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IVAN IV, the Terrible -- ODERBORN, Paul (d. 1604). Wunderbare Geschichte des Grossfürsten in der Moschkaw Joan Basilidis. Görlitz: Fritsch, 1589.
4° (180 x 140mm). Engraved title vignette with early hand-colour. (Evenly browned, occasional light soiling, occasional dampstain in top margin, wear with small loss in margins of title, a very few shoulder-notes just trimmed.) Later full vellum over wooden boards (a remboitage). Provenance: contemporary reader (occasional marginalia).
RARE. AMONG THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF RUSSIA, AND THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE, with an engraved portrait on the title. This German edition, first published by Fritsch in 1588 and again in 1596, is a translation of the Latin edition published in Wittenberg in 1585. All editions are rare. ABPC DOES NOT RECORD A COPY OF ANY OF THE FRITSCH EDITIONS SELLING AT AUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS. WorldCat lists only one copy in America, at Ohio State (this one with a Nuremberg imprint). Rovinskii, Slovar' gravirovannikh portretov II, pp.1022-3; Russia Engages the World, p.188 (the Latin edition); Sobolevski 2534.
4° (180 x 140mm). Engraved title vignette with early hand-colour. (Evenly browned, occasional light soiling, occasional dampstain in top margin, wear with small loss in margins of title, a very few shoulder-notes just trimmed.) Later full vellum over wooden boards (a remboitage). Provenance: contemporary reader (occasional marginalia).
RARE. AMONG THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS OF RUSSIA, AND THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE, with an engraved portrait on the title. This German edition, first published by Fritsch in 1588 and again in 1596, is a translation of the Latin edition published in Wittenberg in 1585. All editions are rare. ABPC DOES NOT RECORD A COPY OF ANY OF THE FRITSCH EDITIONS SELLING AT AUCTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS. WorldCat lists only one copy in America, at Ohio State (this one with a Nuremberg imprint). Rovinskii, Slovar' gravirovannikh portretov II, pp.1022-3; Russia Engages the World, p.188 (the Latin edition); Sobolevski 2534.
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