76 1061 Russia Geis S 
76 1061 Russia Geis S 
- Backstrip worn.
= Austrian diplomat Von Warkotsch visited Moscow three times on behalf of Rudolf II, in order to form an Austro-Russian alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
AND an odd issue of RUSSKAYA STARINA dealing with Russian-Turkish diplomatic relations (n.pl., 1877, without binding, sm. 4to).
76/1062 Russia Grand Album Illustré de Moscou 
76/1062 Russia Grand Album Illustré de Moscou 
76/1062 Russia Grand Album Illustré de Moscou 
- Lacks title and index leaf; first plate sl. foxed/ waterst. Rebacked; backcover scratched and sl. stained; spine-ends and corners bumped.
= Nice album in a luxurious binding. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
AND a leporello souvenir booklet of Moscow (±1890).
76 1063 Russia Lenin N = V I Lenin 
- Sl. yellowed and foxed; partly w. extensive pencil annots.
= Lenin's speech at the All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June 1917, published shortly before the October Revolution. Rare, not in Zaleski.
76 1064 Russia Mitskevitch S I ed 
- Tiny (bullet?) hole throughout, on most lvs. closed w. piece of paper; sl. fingersoiled. Wr. sl. yellowed and w. some restored/ strengthened spots (w. paper).
76/1065 Russia Peterburg Leningrad Istoriko Geograficheski Atlas Vol 1 all published? Ed S V Kalesnik a o 
- A few scattered library stamps.
76 1066 Russia Saint Julien C de 
- Some usual foxing. Dam. spot/ dent in frontcover (±4x3 cm.); spine sl. sunned.
= Cat. (...) des Russica S86; Vicaire VII, p.24; Lipperheide Kaa 59 (calling for only 19 plates); Sander 604.
76/1067 Russia Le Tocsin Nabat Organ russkikh revoliutsionerov The alarm Organ of Russian Revolutionaries Year 3 no 1 ? year 4 no 3 5 
76/1067 Russia Le Tocsin Nabat Organ russkikh revoliutsionerov The alarm Organ of Russian Revolutionaries Year 3 no 1 ? year 4 no 3 5 
76/1067 Russia Le Tocsin Nabat Organ russkikh revoliutsionerov The alarm Organ of Russian Revolutionaries Year 3 no 1 ? year 4 no 3 5 
- Wrappers sl. chipped and frayed; vol. 1 top of spine strengthened w. paper.
= Rare periodical founded by Piotr Tkachev, in existence between 1875 and 1881. Zaleski I, p.42 ("Tendance anarchiste; les partisans de Tkačev étaient appelés "jacobins""); Stammhammer II, p.324.
Tkachev, P. Anarkhia Mysli (Anarchy of Thought). London, idem, 1879, 78p., modern black leather w. gilt red mor. letterpiece, orig. wr. pres., sm. 8vo.
= Zaleski 484; Kerssemakers 7620; Nettlau p.219.
76 1068 Russia Trotzki L 
- Htitle loose; first lvs. rather brittle.
= Kerssemakers 7802: "A valuable source for the organization of the Red Army by Trotsky as the people's Commisar of the Army, as Soviet history falsified Trotsky's part in it."
76 1069 Russia Zhelyabuzhsky I A 
- Library stamp and annots. on title-p.; sl. foxed. Binding rubbed and sl. worn; (traces of) paper tickets on spine.
= Ivan Afanasyevitch Zhelyabuzhsky was a Russian nobleman and military man. His Zapiski contain loosely connected observations on late 17th cent. Russian society and is considered one of the earliest examples of the literary diary genre in Russia. Zhelyabuzhsky's authorship (of at least part of the work) is however disputed as he died before 1709. The diary's later entries might have been written by a relative, Semyon Zhelyabuzhsky.
76 1070 Scotland Billings R W 
- Occas. trifle foxed. = Holloway 25.
76 1071 Scotland Crookshank W 
- Vellum treated w. polish-like substance (mostly frontcover); backcover sl. dustsoiled.
= Published as the 3rd vol. of D. NEALE, Historie der rechtzinnige Puriteinen, of Lotgevallen der Protestanten (...). Rare.
76 1072 Scotland Johnston T B and Robertson J A 
76 1072 Scotland Johnston T B and Robertson J A 
- Erased owner's entry on first free endpaper and verso fold. map. Corners and spine-ends sl. worn; backstrip and margins of covers (sl.) sunned.
ADDED: MacGregor, J. The Rob Roy on the Baltic: A Canoe Cruise, through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892, 9th ed., X,263,(1),30,(2)p., 4 tinted lithogr. maps (1 fold.), lithogr. frontisp. and 34 ills., orig. giltlettered dec. cl.
- Binding trifle worn at extremities.
76/1073 Socialism and communism Die rote Fahne Zentralorgan des Spartacusbundes Year 1 no 1 16 18 26 28 31 34 36 39 42 and 44 Ed K Liebknecht and R Luxemburg 
= Incl. coverage of the early stages of the November Revolution.
WITH a special issue ("Extra-Blatt") of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger ("(...) ist von Vertretern des revolutionären Volkes (Skartakus-Gruppe) besetzt") proclaiming the Socialist Revolution in Germany.
76 1074 South Africa Backhouse J 
76 1074 South Africa Backhouse J 
- Plates (sl.) foxed.
= Mendelssohn I, p.62: "The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a Mission Station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with Mission work in South Africa at this time."
76 1075 South America Juan G and Ulloa A de 
76 1075 South America Juan G and Ulloa A de 
- Both vols. (badly) waterstained and mouldy throughout in lower outer corner (also affecting most of the plates). Sold w.a.f.
= Sabin 36804; Borba de Moraes p.430-431 (Spanish ed., mentioning a French translation, not listing a Dutch transl.); Tiele 1120; Cat. NHSM p.281. "Juan and Ulloa's Travels may be selected as the most entertaining and satisfactory work of its kind; they are the acknowledged source of much that has been published in other forms" (Sabin 36813). "This voyage arose out of the desire of the French Government (...) to send certain members of the Academy of Sciences to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru. (...) the King of Spain conceived the idea of sharing the honor of a scheme devoted to the advancement of knowledge, and sent two of the most scientific officers of the Spanish navy to accompany the expedition. This party carried on a series of operations of unexampled difficulty and encountered hardships and sufferings which demanded the strength of the strongest constitutions and the energy of minds stimulated by a love of science". (Cox II, p.275 on the English ed.). The first Dutch edition (first published in Spanish in Madrid in 1748) of this description of the whole of South America. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
76 1076 Spain Bulgarin Th 
- Occas. sl. foxed; bookplate on lower pastedown. Joints splitting; backstrip chipped; sm. ticket on frontcover; covers rubbed along extremities.
= Thaddeus Bulgarin was a Russian journalist of Polish descent who served as a soldier under Napoleon and participated in the Spanish War of Independence.
76 1077 Stuart M 
- Without vol. 1 and 6; trifle yellowed.
= Cf. Lipperheide Ma9; Tiele 1065; Landwehr, Dutch books with col. plates 447/448. "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German translated was published 1805-1809. The fine plates, all depicting ethnic types, are engraved by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper.
76 1078 Surinam Halberstadt A 
76 1078 Surinam Halberstadt A 
76 1078 Surinam Halberstadt A 
- Contents loosening; final few plates sl. waterstained in outer blank margin. Otherwise contents fine. Backstrip loose.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 2487; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.632; not in Sabin. Rare account by an ex-civil servant who did not agree with the Dutch policy concerning Surinam, which got him into trouble with the authorities. The plates were used earlier for P.J. Benoit, Voyage à Surinam (1839)/ Scènes de la vie Américaine, description de la Guyane Hollandaise (1858). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
76 1079 Surinam Sijpesteijn C A van 
- Some sl. occas. foxing; sm. libr. stamp and inventory no. on title; sm. owner's stamp on first free endpaper. Binding sl. rubbed at extremities. Good copy.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6774; Rouffaer/ Muller p.630; Sabin 80989; Tiele 1075; cat. NHSM p.285.
76/1080 Sweden Beskrifning om Tjäru och Kol Ugnars Inrättande uppå Hans Kongl May ts allernådigste Befallning 
- Upper hinge broken. = Description of Swedish tar- and coal ovens.