Our Russian and Eastern European section gathers Western books on these regions (‘Rossica’ among others) as well as works in vernacular, including Russian and Polish. Other rare items related to Russia and Eastern Europe can be found in our map department, our photography section, as well as in the prints section. Many other valuable books and prints can be made available by request only, so please feel free to browse our website and to contact us in Russian, English or German with any questions you may have.
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Russian & Eastern European
Contact Bernard Shapero for more information about books relating to Russia & Eastern Europe at Shapero Rare Books.
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Landscape folio (31.3 x 41 cm). Half-title, title, [4] pp., table of contents with 2 lithographs, 12 lithograph plates all signed in the plate. Original printed wrappers; inscriptions on the front cover, small repairs. Preserved in a modern black folding box. An excellent example.
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Folio (37 x 28.5 cm). Decorated half-title printed in red and gold, portrait frontispiece protected by tissue guard, title, V, [2] pp., 88 photographic plates with captions in Russian and French, some original printed tissue guards, [1], 85 pp. Original pictorial wrappers bound in later red cloth, patterned endpapers, flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt.
£2,000 -
Photographic album (16.4 x 13 cm). 48 vintage photographs inserted in cards, 8 of them with contemporary hand-colour, under some photographs titles written in pencil. Contemporary ormolu mounted binding, front cover with fine Russian malachite panel, back cover and spine in purple velvet, ormolu clip, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers; malachite panel with areas of loss, cracks repaired, spine a bit rubbed.
£3,750
