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The first and very influential Russian anthology for children, especially remarkable for Shishkov's original adaptation.
A fine example, in contemporary binding, of the third printing, the last of the 18th century. Dedicated to Princess Ekaterina Dashkova (1743-1810), a close friend of Catherine the Great, the first woman in the world to head a national academy of sciences, the first woman in Europe to hold a government office and the first female member of the American Philosophical Society.
The first edition of Campe's celebrated anthology for children came out in Russian in 1783 (Part I) and 1785 (Part 2).It was published by Dashkova's Academy of Sciences and was an instant bestseller, as it was the first Russian anthology of short literary texts intended specifically for children, just preceding the children's magazine Detskoe chtenie dlia serdtsa i razuma (1785-89) and the later Grech's Izbrannyia mesta iz russkikh sochinenii (1812). Campe's German Kleine Kinderbibliothek, taking 12 volumes… Read More

Fresh example of this richly illustrated work dedicated to the fifty-year jubilee of the judicial reform. It comprises memoirs of the people who were directly involved in the implementation of the reform by compiling judicial statutes and supervising their execution. In his work Koni (1844 - 1927), Russian jurist and judge, also included biographies of the most prominent pioneers of the reform, such as D.A. Rovinskij, M.E .Kovalevskij, D.N. Nabokov, I. Urusova and F.N. Plevako, many of whom he knew personally. ProvenanceAvenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a very large library of Russian works of all kinds).DescriptionQuarto (28.5 x 22 cm). [4], IV, 4, 296, 22, 2 pp., with 27 lithographed plates. Publisher's cloth; slightly rubbed.

Charming Russian émigré children's book, with hand-made block print cover and illustrated by the 10-y. old 'Zheniia' Kovarskaia. The famous children's tale tells the story of a runaway cake that refuses to be eaten.
The major publisher of Russian emigré works, philanthropist and Freemason Jacques Povolozky (pseud. for Iakov Efimovich Benderskii, 1881-1945) founded his publishing house in Paris in 1910 with the aim to bring Russian and French cultures closer together. It had branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv and Odesa until 1914 producing translations of French literature to Russian-speaking readers, and in Paris selling translations of Russian works and luxury illustrated books. Povolozky actively collaborated with Russian avant-garde artists Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, and in 1920 he opened a gallery for meetings and exhibitions of the Dadaists, printed and distributed their texts and posters; in 1924 he also opened a library at his bookstore.
This classic Russian fairy tale is… Read More

An important run of this striking Ukrainian emigre satirical magazine, remarkable for its Cold-War caricatures covering more than 20 years. Published by Edward Kozak (1902–92, also EKO), who was also its principal caricaturist and cartoonist. He first worked for the Lviv-based satirical and humor magazines Zyz [Cross-Eye] (1927-33), Komar [Mosquito] (1933-39), and Nash dzvinochok [Our Little Bell] (1932-39), while consistently illustrating serial publications. In 1944, Kozak emigrated to Germany, where he headed an organization of Ukrainian émigré artists, active in Munich in 1947-48, the USOM (Ukrainian Association of Artists, or Ukrainska spilka obrazotvorchykh mysttsiv).
Kozak began publishing Lys Mykyta as his own satirical magazine in a camp for displaced persons (DP) in Munich in 1948. The magazine's name was taken from Ivan Franko's popular book of fables about a witty fox. When Kozak emigrated to the United States with the painter Liuboslav Hutsaliuk (1923-2003), another regular… Read More

Rare broadside for an impressive kinetozographic theatre of 400 animated figures in Moscow, by a hot-air balloon enthusiast now in the Guinness World Records.
Forerunners of cinema ("kino" in Russian), kinetozographic (from the Greek, kinetos – "moving", zoon
– "animal" and grapho – "write") or, as it was often called, optical theatres specialized in showing images in motion. They appeared in Russia in the late 18th century, using light and images placed on a small stage, often only in a box, with side mechanisms animating various objects. In 1805, a Moscow student writes that he went to a New Year's Eve kinetozographic show and was absolutely amazed with the very lively and radiant scenes he saw in that "tiny theatre" (Zhikharev, 174).
Iordakii Kuparenko (also Jordaki, 1780-1844) brought the show to another level and became one of the main innovators in this field: no "tiny theatre" anymore on this broadside, but a rich show with firing canons, an erupting Vesuvius, 400 animated figures, and… Read More