Lot 371: 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,

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').