![Item #2181 [FIRST GEORGIAN TRANSLATION OF OTHELLO] ot’elo. venetsieli zangi: khutmokmedebiani...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2181.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730203076)
Tbilisi: 1888 (tip. E. Kheladze). 138, [II] pp. 21,9x14,8 cm. In owner’s contemporary quarter cloth binding. Very light soiling of the front wrapper, but otherwise near fine. Extremely rare. First edition. Text in Georgian. The earliest Georgian translation of Shakespeare’s Othello, adapted from English by the noted..... More
![Item #1898 [SHAKESPEARE IN UKRAINE] Antoniy i Kleopatra [i.e. Antony and Cleopatra]. W. Shakespeare](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1898.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703321069)
Lviv: Drukarnya Naukovoho Tovarystva imeny Shevchenka, 1901. XIV, 180 pp. 18.1x12 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Loose, staining to the boards, private library stamps (The Library of V. Simovich) on the title-page and p. 180, previous owner’s ink inscription on the title-page. Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. With..... More
![Item #1899 [SHAKESPEARE IN UKRAINE] Bahats’ko halasu z nechevlya [i.e. Much Ado About Nothing]....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1899.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703321219)
Lviv: Drukarnya Naukovoho Tovarystva imeny Shevchenka, 1901. XII, 102, [4] pp. 18.4x12.3 cm. In original publisher’s cloth binding. Soiling of the boards, lettering on the front board partly erased, occasional neat restoration with tape, private library stamp on the title-page (Viktor Tsebrovsky). Otherwise good. Scarce. First edition. Translated..... More
![Item #713 [SONNETS COMPILATION] Sonety [i.e. Sonnets]. W. Shakespeare](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/713.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1562883060)
[Supplement to the magazine ‘Probuzhdenie’ (i.e. Awakening)]. St. Petersburg: Tovarishhestvo hudozhestvennoi pechati, 1912. 32 pp. 30x21 cm. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. In a very good condition. This collection of sonnets gathered the highlights of the early translations. Among all pieces of Shakespeare’s heritage the sonnets came last into Russian literature..... More
![Item #1753 [OTHELLO ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Otello, venetsianskii mavr. Drama v piati deistviiiakh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1753.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690320984)
Saint Petersburg: V tipografii Snegireva i Ko, 1836. [2], VI, 213, [2] pp. 21,5x13,5 cm. In modern half-leather with covers marbled; gilt lettering on spine. Some soiling of pages, otherwise near fine. Early Russian translation into prose. Very rare. The story of Othello turned up in Russian publications..... More
![Item #1045 [ROMEO AND JULIET IN RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN] Romeo e Guulietta. Romeo i Iuliia: Opera v...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1045.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601474810)
St. Petersburg: Izdanie knigoprodavtsa M.O. Vol’fa, 1871. 23 pp. 26x18,5 cm. In original printed covers. Good, tears of the spine, lacking upper outer corner of last page (text slightly affected) and the back cover, foxing and water stains occasionally. First and lifetime edition of the libretto. Very rare. Italian..... More
![Item #1044 [EARLY TRANSLATION OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE] Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid: Drama v 5...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1044.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601474506)
St. Petersburg: V tip. F. Stellovskogo, 1860. 52 pp. 24x15,5 cm. In modern half-leather binding with marbled covers; gilt lettering on the spine. Title page repared, some soiling, otherwise very good. Facsimile of the translator's signature mounted on the front endpaper. First edition. Very rare. One of the..... More
![Item #2182 [FIRST GEORGIAN TRANSLATION OF HAMLET FROM ENGLISH] hamlet’ daniis p’rintsi: khut...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730203233)
Tbilisi: 1887 (tip. E. Kheladze). 147 pp. 21,9x14,8 cm. In owner’s contemporary quarter cloth binding. Near fine. Extremely rare. Second edition. First edition published in 1886. Text in Georgian. Translated from English. The second Georgian translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet by the noted Georgian writer and publicist..... More
![Item #2599 [HAMLET BY BORIS PASTERNAK] Gamlet, Prints Datskii. Tragediia [i.e. The Tragedy of...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2599.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767877484)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1941. 172 pp., 1 ill. 20 × 13 cm. In original wrappers with decorative frame. Light soiling of wrappers, extremities bumped, creases of corners, otherwise very good and clean pages. First separate edition. Cover design, frontispiece, title page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece were engraved..... More
![Item #1752 [HAMLET ON RUSSIAN STAGE] Gamlet. Tragediia v piati deistviiakh. V stikhakh....](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1752.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690320768)
Saint Petersburg: V Morskoi Tipografii, 1811. [6], 56 pp. 20,5x12,5 cm. In late wrappers with title glued to spine; modern slipcase. Stamp of a theatrical library on t.p., some minor stains, few small tears of covers, otherwise mint. One of the earliest Russian adaptations of the whole story. Very..... More