A selection of documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman. Pp. x+316(last blank), folding frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding), references, index; demy 8vo; gilt lettered & decorated blue cloth, ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; The Hakluyt Society, London, 1975. Second..... More
Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840. Pp. xviii+196, 12 plates, glossary, notes, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, a little browned; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1983. More
Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840. Pp. xx+302, 16 plates, text maps, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1988. First edition. Pacific Maritime Studies Series, No. 7. *The second volume in a projected quartet on..... More
from the earliest period to the present time. Adapted for youth, schools, and families. Illustrated with a map, and plates from designs by J. Gilbert. Pp. 258(last blank)+[12](publisher's catalogue, dated 1854), engraved frontispiece, folding map, upper endpaper series advertisements; f'cap. 8vo; purple cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards..... More
The Tragic Tsar. Pp. 188, 8 plates, endpaper map printed in blue, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; half-title page faintly offset; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1973. First edition. More
Miscellaneous. No. 11 (1914). [Dual text, English & French, printed double column]. Pp. [ii]+60; med. 8vo; bound in later half navy morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt, purple cloth boards, the top edge of lower board slightly faded; marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Ronald Codrington on upper pastedown, the..... More
Pp. 336, 8 plates; small cr. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; name in ink at head of half-title page, the text block quite browned; Australasian Book Society, Melbourne, 1952. First edition, paperback. *Hardy's second full-length book; an account of his travels in the..... More
From the origins to the end of the 18th century. Translated from the Russian by James Hogarth. Pp. 288(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (some folding), the title page printed in brown & black; f'cap. folio; edges of boards slightly bumped; dust wrapper, the laminate creased..... More
With letters from Gen. Sir W. F. Williams, Major Teesdale, and the late Captain Thompson. Pp. xvi+368(last blank)+[4](advertisements), engraved frontispiece portrait and 1 plate with tissue guards, appendix, index; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, boards a trifle canted, edges lightly worn, the spine slightly soiled and..... More
Introduction, Epilogue and Notes by Robin Bruce Lockhart. Pp. xviii+280, frontispiece portrait plus 16 plates, full page facsimile, index; qr. dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial glazed papered boards; within dark blue card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2003. Folio 60/1131.*From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine..... More
Pp. 320, 16 plates, notes on sources, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards very slightly spotted; price-clipped dust wrapper, foxed, edges lightly worn and creased, with some splits from top edge into backstrip and a 2 cm. closed tear from top edge into front panel; some..... More
Translated by Peter Wiles and Len Ortzen. Pp. 496, 16 plates; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn and foxed, edges a trifle; endpapers and edges of the leaves foxed, bookseller's sticker on the upper pastedown; Arthur Barker, London, 1967. First edition in English. *The Soviet spy system in Europe..... More
Pp. 224, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, 1 full page map plus endpaper map, index; small cr. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Macmillan, London, 1983. First edition. More
Pp. xxvi+1100, 26 text maps (1 double page), 2 folding plus endpaper maps, selected bibliography, chronological table, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners slightly worn; some foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1964. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile..... More