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Ivan the Terrible's Russia

POSSEVINO, Antonio

Moscovia, et alia opera, de statu huius seculi, adversus Catholicae Ecclesiae hostes. Nunc primo in unum volumen collecta, atq. ab ipsomet auctore emendate & aucta

Publication: Birckmann, for A. Mylius, [Cologne], 1587.

POSSEVINO, Antonio, Moscovia, et alia opera, de statu huius seculi, adversus Catholicae Ecclesiae hostes. Nunc primo in unum volumen collecta, atq. ab ipsomet auctore emendate & aucta

Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia.

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One of the most important descriptions of Russian in the 16th century. After the first edition in Vilna in a year before, this scarce third edition has been amended and extended.

The Jesuit Possevino was sent to Moscow as a legate of Pope Gregory XIII to Tsar Ivan IV in 1581, his mission being to make peace with the King of Poland and also to encourage Ivan the Terrible to go to war with the Turks and adopt the Roman Catholic faith.

The work contains much material on the topography, people etc. of the State of Muscovy as well as of the Baltic and Poland.

Provenance

Pr. Philip Longworth (1933-2020, historian, writer and book collector, esp. on Russian history).

Bibliography

Adelung I, 321-325; Cat. Russica P-1097; De Backer/Sommervogel VI, 1072; VD16 P4459.

Item number

2578

 

Physical Description

Small folio (29.5 x 20 cm). [8], 392, [12, index] pp.

Condition

Early ownership inscription on title and later library stamp in margin, occasional browning and spotting or waterstaining, a few margins with slight worming.

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