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Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (November 19 [O.S. November 8] 1711 – April 15 [O.S. April 4] 1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.

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    • LOMONOSOV MIKHAIL (1711-1765) Kratoke rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu [A Brief
      Jun. 30, 2023

      LOMONOSOV MIKHAIL (1711-1765) Kratoke rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu [A Brief

      Est: €120 - €150

      LOMONOSOV MIKHAIL (1711-1765) Kratoke rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu [A Brief Guide to Eloquence] Book One Containing Rhetoric Demonstrating the General Rules of Both Eloquence, That is, Oratory and Poetry, Composed for Those Who Love the Sciences of Words." [Second Edition]. St. Petersburg: published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1748. [1765]. - [2], 315, [1] pp. Bound in full leather with remnants of gold embossing along the spine, patterned paper endpapers, triple-tinted edges. An ownership inscription in Latin script with gall nut ink dated April 28, 1776 on the verso of the second flyleaf. There are four editions of "Rhetoric" dated 1748. This edition of "Rhetoric" is the second one, published in 1765 with a print run of 1,200 copies. The typesetting was done based on the correction sheets from 1747-48, revised by Lomonosov's own hand, although some of his corrections were not incorporated. Distinguishing features of the second edition: the last line of §4 on page 2 reads "sim trebovaniyam" ("according to these requirements"). Bibliography: SK XVIII. No. 3744. Содержится риторика показующая общие правила обоего красноречия, то есть оратории и поэзии, сочиненная в пользу любящих словесные науки. - [Второе издание]. СПб.: при Имп. Академии Наук, 1748. [1765]. - [2], 315, [1] с. Цельнокожаный переплет с остатками золотого тиснения по корешку, форзацы из узорной бумаги, тройной тонированный обрез. На обороте второго форзаца владельческая запись орешковыми чернилами латиницей от 28 апреля 1776 г. Имеется четыре издания "Риторики", датированные 1748г. Данное издание "Риторики" - второе, выпущенное в свет в 1765г. тиражом 1 200 экз. Набор производился по корректурным листам 1747-48 гг., правленным рукой Ломоносова, при чем часть его поправок не учтена. Отличительные особенности 2-го изд.: на С. 2 последняя строка §4 - "сим требованиям". Библиография: СК XVIII. №3744.

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    • Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) Kratkoye rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu. [1765]
      Jun. 04, 2020

      Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) Kratkoye rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu. [1765]

      Est: £4,000 - £6,000

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasilevich (1711-1765) . Kratkoye rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu [A quick guide to eloquence]. St Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademia Nauk, 1748 [recte 1765]. First edition, the corrected issue which includes the author’s alterations, of Lomonosov’s enormously influential Rhetoric. Both issues are extremely rare. This is the hugely influential first scientific work of rhetoric in the Russian language, preceded only either by works of religious content or translations from Latin or Greek. Lomonosov’s pioneering manual influenced the theory of rhetoric throughout the 18th and the 19th century. The printing history of this work is complex. Four issues (or indeed editions) appeared with the year 1748 in the printer’s statement. Lomonosov gave work in batches to the printers; the typography was damaged by fire in 1748 before the first ‘issue’ had been finished’; paper shortages affected the production well after the fire – and throughout the publishing of the manual Lomonosov had the means to refine and modify his text. One of the issue points which allow for an issue statement is to be found in p.2, last line of §4 which reads ‘these requirements’ (for an in-depth study of the issues, see A. A. Kostin, K. N. Lemeshev, Mikhail Lomonosov’s “Short Manual in Rhetoric”: The History of the First Edition from 1748, ‘Slovene’, Vol 6, No 2, 2017) . ABPC/RBH show no record of any edition of this work. CK3744; Kilgour 654. Octavo (200 x 118mm) . (Occasional light spotting and staining, some ink staining on title) . Russian contemporary tree calf, paneled spine tooled in blind, morocco lettering-piece (head of spine chipped, corners worn, surface lightly rubbed) . Provenance: unnamed inscription dated 28 April 1776 – small identified rectangular stamp and ink numbering to rear free endleaf.

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    • LOMONOSOV, MICHAEL VASILIEVICH (1711-1765) Compositions : in verse / E
      Oct. 27, 2017

      LOMONOSOV, MICHAEL VASILIEVICH (1711-1765) Compositions : in verse / E

      Est: €400 - €500

      LOMONOSOV, MICHAEL VASILIEVICH (1711-1765) Compositions : in verse / Edited [with pref.] Ars. I. Vedenskiy. - 2-d ed. Saint-Petersburg : A.F.Marks, 1897. - 352 p., 1 p. Frontal portrait; 20 cm. Delicate fabric cover with ornament embossing on covers and on a back. Marbled edges, biographical essay and portrait of Lomonosov, engraved on steel by I.F. Deininger in Munich. Armorial ex libris of the Prince K.Narishkin.on flyleaf Provenance : Prince Narishkin Kirill Vasilievich (1877 – 1950). Collegiate assessor, master of ceremonies, diplomat, collector and bibliophile. Last first Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Paris (1910- 1917). A treasure of an exceptional value (more than 2000 pieces of silverware) was recently discovered in his house in St. Petersburg during renovation works. They were immured in one of the rooms of the mansion during the revolution of 1917. ЛОМОНОСОВ, МИХАИЛ ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ (1711-1765). Сочинения : В стихах / Под ред. [и с предисл.] Арс.И. Введенского. - 2-е изд. Санкт-Петербург : А.Ф. Маркс, 1897. - 352 с., 1 л. фронт. (портр.); 20 см. Изящный тканевый переплет с орнаментированным тиснением по крышкам и корешку. Обрезы «под мрамор». С биогр. очерком и портр. Ломоносова, грав. на стали И.Ф. Дейнингером в Мюнхене. На форзаце гербовый экслибрис князя К. НАРЫШКИНА. Провенанс: НАРЫШКИН Кирилл Васильевич, князь (1877 – 1950). Коллежский асессор, церемониймейстер, дипломат, коллекционер и библиофил. Последний первый секретарь посольства России в Париже (1910–1917). Именно в доме, принадлежавшем князю Нарышкину, был обнаружен недавно в Петербурге, во время ремонтных работ, клад исключительной ценности (более 2000 единиц серебряных изделий). Предметы были замурованы в одной из комнат особняка во время революции 1917 года.

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    • LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Drevniaia Rossiiskaia Istoriia ot nachala Rossiiskago Naroda do konchiny Velikago Kniazia Iaroslava Pervavo ili do 1054 goda . [Ancient Russian History.] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences,
      Nov. 30, 2010

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Drevniaia Rossiiskaia Istoriia ot nachala Rossiiskago Naroda do konchiny Velikago Kniazia Iaroslava Pervavo ili do 1054 goda . [Ancient Russian History.] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences,

      Est: £3,000 - £5,000

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Drevniaia Rossiiskaia Istoriia ot nachala Rossiiskago Naroda do konchiny Velikago Kniazia Iaroslava Pervavo ili do 1054 goda. [Ancient Russian History.] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1766. Two parts in 1 vol., 4° (c.220 x c.180mm). Collates as per SK 3738: pp.[6], 140. (Occasional mostly marginal dampstain, some spotting and light soiling on the title, leaf R1 with two long tears and some loss in the blank margin.) Uncut and with deckle edges in an early 20th-century temporary card cover binding preserving the original blue paper rear wrapper). FIRST EDITION OF LOMONOSOV'S HISTORY OF EARLY RUSSIA. It is a tall, uncut copy with deckle edge of his largest work of history. Lomonosov had finished the work in 1758 but stopped its publication, and once again in 1763, unhappy with the typesetting. Bitovt 3127; Sopikov 6012; SK 3738 (variant 1, with the last leaf reading 'konets vtoroi chasti').

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    • LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Kratkoi Rossiiskoi Letopisets s Rodosloviem . [A Short Chronicle of Russia with a Genealogy]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1760.
      Nov. 29, 2007

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Kratkoi Rossiiskoi Letopisets s Rodosloviem . [A Short Chronicle of Russia with a Genealogy]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1760.

      Est: £3,000 - £5,000

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Kratkoi Rossiiskoi Letopisets s Rodosloviem. [A Short Chronicle of Russia with a Genealogy]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1760. 8° (164 x 111mm). Engraved head- and tail-pieces and engraved vignettes throughout. (Light browning, some light staining.) Near contemporary marbled boards (spine chipped and with old repair, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Sergei Aleksandrovich Rinkevich (stamp). FIRST EDITION of a work originally written as a textbook for the Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, composed by Lomonosov at the same time as his Ancient Russian History. It includes a chronological list of princes and rulers from Riurik to Peter the Great, with a supplement by A.I. Bogdanov, librarian of the Academy of Sciences. Lomonosov began his historical researches in 1753, after Elizabeth I had expressed an interest in reading Russian history written 'in the style' of Lomonosov, and indeed demand for a work such as this Chronicle was so great that it was reprinted twice by 1761; the second and third editions, however, differ slightly from this first. Katalog Russkago Otdela 149; Kilgour 658; SK 3740; Smirnov-Sokol'skii Moia Biblioteka vol. 1, p.99; Sopikov 6013.

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    • LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Autograph manuscript transcription of Ars Poetica . [Moscow: 1734 and earlier].
      Nov. 29, 2007

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Autograph manuscript transcription of Ars Poetica . [Moscow: 1734 and earlier].

      Est: £10,000 - £15,000

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich (1711-1765). Autograph manuscript transcription of Ars Poetica. [Moscow: 1734 and earlier]. Manuscript on paper, 133 leaves (lacking first leaf and possibly six from last gathering), 200 x 155mm, text in Latin in black ink, occasional manuscript annotations in Latin, a few in Russian, later pagination with errors. (First five leaves with margins strengthened and restored, rather browned and dampstained throughout.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards (rebacked and restored). Provenance: M.V. Lomonosov -- Joasaph Chotuncensky (inscription in the bottom margin of the first few leaves recording the gift: 'Dono Venit Mosquae ab Ipso Rhetorices Studioso Michaele Lomonosov 1734 anno'). AN IMPORTANT LOMONOSOV MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTING HIS STUDY OF POETRY. Lomonosov, 'the first university in Russia' in the words of Pushkin, was a prodigious polymath. But it is for his contribution to Russian letters that he is best know: for enabling modern literary Russian to move forward from its Slavonic roots. This manuscript, made during his studies at the Moscow Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy, records some of Lomonosov's first steps in his reform of the Russian language, which culminated in 1755 with the publication of his fundamental Russian grammar. NO LOMONOSOV MANUSCRIPT OF SUCH IMPORTANCE IS KNOWN TO US IN PRIVATE HANDS. This manuscript bears great similarities to the two surviving works transcribed by him: Naturalis Scientia vulgo Physica, and Artis Rhetoricae (now in Moscow's Lomonosov University), both also written while at the Moscow Academy. But it is unknown to Tsenakal, and to Lur-Saluces, who knew the Artis Rhetoricae, when he discussed the importance of poetry in Lomonosov's studies with Feofan Prokopovich: poetry 'was considered a science which aimed to interpret human life and human nature. It owed its fundamental rules to the great Classical authors [and its study] revealed the rhythmic prowess of its various forms' (Lur-Saluces, p.52). The present manuscript follows such a programme of exposition: the first part divides into five sections, 'De Necessitate artis Poúeos, De Tropis Figuris, De Carmine latino in communi, De Subsidio Carminis' and 'De Carmine in specie'; the second with the subheading 'De Oratione Locuta' has three sections, 'De Periodis, De Amplificatione' and 'De Chria'. The last leaf forms the latter part of an index. Lur-Saluces, Lomonossoff. Le prodigieux Moujik, Paris 1933); Tsenakal, Lomonosov, Moscow 1965, p.41.

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    • LOMONOSOV, Mikhail (1711-1765). Rossiiskaya Grammatika. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy
      Nov. 30, 2006

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail (1711-1765). Rossiiskaya Grammatika. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy

      Est: £4,000 - £6,000

      LOMONOSOV, Mikhail (1711-1765). Rossiiskaya Grammatika. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1755 [but 1765]. 8° (198 x 125mm). As issued, without frontispiece. (Inner margin of title repaired with some loss, occasional faint dampstain, a few tears, some repaired.) Contemporary quarter calf (later corners, rubbed). Provenance: deleted shelf-marks on title and endpapers. LOMONOSOV'S PHILOLOGICAL MASTERPIECE, which reformed literary Russian and remained the standard grammar well into the 19 t h century. This copy shows a contemporary manuscript shelf-mark on the endpaper and spine, possibly in the hand of Catherine II's librarian. The work was dedicated to the young Tsarevich Paul, who was born a year earlier, and publication was timed to coincide with the inauguration of Moscow University in 1755 -- the result of tireless efforts, and the source of great pride for Lomonosov. This copy is from the second edition, also dated 1755 on the title, but with the paper watermarked '1764'. Both lifetime editions are VERY RARE. Bitovt 1191; Sopikov 2951; SK 3775.

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