Search Results: Titles starting with R from Mikhail Barkovskiy

SCARCE, OUT OF PRINT. Text in English. Oversized 24x33 cm, Hb, laminated, new unread copy, 240pp, 286 illustrations. From the Publisher's Note: "Rafal Olbinski is one of the most recognizable Polish contemporary artists. His surrealist paintings have been exhibited in some of the most prestigious galleries around the world and his intriguing illustrations have frequently graced the covers of "Newsweek", "Time" or "Der Spiegel" magazines. The artist takes on large abstract themes and realizes them on canvas with an unerringly succinct, disturbing clarity which has become his trademark. His latest passion is opera, and it seems he is capable of grasping the essence of Mozart or Verdi with the same precision which makes his magazine covers stand out as undeniably his own. He playfully twists planes and lines, creating humorous, piquant graphic compositions which never cease to surprise us. The album is a chronological compilation of the artist's works selected by Olbinski himself - from the earliest… Read More

Text in Polish, illustrations captions in English. 21x29.5cm, Pb, laminated, new copy, 50pp. Well illustrated: 3 color plates showing camouflage and markings (9 profiles), 54 b/w and 12 photographs, 12 line drawings and 8 full page 1:35 scale plans. Incl.: historic background; Ram I tank; Ram II tank; Ram Command & Ram Observation Post; Ram ARV I & II; Ram Armored Gun Tower; Walliby Ammunition Carrier; Kangaroo APC; other variants; production; technical description; combat use.

Text in Polish, 24,5x30,5, Hb, new copy, 364pp, well illustrated: 420 photographs and drawings. An illustrated history of Gdansk tram system (from first horse-drawn tram line established in 1873). HEAVY BOOK, WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE

Text in Polish, illustrations descr. and 30pp of summary in English. 17x24, Pb, laminated, new copy, 319pp. Well illustrated: 126 b/w photographs, line drawings and plans, 44 color illustrations (drawings and photographs). The book is based on the papers submitted at the scientific session entitled "The Town Hall in the Town on the Baltic" organized by the Baltic Culture Center in November 1993 in Gdansk. Incl.: the architectural community of the Hanseatic towns basing on chosen examples; the Town Hall - castle of the townspeople: the symbolism of the architectural type and its form; the Town Hall as a center of culture; merchants' halls - clothiers' halls - Town Hall; the urbanistic context of the Main City Town Hall in Gdansk; the social and political functions of the Main City Town Hall in Gdansk; Gdansk Main City Town Hall and its tenants in 14th-19th centuries; the rebuilding of Gdansk Main City Town Hall after WWII; the results of the latest architectural studies of Gdansk Main City Town Hall;… Read More

Text in Polish. Hb, laminated, new copy, 272pp. Richly illustrated: more than 500 color and b/w illustrations. Descr. history and use of cavalry lance, with the emphasis on Polish cavalry. Incl.: lance - Polish specialty; use of cavalry lance, parade lances; foot soldiers' lances; psychological aspects; foreign lances; Polish insurgents' lances; lances of the first and second world wars; Polish calvary lances of 1918-1939.

Text in Polish. 21x29, Hb, 190pp, drawing and color and b/w photographs throughout. Massive interesting reference.

Polish text. 15x21, Hb, laminated, new copy, 104pp. Illustrated with line drawings. Reprint of the  Part IV of the Polish Cavalry Manual from 1933 (devoted to cavalry weaponry). Interesting reference.

Text in Polish. Volume 10th from "The Polish Armed Forces in WWII" series. 13x19,5, Hb, cloth, fine in good Dj (minor age wear). 184pp, 25 line drawing showing shipboard weapons and equipment, 8 full page color plates showing naval flags and pennants, commemorative tablets, rank insignia and badges of services, uniforms and ship camouflage), 8 b/w maps in text, 3 organization charts and 48 ship profiles. Incl.: Organization and strength; weapons and equipment: shipboard artillery and firearms, torpedoes, torpedo tubes, seam mines, depth bombs, depth bombs projectors, shipboard equipment, ship camouflage; Polish navy main operations 1939-1944; Polish merchant marine in WWII; ships and units of the polish navy 1939-1946: cruisers, destroyers, minelayers, submarines, mine sweepers, gunboats, artillery boats, torpedo boats, patrol vessels, patrol boats, antisubmarine ships, auxiliary ships, tugs, divisions of destroyers 1939, division of submarines 1939, land shore defense 1939, sea shore defense 1939,… Read More

Russian text. 22x29cm, Hb, laminated, new copy, 400pp. richly illustrated: b/w colour illustrations throughout. Incl.: Russian military aeronautics in 1869-1914: air balloons in the service with the Russian Army prior to 1904 and during Russo-Japanese war, Russian military aeronautics before WWI 1906-1914; early period: the birth of the Imperial Russian Air Service, procurement tenders, air schools; Russian aircraft industry: main factories and workshops, armaments and special equipment: machine guns and machine-gun mounts, bombing weapon, air-photography & radio equipment, airfield vehicles, airfield AA-defence, aviation motors factories, Sikorsky's aircraft, Grigorovich's flying boats, foreign float seaplanes and flying boats; procurements abroad: French engines, British engines, German engines and aircraft, Curtiss airplane and engines, propellers; organization of the Imperial Russian Air Service: early years 1910-1913, uniforms, reorganization during WWI; the Imperial Russian Air Service during… Read More

Polish text. 16.5x23.5cm, Pb, laminated, as new copy, 412pp, illustrated with plans, maps and charts. Foreword; Russian operational art from the beginning of the 18th c. to the end of the 19th c.; Russian operational art at the beginning of the 20th c.; Russian operational art in the mid 20th c.; Soviet operational art in the second half of the 20th c.; Russian operational art at the end of the 20th c.; Russian operational art at the dawn of the 21st c.

Russian text. Re-edition of the Military Dictionary by general Sergei Tuchkov, first published in 1818. Contains Russian military terms related to Napoleonic warfare. 12x20,5, Hb, laminated, new copy, 400pp.  

Text in Polish. 16,5x23,5, Pb, new copy, 204pp. Richly illustrated: more than 1000 color and b/w illustrations (drawings and photographs) showing weapons details, uniforms, markings etc. Incl.: Foreword. PART I: Caucasian shashka sabers: brief historical outline; characteristics of various Caucasian shashka sabers. PART II: Shashka sabers of the Russian Imperial Army 1834-1880: first patterns of dragoons' and Cossacks' shaska sabers; M1834 & M1838 Cossack shashkas; enlisted dragoons' M1842 & dragoon officers' M1841 shashkas; enlisted artillery M1868 shashka. PART III: edged weapons manufacture: Tula arms factory; Sestroretsk arms factory; Izhevsk arms factory; private edged arms manufacturers: Schaff and sons; edged arms import; General A.P.Gorlovcommettee: new patterns of edged weapons, cooperation with arms factory in Zlatoust; distinctive features of the Zlatoust arms; distinctive features of military edged weapons; sword belts and sword knots. PART IV: shashka sabers of the Imperial Russian Army… Read More

Russian text. 22x30cm, Hb, laminated, new copy, 128 pp. An illustrated album packed with color and b/w photographs. Incl.: introduction; civil-pattern officials' swords; cavalry and infantry-pattern officials' swords; regulations for wear.

Polish text. 18,5x23, Pb, laminated, new copy, 48pp. Well illustrated: 3 color plates (9 profiles) showing color schemes and markings, 78 b/w photographs, 8 1/72 scale planes and profiles. Incl.: RWD-6 sports aircraft: development; design; painting; RWD-9 sports aircraft: development; design, painting; PZL P.8 fighter aircraft: development; design, painting; Franciszek Zwirko; Stanislaw Wigura; Jerzy Bajan; Gustaw Pokrzywka.

Text in Polish. 16,5x23,5, Pb, new copy, 256pp. 74 photographs (most in color). Incl.: introduction; craft guilds: organization and tasks; pottery centers and families in Kashubia from the end of the 18th century to 1939: Kashubian borderlands, South-West Kashubia, Middle Kashubia, Northern Kashubia; organization of work and production techniques; pottery products: types and characteristics.

16,5x24, Pb, new unread copy, 48pp, 2 color plates, 108 b/w photographs and line drawings in text. Incl.: Kh-66; Kh-23; Kh-25; Kh-28; Kh-27PS; Kh-24M; C-25L; Kh-29; Kh-58; Kh-59Kh-59M; Kh-31; Kh-35. Text in Russian

16,5x24, Pb, new copy, 88pp, 132 b/w photographs and line drawings (small size scale plans). Incl.: early history of the Russian aircraft industry; review of projects, prototypes and serial produced aircraft: Anatra, Olkhovsky, Bezobrazov, Grigorovich, Lebed, Mosk, Sikorsky, Svyatogor, Duks, Porokhovshchikov, Savelyev, Dokuchayev, Tereshchenko, Engels, Willisch, Kasyanenko, AIS, Fride, Dil, Ryabokon, Botezat, Modrakh, Kostovich, Slyusarenko, Izhorsky factory. Text in Russian.

16,5x24, Pb, new unread copy, 48pp, 8 color photographs, 140 b/w photographs and line drawings in text. Incl.: first generation: RS-1U/RS-2U, K-8; second generation: R-3S, K-9, K-15, K-80, K-98, R-40, R-3R, R-55, K-13M, R-13M1; third generation: R-60, R-23R, R-23T, R-33, fourth generation: R-27, R-77, R-37; technical data. Text in Russian