KOSTOMAROV NIKOLAI IVANOVICH (1817-1885) Istoricheskie monografii i issledovaniya Nikolaya Kostomarova [Historical Monographs and Studies of Nikolai Kostomarov]: [in 20 vols.]. St Petersburg: D.E. Kozhanchikov; printed by M.M. Stasyulevich, 1863-1905.

Vols. 1-3, 5-19. Without vols. 4 and 20. Contents include: Vol. 1 (1863) - 504 pp.; Vol. 2 (1863) - [4], 392 pp.; Vol. 3 (1867) - 377, [4] pp.; Vol. 5 - Smutnoe vremya Moskovskogo gosudarstva v nachale XVII stoletiya. Tsar’ Vasiliy Shuyskiy i vory (1868) - 373, III, [4] pp.; Vol. 6 - Smutnoe vremya... Moskovskoe razoren’e (1868) - 344, [4] pp.; Vols. 7-8 - Istoriya Novgoroda, Pskova i Vyatki... (1868) - X, 419; III, 448 pp.; Vols. 9-11 - Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy (1870) - CLXXII, 217; 432; 359 pp.; Vol. 12 (1872) - 462 pp.; Vols. 13-14 (1881) - 516; 485 pp.; Vols. 15-16 - Ruina. Getmanstva Bryukhovetskogo, Mnogogreshnogo i Samoylovicha; Mazepa i mazepintsy (1905) - XV, 815 pp.; Vols. 17-18 - Poslednie gody Rechi Pospolitoy (3rd ed., revised and enlarged, 1886) - XVIII, 561; 712 pp.; Vol. 19 - Ocherk domashney zhizni i nravov velikorusskogo naroda... i Starinnye zemskie sobory (3rd ed., 1887) - 431 pp. Mixed bindings: contemporary half-leather bindings and one blind-stamped leather binding (vols. 15 and 16). In good condition. Wear to the bindings, minor tears to the leather spines. Supralibros ‘V.R.U.’ at the foot of the spines (vols. 1-3), pre-revolutionary stamps. Mostly contemporary lifetime editions, forming the most complete collected works then available of the historian, ethnographer, publicist, writer, poet, educator and public figure N.I. Kostomarov. Vols. 1-3 are first editions. A cornerstone of Russian historical scholarship and a classic of 19th-century historiography.