Search Results: Titles starting with E from M.B.Rare Books

Bogdanovich K. Earthquakes in Messina and San Francisco. St. Petersburg: Publishing house of O.N. Popova. 1909. 160 p.
K.I. Bogdanovich worked in "hot" geological spots. Witness of the earthquake in Shamakhi in 1902. He studied the consequences of catastrophes in Messina (1903), San Francisco (1906), on the Tien Shan (1910). The publication is richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams and maps in the text. The condition is good, small pencil underscores.

Two photos: The House of Higher women's courses. Dormitory of Higher women's courses. On the cover there is a donation inscription dated 06/20/1896.
A special commission formed in 1873 under the chairmanship of State Secretary I. D. Delyanov developed a project of a government higher education institution for women, and in 1875 a government message followed with a promise to provide women in Russia with the same opportunity for higher education for which they rushed abroad. This mood was taken advantage of by the founders of the Vladimir courses, with A.N. Beketov at the head, and achieved permission to open in 1878 higher women's courses with a systematic, university-like nature of teaching, and the opening of the courses was recognized by the Minister of Public Education, Count D.A. Tolstoy, as a useful and even necessary task in the types of distraction of Russian women from studying at foreign universities (this goal was achieved). At the head of the pedagogical council, Professor K.N.… Read More

Russian constructivist advertising booklet with photomontage cover. There is an autograph on the title, which by the nature of the handwriting can be identified as belonging to the famous director Sergei Eisenstein, who wrote the afterword to the book.
First edition of the book. The author is a film critic Naum Osipovich Kaufman. In the form of an afterword on 20 pages, the article by Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) "Behind the Scenes" is published. Contents: Preface — "The Spectator" (Ginza Street. Jin Tan. Asakusa. Cinema "Denki-Kan") — Plot (Historical films "Jidai-Geki". Adventurous films "Chambara". Modern films "Gendai-Geki") — Production ("Nikkatsu" and "Sociku") — Eisenstein. Behind the scenes. — Index of drawings: 20 illustrations, including 16 full-page and 4 in the text in Eisenstein's article. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898 Riga- 1948 Moscow) was a Soviet theater and film director, artist, screenwriter, art theorist, and teacher. Author of fundamental works on… Read More

[Matveev I.prof., Dorozhinsky D.] Essay on the history of the Union of the Russian Church with Rome. Lvov (Austria-Hungary Empire). Anniversary Committee. 1896 [4], 154, [1] p. , 15.5x23 cm. A copy with a dedication from the author. In Ukrainian. A rare edition published by the Jubilee Committee for the modest celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Brest Union in Lvov. Professor Matveev began to collect materials for the book, but did not finish it, but handed over the completion of the work to Dorozhinsky. Dionysius Dorozhinsky (1866-1930) - priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, theologian, church and educational and cultural figure. The author of the preface Alexei Ivanovich Toronsky (1838-1901) was a Galician-Russian historian. Brest Church Union (1596) - the council of a number of bishops of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Constantinople Orthodox Church, headed by Metropolitan Mikhail Rogoza, to accept the Catholic doctrine and become subordinate to the Pope while maintaining Byzantine… Read More

he book was authored by the secretary of the regional committee of the Jewish Autonomous Region, established in 1934. Summary of the results of the first five years of the region's existence. Printed in the newly built city of Birobidzhan (Russia).
A very rare book.
As of April 2023, KVK and WorldCat show no copies in libraries outside Russia.