Europe / Russia

IDES, Evert Ysbrants. Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...
Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van t magtig keizerryk China ...
Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine. [30], 243, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

JAZYKOV, Aleksandr Petrovich. Î Ðóññêîìú ãîñóäàπñòâåííîìú öâѣòѣ [O russkom gosudarstvennom tsvietie].
Saint Petersburg, Publishing house of H.I.M. Own Chancery, 1858. 8vo. With a chromolithographed frontispiece showing the old and new Russian flag plus ten flags of German states, with highlights in gold. Contemporary green paper wrappers. 37, [1 blank] pp. Full description

KOTZEBUE, August von (attributed). Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen na de bataille by Leipzig, van den 16. Tot den 19. October 1813. Een pendant tot den Aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1814. 8vo.Original publisher's printed wrapper. 39 pp. Full description

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Nieuwe ontdekkingsreize rondom de wereld, in de jaren 1823, 24, 25 en 26 ondernomen door den ridder Otto von Kotzebue, scheepsbevelhebber in Russisch-Keizerlijke dienst.
Haarlem, widow of Adriaan Loosjes, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece in each volume, and 3 folding engraved maps. Contemporary half cloth. VII, [1], 254; [6], 274 pp. Full description

LABAUME, Eugene. Relação completa da campanha da Russia em 1812.
Lisbon, widow of Neves and sons, 1818. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates (ca. 26 x 41 and 24 x 33.5 cm). Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], IV, 237, [1]; 234 pp. Full description

LANGUEN, Jacques. Petit manuel Russe à l'usage des étrangers. Ouvrage propre à faciliter l'intelligence de la langue russe; dans leguel les mots russes sont réprésentés avec leur prononciation figurée en caractèrs français et prosodiée.
St. Petersburg, Senat for N. Worobieuffl, 1819. 8vo. Bound in a later green buckram with gilt spine; with the original orange painted wrappers preserved. [4], 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

LECOINTE DE LAVEAU, Georges. Guide du voyageur à Moscou, contenant ce que cette capitale offre de curieux et d'intéressant...
Moscow, August Semen, 1824. 8vo. With lithographed frontispiece, 7 lithographed plates, 4 folding tables, and several tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled, half purple sheepskin, spine faded to brown, marbled sides and edges. [4], VI, 11-459, [1] pp. Full description

[LETTERS - DIPLOMATIC]. [Official contemporary copies of incoming diplomatic correspondence to the Dutch government in The Hague from Dutch ambassadors, envoys, diplomatic residents and others in Vienna, Graz, Schaffhausen, Turin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dresden, Regensburg, Warsaw, Grodno, Maastricht, The Hague, Brussels and Ostend].
[The Hague], letters dated 26 January-17 December 1715 and 7 November 1725-22 November 1729. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). 96 letters clearly written in dark brown ink on paper, 84 in Dutch and 12 in French, mostly in a Latin hand (the Dutch ones from 1715 in a semi-gothic hand). Loose leaves in a modern portfolio. [96] letters ([138] written pp. on [97] ll.). Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. TROMP, C.H. [Collection of an illustrated manuscript diary, and travel journals, including some views and photographs of Russia and Germany].
[The Netherlands, 1824-1911]. Manuscript on paper in Dutch. Preserved in a card-board box (27 x 23.5 x 7 cm), covered with marbled paper. Full description

OBOLENSKY, Prince Yevgeny Petrovich; Prince Augustin GALITZIN (transl). Souvenirs d'un exilé en Sibérie.
Leipzig, Franck'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1862. 8vo. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [2], 88, [16]. Full description