![IVAN IV, the Terrible -- Tsarstvennaya Kniga. [The Book of the Tsar that is the chronicle of the reign of Ivan Vasil'evich]. St. Petersburg: [M.M. Shcherbatov] at the press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0019_000(010839).jpg?w=1)
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IVAN IV, the Terrible -- Tsarstvennaya Kniga. [The Book of the Tsar that is the chronicle of the reign of Ivan Vasil'evich]. St. Petersburg: [M.M. Shcherbatov] at the press of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1769.
4° (270 x 200mm). (Lacks engraved plate.) Contemporary half-calf (worn, spine defective, lower cover detached). Provenance: contemporary manuscript shelf-mark ('1085' on front paste-down, and large '+' near the hinge) -- A. Smirdin (bookplates) -- Rossica (small bookplate) -- Paul M. Fekula.
FIRST EDITION. THE SMIRDIN COPY with the early and late bookplates. The first publication of a Muscovite chronicle, written in the third quarter of the 16th century, detailing the events of the first twenty years of the reign of Ivan IV (1533-53). With an introduction by M.M. Shcherbatov. Bitovt 1680; Drage 780; Fekula 1735 (this copy); Smirdin 2596; Sopikov 5237; SK 8080
4° (270 x 200mm). (Lacks engraved plate.) Contemporary half-calf (worn, spine defective, lower cover detached). Provenance: contemporary manuscript shelf-mark ('1085' on front paste-down, and large '+' near the hinge) -- A. Smirdin (bookplates) -- Rossica (small bookplate) -- Paul M. Fekula.
FIRST EDITION. THE SMIRDIN COPY with the early and late bookplates. The first publication of a Muscovite chronicle, written in the third quarter of the 16
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