'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first
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'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first edition of the Bible printed in St. Petersburg, engraved title bordered by nine lush cartouches with allegorical images, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, engraved illustration at head of Genesis depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, numerous woodcut decorations and initials, text leaves within typographic borders, first few ff. washed and cleaned, some marginal water-staining, mostly to last two dozen leaves, contemporary calf, upper cover blind-stamped central oval with imperial two-headed eagle with three crowns, framed with olive branches and flowers, lower cover with vignette of a floral motif, spine titled in gilt and with raised bands, marbled endpapers, faded gilt edges, rubbed, head of spine and one section restored (leather added, not recently), folio (408 x 258mm.), St. Petersburg, V Tipografii Alexandro-Nevskogo Monastyria, 1751.
*** The first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible", the collective name for the translation of the Bible into Church Slavonic, published during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The text was based on the translations to Church Slavonic done in Ostrog in 1570s (which resulted in the production of the Ostrog Bible in 1580) and Moscow in 1660s (Bible printed in 1663 in Moscow). The edition here was officially the third Bible, produced for Orthodox Christians of Russia. It first appeared in print in 1751 in St. Petersburg after more than 10 years of preparation. The print-run was quickly sold out and was followed by 11 editions during the eighteenth century.
Provenance: 18th century signature in ink: “M., Ushakov " on title verso. On the front cover, over the two-headed eagle the image of an anchor is scratched. These two signs of ownership might suggest some association to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817) the famous naval officer of 1780-1810s, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***
'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first edition of the Bible printed in St. Petersburg, engraved title bordered by nine lush cartouches with allegorical images, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, engraved illustration at head of Genesis depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, numerous woodcut decorations and initials, text leaves within typographic borders, first few ff. washed and cleaned, some marginal water-staining, mostly to last two dozen leaves, contemporary calf, upper cover blind-stamped central oval with imperial two-headed eagle with three crowns, framed with olive branches and flowers, lower cover with vignette of a floral motif, spine titled in gilt and with raised bands, marbled endpapers, faded gilt edges, rubbed, head of spine and one section restored (leather added, not recently), folio (408 x 258mm.), St. Petersburg, V Tipografii Alexandro-Nevskogo Monastyria, 1751.
*** The first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible", the collective name for the translation of the Bible into Church Slavonic, published during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The text was based on the translations to Church Slavonic done in Ostrog in 1570s (which resulted in the production of the Ostrog Bible in 1580) and Moscow in 1660s (Bible printed in 1663 in Moscow). The edition here was officially the third Bible, produced for Orthodox Christians of Russia. It first appeared in print in 1751 in St. Petersburg after more than 10 years of preparation. The print-run was quickly sold out and was followed by 11 editions during the eighteenth century.
Provenance: 18th century signature in ink: “M., Ushakov " on title verso. On the front cover, over the two-headed eagle the image of an anchor is scratched. These two signs of ownership might suggest some association to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817) the famous naval officer of 1780-1810s, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
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