Ukraine rare books

First edition; folio (34 x 22.5 cm); blank, half-title in Russian, 14 plates in black and white after Narbut (complete), printed on rag paper, rectos only; original blue wrappers, title printed in Russian in black, some minor wear and staining to wrappers but plates very fresh, restoration to spine, slight glue staining to gutter, a very good copy.

First edition; 4to (26 x 20 cm); 90pp., full page chromolithographs after Jury Wowk, text in German, minor staining to margins; original illustrated boards, floral patterned endpapers, wear to spine, a good copy.

First French edition, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); engraved frontispiece of Cossack soldiers, 94pp., numbering in ink to corner of each page; 19th century quarter green calf over marbled boards, flat spine gilt ruled, red morocco label with gilt title, a fine copy.

Second edition, 2 vols bound in one, 8vo, xvi, 519; viii, 513 pp., folding map (trimmed close), 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, lithograph plate, folding facsimile, later calf gilt, morocco label, a very good copy.

First edition, 8vo (21 x 14 cm), xii, 252 pp., 3 folding maps, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue, original fine ribbed green cloth gilt, spine faded, neat repairs to extremities, occasional light spotting and soiling, a good example.

Oblong folio (31.5 x 44 cm). Thirty-five gelatin silver prints (14.5 x 21 cm), including 10 views of Kyiv, 3 of Moscow, 3 of St. Petersburg, 3 of Tiflis and 2 of Odessa. Titles in ink on prints, yellow moiree silk paste downs. Half black morocco over pebble-grain cloth, spine in five compartments, traces of paper label to spine; rubbed, corners slightly bumped.