An important contemporary description of the developments of Russia under Peter the Great, with an early plan of the new city of St Petersburg.Web...

Unique manuscript from the library of Tsar Alexander II. A unique album of historical importance, with Imperial provenance, entirely in manuscript,...

'A captivating and heartfelt memoir from at true music afficionado.'This is not a 'conventional' diplomatic memoir about political 'revelations', ...

Presentation copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'To Lieut. Coffman / with my sincere regards- / Wm. S. Graves / Major Gen'l, U.S. Army Retired...

The scarce first edition of Filosofiia Sovobody [The Philosophy of Freedom], one of Berdiaev's earliest works. It serves as a significant key to p...

A fine example of a very scarce early 19th-century account of the origin and history of Ukrainian Cossacks. Karr's work covers the building of for...

Presentation copy inscribed by Berlin to his indexer. A collection of Berlin's tributes to great figures of the 20th century, including Churchill, ...

Signed by Nathan Mayer Rothschild & Joseph Cohen. Russian Empire Five Percent Annuity Bond Paid in London.Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), ...

A fine example of pre-revolutionary publishing. A fine example of the beautifully illustrated work by Granstrem (1843-1918), Russian writer and aut...

The first edition . The rare first edition of Trotsky's My Life: An Attempt at an autobiography, written in the first year of his exile in Turkey. ...

First edition in French of the first volume of Das Kapital. This is the first issue with the publisher Lachâtre's imprint. The book was published ...

Memoir of the proceedings of the Liverpool Commission charged with the disposition of the Mansion-House Relief Fund in aid of the Jewish refugees,...

Inscribed by the author to 'the first female orthodox theologian'. Presentation copy to Mirra Lot-Borodina, a fellow émigré and pioneer in the stud...

Association copy inscribed to Berdiaev. Inscribed from the author to existential philosopher Berdiaev and profusely annotated in pencil. Konstantin...

Magnetite mining in the Urals . an uncommon album of the magnetite mining industry in the Urals in the original portfolio. Iron ore was discovered ...

a 'happy new year' from Bakst to suffragist and author of The Story of a Modern Woman. This is a wonderfully personal letter from one of the most ...

Of the utmost rarity . Albrecht Adam (1786-1862) was the official artist of Napoleon's Grand Armée on its Moscow campaign of 1812. He travelled wit...

Historical work on the life of Galileo Galilei by Margarita Vladimirovna Rokotovna (1872 - 1959) a popular Soviet children's author. She published...

Internally fresh example of the first edition of this richly illustrated work, published again in 1916 and 1917. It details and illustrates a mili...

Uncommon work by an eminent Russian chemist. A detailed and systematic description of the mineral springs of the Russian Empire, along with a bibl...