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KURIS -- ERASMUS, Desiderius (c.1466-1536). Anatomia Martynusa Lutra. [Krakow: Bazyli Skalski, 1619.]
4° (180 x 135mm). (Lacking title, some repairs in the margins.) 19th-century tan morocco by Marius Michel with his stamp, spine titled in gilt, sides centred with the Kuris super ex libris, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Ivan Ivanovich Kuris (1840-1898; binding).
THE IVAN KURIS COPY, BOUND FOR HIM BY MARIUS MICHEL, WITH HIS ARMS ON THE COVERS. Books from the Kuris collection are very rare: some of this famed library was nationalized after the revolution and went to the Tsarskoe Selo Museum and Hermitage; but Vengerov also records that in September 1917 local farmers sacked the estate, piled books in the yard and burned these. Vengerov also records that officers in the Volunteer Army visited the estate later in 1918, and found two wells completely clogged with books. The super ex libris on this Michel binding is Druzhinin's variant 3, with the motto 'Da budet pravda'. Druzhinin, Russkii geral'dicheckii superekslibris, pp. 101-105; Estreicher, Bibliografia Polska, Part 3, vol. 5, p.83; Nowak, Kontrereformacyjna Satyra Obyczajowa w Polsce XVII Wieku, pl.12; Vengerov, V nekotorom tsarstve, 75.
4° (180 x 135mm). (Lacking title, some repairs in the margins.) 19th-century tan morocco by Marius Michel with his stamp, spine titled in gilt, sides centred with the Kuris super ex libris, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Ivan Ivanovich Kuris (1840-1898; binding).
THE IVAN KURIS COPY, BOUND FOR HIM BY MARIUS MICHEL, WITH HIS ARMS ON THE COVERS. Books from the Kuris collection are very rare: some of this famed library was nationalized after the revolution and went to the Tsarskoe Selo Museum and Hermitage; but Vengerov also records that in September 1917 local farmers sacked the estate, piled books in the yard and burned these. Vengerov also records that officers in the Volunteer Army visited the estate later in 1918, and found two wells completely clogged with books. The super ex libris on this Michel binding is Druzhinin's variant 3, with the motto 'Da budet pravda'. Druzhinin, Russkii geral'dicheckii superekslibris, pp. 101-105; Estreicher, Bibliografia Polska, Part 3, vol. 5, p.83; Nowak, Kontrereformacyjna Satyra Obyczajowa w Polsce XVII Wieku, pl.12; Vengerov, V nekotorom tsarstve, 75.
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