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

The set includes: a publishing folder, a book with a description of reproductions (13, [2] p., 29x22 cm.), 27 illustrations (29x22 cm.). The set is complete. The condition is good.A slight contamination of the cover, scuffs on the edges, small tears of the publishing folder. As of June 2021, WorldCat shows no copies in libraries outside Russia.

Konstantin Mikhailovich Miklashevsky (1885-1943) was a Russian aristocrat, a brilliant polymath, a talented actor, director, and theater historian. At the beginning of the last century, he traveled all over Europe, looking for materials about commedia dell'arte in archives and museums. In fact, it was he who first described in detail, discovered this unique theatrical phenomenon to the world in his book "La Commedia Dell'arte or the Theater of Italian Comedians of the XVI-XVII Centuries." The first part of it was published in Russia in 1914, and the full version was published in Paris in 1927 in French. Excellent preservation, in a colorful cover. Numerous illustrations. On a separate sheet-pasted the printing address of the publishing house: "November 12, 1917, Petrograd. Printing of the book was suspended in 1914 due to the author's conscription into the army. Now the work is finished, but due to the typographical crisis and the temporary closure of the Sirius printing house, we are forced to… Read More

Kollontai A. M. Life of Finnish workers. Economic research. SPb., Art Printing Society, 1903, [10], 335 p.The first book of the author, famous feminist, writer, diplomat!Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872-1952) - Russian revolutionary, writer, feminist, Soviet statesman and diplomat. In 1917-1918. She was People's Commissar of State Charity in the first Soviet government, making her the first woman minister in history. Ambassador of the USSR in 1922-1945, in Norway, Mexico, Sweden. Author of many books and articles, scientific, journalistic, artistic. Condition: pre-revolutionary stamps, slight soiling. Owner's inscription on the reverse of the title. Rare book.