Paris: self-published, 1931. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 227 pp. Illustrations. Spine extremities lightly frayed; light wear to wrapper edges; still very good. First and only edition of the memoirs of Maria Nesterovich-Berg (1879-??), a White Russian émigré and one of the leaders of the “Union of..... More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i Kniga”, 1925. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 125, [3] pp. Light wear and soil to wrappers; a few nicks to spine; still good or better. The aim of this handbook is to convey the importance of reading within the Soviet education system..... More

St. Petersburg: XX Vek, 1902. Octavo (18.3 × 12.3 cm). Contemporary beige cloth; [4], 379 pp. Sixteen photographic portraits on separate leaves; numerous decorative head pieces and vignettes. Original wrappers perished; stamp of a non-existing lending library to title; else about very good. First and only edition of this sensationalist..... More

[New York]: 1907. Octavo (23 × 15.3 cm). Original side-stapled printed wrappers; 192 pp. About very good; some wear and fraying to spine. Scarce anonymously published brochure containing the radically anarchist program of Iakov Kirillovskii, who used the pseudonym Daniil Novomirskii. He was "the foremost anarcho-syndicalist in Russia before being..... More

Paris: Obshchestvo revnitelei Kubani, 1931. Octavo (24.7 × 18 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Traces of former binding to spine of one issue; holes from binding to both issues; slightly resized to binding; else about very good. Two issues (of the three published) of the highly..... More

Moscow: self-published, 1924-1925. Octavos (23 × 15 cm). Original paper wrappers; 21, [1] pp. and one plate; 15, [1] pp.; and 23, [1] pp. Text evenly toned due to paper stock; else very good copies. Count Iurii A. Olsuf’ev (1878-1938) was a scholar of ancient Russian art and iconography, as..... More

Paris: izd. Chasovoi, 1931. Octavo (18.5 × 13.5). Original printed wrappers; 170, [6] pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good. In protective mylar. Intended for White émigré military personel, the directory offers an overview of Russian imperial military history, lists the Russian army and naval organisatons operating abroad, their history, locations, and..... More

Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More

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: 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

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

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