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8°, 17 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (binding lightly stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear cover, otherwise in a good condition).

[1917. Russia. 1923. / Russia. No Fairytale, No Legend, But a Reality]   Large 4°. 31 pp. with illustrations in black and red, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (paper extremely fragile with tiny chips and tears in margins, wrappers detached, sporadic first and last leaved loose, minor age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).

[Borʹba russkoj demokratіi protiv bolʹševikov. Zapiski očevidca i učastnika sverženіja bolʹševistskoj vlasti na Volgi i v Sibiri / The Struggle of Russian Democracy against the Bolsheviks: Notes of an Eyewitness and participant in the overthrow of the Bolshevik authorities on the Volga and in Siberia]   A contemporary first-hand account on the battles with the Red Army on the Volga…

An unusual work by a Ukrainian medical doctor Boris Tschlenoff, based in Switzerland, discusses the future of Russia, with a hope it will develop in a democratic federal republic. 8°, 24 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (lacking original wrappers, slightly age-toned, old hand-written numbers on the inner side of the boards, otherwise in a good condition).

  Extremely rare – a fine star chart depicting Hydra, Felis, Sextens and other constellations with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.

  Extremely rare – the star chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.

  An uncommon first separately published translation of poems by Slovenian poet France Prešeren to Russian was printed in Moscow in 1901.

Bulletin of the Russian Trade Committee in Constantinople.   8°. 32 pp. with two interleaved charts and one folding plate, [12 pp.] advertisements, original brown wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers with small chips and tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A scarce illustrated pamphlet was published during WWII by the Russian War Relief in New York to raise money for the supplies to fight against Nazi Germany on Russian soil. With articles written by famous names such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Constantin Simonov.

  A rare broadside map depicting the Battle of Chesma in Turkey and Lemnos in Greece (1770), fought during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).