![Chto dali bol'sheviki narodu [What the Bolsheviks gave the people]. Partiia...](/pictures/thumb/P6721.jpg?v=1592500503)
[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
Petrograd: Izdanie Petrogradskogo komiteta partii sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov, 1917. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Wrapper lightly chipped else about very good. [Political Literacy for Post-Revolutionary Russia]. Scarce brochure that seeks to educate a literate, but not highly educated, audience about the program of the Socialist Revolutionary..... 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
![Bezgosudarstvennyi kommunizm i sindikalizm [Stateless communism and syndicalism]. Pereval, pseudonym](/pictures/thumb/P6688_1.jpg?v=1592500754)
[New York?]: Izdanie A. K., ca. 1919. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 32 pp. Stamp of Hoover Library to front wrapper. Small creases to wrapper edges; spine extremities frayed; else about very good. A rare publication of the Soiuz Russkikh Rabochikh (Union of Russian Workers in..... More
St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1770-1772. Small quartos (24.6 × 18.3 cm). Later polished calf with spine in six compartments and gilt titles; marbled endpapers; red edges; 460 and 438, a-e, 460 pp. (lacking pp. 461-763). Decorative initials, headpieces, and etched allegorical vignette with a small portrait of Peter..... More
Paris: B. Barthold (S. P. L'vov), 1910. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original green printed card wrappers; XVI, [3], 187, XVI, [1] pp. Frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers lightly discolored; spine rubbed and front wrapper nearly detached; internally very good or better, with the tipped-in errata sheet. First edition..... 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
![Dve linii revoliutsii [Two lines of the revolution].; Biblioteka grazhdanina [The citizen's...](/pictures/thumb/P5301_1.jpg?v=1592501223)
Petrograd: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Ogni", 1917. Octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 15, [1] pp. A fine copy. First brochure-form publication of an important essay by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's library" (Biblioteka grazhdanina). Plekhanov uses writings..... More
![O voine [On the war]. G. V. Plekhanov](/pictures/thumb/P5308_1.jpg?v=1592501223)
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
Geneva: Izdanie "Soiuza Russkikh Sotsial'demokratov", 1896. 12mo (15.3 × 10.5 cm). Original staple-stitched beige wrappers; 16 pp. Publisher's catalog to wrappers. Stamps of the Boris Nicolaevsky Collection (Hoover), with duplicate deaccession stamp. Very good, save for tear to lower right corner. А report presented by the Union of Russian Social..... More
XXIV, 104 pp. catalogue of 467 entries for manuscripts and letters by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, 17th century French clergyman, orator, monarchist and tutor to Louis XV, 14 plates of facsimiles. 4to. Wrpps. Paris (Emile-Paul Frères/Henri Darel) 1932. 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
![Stikhotvoreniia 1815—1836 godov [Verse 1815—1836]. Narodnaia biblioteka No. 124.; Narodnaia...](/pictures/thumb/P5571_1.jpg?v=1580499150)
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
![Stikhotvoreniia o svobode [Verse about freedom]. Narodnaia biblioteka No. 140. A. S. Pushkin, ed....](/pictures/thumb/P5494_1.jpg?v=1580499149)
Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo., 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 56, [1] pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. Focusing on Pushkin’s political poetry, this collection is an early post-revolutionary attempt at creating a “Soviet Pushkin.” This volume was edited by one of the founders of Russian Symbolism..... 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
Grodno: 1796. February 22, 1796. Original signed manuscript letter on single sheet of laid paper (ca. 36 x 25 cm), folded once vertically; 4 pp. Additional old fold lines; near fine. Nicholas Repnin was one of the foremost Imperial Russian statesmen of the eighteenth century, second in fame only to..... More
![Obshchina [The community]. Listy besed Vysokogo Obshchinnika Vostoka [Leaves of conversations of...](/pictures/thumb/50629_01.jpg?v=1590313088)
Ulan Bator, Mongolia: Mongol'skaia tipografiia, 1927. 12mo (15.3 × 12.5 cm). Original side-stitched red printed wrappers; [4], 284 pp. In recent red clipcase. Light overall wear; wrappers rebacked and rear wrapper replaced; small professional paper repairs; still a good copy of a fragile publication. Extremely rare first edition of Book..... 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
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoiuznoi Akademii arkhitektury, 1937. Quarto (35 × 26.5 cm). Maroon cloth boards; gilt title to front board; 159 pp. Five leaves of plates, including four in color and one folding leaf. Illustrated with over 200 additional drawings in the text. Boards discolored and lightly worn; else about very..... More
Petrograd: Biblioteka svobodnoi Rossii, [1917]. Octavos (20 × 12 cm). Original pink printed wrappers; 15, [1] and 16 pp. Very good; one volume uncut and unopened; the other with trace of a book distributor stamp and private inventory number to front wrapper. Two attractive popular pamphlets issued in the days..... More
1882. Kostroma: Tipo-litografiia A. Fal'k, 1882. Small quarto (23 × 15.6 cm). Contemporary pebbled boards; gilt title to front board; 98 pp. Two folding maps, partially in color. Spine recently re-backed; corners scuffed; faint Soviet bookstore stamps to rear pastedown; still about very good. Rare provincial imprint, which argues against..... More
Sandberg. 15 pp. introduction to a presentation of 16 plates (many printed in red and black) by the German draughtsman and caricaturist (1908-1991) showing politically charged themes based on Marx and Engels' treatise. Small folio. Text and plates loose as issued and housed in cloth portfolio, hinges torn. Berlin (Henscheverlag)..... More
147 pp. text on the development and construction of the Italian national motorway system, a great source of pride for Mussolini and his Fascist regime, including introductory text, indices of relevant locations and people, and 142 fine photographic plates showing roads, bridges, and other infrastructure both under construction and completed..... More