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Lemberg (Lviv): By the author, 1823. Softcover. Autograph letter signed; 12 1/4 x 7 3/4; two loose sheets, glued to each other at the spine; pp. [4], text to pp. 1 only; a few minor spots and slight curling to lower margin only; very good or better condition. In French.Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (1780 – 1862) was a Russian Foreign Minister for 40 years, a State Secretary, and a leading European conservative statesman of the Holy Alliance. In 1824, he negotiated with the United States the defining of the boundary between Russian America (Russian colonial possessions spanning parts of present day California, Alaska, and Hawaii between 1733 and 1867) and the Oregon Country, which would be resolved with the Russo-American Treaty of 1824. He also signed the Treaty of Paris that would end the Crimean War. Nesselrode would also be remembered for managing to penetrate Japan's self-isolation, which would result in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda, aka Treaty of Commerce and… Read More

Kovna: Izd. im. F. Skoryny, 1919. Softcover. First Russian edition, translated from Belarusian; 9 3/4 x 6 3/4; pp. 124; salmon colored wraps, printed in black; chips to edges of wraps with loss of paper to corners and lower margin of back wrap; some pages unopened; text clean; good to very good.Konstantin Borisovich Ezovitov (1893 - 1946) was a Belarusian politician, author, military leader, and Vice Chairman of the Central Council of the Belarusian Army. He was the one, in 1919 and 1920, to establish diplomatic relations with the governments of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. A year after the outbreak of the First World War, Belarus was divided by the frontline between German and Russian armies. In late 1918 and early 1919, Belarus was invaded by Poles, who remained there until the summer of 1920. Ezovitov's current book contained a compilation of official materials, documenting that turbulent period in Belarusian history and that country struggles for independence.

Moskva (Moscow): Tipografiia A. Gattsuka, 1883. Hardcover. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [7], 2-484, [3], IV-CCLX; rebound in brown cloth over boards; a few small rubbed spots to edges of boards; front hinge reinforced with a thin strip of linen; signature and bookplate of Anatole G. Mazour to title page recto and verso; very good or better condition. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.Vladimir Ulianitskii (1855 - 1920) was a Russian, historian, professor, and lawyer. He also worked at the main archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. Drawing on that rich archival material, Ulianitskii wrote his current book and used it as his Master's Degree thesis at the University of St. Petersburg in 1883. In 1885, for it, he was awarded the Uvarov Prize - given by the Russian Academy of Sciences to distinguished authors and historians and named after Aleksei Uvarov (1825 - 1884), a Russian archeologist, considered the founder of the study of the prehistory of Russia.… Read More