![[PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837)]. Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1823 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1823]. St Petersburg: V. Grech, 1823. [with] Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1824 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1824]. [with] Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1825 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1825]. St Petersburg: General Military Press, 1824 and 1825.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18441_0081_000(pushkin_alexander_poljarnaja_zvezdana_1823_god_polar_starfor_the_year074307).jpg?w=1)
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[PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837)]. Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1823 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1823]. St Petersburg: V. Grech, 1823. [with] Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1824 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1824]. [with] Poljarnaja Zvezda…na 1825 god. [Polar Star…for the year 1825]. St Petersburg: General Military Press, 1824 and 1825.
The rare complete set of ‘the best literary almanac in Pushkin’s time’ (Smirnov-Sokol’skii). Edited by the authors and Decembrists A. Bestuzhev and K. Ryleev, it appeared in three volumes under this title, inspired by the literary evenings which Ryleev organised in the early days of his poetic career. Although the editors’ poetic ideals did not reflect the neoclassicism of Pushkin’s followers, celebrated in the competing almanac Severnye Tsvety, Poljarnaja Zvezda hosted important works by Zhukovsky, Griboedov and Pushkin himself, including excerpts from Kavkaskij Plennik, and the poems Grechanke, Elegija, and Ovidiju. The almanac’s revolutionary political stance led to the confiscation of the manuscript for the final 1826 issue after the anti-Tsarist revolt of 14 December 1825. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no complete sets being offered at auction. 1: Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1446, 2-3: not in Moia biblioteka; Al’manakhi, 247, 255, 269; Pushkin, 58. V. Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, p. 349.
3 volumes, 12mo (1: 145 x 105mm; 2-3: 123 x 90mm). All with engraved titles, 1: (engraved title slightly browned, intermittent slight foxing or dampstaining, small tear to lower margin of two leaves, one lower corner torn, ink splash on p. 347); 2: with 5 plates and folding music table (engraved title, plates and first two quires soiled and stained with some fraying, small waterstain and little chipping to upper outer corner of few quires, one corner torn, elsewhere some light spotting); 3: with one plate (lacking engraved title and one plate, some browning or dampstaining, heavier to title and last leaf). All in contemporary binding: 1: full calf, marbled endpapers, boards with blind-tooled floral frame, spine gilt (repair to corners, hinges, head and foot of spine); 2: half straight-grained calf over marbled boards, later endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt; 3: half sheep over marbled boards, later endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt (upper hinge cracked at head, spine sunned). Provenance: 1: N. Kimmel (bookseller’s label); erased pencilled annotation in Cyrillic to endleaf, shelfmark paper label to upper cover; 2: inscription in Cyrillic dated 1918 on endleaf; 3: later inscription ‘22’ to title.
The rare complete set of ‘the best literary almanac in Pushkin’s time’ (Smirnov-Sokol’skii). Edited by the authors and Decembrists A. Bestuzhev and K. Ryleev, it appeared in three volumes under this title, inspired by the literary evenings which Ryleev organised in the early days of his poetic career. Although the editors’ poetic ideals did not reflect the neoclassicism of Pushkin’s followers, celebrated in the competing almanac Severnye Tsvety, Poljarnaja Zvezda hosted important works by Zhukovsky, Griboedov and Pushkin himself, including excerpts from Kavkaskij Plennik, and the poems Grechanke, Elegija, and Ovidiju. The almanac’s revolutionary political stance led to the confiscation of the manuscript for the final 1826 issue after the anti-Tsarist revolt of 14 December 1825. Rare: RBH and ABPC record no complete sets being offered at auction. 1: Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1446, 2-3: not in Moia biblioteka; Al’manakhi, 247, 255, 269; Pushkin, 58. V. Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, p. 349.
3 volumes, 12mo (1: 145 x 105mm; 2-3: 123 x 90mm). All with engraved titles, 1: (engraved title slightly browned, intermittent slight foxing or dampstaining, small tear to lower margin of two leaves, one lower corner torn, ink splash on p. 347); 2: with 5 plates and folding music table (engraved title, plates and first two quires soiled and stained with some fraying, small waterstain and little chipping to upper outer corner of few quires, one corner torn, elsewhere some light spotting); 3: with one plate (lacking engraved title and one plate, some browning or dampstaining, heavier to title and last leaf). All in contemporary binding: 1: full calf, marbled endpapers, boards with blind-tooled floral frame, spine gilt (repair to corners, hinges, head and foot of spine); 2: half straight-grained calf over marbled boards, later endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt; 3: half sheep over marbled boards, later endpapers, raised bands, spine gilt (upper hinge cracked at head, spine sunned). Provenance: 1: N. Kimmel (bookseller’s label); erased pencilled annotation in Cyrillic to endleaf, shelfmark paper label to upper cover; 2: inscription in Cyrillic dated 1918 on endleaf; 3: later inscription ‘22’ to title.
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