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IVAN IV -- ODERBORN, Paul (c.1555-d. 1604). Ioannis Basilidis Magni Moscoviae Ducis Vita. Wittenberg: heirs of Johann Crato, 1585. 8° (155 x 98mm). Woodcut portrait title vignette. (Evenly browned, title detached and with loss affecting a few letters.) Near contemporary green limp vellum, upper side and spine lettered in manuscript (lacking front free endpaper, lacking ties, spine faded to brown, some wear). Provenance: an early reader (manuscript index, some marginalia).
RARE FIRST EDITION. AMONG THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF RUSSIA, AND THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE, with a woodcut portrait on the title. ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in 30 years (Swann, 18 January 1990). Russia Engages the West, p.188.
RARE FIRST EDITION. AMONG THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF RUSSIA, AND THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE, with a woodcut portrait on the title. ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in 30 years (Swann, 18 January 1990). Russia Engages the West, p.188.
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