KOSTOMAROV NIKOLAI IVANOVICH (1817-1885) Istoricheskie monografii i issledovaniya Nikolaya Kostomarova [‘Historical Monographs and Studies of Nikolai Kostomarov’] [in 20 volumes]. Sankt-Peterburg: Izd. D. E. Kozhanchikova; tip. M. M. Stasyulevicha, 1863–1905.
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Tomy 1–3, 5–19. Without tomes 4 and 20.
Contents include:
T. 1 (1863) – 504 s.;
T. 2 (1863) – [4], 392 s.;
T. 3 (1867) – 377, [4] s.;
T. 5 – Smutnoe vremya Moskovskogo gosudarstva v nachale XVII stoletiya. Tsar Vasiliy Shuyskiy i vory (1868) – 373, III, [4] s.;
T. 6 – Smutnoe vremya... Moskovskoe razoren’e (1868) – 344, [4] s.;
T. 7–8 – Istoriya Novgoroda, Pskova i Vyatki... (1868) – X, 419; III, 448 s.;
T. 9–11 – Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (1870) – CLXXII, 217; 432; 359 s.;
T. 12 (1872) – 462 s.;
T. 13–14 (1881) – 516; 485 s.;
T. 15–16 – Ruina. Getmanstva Brukhovetskogo, Mnogogreshnogo i Samoylovicha; Mazepa i mazepintsy (1905) – XV, 815 s.;
T. 17–18 – Poslednie gody Rechi Pospolitoy (3rd ed., revised and enlarged, 1886) – XVIII, 561; 712 s.;
T. 19 – Ocherk domashney zhizni i nravov velikorusskogo naroda... i Starinnye zemskie sobory (3rd ed., 1887) – 431 s.
With mixed binding: volumes differ in their binding design. Contemporary half-leather bindings, with one blind-stamped leather binding (Volumes 15 and 16). In good condition. Wear to bindings , minor tears in the leather spines. Super ex-libris ‘V.R.U.’ in the lower field of the spines (Vol. 1-3), pre-revolutionary stamps.
Mostly contemporary and lifetime editions, representing the most complete collected works of historian, ethnographer, publicist, writer, poet, educator, and public figure N.I. Kostomarov available at the time.
Volumes 1–3 are first editions.
A cornerstone of Russian historical scholarship and a classic work in 19th-century historiography.