Russia
[CATHERINE THE GREAT] - MAKARIY, Archimandrite.
Tserkvi vostochnyya pravoslavnoe uchenie [Teaching of the Eastern Orthodox Church.].
Imperatorskaya Akademiya Nauk [Imperial Academy of Sciences], St. Petersburg, 1783. 4to (26 x 21 cm). Title, prefatory leaf, 141 and [8] pp. of table. Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands, tooled in black in compartments, lettering to one, marbled endpapers; slightly rubbed, skilfully repaired. PROVENANCE: Catherine II (binding, shelf mark); Paul M. Fekula.
EXCELLENT COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT; with the shelf mark on endpaper and binding of her library (Fekula). Archimandrite Makariy studied at the Kiev Academy, becoming a professor of philosophy and teacher of theology. The present copy is one of 1212 of the second edition. Fekula 750 (this copy); Gennadi II 272; Rodosskiy 427; SK 3987.
Price: £ 3500
US Dollar Price: $ 6940
Stock Number: 71373