[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia. [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]
Published/created in: 1802
£3,950
Excellent copy of this very rare first Russian edition of Bossuet's 'Politique'. No copies traced oustide Russia, including in French or American institutions.
Read More Read MoreEPIKTIT [EPICTETUS], Kevit Fiveiskii [CEBES of Thebes] and Grigorii POLETIKA (translator)
Epiktita stoicheskago filosofa Enkhiridion i Apofoegmy i Kevita Fiveiskago Kartina ili Izobrazhenie zhitiia chelovecheskago [Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher's Enchiridion and Apothegms; and The Picture, or a Representation of the Life of Man, by Cebes of Thebes]
Epiktita stoicheskago filosofa Enkhiridion i Apofoegmy i Kevita Fiveiskago Kartina ili Izobrazhenie zhitiia chelovecheskago. [Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher's Enchiridion and Apothegms; and The Picture, or a Representation of the Life of Man, by Cebes of Thebes]
£4,350
An important edition: the first of Epictetus and Cebes in Russia, and one of the first translations of Greek into Russian. Very rare: no copy traced outside Russia.
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Anarkhiia mysli: sobranie kriticheskikh ocherkov. [Anarchy of Thought: a Collection of Critical Essays]
Published/created in: 1879
£1,450
Important little book announcing Lenin and the Russian Revolution. First separate edition, scarce, and here in an attractive binding, rather unusual for this type of text.
Read More Read MoreMALTUS [Thomas Robert MALTHUS] and P. A. BIBIKOV (transl.)
Opyt o zakone narodonaseleniia ili izlozhenie proshedshago i nastoiashchago deistviia etogo zakona na blagodenstvie chelovecheskago roda […] [Essay on the Law of Population]
Opyt o zakone narodonaseleniia ili izlozhenie proshedshago i nastoiashchago deistviia etogo zakona na blagodenstvie chelovecheskago roda […]. [Essay on the Law of Population]
Published/created in: 1868
£2,750
Scarce first Russian edition of a major landmark of economic literature, the Essay on the Principle of Population, first published in English in 1798. An interesting edition with much material added by the translator Bibikov.
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Tretia Rossiia. La Troisième Russie.
Published/created in: 1932-39
£1,450
Complete set of this scarce magazine of Russian émigrés in Paris, dealing or, rather, reflecting on some important international political issues of the 1930s, and trying to elaborate a new philosophy, rejecting at the same time the Communists, Democrats, Conservatives and Christians. An excellent copy in publisher's wrappers.
Read More Read MoreALBERT THE GREAT and Mekhitar SEBASTATSI (editor)
Mec Alpert; tʹargmaneceal ʹi vałnǰoucʹ žamanakacʹ, ʹi mecamecacʹ vardapetacʹ merocʹ, ʹi Latʹin lezuē ʹi Hay barbaṙ: Ew nardenis ʹi luys acecʹeal, ew srbagreʹceal.. [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert the Great]
Mec Alpert; tʹargmaneceal ʹi vałnǰoucʹ žamanakacʹ, ʹi mecamecacʹ vardapetacʹ merocʹ, ʹi Latʹin lezuē ʹi Hay barbaṙ: Ew nardenis ʹi luys acecʹeal, ew srbagreʹceal... [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert the Great]
Published/created in: 1715-16
£14,500
A very important edition symbolically: the first book printed by Mekhitar in Venice. A fine copy of this rare work - no copy traced in the USA.
Read More Read MoreMONTESKE [MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de]
Pisma persidskiia [Lettres persanes] [Persian Letters]
Pisma persidskiia [Lettres persanes]. [Persian Letters]
Published/created in: 1792
£3,750
Rare first illustrated edition of the 'Lettres persanes' in Russian, in contemporary binding with lovely Russian endpapers.
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Briefe, nebst einer praktischen Abhandlung von dem guten Geschmacke in Briefen.
Published/created in: 1763
£2,500
Lovely imperial copy from the Pavlovsk library, with a touching and informative handwritten note. In fine condition.
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Chelovek s latyniu, ili sudba uchenykh liudei, nebyvalaia istoriia. [L'Homme au latin, ou la Destinée des savans ; histoire sans vraisemblance]
Published/created in: 1782
£1,450
First Russian edition of this 'philosophical' tale very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Rare - no copy traced outside Russia. An attractive copy, in a lovely binding.
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Oblako v shtanakh. Tetraptikh. [A Cloud in Trousers. A Tetraptich.]
Published/created in: 1918
£5,000
One of the great poems of Mayakovsky, here in its full version without cut-outs. A fine copy, in the original wrappers.
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Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-Politischem Traktat.
Published/created in: 1930
£1,200
First edition of the philosopher's first book.
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The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: its Basis and its Genesis.
Published/created in: 1936
£1,360
Attractive example of the first edition of Strauss' third work, with the dust-jacket.
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[A Sammelband of Five Manuscript Works].
Published/created in: [c. 1782-1815]
£8,500
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.
Read More Read MoreBERDIAEV, Nikolai Alexandrovich
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Konstantin Leontiev. Ocherk istorii religioznoy mysli. [Constantin Leontyev: Essay from the history of Russian religious thought].
Published/created in: 1926
£250
An excellent, unopened example, in original wrappers, of the first edition of this work where two important Russian thinkers meet.
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