Highlights 09-Feb-2012
 | RECOLLECTIONS ON POLANDBEAUJEU, Chevalier de [= François Paulin DALAIRAC].Memoires du Chevalier de Beaujeu. Contenant ses divers voyages, tant en Pologne, en Allemagne, qu'en Hongrie...Amsterdam, heirs of Antoine Schelte, 1700. With: (2) [LACERDA, Fernando Correa de (author) and Michel BLOUIN DE LA PIQUETIERRE (translator)]. Relation des troubles arrivez dans la cour de Portugal en l'année 1667. & en l'année 1668. Amsterdam, "suivant la copie" [= A Wolfgang?], 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
| |||
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF RUSSIA AND POLAND[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius].Respublica Moscoviæ et urbes. Accedunt quaedam latine nunquam antehac edita.Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1630. 24mo. With engraved title-page by Crispijn de Passe. Modern half vellum. Full description »
| ||||
THE TURKISH WARS OF 1683-1686[CHIARELLO, Giambattista].Historia degl' avenimenti dell' armi imperiali contro a' ribelli, et ottomani, confederationi, e trattati seguiti frà le potenze di Cesare, Polonia, Venetia, e Moscovia.Venice, Steffano Curti, 1687. 4to. With an engraved title-vignette, 6 folding engraved plates and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary Italian half vellum. Full description »
| ||||
| RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE EMPIRE OF POLAND AND THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH FULSTIN, Johannes Herbertus von.Statuta regni Poloniae in ordinem alphabeti digesta.Gdansk and Frankfurt, Balthasar Andreas and Gottfried Tambach, 1620. Folio. With the engraved coat of arms of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth on the title-page. 19th-century half calf. Full description »
| ||||
 | VERY RARE ISSUE OF ACCOUNT ON DUTCH EMBASSY TO RUSSIA IN 1615-1616GOETEERIS, Anthonis.Journael vande legatie ghedaen in de jaren 1615. ende 1616.The Hague, Henricus Hondius, 1640. Oblong 4to (14 x 19 cm). With an engraved title, 4 numbered engraved double-page plates, and 19 full-page plates in the text, all designed and probably also engraved by Goeteeris himself. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Full description »
| |||
 | FABLES FOR THE SON OF CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA[LA FERMIERE].Fables et Contes, dediés à Son Altesse Imperiale Monseigneur Le Grand Duc de Toutes les Russies, &c.&c.Paris, Lacombe, 1775. 8vo. With small woodcut vignette on title. Contemporary half morocco. Full description »
| |||
 | RARE FRENCH MANUAL TO LEARN RUSSIANLANGUEN, Jacques.Petit manuel Russe à l'usage des étrangers.St. Petersburg, Senat for N. Worobieuffl, 1819. 8vo. Bound in a later green buckram, original orange painted wrappers preserved. Full description »
| |||
 | HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHERN WARLIMIERS, Henry Philippe de.Histoire de Suede sous le regne de Charles XII.Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesberge, 1721. 6 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece to volume I, printed title-page in red and black to each volume, in total 2 folding maps and 95 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled calf. Full description »
| |||
THE LIFE OF STANISLAUS I, KING OF POLAND[LONG, Isaac le].Het aanmerkenswaardige leven en bedryf van Stanislaus Leszinsky, koning van Polen.Amsterdam, Gerrit de Groot, 1738. 8vo. 2 volumes. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Stanislaus Leszinsky in each volume, and with engraved pastoral view with wind-mills on the title-pages to each volume. Contemporary wrappers. Full description »
| ||||
 | ST. PETERSBURG POCKET GUIDEMALO, Charles.St. Petersbourg. Les capitales de l' Europe. Promenades pittoresques.Paris, Marcilly and Didot, [1829]. 12mo. With a hand-coloured engraved view of St. Petersburg. Contemporary white boards. Full description »
| |||
 | BEAUTIFUL MANUSCRIPT OF ENTOMOLOGICAL FAUNA OF ESTONIA AND LIVONIA FROM THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDER I OF RUSSIA [MANUSCRIPT - ENTOMOLOGY - BALTIC]. [DRÜMPELMANN, Ernst Wilhelm (attributed to)].Sammlung Lief- und Ehstlands Insecten. Erste und zweite Klasse.With: Sammlung Lief- und Ehstlands Insekten. Vierte fünfte sechste und siebente Klasse. [Livonia, between 1794-1802]. 2 volumes (of 3). Royal 4to (29.1 x 23.6 & 28.1 x 25.3 cm). Manuscript on paper (mostly laid paper with watermark of Jan Kool and wove paper of J. Whatman, both nearly all dated 1794) . With 2 calligraphic manuscript title-pages on a watercolour cartouche decorated with floral garlands, and over 500 watercolour drawings of insect on 39 leaves (with tissue guards and smaller leaves with names in German and Latin). Contemporary (matching) silk boards, with small vignette on the front boards and gilt edges; probably from the library of czar Alexander I of Russia. Full description »
| |||
 | WEST GALICIA IN FULL DETAIL[MAP - POLAND - WEST GALICIA]. HELDENSFELD, Anton Mayer von.Carte von West-Gallizien:...[Vienna], Generalquartiermeisterstaab, 1808. Engraved map in 12 numbered sheets pasted on linen, each in 10 parts, engraved by Hieronimus Benedicti. Each sheet 45.5 x 68 cm. In contemporary marbled board slipcase. Full description »
| |||
 | EARLY FRENCH WORK ON TRADE IN RUSSIA WITH REMARKABLE EARLY MAP OF ALASKA [MARBAULT, Pierre].Essai sur le commerce de Russie, avec l' histoire de ses découvertes.Amsterdam, 1777. 12mo. With a large engraved folding map (40.5 x 54.5 cm) of the discoveries of the Russians in the area of Kamchatka and Alaska, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Brown half calf. Full description »
| |||
 | FRENCH GENERAL'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH AN ITALIAN LADY[MEYER].Lettres familieres sur la Carinthie et la Stirie, adressées a madame Bianchi, de Bologne. Par un officier général Français, prisonnier de guerre en Autriche. 1799.Leoben and Paris, Prault, an IX [=1800]. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title. Contemporary green half calf. Full description »
| |||
 | VOYAGE OF A RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR[MEYERBERG, Augustin MAYER, Freiherr von].Voyage en Moscovie d'un ambassadeur,... envoyé par l'empereur Leopold au Czar Alexis Mihalowics, Grand Duc de Moscovie.Leiden, Frederik Haaring, 1688. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary calf. Full description »
|
