Auteurs divers - Histoire de la Russie / History of Soviet Russia - 1895-1971

The lot contains:

1.
By a Russian artillery officer - History of Russia [for French youth] - Work containing 21 unillustrated plates by Antokolsky, Georges Becker, Caran d'Ache, N. Gritsenko & Serge de Savine - Paris, Ernest Flammarion Éditeur, 1895 - 1st edition – 2 pages + frontispiece + 6 pages + 283 pages + 1 folding map + 21 plates (engravings) – Binding: half-cloth with richly illustrated front cover and spine, title in black on the spine, endpapers decorated, initials and ornamental tailpieces – 23 x 27.90 cm – Good copy: handwritten ink inscription on the half-title page, a few rare foxing spots in the body of the work (otherwise clean and without annotations), signs of handling and wear on the cover.
* Emmanuel Poiré (1858–1909), known by the pseudonym Caran d'Ache, was a Russo-French satirist and political caricaturist of the 19th century.
* Serge de Savine (circa 1852–?..?) was a Russian who became French by naturalisation. The year 1895 was for Serge a year under the sign of his homeland. He is one of the five illustrators sharing the unillustrated engravings of a bulky "History of Russia" whose author, anonymous, presents himself as "An former Russian artillery officer". (Source: topfferiana.fr)
* Mark Matveïevitch Antokolski (1843–1902) was a Russian-origin Jewish sculptor.
* Georges Becker (1845-1909) was a French painter and draftsman.
* Nicolas Gritsenko (1856-1900), or Nikolaï Nikolaevitch Gritsenko, was a Russian painter. (Source: Wikipédia)
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A History of Soviet Russia – 4 volumes in the series 'A History of Russia' [The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923 & The Interregnum 1923-1924]
Edward Hallett Carr – 4 matching paperbacks – Harmondsworth, Penguin Books Ltd – Softcover: illustrated paper covers with straight spines – 11 x 18 cm – Good copies: text blocks show age-related discolouration, some wear to covers; bindings intact.
- 1971 – Volume One – The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923 – 3rd edition – 448 pages.
- 1971 – Volume Two – The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923 – 2nd edition – 407 + 4 pages (pub.)
- 1971 – Volume Three – The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923 – 2nd edition – 596 + 8 pages (pub.)
- 1969 – The Interregnum 1923–1924 – 1st edition – 400 pages.
* Edward Hallett "Ted" Carr (1892–1982) was a British diplomat and historian specializing in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Sending: well packed/insured.