IVAN IV -- SLOVTSEV, P.A. Pokhval'noe Slovo Tsariu Ioannu Vasil'evichu IV. [Praiseworthy Words for Tsar Ivan Vasil'evich IV.] St. Petersburg: at the Medical Press, 1807. 8° (210 x 125mm). (Dampstain.) Contemporary pink boards (lacking front free endpaper, spine and edges chipped and worn). Provenance: Aleksandr Smirdin (both bookplates, one over the other) -- Rossica Antiquariat, Berlin (book ticket) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate designed by Kravtschenko).

IVAN IV -- SLOVTSEV, P.A. Pokhval'noe Slovo Tsariu Ioannu Vasil'evichu IV. [Praiseworthy Words for Tsar Ivan Vasil'evich IV.] St. Petersburg: at the Medical Press, 1807. 8° (210 x 125mm). (Dampstain.) Contemporary pink boards (lacking front free endpaper, spine and edges chipped and worn). Provenance: Aleksandr Smirdin (both bookplates, one over the other) -- Rossica Antiquariat, Berlin (book ticket) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate designed by Kravtschenko).

FIRST EDITION, THE SMIRDIN COPY. Rare: WorldCat records no copies outside of Russia, and COPAC records none in the UK. Smirdin 6510 (this copy); Sopikov 10830.