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Evangelie [Gospels]
Evangelie. [Gospels]
Published/created in: November 1762
£8,500
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.
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Rukovodstvo k arifmetike dlia upotrebleniia v narodnykh uchilishchiakh. [Guide to Arithmetic for Use in People's Schools]
Published/created in: 1783
£4,950
Empress Mariia Fedorovna's copy of an important Russian textbook for arithmetic. First edition, in a lovely example finely bound in green silk with attractive endpapers.
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Kniga Apokalipsis [...]. Sviatago Andreia Arkhiepiskopa Kesariia Kapadokiiskago skazanie Apokalipsi sviatago Apostala Evangelista Ioanna Bogoslova sokrovennyh otkrovenie. [The Book of the Apocalypse].
Published/created in: 7418 (i.e. 1909)
£2,750
A luxury production of the Old Believers' printing press, with gold highlights, very much imitating their richly illustrated manuscripts.
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SHAFONSKII, Afanasiy Filimonovich
Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Opisanie morovoi iazvy…. [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Published/created in: 1775
£37,500
A rare case of a Russian 18th-c. book in Mariia Fedorovna's library: the first Russian scientific work on the plague. An exceptional copy of a major work.
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Slovar Russkikh sueverii. [The Dictionary of Russian Superstitions].
Published/created in: 1782
£8,500
An important and very rare work on superstitions and beliefs of the peoples of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. With captivating paragraphs and descriptions. An attractive example of the first edition.
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Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec Celles de Philelphe.
Published/created in: 1773
£4,500
Aesop's fables in red morocco with the arms of the Russian Empress: a fine imperial copy of this lovely edition, illustrated with 60 engraved plates.
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