No 4950 Slides
Ambodik, Nestor Maksimovich
(Botanika, Botany) "VRACHEBNOE VESHCHESTVOSLOVIE ILI OPISANIE TSELITELNIKH RASTENII....."
St. Petersburg, 1785.
Contemporary half calf. Very good. 390 pp. 39 engraved color plates. Vol. 2 (of 4). Ref: Smirdin no. 4520. Obolyaninov no. 1549. Rare color plate book.
Price: 2600 USD

No 4948
(Bantysh-Kamenskii)
"DEYANIYA ZNAMENITIKH POLKOVODTSEV I MINISTROV, SLUZHIVSHIKH V TSARSTVOVANIE PETRA VEIKAGO
Moskva (Moscow), 1812-13.
Disbound. Fragments of vol. 1 and 2. (Vol. 1: Title, engraved frontispiece plate of Peter I, preface, engraved plate of Knyaz Menshikov, pp. 103-171, engraved portraits of Knyaz Repnin and Graf Brjos. Vol. 2: Title, engraved portrait of Graf P. A. Tolstoi, pp:s 79-88). Sold as a small collection of portrait plates. Ref: Obolyaninov 809. Svodnii katalog russkoi knigi 1801-1825, 417. Sopikov 3620. Smirdin 2827.
Price: 675 USD

No 4325
CHURCH SLAVONIC
RUSSIAN BOOK OF HOURS
Kiev, Kievopecerskaija Lavra, 1739.
Preface by Archmandrit Roman. Dedicated to Empress Anna Ivanovna (1730-1740). Contemporary full calf. Spine richly gilt. Four raised binds. All edges gilt, cicelled. Old owners notations on blanks. Full page cuts. Size: 80 x 120 mm. Prayers and short hymns (Troparies) for the Russian Orthodox Church Year (September-August).
Price: 3200 USD

No 4200
CHURCH SLAVONIC
EVANGELIE NAPRESTOLNOE
Lvov, 1704.
Printed at the Lvov Uspensk brotherhood. Folio. 424 leaves (complete). 57 engravings, four full page of the apostles (engraved by Zavadovsky, dated 1681, 1682, 1683).Contemporary satin on wooden boards. 
Ref: KARATAEV 1007. ZAPASKO - ISAEVICH No 795.
Price: 11900 USD

No 4373 Slides
CHURCH SLAVONIC
EVANGELIE NAPRESTOLNOE
Lvov, 1665 Printed at the the printing house of Michael Slyozka, which operated in Lvov 1638-1667.
Over 50 Orthodox and Catholic editions of religious books were printed by this house, all in Church Slavonic and Latin. The Reneaisance art style was reflected in the artistic decoration of books made by Slyozka. Folio, 424 leaves. 25 illustrations (7 full page), numerous large enfangs. Wooden boards covered with later satin, contemporary metal straps depicting the Evangelists. Complete copy in an unusually fine condition, white and crisp paper, only a small number of leaves w. thumbing spots, a few leaves repaired w. no loss of text. Sharp images throughout. As this kind of service books were much used, the condition of this copy is extraordinary. Bibliographic reference: ZAPASKO - ISAEVICH no. 421, Karataev no. 739
Price: 17900 USD

No 4326
CHURCH SLAVONIC
RUSSIAN MINIATURE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT.
N.p., n.d. Ca 1800.
20 leaves. Three full page miniatures (one with small hole in paper), one large initial in red and yellow. Three colored headpieces.
Size: 53 mm x 82 mm. Contemporary repaired calf. Loose.
Price: 2525 USD

No 4324
CHURCH SLAVONIC
PSALTIR
Kiev, Kievopecerskaija Lavra, 1729.
4to. (1) + (16) + 242 leaves. Psaltir in Church-Slavonic. Printed in red and black, engraved plates by Georgie. First 30 leaves with owners notations in lower margin (dated 1733). Contemporary blind stamped calf on wooden boards. On dark red center of front cover ornament of Golgata. Old repairs to title and a few leaves. Lacking clasps. Occasional soiling and staining throughout, but overall very well preserved.
Price: 4780 USD

No 4372 Slides
CHURCH SLAVONIC
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT
Saint John Climacus (c. 525 - 606). Circa 1800.
Beautiful manuscript, neatly handwritten- Initials mostly in red, some in green and yellow. Fullpage colored illumination depicting Climacus The Ladder (The Ladder of Divine Ascent), showing monks ascending and falling from the ladder to heaven, with Jesus at the upper right helping them. The treatise is a guide for practicing a life wholly devoted to God. The ladder metaphor is used to describe how one may ascend into heaven by first renouncing the world and finally ending up in heaven with God. The treatise follow a progression that transitions from start (renunciation of the world) to finish (a life lived in love) by a series of thirty steps. The Ladder is one of the most widely read books among Orthodox Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which immediately precedes Pascha (Easter). Contemporary full leather over wooden boards, blind stamped w. clasps intact. Very well preserved, occasional minor soiling to lower outer margins. 320 leaves on paper.
Price: 3900 USD

No 4366 Slides
CHURCH SLAVONIC
TRIODION - TRIOD PISNA
Lvov, Uspenske Bratstvo (The Uspensk Brotherhood), 1689-90. By the Ukrainian printer Semenom Stavnitsky.
Bibliographic reference: ZAPASKO - ISAEVICH no. 653.
Folio, contemporary full leather over wooden boards.
Complete copy. 438 leaves incl. title. 17 illustrations (13 big or full page and 4 smaller or half page).
A very good complete copy, some candle light spotting along with thumbing in lower outer margins due to use of the service book. Photos on request.
Price: 8900 USD

No 4370 Slides
CHURCH SLAVONIC
TRIODION - TRIOD PISNA
Lvov, Uspenske Bratstvo, 1717
The printer was the well known Ukrainian printer Stavnytsky Petro, in an edition of 1200 copies. Complete copy, 436 leaves, illustrated with 16 engravings by the native artists Nikodim, Vasil and Georgy.
The book is lithurgical, consists of a prayer book for Lenten days. "Triod" means "threesongster", canons with three songs instead of the usual nine. The book was commonly used by the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine.
Folio. Contemporary leather over wooden boards. Usual spotting, thumbing in lower outer margins, candle light spots here and there, some leaves with old repairs. Overall a well preserved and complete copy.
Bibliographic reference: ZAPASKO - ISAEVICH 928
Price: 6900 USD

No 4947
Gakman, Iogann Fridrikh (Hackmann, Johann Friedrich)
KRATKOE ZEMLEOPISANIE ROSSIISKAGO GOSUDARSTVA, IZDANNOE DLYA NARODNIKH UCHILISHCH ROSSIISKOI IMPERII...
St. Petersburg, 1793
Cont. mended and worn binding. X; 175 pp. First few pages spotted, underlinings in text on several pages. 2nd edition (1st ed. was published 1787). Reference: Svodnyi Katalog no. 1228. Rare.
Price: 1550 USD

No 3838
Lomonosov, Mikhail
KRATKOE RUKOVODSTVO K KRASNORECHIYO...RITORIKA...
St Petersburg, Akademii Nauk, 1797.
7 th edition. 312 pp. Contemporary full calf. Repaired title. Repaired upper outer margin to 3/4 of the text block. Lomonosovs manual which contains the famous rhetoric. See KILGOUR 654.
Price: 3700 USD

No 4248
NOVIYA EZHEMESYACHNIYA SOCHINENIYA ....1790 goda
St. Peterburg, 1790 6 issues, July - December 1790, of the periodical journal. Diverse topics. Separate titles to all except the July issue. Uncut, very fine. 6 volumes.
Price: 1800 USD

No 4946
Ovidie
PREVRASHCHENIYA OVIDIEVI, S PRIMECHANIYAMI I ISTORICHESKIMI..... Moskva (Moscow), 1794 Contemporary full calf. 562 pp., engraved plates. Very good. Vol 2 (of 3). Rare. Ref: Smirdin no. 2977.
Price: 1450 USD

No 4945
Severgin, Vasilii (BOTANIKI)
NACHALNIYA OSNOVANIYA ESTESTVENNOI ISTORII....Chast II
St. Petersburg, Imperatorskoi Tip., 1794
Contemporary full calf. 461 pp. Title torn, no loss of text. Very good. Vol. 2 (of 3). Ref: Sopikov no. 2310. Rare.
Price: 1100 USD

No 4708
(Slovenian Testament)
SVETU PISMU STARIGA TESTAMENTA, ID EST: BIBLIA SACRA VETERIS TESTAMENTI
Labaci (Ljubljana), 1791-98.
Two volumes, one contemporary leather, the other modern leather. Translator: Juri Japel and Blashe Kumerdey. Volume 1: Predgovor; 842 pp. Volume 2: 245 pp; 372 (Tih Psalmov) Psalms have a separate title. Very good.
Price: 1200 USD

No 4951 Slides
Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich
POLNOE SOBRANIE VSEKH SOCHINENII V STIKHAKH I PROZE....Vol. V
Moskva (Moscow), 1787
Contemporary full calf. Very good. 348 pp. Second edition.
Containing the comedy plays OPEKUN, LIKHOIMETS, TRI BRATA SOVMESTNIKI, YADOVITII, NARTSISS, PRIDANOE OBMANOM, CHUDOVISHCHI, TRESOTINIUS, PUSTAYA SSORA.
Rare. Bibliographic reference: Svodnii Katalog 6941.
Price: 2450 USD

No 2326
Sumarokov, Aleksandr
DIMITRI SAMOZVANETS
St. Petersburg, Tip. Imp. Teatra, 1807.
XII + 2 + 59 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Repaired portrait, soiled title. Occasional soiling. Later cloth. Second edition. Not in KILGOUR.
Price: 2900 USD