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Image for BONA. Manuductio ad coelum. First edition in Latin printed in Russia. Moscow, 1801. #2

Strict Catholic life printed in Moscow in Latin - unusual and very rare

Manuductio ad coelum.. [Guide to Heaven]

£1,850

Strict Catholic life printed in Moscow in Latin - unusual and very rare
BONA, Giovanni. Manuductio ad coelum... [Guide to Heaven]
Published/created in: 1801

£1,850

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

Produced by British people in St. Petersburg

[BIBLE, RUSSIAN]

Gospoda Nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie [...] i Deianii i Desiat Poslanii Sviatykh Apostolov na Slavianskom i Russkom narechii [Holy Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in Slavonic and Russian]

£975

Produced by British people in St. Petersburg
[BIBLE, RUSSIAN]. Gospoda Nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie [...] i Deianii i Desiat Poslanii Sviatykh Apostolov na Slavianskom i Russkom narechii. [Holy Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in Slavonic and Russian]
Published/created in: 1820

£975

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.

Image for A. WEGIERSKI - REGENVOLSCIUS. Systema...Ecclesiarum Slavonicarum... First edition, Utrecht, 1652. #2

With great provenance in interesting binding

[WEGIERSKI, Andrzej, also WENGIERSKI] Adrianus REGENVOLSCIUS

Systema historico-chronologicum, Ecclesiarum Slavonicarum pre provincias varias, Praecipue, Poloniae, Bohemiae, Lituaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Moraviae, &c..

£1,450

With great provenance in interesting binding
[WEGIERSKI, Andrzej, also WENGIERSKI] Adrianus REGENVOLSCIUS. Systema historico-chronologicum, Ecclesiarum Slavonicarum pre provincias varias, Praecipue, Poloniae, Bohemiae, Lituaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Moraviae, &c...
Published/created in: 1652

£1,450

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 BOSSUET & BEDRINKSII. Politika [Politique tirée de l'Ecriture Sainte]. First Russian edition, St. Petersburg, 1802. In red morocco. #2

The Tsar, like the Sun King, reigns as God's minister

[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator)

Politika iz samykh slov Sviashchennogo pisaniia [Politique tirée de l'Écriture sainte]

£3,950

The Tsar, like the Sun King, reigns as God's minister
[BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne] Iakov Benign BOSSIUET and Ioann IOANNOV [Ivan BEDRINSKII] (translator). 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.

Image for [BIBLE, Slavonic]. Evangelie [Gospels]. First edition under Catherine the Great. Complete. Moscow, 1762. #2

Catherine the Great's first Gospels, attractively bound

[BIBLE, Slavonic] – Vailei IKONNIKOV (engraver) and Semen VTOROV (artist)

Evangelie [Gospels]

£8,500

Catherine the Great's first Gospels, attractively bound
[BIBLE, Slavonic] - Vailei IKONNIKOV (engraver) and Semen VTOROV (artist). 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.

Image for L. TOLSTOY. Kritika dogmaticheskogo bogosloviia [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]. First edition, rare. Geneva, 1891-96. #2

First copy on the market in 40 years

Kritika dogmaticheskago bogosloviia [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]

£3,750

First copy on the market in 40 years
TOLSTOY, Lev. Kritika dogmaticheskago bogosloviia. [Critique of Dogmatic Theology]
Published/created in: 1891-6

£3,750

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.

Image for P. RYCHKOV. Essay on the History of Kazan. First edition, in original Russian, St. Petersburg, 1767. #2

First edition of a groundbreaking work on one of Russia's major regions

Opyt kazanskoi istorii drevnikh i srednikh vremian [Essay on the History of Kazan in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages]

£10,000

First edition of a groundbreaking work on one of Russia's major regions
RYCHKOV, Petr. Opyt kazanskoi istorii drevnikh i srednikh vremian. [Essay on the History of Kazan in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages]
Published/created in: 1767

£10,000

A major work in Catherine the Great's active discovery of her empire: the first printed book on Kazan, its history and the Tatar region. First edition, in contemporary binding. Rare: the last copy at auction in the West was 50 years ago.

Image for BOTKIN. Sobranie. First edition of his art collection. St. Petersburg, 1911. #2

One of the great art collections in the world

BOTKIN, Mikhail Petrovich

Sobranie M.P. Botkina [The Collection of M.P. Botkin]

£3,950

One of the great art collections in the world
BOTKIN, Mikhail Petrovich. Sobranie M.P. Botkina. [The Collection of M.P. Botkin]
Published/created in: [1911]

£3,950

Lavish catalogue of this amazing art collection, now in the best museums of Russia. With more than 100 plates showing items from Byzantine, French, Italian, Caucasian cultures among others. A pleasant example of this volume, now very rarely seen on the market.

Image for S. COLLINS. Present State of Russia. First edition, London, 1671. #2

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms

[COLLINS, Samuel]

The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years

£3,000

Drunk "very unhandsome" Circassian ladies and Russian mushrooms
[COLLINS, Samuel]. The Present State of Russia, in a Letter to a Friend at London, written by an eminent person residing at the great czars court at Mosco [sic] for the space of nine years.
Published/created in: 1671

£3,000

Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, with an important portrait of Tsar Alexei and a famous chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes. Attractive example of the first edition.

Image for V. SMIRNOV. Turkish Legends... First edition in the original Russian. St. Petersburg, 1897. #2

By the first major Russian scholar of Turkey and the Ottoman empire

SMIRNOV, Vasilii

Turetskie legendy o sviatoi Sofii i o drugikh vizantiiskikh drevnostiakh [The Turkish Legends of St. Sophia and Other Byzantine Antiquities]

£950

By the first major Russian scholar of Turkey and the Ottoman empire
SMIRNOV, Vasilii. Turetskie legendy o sviatoi Sofii i o drugikh vizantiiskikh drevnostiakh. [The Turkish Legends of St. Sophia and Other Byzantine Antiquities]
Published/created in: 1897

£950

Fine copy of this large-format scholarly publication, bringing to the public for the first time an Ottoman manuscript kept in the then British Museum, especially remarkable for its detailed account of Constantinople.

Image for GOSPELS in Russian, in miniature format. Moscow, 1907-09. #2

Faith in your pocket

[BIBLE, Russian]

Gospada Nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie ot Matfeia/Marka/Luki/Ioanna [Our Lord Jesus Christ's Holy Gospel of Matthew/Mark/Luke/John]

£2,500

Faith in your pocket
[BIBLE, Russian]. Gospada Nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie ot Matfeia/Marka/Luki/Ioanna. [Our Lord Jesus Christ's Holy Gospel of Matthew/Mark/Luke/John]
Published/created in: 1907-1909

£2,500

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.

Image for COLLINS, S. Estat présent de la Russie. Edition originale en français, Paris, 1679. #2

Account of 17th-c. Russia from a 'cabinet de lecture'

[COLLINS, Samuel]

Relation curieuse de l'estat present de la Russie

£2,000

Account of 17th-c. Russia from a 'cabinet de lecture'
[COLLINS, Samuel]. Relation curieuse de l'estat present de la Russie.
Published/created in: 1679

£2,000

Great (if often negative) early account of pre-petrine Russia, here in an unusual, uncut copy of the first French edition, from a private lending library with the label detailing its lending conditions. Includes the famous illustrated chapter on mushrooms - among many other remarks and anecdotes.

Image for ALBERT & MEKHITAR. Mec Alpert [Compendium of Theology of St. Albert]. First edition, Venice, 1715-16. #2

Mekhitar of Sebaste arrives in Venice

ALBERT 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]

£14,500

Mekhitar of Sebaste arrives in Venice
ALBERT 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]
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.

Image for Armenian Bible, edited by H. ZOHRAPIAN. First edition, 4 volumes, complete. Venice, 1805 #2

"One does not have to go very far to gain an immense appreciation for the magnitude of Zohrapian's contribution" (Cox)

[ARMENIAN BIBLE] – ZOHRAPIAN, Hovhannes (editor)

A[stuats]ashunch' matean hin ew nor ktakaranats' ěst chshgrit t'argmanu[t']ean nakhneats' merots' i hellenakann hawatarmagoyn bnagrē i haykakans barbaṛ hashkhatasirut'[en]ē Hovhannu Zōhrapean [Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.[...] With prefaces to each book and an appendix of Apocryphal writings]

£4,250

"One does not have to go very far to gain an immense appreciation for the magnitude of Zohrapian's contribution" (Cox)
[ARMENIAN BIBLE] - ZOHRAPIAN, Hovhannes (editor). A[stuats]ashunch' matean hin ew nor ktakaranats' ěst chshgrit t'argmanu[t']ean nakhneats' merots' i hellenakann hawatarmagoyn bnagrē i haykakans barbaṛ hashkhatasirut'[en]ē Hovhannu Zōhrapean. [Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testament.[...] With prefaces to each book and an appendix of Apocryphal writings]
Published/created in: 1805

£4,250

A landmark edition of the Armenian Bible, in a pleasant example. Rarely found.

Image for SOLOVETSKY Monastery. Istoriia..., first edition, Skt. Peterburg, 1899. #2

Beautiful White Sea monastery turned GULAG camp

[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]

Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]

£650

Beautiful White Sea monastery turned GULAG camp
[IOANNIKII, I.F., Archimadrite]. Istoriia pervoklassnogo stavropigialnogo Solovetskogo monastyria. [History of Stavropegic first-class Solovetsky Monastery]
Published/created in: 1899

£650

Very good copy of this uncommon illustrated history of one of the most famous monasteries of Russia. With two large folding plans.

Image for SCLEISSING, G.A. La Religion des Moscovites, rare edition of 1705, with plates by Picart. #2

With Russian soldiers chasing a monkey

[SCHLEISSING, Georg Adam]

La Religion ancienne et moderne des Moscovites

£975

With Russian soldiers chasing a monkey
[SCHLEISSING, Georg Adam]. La Religion ancienne et moderne des Moscovites.
Published/created in: 1705

£975

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.

Image for [BELLARMINO]. Dottrina cristiana in Georgian, first edition. Rome, 1741. #2

Out of stock

Travelling catechism for the Caucasus

[BELLARMINO, Roberto and David TLUK’AANT [also TLUKAANTI], David (translator)]

Sakrist'iano Modzghuareba [Christian Instruction/Doctrine]

Travelling catechism for the Caucasus
[BELLARMINO, Roberto and David TLUK'AANT [also TLUKAANTI], David (translator)]. Sakrist'iano Modzghuareba. [Christian Instruction/Doctrine]
Published/created in: 1741

£2,250

Fresh example of this small book, printed by the Catholiocs in Rome for missions in Georgia. First edition in Georgian, rare.

Image for J. HERBINIUS. Religiosae Kijovienses cryptae, sive Kijovia subterranea. First edition, Jena, 1675. #2

Out of stock

Ukrainian and Orthodox traditions through a lenient Protestant lens

HERBINIUS, M. Johannes

Religiosae Kijovienses cryptae, sive Kijovia subterranea: in quibus labyrinthus sub terra, et in eo emortua, à sexcentis annis, divorum atque heroum Graeco-Ruthenorum... corpora

Ukrainian and Orthodox traditions through a lenient Protestant lens
HERBINIUS, M. Johannes. Religiosae Kijovienses cryptae, sive Kijovia subterranea: in quibus labyrinthus sub terra, et in eo emortua, à sexcentis annis, divorum atque heroum Graeco-Ruthenorum... corpora.
Published/created in: 1675

£5,500

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.

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