Bravais, A. Selected Scientific Works: Crystallographic Studies (Izbrannye nauchnye trudy. Kristallograficheskie etudy), 1974. In Russian.

Огюст Браве.
Избранные научные труды. Кристаллографические этюды.
Ответственные редакторы: Б. Н. Делоне, И. И. Шафрановский.
Серия: «Классики науки».
М.-Л.: Наука, 1974.
Фронт., 419 с. ; 23х18 см. Твердый издательский переплет.
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Auguste Bravais.
Selected Scientific Works: Crystallographic Studies (Izbrannye nauchnye trudy. Kristallograficheskie etudy).
Editors-in-chief: B. N. Delone, I. I. Shafranovsky.
Series: "Klassiki nauki" (Classics of Science).
Moscow-Leningrad: Nauka, 1974.
Frontispiece, 419 pp. ; 23x18 cm. Publisher's hardcover.

This 1974 volume is the definitive Russian-language compilation of the fundamental works of Auguste Bravais (1811–1863), the French physicist and a towering figure in the foundation of modern crystallography. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of spatial symmetry, including the arrangement of all his essential crystallographic papers where he established the geometric theory of crystal structures. Most notably, this collection details his 1848 discovery of the fourteen types of space lattices—now universally known as "Bravais lattices"—and his visionary hypothesis that crystal structures are composed of points regularly arranged in three-dimensional space. The edition is meticulously prepared by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the leadership of prominent mathematician Boris Delone and mineralogist Ilarion Shafranovsky, featuring a comprehensive biography of Bravais that traces his journey from a naval officer conducting meteorological observations in the North to a professor at the École Polytechnique and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences. As a vital primary source, this volume documents the mathematical rigor brought to the natural sciences, specifically the transition of crystallography from a descriptive discipline to a branch of mathematical physics. Part of the prestigious "Classics of Science" series, it remains a significant bibliographical rarity for collectors of history of science, theoretical physics, and academic first editions of the late Soviet period.