![]() | CODMAN John An American Transport in the Crimean War Bonnell, Silver & Co., New York (1896) 198pp + frontispiece. 1st ed., fine in original cloth The author was the captain of the American transport William Penn which left Marseilles in 1854 with troops and ammunition for the Crimea and sailed between Turkey and the Crimea. | £24.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | MARSDEN Kate On Sledge & Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Illustrated from Photographs and Drawings London The Record Press (1895 (?)) 4th ed., pp.xv, [1], 243, 24pp. advertisements, frontispiece, 25 plates, map. Fine in original brown cloth, gilt + facsimile letter from Queen Victoria and three page facsimile letter from Countess Tolstoy, and portrait of the Queen with tissue guard tipped in at front. | £65.00 |
![]() | UCHASTKINA Zoia Vasil'evna A history of Russian hand paper-mills and their watermarks by Zoya Vasil'evna Uchastkina; edited and adapted for publication in English by J. S. G. Simmons Hilversum, The Paper Publications Society (1962) 297pp + plates. 1st ed., very fine in blue buckram lettered and decorated in gilt. | £350.00 |
![]() | ZADVORNY Leonid Motorists' Guide to the Soviet Union Moscow Progress Publishers (1980) 391pp + folding map in rear pocket. 1st ed., clean in original pictorial boards. Entertaining student's account of 3 week visit to Russia in 1984 on 9 blank end pages in search of beer and girls. | £10.00 |
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