MARTIN WINKLER (1893–1982), two works from a collector’s library (i) ARKHANGELSKY, A.S. (1854–1926) (ii) LIKHACHEV, N.P. (1862–1936), AUTOGRAPH

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(i) ARKHANGELSKY, A.S. (1854–1926) Nil Sorskiy i Vassian Patrikeev. Ikh literaturnye trudy i idei v Drevney Rusi: Prepodobnyy Nil Sorskiy. Ch. 1 [i edinstv.] [Nil of Sora and Vassian Patrikeev. Their Literary Works and Ideas in Ancient Rus’: The Venerable Nil of Sora. Part 1 [only]]. St Petersburg: I. Voshchinsky Press, 1882. — [2], XII, 283, 21, [4] pp.; 29 × 19.5 cm. — (Pamyatniki drevney pismennosti i iskusstva [Monuments of Early Writing and Art]). Contemporary half leather binding, spine gilt. Good condition. Minor wear, slight soiling to the text block. Pre-revolutionary stamp exlibris of I.M. Komelov on the free endpaper. Engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler (by A. Kravchenko) on the endpaper. Provenance: Ivan Mikhailovich Komelov, St Petersburg merchant, dealer in kerosene, trustee of a hospital for the mentally ill; possibly also the owner of the printing house bearing his name. (ii) LIKHACHEV, N.P. (1862–1936), AUTOGRAPH Materialy dlya istorii vizantiyskoy i russkoy sfragistiki [Materials for the History of Byzantine and Russian Sphragistics]. Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1928. Issue 1. — [6], 175 pp.: ill.; 25.5 × 18 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Good condition. Some wear, minor creasing and small tears at the edges of the wrappers and spine. Engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler (by A. Kravchenko) on the inside rear wrapper. Author’s presentation inscription on the title page: 'To Professor Martin Eduardovich Winkler with deep respect from the author. 28 Oct. 1928.' Nikolay Petrovich Likhachev (1862–1936) was a Russian and Soviet historian, archaeographer, palaeographer, art historian, bibliographer and collector; a member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and the Russian Bibliological Society. Provenance: Martin Winkler (1893–1982), German cultural and art historian, professor, specialist in Old Russian art, member of the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe.