Anonymous

A Collection of Seaweed Specimens from French Algeria

Various, By the author, 1864. First Edition. Twenty three specimens, mounted on nine loose sheets of cream stock; paper 10 1/2 x 8; specimens with various sizes, some quite large, ie. approx. 7 1/2 x 9; most subtitled, in manuscript, in French, with place, date, etc.; a few minor spots; very good or better condition. A beautiful collection of seaweed, it was assembled along the coast of Mostaganem province, in the northwest of Algeria. Some of the places identified included La Salamandre, Karouba (ie. Kharouba), the City of Mostaganem, and others. Seeing the careful penmanship on the paper and the time period, the samples were most probably collected by a French lady in Colonial Algeria. It was around this time, the mid-19th century, when the seaweed-collecting craze was sweeping Europe and becoming a favorite pastime for ladies, whose access to scientific explorations was otherwise largely restricted. Furthermore, as seaweed was fragile and somewhat difficult to handle, it was also a matter of pride, for one to be able to carefully and artfully arrange and preserve the specimens. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 002550

Katalog: Natural History

Sonstige Stichworte: Seaweed Specimens

Bahrianyi, Ivan

Ohnenne Kolo. Povist Pro Trahediiu Pid Brodamy (the Fiery Circle. The Story of the Tragedy Near Brody)

S. l. (Ulm), Vyd-vo "Ukrainski visti, 1953. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [8], 11-203, [3]; light-brown wraps, printed in red and black and illustrated with a small vignette; small nicks and creases to tips of spine; a bit of wear to corners of wraps; in very good condition. Ivan Bahrianyi, pseudonym for Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviahin (1906 - 1963) was a Ukrainian author, poet, educator, and politician. His poetry collection "Ave Maria," published in 1929, was immediately deemed inappropriate by the government censorship, forbidden, and pulled from the bookstores. Between 1932 and 1938, he was arrested several times for "counter-revolutionary propaganda" and spent time in NKVD prisons and labor camps. Bahrianyi emigrated to Germany at the end of the Second World War, where he edited the journal "Ukrainski visti," the latter also the publisher of the current book. He founded the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party in 1948 and, for a time, was Deputy President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. His "Fiery Circle" told the story of the Battle of Brody in 1944, between the Division Galizien of the Ukrainian National Army and the advancing Soviet Army during the Lviv-Sandomierz Operation. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 002972

Katalog: History & Historiography

Sonstige Stichworte: Ukraine, Russia

Horbach, O.; et al

Chortkivska Ofenzyva (Chortkiv Offensive)

Miunkhen (Munich), Vidannia Bratstva kol. Voiakiv 1-oi Ukrainskoi Dyvizii UNA, 1953. First Edition. First edition; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-37, [3]; pictorial wraps in salmon, gray, and black; illustrated with two maps; age-toning along margins of wraps and occasional smudging to edges of leaves; a small, closed cut to tail of spine; overall in very good condition. The Chortkiv Offensive, which took place over 21 days in June of 1919, was a surprise military operation of the Ukrainian Galician Army against the Second Polish Republic for Eastern Galicia. Despite early victories for the Ukrainians, in the end - the Polish Army overwhelmed the former and the predominantly-Ukrainian provinces of former Austrian Galicia would be forcefully integrated into Poland. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003263

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Poland, Ukraine

Iliodor (Trufanov, Sergei)

[Russian-Americana] Velikaia Stalingradskaia Marfa (the Great Martha of Stalingrad) [an Association Copy]

Niu Iork (New York), Colonial Printing and Publishing Co. 1943. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-95, [1]; textured red wraps, printed in black; light fading to margins; a few small cuts to edges; short, closed split to tail of spine; overall in very good condition. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on a tipped-in square on ffep to Russian-American aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky (1889 - 1972): "1943. VII. 1 / To my gracious neighbor Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, in memory of enlightenment, from the sinful and humble Iliodor. / New York." Also included is an unused, laid-in sheet of Sikorsky's personal stationary. Hieromonk Iliodor, nee Sergei Trufanov (1880 - 1952) was a highly-controversial figure of the Russian Orthodox Church, a lapsed priest, an ardent panslavist, and actor. Founding the Holy Spirit Monastery in 1909, Iliodor would repeatedly shock and outrage the Russian aristocracy and the Holy Synod by verbally insulting the authority of Tsar Nicholas, although the latter, together with Grigorii Rasputin, for the longest time defended and supported him. Iliodor would later have a great falling-out with Rasputin and would write a semi-autobiographical book about him, in English "The Mad Monk of Russia, Iliodor" and in Russian - "The Holy Devil." He would mount a slandering campaign against Rasputin, going as far as accusing him of being a lover of Tsarina Alexandra. He would also be known for attacking revolutionaries, Jews, the Union of the Russian People, and the Tsar's ministers, among others. By 1912, Iliodor renounced the Orthodox Church and in turn - the Church defrocked him. After a failed attempt on Rasputin's life, for which Iliodor was blaimed, the latter was prosecuted and imprisoned, later escaping Russia through Finland, Sweden, and Norway and reaching New York in 1916. Only a year later, he starred as himself in the silent film "The Fall of the Romanoffs." In the US, Iliodor became a baptist and often preached at eh New York RUssian Baptist Church. The Blessed Martha of Stalingrad, about whom the book was written, was Martha Tsaritsynskaia, nee Medvedskaia (1880 - 1925). Born in a wealthy family, with the support of John of Kronstadt and against her parents' will, she became a preacher - healing the sick, predicting future events, and collecting funds for temples and churches. It was said she intentionally dressed and carried herself, as if mentally challenged, in order to remind people of "the power of God." Allegedly, she foretold the beginning of the First World War, the deaths of the Romanov family, and her own demise. Legend said that Iliodor himself had brought Tsarina Alexandra to Martha for the divination. Researchers speculate that Iliodor's current book, seemingly dedicated to memorializing Martha's divine predictions, was in fact a way to earn money, while in the US, as throughout the entire book he talked about his life in his early years in America. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003040

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Russia, Emigre, Abaa-Boston

Levytskyi, Volodymyr

Gitler, Chekhy I Karpatska Ukraina. Chy Skinchytsia Vira V Pomich Hitlera Pislya Toho, Shcho Stalos Z Karpatskoiu Ukrainoiu (Hitler, the Czechs, and Carpathian Ukraine... )

Skrenton (Scranton, PA), Narodnoi Voli, 1939. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 2-22; off-white self-wraps, printed and ruled in black; mild age-toning and wear to margins; a small, closed tear to upper margin of front wrap; in very good condition. Volodymyr Sofronovych Levytskyi (1888 - 1980) was a Ukrainian author and politician. At the beginning of WWII, he became a member of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine and would later serve as Director of Press Service of the Ukrainian National Republic's embassy in Berlin. Emigrating to the US in 1924, he contributed to and edited several emigre journals and was the Director of the Ukrainian Pavillion at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1933. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003261

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Czhechoslovakia, Ruthenia, History

Lypynskyi, Viacheslav

Ukraina Na Perelomy, 1657 - 1659. Zamitky Do Istorii Ukrainskoho Derzhavnoho Budivnytstva V XVII-IM Stolittiu (Ukraine at a Turning Point, 1657 - 1659. Remarks on the History of Building the Ukrainian State in the 17th Century)

New York, Bulava Publishing Corporation, 1954. Second edition (originally published in 1920); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [9], 12-304; gray wraps, printed in black and decorated with small vignettes; illustrated with portrait frontis; light sun-fading to margins; small nicks to corners of wraps; in very good condition. Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882 - 1931) was a social and political activist, historian, author, diplomat, major figure of Ukrainian Conservatism, and founder of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party. His historical research mainly focused on the Cossack revolution of the mid-17th century, icluding the current book, which described the aftermath of the Cossack-Polish War (1648 - 1657). Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003045

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Ukraine, History

Oliinyk, Petro

Lykholittia Kholmshchyny I Pidliashshia (Years of Woe in the Kholm and Podlachia Regions)

Praha (Prague), Proboem, 1941. First edition in book form, 1 of 3000 copies; 7 x 5; pp. 3-116, [3]; light-brown, pictorial wraps, designed by Mykhailo Mykhalevich; edges of wraps and spine cover brittle, with chips and some loss of paper; front wrap with a repair along spine; partially unopened; in about good condition. Petro Oliinyk (1914 - 1942) was a Ukrainian journalist and community and political activist. He was also editor of the Ukrainske slovo journal and a member of OUN's expeditionary groups. He would be one of the intelectuals shot by the Nazis at Babyn Yar. Author of several publicistic works and historical studies, the current book would be his last work. The cover design was created by Mykhailo Mykhalevich (1906 - 1984) - renowned Ukrainian-American graphic artist, theater decorator, and icon painter. Good .

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Buchzahl: 003262

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: History, Ukraine

Soltykevych, Dr. Iaroslav

Shliakh U.S. S. Do Makivky (the Path of the Usr to Makivka)

Toronto, By the author, 1952. First Edition. First edition; 6 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 5-13, [1]; off-white, stapled wraps, printed in black; mild age-toning to margins of wraps; a small nick to head of spine and minor wear to edges and corners; in very good or better condition. Iaroslav Soltykevych (1890 - 1965) was a former lieutenant of the USR (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen) and captain in the UNR (Ukrainian National Republic). His current pamphlet described the first major battles of the USR against the Russian Army, which took place in 1915 by Makivka - a mountain in the Carpathian Range. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 002970

Katalog: History & Historiography

Sonstige Stichworte: Unr, Ukraine, Russia