POLEVOY NIKOLAI (1796-1846) Istoriya knyazya Italiyskogo,... Lot n° 909

- XII, 346 pp.: ill., 1 front. (portrait); 26x17 cm. With the portrait of Suvorov and 100 pictures drawn by Messrs. Kotzebue, Zhukovsky, Shevchenko, engraved on wood in Paris by Messrs. Andrews, Best, Le Loire, and in St. Petersburg by Mr. Deriker and others. In contemporary calf binding with embossing. Publisher's illustrated covers preserved. In good condition. Rubbing on the binding and spine, foxing, reader's notes in the text. Stamp ex-libris of N.N. Turoverov on the free endpaper. Nikolai Alexeevich Polevoy (1796-1846) - writer, playwright, literary and theater critic, journalist, historian, and translator, ideologist of the "third estate." Provenance: Nikolai Nikolaevich Turoverov (1899-1972) - Cossack poet, officer, cultural figure, and bibliophile.