![Item #2120 [FIRST BOOK IN RUSSIAN ABOUT BYRON] Zapiski o lorde Bairone [i.e. Journal of the...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724759543)
St. Petersburg: tip. N. Grecha, 1835. Vol.1. [4], VIII, 197 pp., [1] front.; Vol.2. [4], 153 pp. 8vo. Lord Byron's portrait on the frontispiece. Two volumes in contemporary quarter-leather bindings, with gilt-lettering on spines. Labels on spines, some rubbings to covers, pre-revolutionary library stamps (Tallinn), foxing. Rare, especially with..... More
![Item #1046 [FIRST RUSSIAN COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING POETS] Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1046.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601474980)
St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Kotomina, 1875. XXXII, 448 pp. 26,5x19 cm. In contemporary red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and colored decorative elements on the front cover. Some rubbing and foxing, lack of the front flyleaf, otherwise very good. First and only edition. This is the..... More
![Item #13 [PERESTROYKA BURGESS] Zavodnoi apel’sin [i.e. A clockwork orange] / Roman. Perevod s...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660927579)
Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literature, 1991. 156, [4] pp. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers by S. Lemekhov. Very good / near fine. The first Russian edition of A Clockwork Orange, published in May 1991 (the month before the collapse of the Soviet Union). The challenge for the translator was to handle Burgess’s..... More
![Item #105 [DICKENS IN ARMENIAN] Dawit Kopperfild : kensagrakan vep, patkerazard [i.e. David...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/105.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472301028)
Tiflis: Armenian publishing house number 9; Azanyants typography, 1912. [4], IX, 458, [1] pp., 1 port., 15 ill. 8vo. Contemporary binding with modern spine. Good and clean copy. Rare. Illustrated edition – the pictures apparently have been taken from an English edition of the time. 20 chapters from David..... 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 #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 #134 [EARLY EDWARD YOUNG TRANSLATION] Stihotvoricheskie krasoty Eduarda Yonga [i.e. The...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472322029)
Moscow: Kryazhev and May, 1806. [4], 362, [13] p., 1 frontispiece. 17,7x11,4 cm. Contemporary full leather. Title of the book gilt on the spine. Tiny hole in the title page, some stains but overall very good condition. Owner’s inscription ‘Shilovoy Tatiany’ on the endpapers done in the first quarter of..... More
![Item #21 [FIRST ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN EDITION OF THREE MEN IN THE BOAT] Troye v lodke. (Ne schitaya...](https://bookvica.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1446489612)
St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Volf, [1907]. [4], IV, VI, 296 pp., 1 front., 19 ill. 8vo. Original red cloth gold and black stamped binding, decorated endpapers in black and gold. Restorations to the spine, covers rubbed, some spots and light wear of the pages. This edition with 20 plates..... 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