![[HERZEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1812-1870).] ISKANDER. Poliarnaia zvezda. [The Pole Star.] London: Trübner & Co., 1858-'1861' [but 1862]. 8 volumes in 7, 8° (215 x 130mm). Lithographed frontispiece portrait on china of Iakushkin in vol. 7. (Some vols with margins browned, occasional spotting.) Contemporary French red quarter roan, with the original printed wrappers bound-in (lacking rear wrapper of vol. 7-1, some wrappers browned, extremities rubbed, remnant of label on verso of first front wrapper).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0416_000(herzen_aleksandr_ivanovich_iskander_poliarnaia_zvezda_the_pole_star_lo080624).jpg?w=1)
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[HERZEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1812-1870).] ISKANDER. Poliarnaia zvezda. [The Pole Star.] London: Trübner & Co., 1858-'1861' [but 1862]. 8 volumes in 7, 8° (215 x 130mm). Lithographed frontispiece portrait on china of Iakushkin in vol. 7. (Some vols with margins browned, occasional spotting.) Contemporary French red quarter roan, with the original printed wrappers bound-in (lacking rear wrapper of vol. 7-1, some wrappers browned, extremities rubbed, remnant of label on verso of first front wrapper).
'THE FIRST ORGAN WHOLLY DEDICATED TO UNCOMPROMISING AGITATION AGAINST THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN REGIME' (Berlin). First editions of volumes 5-7 and second edition of volumes 1-4, COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. A final volume was published in Switzerland 7 years later, in 1869. The first chapters of Herzen's My Past and Thoughts , among the finest examples of autobiography in Russian, were first published here. Berlin, Against the Current, p.199. (7)
'THE FIRST ORGAN WHOLLY DEDICATED TO UNCOMPROMISING AGITATION AGAINST THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN REGIME' (Berlin). First editions of volumes 5-7 and second edition of volumes 1-4, COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. A final volume was published in Switzerland 7 years later, in 1869. The first chapters of Herzen's My Past and Thoughts , among the finest examples of autobiography in Russian, were first published here. Berlin, Against the Current, p.199. (7)