Out of stock
Forbidden texts with provenance marks
[A Sammelband of Five Manuscript Works]
Skt Peterburg, [c. 1782-1815].
Very rare manuscript collection of theological and philosophical texts, including some forbidden by Catherine the Great's government in the 1780s. Very well preserved in its contemporary binding. With a poem authored most likely by the compiler of the manuscript and dedicated to the opening of the bronze horseman, the celebrated monument to Peter the Great inaugurated by Catherine in St. Petersburg.
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For the Georgian soldiers of the Third Reich
Vepxistqaosani [The Knight in the Panther's Skin]
Gallus Druckerei, Berlin for Davit Keladze, [Paris?], 1943.
The main national epic of Georgia in a very unusual, small-format production, in Georgian, for the Third Reich's "Georgian Legion". An extremely rare edition of Rustaveli's masterpiece, and a fantastic example from the 50 deluxe copies, here in a luxurious binding.