Paris: Izdatel'stvo redaktsii gazety "Kazak", 1957-1959. Octavos (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 330 pp. (continuous pagination). Illustrated. Good to very good. A detailed illustrated history of the Cossack communities from antiquity until the Middle Ages and beyond written by Don Cossack and a historian of Cossack antiquity, Georgii..... More

London: Vol'naia Russkaia Tipografiia, 1861. Octavo (19 × 12.5 cm). Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt-tooled red leather spine label; original wrappers not preserved; XII, 413, III pp. A very good copy, with wide uncut margins in an attractive contemporary binding and with an important provenance. First part of the first..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1927. Octavo (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 163 pp. Light wear to wrappers; about very good. Uncommon volume reflecting the shift of bibliography from the sphere of personal collecting to a matter of key importance for the young Soviet state and its libraries, trade union..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Moskovskii rabochii, [1928]. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 186, [1] pp. Illustrations throughout, including two maps. Private ownership stamp and inscription in Russian to title; else good or better. Second edition of a historical and cultural overview of Iran, which provides the Soviet take on the..... More

Chicago: National Alliance of Czech Catholics, 1949. Octavo (26 × 14.5 cm). Publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers; 88, [1] pp. Small tear to wrapper; pencil note to title (gift of author); else very good. English translation of this anti-communist account of the 1948 takeover, which appeared in Czech the same year..... More

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennyi antireligioznyi muzei, byvshii Isaakievskii sobor, 1941. 12mo (14 × 10.3 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 10, [2] and [5] pp. of announcements and ads. Possibly lacking the first leaf. The pamphlet is an example of Soviet anti-religious propaganda, issued by the "State Anti-Religious Museum" established at what had..... More

Krakow: Naklad Towarzystwa Wydawnictw Ludowych, 1906. Octavo (21.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Henryk Uziembło; 160 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers; spine sun-tanned; discrete owner signature to title; overall very good. First edition thus. Polish translation of the famous Erfurt Program of 1891 of the SPD (Socialist..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1919. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 141, [1] pp. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; original spine strip lacking and sections of the text beginning to detach; text evenly toned; still good or better. First edition. This curious mix of the history and ethnography..... More

Berlin: Trowitzsch und Sohn, 1866. Octavo (19 × 10.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with brown paper spinestrip and title vignette; 16 pp. Paper evenly toned due to stock, else very good. Illegally published pamphlet urging Czech independence from Austro-Hungary. Published anonymously in Berlin during the Austro-Prussian War (1866), it was..... More

Paris: Tip. "Franko-Russkaia" Pechat', 1922. Octavo (19 cm). Original wrappers; 61 pp. Uncut and unopened copy; foxing to rear wrapper and top edge; ca. 4 cm. tear along edge of rear wrapper. Russian translation of a Polish pamphlet on the Russian role in declaring Poland's independence in 1917. The author..... More

Geneva: Izdanie soiuza russkikh sotsial’demokratov, 1901. Octavo (15.5 × 10.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched self-wrappers; 24 pp. Duplicate stamp of Hoover Institution to front wrapper. Light soil to rear wrappers; else very good. An early May Day brochure, which captures the development of the May 1st holiday in pre-revolutionary Russia..... More

New York: Časopis "Volné Listy" (Tisk L. Cimlera)., 1907. Octavo (23.5 × 15 cm). Original stapled printed wrappers; 40 pp. With a list of other publications by the publisher and a full-page advertisement for the Czech anarchist journal "Volné Listy". Tiny nick to front wrapper, else very good. The first..... More

[Frankfurt am Main]: 1814. Octavo (18.5 × 11.5 cm). Sewn brochure with ochre paper spine strip; 15 pp. Old shelf mark to title verso; else a very good copy. Scarce pamphlet reproducing the text of an appeal to the German people by Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1845-1813), one of the..... More