IVANCHIN-PISAREV, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1794-1849). Sochineniia i perevody v stikhakh. [Essays and Translations in Verse.] Moscow: by S. Selivanovskii, 1819. 8° (195 x 124mm). With the leaf of errata. (Light soiling and spotting, short marginal tears.) Contemporary Russian sprinkled half calf, flat spine in blind-tooled compartments, red morocco label (spine ends neatly repaired, extremities rubbed, rear free endpaper adhering to pastedown, cancelled signature on front free endpaper). Provenance: Fyodor Aleksandrovich Vitberg (1846-1919, literary historian; stamp).

IVANCHIN-PISAREV, Nikolai Dmitrievich (1794-1849). Sochineniia i perevody v stikhakh. [Essays and Translations in Verse.] Moscow: by S. Selivanovskii, 1819. 8° (195 x 124mm). With the leaf of errata. (Light soiling and spotting, short marginal tears.) Contemporary Russian sprinkled half calf, flat spine in blind-tooled compartments, red morocco label (spine ends neatly repaired, extremities rubbed, rear free endpaper adhering to pastedown, cancelled signature on front free endpaper). Provenance: Fyodor Aleksandrovich Vitberg (1846-1919, literary historian; stamp).

FIRST EDITION. F.A. Vitberg’s copy of this rare collection of verse by a contemporary of Pushkin. Not in WorldCat; no sale recorded in ABPC or RBH.