![Image for POLANCUS & BUDINIC. Ispravnik za erei... [Guide for Priests...]. First edition in Croatian Glagolitic. Rome, 1635. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/3117_1-300x440.jpg)
POLANCUS, Joannes [Juan Alfonso de POLANCO] and Sime BUDINIC (transl.)
Ispravnik za erei, ispovidnici, i za pokornih [Guide for Priests, Confessors and the Penitent]
Fresh example of this Propaganda Fide edition in Croatian Glagolitic of an important Jesuit text for priests. Uncommon.
First edition of this very first 'old testament' in Ossetian. A fine example, in wrappers and inscribed by the author to an important local missionary. Very rare, with only one other copy traced (Denmark).
![Image for [BIBLE, Armenian]. Gospels. Second Bortoli edition. Venice, 1759. In a fine binding. #3](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/3332_2-300x416.jpg)
Lovely example of these Gospels in Armenian, printed in Venice by Bortoli in 1759, with a new set of plates, and here in a richly gilt binding.
SIMEON, Novyi Bogoslov [SYMEON, the New Theologian]
Prepodobnogo ottsa nashego Simeona Novago Bogoslova...slovesa zelo polezna [Practical Words]
Lovely manuscript of 'Words' still unpublished at the time. In unusually fresh condition on fine blue paper and presented to a Russian business woman.
![Image for [BIBLE, Slavonic]. Evangelie [Gospels]. First edition under Catherine the Great. Complete. Moscow, 1762. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2868_1-300x233.jpg)
[BIBLE, Slavonic] – Vailei IKONNIKOV (engraver) and Semen VTOROV (artist)
Evangelie [Gospels]
Very rare, with no copy traced outside Russia, and only two there. First separate edition of the Church Slavonic Gospels published under Catherine's reign, illustrated, complete and in a lovely, fragile velvet binding.
![Image for L. TOLSTOY. Kritika dogmaticheskogo bogosloviia [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]. First edition, rare. Geneva, 1891-96. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1333_1-300x436.jpg)
Rare first edition of Tolstoy's important critical religious text, published in Geneva as it was impossible to have it authorised in the Russian empire. No copy traced on the market in recent decades - this one a pleasant example.
Appealing set of this first miniature edition of the Gospels in Russian, a typographic feat as the text is perfectly readable. Bound in full morocco and in excellent condition, from Vera Tishchenko's collection - a fine collector's provenance. Scarce outside Russia.
Great study of the religious habits and dogmas of Western Russians in th 17th century - finely illustrated with engraved plates by Picart. A fine copy of this uncommon edition.
Caviar, wine, Venetian cobalt and icon wood for a major monastery near Moscow before the reigh of Peter the Great: a very rare manuscript ledger from 1674, with a wealth of details and fascinating information. No other similar example traced outside Russia.
[BELLARMINO, Roberto and] Pietro PAOLO (transl.)
Arrawyel Parzabanut'iwn K'ristoneakan... Dichiaratione più copiosa della Dottrina Christiana [Further Clarification of the Christian Doctrine]
The Borghese copy of an important book: the first translation into Armenian of this major text of the Catholic Church. This is the first complete edition in Armenian and the second book printed in Armenian by the Propaganda Fide. Scarce, with only 3 copies traced in the US.
First and only edition in Latin printed in Russia, of this important guide to a pretty strict religoious, and indeed Catholic, life in anticipation of death: unusual in the landscape of printing in Orthodox Russia. A well preserved copy of this rare book: no copies found outside Russia.
![Image for RUSSIAN BIBLE SOCIETY. Evangelie & Desiat poslanii Apostolov [Holy Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in Slavonic and Russian]. First edition in Russian of the Epistles. St. Petersburg, 1820. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/3150_1-300x480.jpg)
First edition in Russian of the Pauline Epistles, with the first translation of the Gospels into Russian. An important, politically charged project of the late 1810s in Russia. Very rare, with no copy traced in America.
[WEGIERSKI, Andrzej, also WENGIERSKI] Adrianus REGENVOLSCIUS
Systema historico-chronologicum, Ecclesiarum Slavonicarum pre provincias varias, Praecipue, Poloniae, Bohemiae, Lituaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Moraviae, &c..
Uncommon history of Polish Calvinists in Central and Eastern Europe, written in the 17th century. A very good copy of the first edition, from the Macclesfied library, with unusually abundant lettering to the spine.
![Image for [BELLARMINO]. Dottrina cristiana in Georgian, first edition. Rome, 1741. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2539_1-300x255.jpg)
[BELLARMINO, Roberto and David TLUK’AANT [also TLUKAANTI], David (translator)]
Sakrist'iano Modzghuareba [Christian Instruction/Doctrine]
Fresh example of this small book, printed by the Catholiocs in Rome for missions in Georgia. First edition in Georgian, rare.
An important work on the Kiev Lavra Cave monastery, the first non-religious book looking at its history and practices - as well as at Ukrainians at large. Particularly interesting for its tolerant point of view, and its striking illustrations. A complete, fresh copy; rarely found.
![Image for [OLD BELIEVERS] Song almanac in Church Slavonic, a miniature manuscript from mid-19th c. Russia #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/3100_1-300x400.jpg)
Appealing small-format religious manuscript, probably written by Russian women scribes, while they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding, with fresh colours and gilt decorations.
![Image for BOSSUET & BEDRINKSII. Politika [Politique tirée de l'Ecriture Sainte]. First Russian edition, St. Petersburg, 1802. In red morocco. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/356_1-300x402.jpg)
[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Excellent copy of this very rare first Russian edition of Bossuet's 'Politique'. No copies traced oustide Russia, including in French or American institutions.
![Image for [UKRAINE, BINDING, PRINTING]. Service for the Dormition of the Virgin. Rare first edition, Kyiv, 1757. #2](https://www.pyrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2951_1-300x225.jpg)
A beautiful production of the Kyiv Lavra, here in its fine first binding. First edition, illustrated with delicate ornaments and elaborate initials. Very rare, as no copy traced outside Russian and Ukraine.