Helsinki: Société de literature finnoise, 1882. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Small tape repair to head of spine; else about very good. A history of the Finnish nationalist movement during the relatively liberal reign of Alexander II over the Grand Duchy of Finland, written by..... More

XXIII, 403 pp. history of the French school of pharmacology from its beginnings under royal patronage to the beginning of the 20th century, including its courses of instruction, professors, its renowned gardens, buildings and adminstrative organization, bibliographic notes, facsimiles and plans in text, 26 plates of views of the school..... More

[Petrograd]: Partiia Sotsialistov-Revolutsionerov, 1921. Octavo (19 × 13.6 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 18, [1] pp. Tear to lower front corner, else very good. Rare, apparently unrecorded, and illicitly published pamphlet, most likely issued by the Central Bureau of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. The SR Party also issued a...... More

[Mogilev]: V Polevoi Tipografii Glavnogo Shtaba 1-i Armii, 1819. Octavo (17.7 × 11.1 cm). Contemporary patterned calf; all edges gilt; [3], 75, [2], XII pp. Three charts and forms on two folded leaves. Binding rubbed; small private owner labels to front pastedown; else about very good. Second edition of a...... More

Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More

2 vols. in 1, 365 pp. commentary on ten works from late 15th century France, including translations of some, bibliographies, index, text illustrations; 309 pp. facsimiles of the ten works, including Molinet, Temple de Mars, Pfettisheim, Guerres de Bourgogne, Traité d'Arras and De La Marche, Le Chevalier Délibéré, illustrations from..... More

Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Ogni", 1917. First edition. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 108, [4] pp. of advertisements. A fine copy. Early edition of this work about World War I by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. Folio (35.5 × 26 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 125, [1] pp. Illustrations, charts, and graphs throughout. Wrapper edges chipped along the perimeter; more significant wear to spine extremities; light toning due to stock; owner signature to title; still good or better. An album of architectural plans..... More

Geneva: Izdanie G. A. Kuklina, 1903. 12mo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 100, [4] pp. Hoover Institute duplicate stamp to wrapper. Publisher’s catalog to wrappers and inside leaf. Wrapper lightly discolored; wrapper edges chipped; frequent underlining in pencil throughout, still good or better. This concise overview of..... More

Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo., 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 48, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Wrappers evenly toned; spine extremities lightly frayed. Still about very good. An early post-revolutionary attempt at creating a “Soviet Pushkin,” this collection of poems was edited by one of the founders..... More

215 pp. text of the first English edition of the letters and memoirs of a group of sixteen French army men deported to Guiana following the failed coup d'etat of September 4, 1797, with descriptions of events including escaping from prison, death in exile, and memoirs of the two who..... More

Berlin: Parabola, [1936]. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5). Modern red quarter-leather binding over five raised bands, with gilt title to spine, with original printed wrappers preserved; 311, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Signed and inscribed by the author to Vera Nikolaevna and Ivan Aleksandrovich (Alekseevich) Bunin, “In memory of..... More

Unpag. (4 pp.) text and list, 42 plates of color reproductions of historic maps and prints of views, landmarks and events of the cities and towns of Provence, some folding. Folio. Box portfolio (box slightly water stained and corners worn). N.p. (Editions Hier et Demain) 1971. More