie D'Un Ambassadeur, Conseiller de la chambre Impériale, Envoyé par L'Empereur Léopold Au Czar Alexis Mihalowics, Grand Duc de Moscovie.
Leyden: Friderik Harring, 1688..
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., 381. woodcut title vignette & initials. contemporary calf, gilt back (light wear to spine ends). First Edition of the French Translation (originally published in Latin in c1668). The author, a German diplomat, was sent as an envoy by the Emperor Leopold I to the Court of Czar Alexei Michaelovitch in 1661 to re-establish peace between Poland and Russia. Mayerberg, together with his colleague Calvucci and seventeen attendants, experienced great difficulty in obtaining entry into the country. Once there, they were prevented from all external communication, finally being allowed to return to Vienna in March of 1663. Mayerberg's account of his experiences contains much useful information on seventeenth century Russian manners and customs. The section on Russian laws is omitted in this edition. Brunet III 1557. Graesse IV 456.
$1153 USD Book Number: REYya[ME6 Order / Enquire
MIRONOV, Boris.
The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700-1917. Edited by Gregory L.Freeze.
London & New York: Routledge, [2012]..
8vo. pp. xxxii, 668, [1]ad. biblio. index. bds. Fine copy. First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: dola2699 Order / Enquire
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