Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Review of Archival Materials (Arkhiv Akademii nauk SSSR: Obozrenie arkhivnykh materialov). Transactions of the Archive, Issue 1, 1933. In Russian

Архив Академии наук СССР. Обозрение архивных материалов / под общей редакцией Г. А. Князева ; редакторы издания Г. А. Князев и Л. Б. Модзалевский.
Ленинград : Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1933. 260 страниц, 18 листов таблиц (иллюстраций).
Серия: Труды Архива. Выпуск 1.
Твердый издательский коленкоровый переплет. Энциклопедический формат. Тираж 2 000 экземпляров.
Состояние хорошее. Переплет со следами бытования, потертостями краев и выцветанием ткани. Книжный блок очень хороший: страницы чистые, крепкие, легкое возрастное пожелтение бумаги.
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Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Review of Archival Materials (Arkhiv Akademii nauk SSSR) / under the general editorship of G. A. Knyazev ; edition editors G. A. Knyazev and L. B. Modzalevsky.
Leningrad : Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1933. 260 pages, 18 leaves of plates (tables/facsimiles).
Series: Transactions of the Archive. Issue 1.
Original publisher's cloth hardcover. Encyclopedic format. Print run of 2,000 copies.
Condition good. Binding shows signs of handling, edge wear, and fading to the cloth. Text block very good: pages are clean and firm with light age-toning typical for the period.

A foundational reference work and a critical resource for historians of Russian science, literature, and culture. Published in 1933 as the inaugural issue of the "Transactions of the Archive" series, this volume provides the first comprehensive academic overview of the immense archival holdings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad. Edited by the prominent Soviet archivist G. A. Knyazev and literary scholar L. B. Modzalevsky, the book systematically describes the manuscript collections, institutional records, and personal papers of Russia's greatest scientists and academicians from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It includes detailed registers of funds related to figures like Mikhail Lomonosov, as well as crucial historical documents concerning geographic expeditions, academic institutions, and literary history (including the Pushkin collections). Complete with 18 leaves of facsimile plates, including a rare eighteenth-century plan of Yakutsk and various manuscript excerpts, this strictly limited edition of 2,000 copies is a highly valuable tool for researchers. Well-preserved early Soviet institutional bibliographies of this caliber are scarce and highly sought after by academic libraries and collectors of Russian scientific history.