- Etching by Renouard loose. Corners and spine-ends sl. worn.
= Published on occasion of the visit by Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra to France in 1896.
Le Tsar et la Tsarine en France. Hommage au Tsar. Preface F. Coppée. Paris, Anc. Maison Quantin, n.d. (±1900), 230,(6)p., num. (col.) plates and ills., orig. gilt cl., t.e.g.
- Contents loosening. Frontcover sl. stained; corners and spine-ends sl. worn.
= Contains very fine plates of the coat of arms of the Soviet Union and (at that time) 16 Union Republics, including the Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956). Probably published as a gift album for foreign officials etc.
- Each vol. w. owner's entry on title-p. A very fine set.
= Newspaper from the Ukhtpechlag (Ukhtinsko-Pechorskij ispravitel'no-trudovoi Lager'), a subdivision of the Gulag labour camp structure, located near Ukhta (Komi Republic). "Ne podlezhit rasprostraneniu za predelami lagerya" (not to be distributed outside the camp grounds).
- Stamp on htitle. Sm. annots. on frontwr.
Nizhegorodskij Kraj. Materialy k pervomu kraevomu syezdu Sovetov R.K. i K.D. (Nizhnyj Novgorod region. Reports for the first regional congress of Soviets). Ibid., Nizhegorodskoi Orgkomitet, 1929, 105,(1)p., orig., large 8vo. Stalin, J. Itogi pervoi Pyatiletki (The results of the first Five Year Plan). Moscow, Partijnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1933, 76,(3)p., frontisp. portrait, orig. wr. - AND 2 others similar, i.a. A. SOLOVYEV, Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsia. Shest' let bor'by (Kharkov, 1923, orig. wr.).
- Torn/ dam. and brittle at intersection of folds (within illustration).
= Special edition of the Pravda state newspaper devoted to the 50th anniversary of Karl Marx' death, with a photomontage by Gustav Klucis on the frontpage, incorporating the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, surrounded by workers and revolutionaries. After Klucis was executed as an "enemy of the people" in 1938, most remaining copies of the issue were destroyed. Gaßner/ Nachtigäller V, 133.
- Sl. foxed; hinges strengthened. Spine-ends worn. = Cf. Cat. (...) des Russica 403.
- Usual defects, not collated.
= I.a. SMEKHACH, year 4, no.13 (1926, ills. by i.a. V. LEBEDEV, on the frontwr. a portrait of Trotsky reading a copy of the same periodical); CHERVONIJ KLICH, no.7 (1933, Ukrainian text); GIZH (1924, organ of the State Institute of Journalism. With cover design by V. DOBROKLONSKY) and issues of ISKRY NAUKI, KRASNAYA PANORAMA, ZHENSKIJ ZHURNAL, PIONER and STROITEL'STVO MOSKVY.
- Unopened copy. Wr. trifle spotted. = Somewhat modernist wrapper design. Rare.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. marks in blank margin in blue pencil. Otherwise fine.
= The very rare second edition of Stirner's main work. "Both the form and content of Stirners major work are disconcerting. He challenges his readers expectations about how political and philosophical argument should be conducted, and shakes their confidence in the moral and political superiority of contemporary civilisation. Stirner provides a sweeping attack on the modern world as increasingly dominated by "religious" modes of thought and oppressive social institutions, together with a much briefer sketch of a radical "egoistic" alternative in which individual autonomy might flourish. The historical impact of The Ego and Its Own is difficult to assess, but Stirners work can be said: to have had an immediate and destructive impact on the left-Hegelian movement; to have played an important role in the intellectual development of Karl Marx (1818-1883); and to have subsequently influenced the political tradition of individualist anarchism." (quoted from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/).
- Binding sl. soiled and worn; corners showing. = Mendelssohn I, p.65.
Hamilton, J.A. The Siege of Mafeking. Ibid., Methuen & Co., 1900, X,(2),332,45(publ. cat.)p., 2 plans (1x fold.), 15 plates, orig. giltlettered cl.
= Mendelssohn I, p.679.
AND 4 others, i.a. P. ALLEN, Mafeking Day. A snap-shot from real life (ibid., n.d., orig. pict. cl.) and F.D. BAILLIE, Mafeking. A Diary of the Siege (Westminster, 1900, ills., orig. (heavily stained) cl.).
- Chemise dustsoiled and vaguely waterst. = No. 6 and 7 titled "De Guerilla Oorlog in Zuid-Afrika".
Penning, L. De Oorlog in Zuid-Afrika. De Strijd tusschen Engeland en de verbonden Boeren-Republieken Transvaal en Oranje-Vrijstaat, in zijn verloop geschetst. Rott., D.A. Daamen, 1899-1901, 3 vols. w. continuous pagination, (2),1292,(4)p., num. (full-p.) ills., orig. unif. gilt and pict. cl.
- New endpapers; bookblocks shaken. Bindings sl. worn. = Mendelssohn II, p.150.
AND 3 others, incl. a duplicate of vol. 3 of the 2nd work.
- Owner's entry on first leaf. Wrs. sl. soiled; spine-ends trifle worn.
= Rare propaganda magazine on resistance against the military coup that led to the Spanish Civil War.
AND 2 others on the same subject, i.a. one similar publ. by the same: Espana? (ibid., ±1938, richly illustrated, orig. photomontage wr., obl. 4to).
- First title sl. cramped along central fold; the plan (nearly) torn in halves along fold; a few other plates partly torn on fold; occas. sl. yellowed. Vellum sl. soiled and stained.
= Contains fine views of i.a. Segovia, Madrid, Toledo, Santiago and Aranjuez.
- All but 3 vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown (all fine).
- Second vol. final 4 textlvs. foxed/ soiled and margins strengthened; both vols. bookplate/ owner's entry on upper pastedown and first blank. Backstrip sunned.
AND 1 other: K. SCHIB, Geschichte der Stadt Schaffhausen (ibid., 1945, plates, orig. gilt cl., 4to).
- Lacks the plans of Basle and Venice; a few leaves loose. Corners worn.
- One part of the large map of Paris w. tear along fold; part of first free endpaper cut off; stamp on first page, edges browned; occas. sl. foxed. Joints and spine-ends (sl.) rubbed; covers sl. wrinkled.
= Hinrichsen D329.
- Two large fold. maps w. sm. tear in inner margin. Good copy. = Hinrichsen D460.