GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit.] St. Petersburg: Aleksandr Smirdin, 1854. 8° (165 x 110mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Nikolai Utkin. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian dark green half leather (extremities rubbed). Provenance: A. Mel'nikov (title signature) -- Russian Imperial Mission in Persia (stamp).
A FINE SMIRDIN PUBLICATION COMPLETE WITH THE RARE PORTRAIT BY UTKIN, and in a contemporary binding.
GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit.] St. Petersburg: Aleksandr Smirdin, 1854. 8° (165 x 110mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Nikolai Utkin. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian dark green half leather (extremities rubbed). Provenance: A. Mel'nikov (title signature) -- Russian Imperial Mission in Persia (stamp).
A FINE SMIRDIN PUBLICATION COMPLETE WITH THE RARE PORTRAIT BY UTKIN, and in a contemporary binding.
![GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit.] St. Petersburg: Aleksandr Smirdin, 1854. 8° (165 x 110mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Nikolai Utkin. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian dark green half leather (extremities rubbed). Provenance: A. Mel'nikov (title signature) -- Russian Imperial Mission in Persia (stamp).](/lot-images/5327631/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05475_0297_000(griboedov_aleksandr_sergeevich_gore_ot_uma_[woe_from_wit]_st_petersbur072748).jpg?maxwidth=3840)