Lot 97
  • 97

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Manuscript volume including fifteen poems by Pushkin
written in Russian, including poems entitled "Moldovanskaya pesnya", "Muza", "Urok lyubvi", "Epigramma", "Derevnya", "Svoboda", "Elegiya", "K Lidi", "Usy", "K shcherbinu", "Epilog...Ruslan i Lyumila", "Kinzhal", "Smert' Napoleona" and others: together with poems by Konstantin Ryleev, Viazemsky, Arkady Rodzianko, and, written in French, poems by Lamartine, J.B. Rousseau, Parny, Voltaire, Ginguené (La Confession de Zulmé) etc.



8vo (c. 185 x 115mm.), 97 pages, English paper (watermarked 1809), contemporary textured calf, black-gilt inlaid borders, brass clasps, first half of the nineteenth century, apparently lacking owner's title-page

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