82 2664 Russia Castéra J 
= Cat. (...) des Russica C189.
82 2665 Russia Clerc N G le 
82 2665 Russia Clerc N G le 
82 2665 Russia Clerc N G le 
82 2665 Russia Clerc N G le 
82 2665 Russia Clerc N G le 
- Without the atlas vol. Lacks the map of the Russian Empire (usually included in the Atlas); occas. sl. foxed/ browned (incl. plates). All vols. spine-ends worn/ dam.; upper joint splitting.
= Cat. (...) des Russica L432; Cohen/ De Ricci p.613. Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc served as a military physician in the Russian army from 1769 to 1777. His magnum opus on Russia consists of 3 parts on ancient and 3 parts on modern Russian history.
82 2666 Russia Khruschev N 
- Wrappers sunned/ faded along spine and upper margin backwr.; numb. stamp "3162" on frontwr.
= The first printed edition of Nikita Khruschev's famous "secret" speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union in March 1956, in which he denounced Stalin's cult of personality and abuse of power. This Polish translation was the only version that circulated in the eastern block during the cold war (the text was not published in Russian until 1989). The first of two issues, with various interjections describing reactions from the audience (applause, mumbling etc.). Very important piece of cold war history. SEE ILLUSTRATON PLATE LVI.
82/2667 Russia Otchet Imperatorskago Rossijskago Istoricheskago Muzeia imeni Imperatora Aleksandra III v Moskve za XXV let 1883 1908 
82/2667 Russia Otchet Imperatorskago Rossijskago Istoricheskago Muzeia imeni Imperatora Aleksandra III v Moskve za XXV let 1883 1908 
- The plates loose and 1x w. closed tear; trifle foxed and yellowed. Backwr. restored.
= Report of the Russian State Historical Museum over 1883-1908.
Istoricheskaya zapiska o deyatel'nosti Imperatorskago Moskovskago Arkheologicheskago Obschestva za pervye 25 let suschetstvovania. Ibid., idem, 1890, 2 parts in 1 vol., (4),121,(1); (2),305,(1)p., photo-engr. portrait, 2 plates, orig. wr., 4to.
- Backstrip worn.
= Historical notes on the activities of the Moscow Archaeological Society in the first 25 years of its existence.
82 2668 Scandinavia Du Chaillu P B 
- Lacks the map. Spine-ends sl. worn.
AND 1 other: W.W. THOMAS JR., Sweden and the Swedes (Chicago/ New York, 1893, fold. col. map (loose), plates, ills., orig. gilt pict. cl.).
82 2669 Slavery Hardy J 
82 2669 Slavery Hardy J 
- Lacks first free endpaper; stamp on htitle; preface and final textlvs. misbound. Extremities sl. rubbed.
= Rare, no copy traced on the market. Collection of stories and examples of moral virtues and noble deeds performed by black individuals, compiled from the accounts of missionaries and explorers (first ed. Paris, 1844). Jean Hardy was a missionary in French Guiana and director of the Séminaire du Saint-Esprit (training missionaries for the French colonies). He seems to have been an early advocate of black emancipation and also wrote Liberté et travail (1838), in which he discusses methods to abolish slavery without abolishing labour. On the purpose of the present work, the preface (p.X) says: "Daigne le Seigneur bénir cet ouvrage, que nous avons fait dans le but unique d'être utile à nos colonies, et de contribuer au bonheur des Noirs nos frères en leur offrant des exemples propres à leur inspirer l'amour de la vertu; car si le mauvais exemple communique avec une effrayante rapidité les impressions funestes qui bientôt corrompent l'esprit et flétrissent le cœur, le bon exemple, au contraire, porte à la vertu, affermit dans le bien, et contribue efficacement à notre bonheur présent et futur." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
82 2670 Socialism and communism Luxemburg R 
82 2670 Socialism and communism Luxemburg R 
= First Russian translation of Sozialreform oder Revolution? Cf. Stammhammer III, p.212-213 (ed. Leipsic, 1899).
Kollontai, A. Kak boryutsya rabonitsy za svoi prava (How female workers fight for their rights). Moscow, All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets, 1919, 28p. (incl. wr.), orig. wr.
- Spine splitting; wr. dustsoiled and frayed.
82 2671 Socialism and communism Marx K 
82 2671 Socialism and communism Marx K 
- Vol. 1 w. owner's entry on first blank; 2 lvs. loose; contents otherwise fine. Bindings sl. worn along extremities; 2x top of spine dam.
= PMM 359; Stammhammer I, p.145; Palgrave III, p.367-383. "Only the first volume of Marx's magnum opus appeared in his lifetime, though in a letter to his friend Dr Kugelmann in the autumn of 1866, when he was working over the manuscript, he described a four-book three-volume work on lines identical with those edited after his death by Friedrich Engels." (PMM). The 1st vol. was published in 1866, the 2nd in 1885 and the 3rd in 1894, and the final 4th part was published from Marx's extensive notes by Karl Kautsch and incorporated in his work Theorien über den Mehrwert (1905-1910).
82 2672 Socialism and communism Zinowjew G and Lenin N = V I Lenin 
- A few scattered stamps; title-p. reattached. = Zaleski 3382; Kerssemakers 8590.
82 2673 South Africa Leyds W J 
- Lacks the "Eerste verzameling". Frontcover of the first vol. of "Derde verzameling" sl. soiled.
= Two loosely inserted letterpress presentation cards.(1x w. closed tear).
82 2674 South Africa Moffat R 
- The maps and all plates incl. frontisp. and title w. "Roberton Library" in pen and ink; sl. yellowed and fngersoiled. Binding sl rubbed.
= Robert Moffat was David Livingstone's father in law. Howgego II, M50 (extensively on Moffat's wide-ranging activities); Mendelssohn II, p.29: "(...) The volume gives a valuable account of mission work among the Bechuanas, with notes on the customs of the natives, and a description of the earlier travels of the author and some information is afforded respecting the reformed savage Namaqua chief "Africaner". The appearance in Cape Town of this convert was the cause of much wonder and astonishment, his arrival having been awaited with considerable scepticism by Lord Charles Somerset, who was much struck with this example of the results of missionary enterprise, and who "expressed his pleasure at seeing thus before him one who had been the scourge of the country and the terror of the border colonists." (...)".
82 2675 South America Depons F 
82 2675 South America Depons F 
- Lacks the folding plan of Port de la Goayre; all vols. waterstained (first vol. the worst); (sl.) foxed. Spine-ends dam.; covers worn along extremities. Sold w.a.f.
= Palau 70507; Sabin 19641. A description of Venezuela by François Depons (1751-1812), an agent/ correspondent for the French government.
82 2676 Spain Roberts D 
82 2676 Spain Roberts D 
- Yellowed; (sl.) foxed; bookblock nearly broken. Binding w. minor imperfections.
= Abbey, Travel 152. Roberts' first published series of views. "[Roberts] was like a kind of grey mirror; he gave the greatness and richness of things, and such height and space, and standing of wall and rock, as one saw to be true (...) one imagined serenely and joyfully, from the old drawings, the splendour of the aisles of Seville or the strength of the towers of Granada, and forgot oneself, for a time." (Abbey, quoting John Ruskin). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
82 2677 Spain Storm de Grave A J P 
82 2677 Spain Storm de Grave A J P 
- Lacks the 4 plates; bookblock loose and broken; partly waterst.; modern owner's entry in pen and ink on title. Binding rubbed and sl. worn. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare. Not in Tiele, Landwehr, Foulché-Delbosc and Pohler. S.A. Vosters, Spanje in de Ned. litt. p.50: "in zekere zin de eerste (...) oorspronkelijk in het Nederlands gestelde reisbeschrijving [over Spanje]". Entertaining memoirs of a Dutch officer serving with the French general Leval during the 1808-1809 suppression of the Spanish revolt against the rule of Bonaparte's brother Joseph. Storm de Grave describes in considerable detail Spanish everyday life: the shops, the food, the wine, the women, Spanish music, horses, dogs, tobacco etc.
82 2678 Surinam Benoit P J 
82 2678 Surinam Benoit P J 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed. A good/ fine copy.
= Sabin 4737; Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 0580a; Kolfin p.61-69 and passim. "Benoit bezocht Suriname waarschijnlijk in 1830-1831, uit louter reislust en nieuwsgierigheid. Hij was een buitenstaander op doorreis, zonder financiële belangen in Suriname. In die hoedanigheid kon hij, mede onder invloed van de biedermeier-mode, met een licht ironische blik kijken naar de Surinaamse samenleving van toen. (...) Het boek dankt zijn befaamdheid aan die steendrukken. Voyage à Surinam is dan ook bedoeld als plaatwerk, de tekst is ondergeschikt aan de afbeeldingen. (...) Desalniettemin is de tekst zeer interessant omdat daaruit blijkt dat Benoit het beeld van Stedman wilde corrigeren. Benoit verklaarde zich een tegenstander van de slavenhandel, die hij "de stuitende handel in mensenvlees" noemde. Abolitionist was hij echter niet, in tegendeel. Hij pleitte echter wel voor een humane behandeling van de slaven, meer in het belang van de planters zelf dan omwille van de menselijkheid. (...) Hij legde een uitgesproken etnografische interesse aan de dag. Benoit was niet geïnteresseerd in het straffen van slaven of in typische slavenarbeid als veld- of molenwerk, maar in een aantal aspecten van het dagelijks leven van de bevolking in Suriname." (Kolfin). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
82 2679 Surinam Bruijning C F A and Voorhoeve J ed 
82 2680 Surinam Kom A de 
- Endpapers trifle browned. A few sm. brown stains on frontcover.
= First German language edition of this important essay for the self-awareness of the Surinam people in the Netherlands.
AND 1 other ed. of the same (Zürich, Ring Verlag, 1936).
82 2681 Surinam Staehelin F 
- Spine of vol. III/ 1 broken; III/ 2 sl. dampstained along spine and backstrip sm. dam. spot.
= With autograph dedication on title-p. Rare complete set, consisting of the following parts: I; II/ 1, 2 and 3; III/ 1, 2 and 3. Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6385.
82 2682 Surinam Stedman J G 
= Reprint of this work (originally published 1796) reproducing all the maps and plates. With a socio-cultural introduction and extensive notes on the historical and literary allusions as well as on the flora and fauna of Surinam by R.A.J. van Lier.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's entry on first free endpaper; partly waterst. in upper margin. Edges binding trifle rubbed.