Search Results: Books:Slavic Literature:Religion from ZH BOOKS

Buenos Aires: Obshchestva Pochitatelei Ego Vysokopreosviashchenstva Arkhiepiskopa Afanasiia, 1971. Softcover. First edition; 7 x 10 1/2; pp. 64; off-white wraps printed in dark blue; mild age-toning along margins; a few crease lines to corners; several small nicks to edges, mostly to back wrap; illustrated with portrait frontis and photographs; very good condition.'The White Book' - part biography and part archive of documents, letters, and articles - was published by supporters of Archbishop Afanasii of Buenos Aires as a response to allegations against him by parishioners and immigrants in Argentina and Australia. Archbishop Afanasii (Anton Martos) was born near Nesvizh, Belarus in 1904. After holding various positions in his country, in 1946 he moved to Hamburg where he worked with his compatriots at the Fishbeck DP Camp. In 1950 Afanasii was appointed Bishop in Sidney, Australia and in 1956 with the death of Archbishop Ioasaf in Argentina Afanasii took his spot and sailed to Buenos… Read More

Toronto: OO. Vasiliian, 1959. Soft cover. First edition (in Ukrainian and English); 6 ½†x 9 ½†; vol. I pp. [4], 7-87, [1] including text to last page, vol. II pp. [3], 6-128 including text to last page; original pictorial wraps – orange vol. I, green vol. II; vol. I with a small closed cut to tail of spine and a few slight crease lines to front cover; vol. II with minor wear, near fine; illustrated from photographs; in Ukrainian and English on facing pages.

Sanktpeterburg: Imperatorskoi akademii nauk/Sanktpeterburg: Tipografii Ivana Glazunova, 1822. Hardcover. Two books bound together, the first title presumed second edition (OCLC lists only a 1817 edition) and the second title is a second edition, 1822 and 1825; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4; respectively: pp. [7], 4-146 and pp. [1], IV-XV, [2], 2-228; 1/4 brown morocco and marbled boards; gilt dentelles and title to spine; laid paper; 1 1/2" cut to tail of spine; rubbed spots to corners; small label to upper margin of front board; remnants of a bookplate to front board verso; a small inked number and two stamps from the Kiev Historical Library and another, German library; the first book illustrated with 25 full-page, wood engravings, the second with a large, fold-out table; overall in very good condition.Both early-19th-century, important works, the books documented the holidays, customs, and religious landmarks of the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church. The first title, literally translated as "The Book… Read More

Petrograd: s. n., 1915. Softcover. First Russian edition; 5 1/4 x 7 1/2; pp. 179; green wraps ruled and printed in black; small loss of paper to head of spine; a few small spots to margins of wraps; a bit of discoloration to lower corner of pages (generally not affecting text); illustrated from paintings; very good-.First Russian appearance of Ellen White's (1827 - 1915) "Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing," originally published in 1896 and offered a commentary on the key verses of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.. A controversial figure, she was a Christian pioneer, prolific author, and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. One copy in OCLC with none other presently in the trade.

Petrograd/ New York/ Paris: W. Bessel, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, undated (c1890); 9" x 11 3/4"; pp. [6], 3-155, [1]; custom bound in 3/4 linen and marbled boards; small label with 'N 17' to upper margin of front cover; few spots of foxing and soiling only to margins of first several pages, else remarkably clean and well-preserved; paste-on frontis of the Madonna to front cover verso; edges and corners of covers show rubbing; small note in ink to upper corner of list of contents; very good. Subtitled: "Chants liturgiques du Rite Orthodoxe, d'apre`s le texte en vieux Slavon et conforme?ment aux traditions de l'E?glise Russe, arrange?s, transcrits en caracte?res Latins, afin d' obtenir, par des Chanteurs francais ou autres, le meme re?sultat, les memes effets que si ces morceaux e?taient exe?cute?s par des Russes. Arrangement et re?duction pour Orgue, Harmonium ou Piano en permettra l; exe?cution a de?faut de chanteurs." Words in Church… Read More

Copenhagen: Russkaia Tserkovnaia Tipografiia Prep. Iova Pochaevskago , 1934.. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 60; light green illustrated wraps; chip with a small loss of paper to tips of spine; mild darkening along margins; light uniform age-toning to pages; frontis and vignettes at beginning of chapters; very good.Archpriest Leonid Ivanovich Kolchev was born in 1871. In 1905 he was appointed member of the Court Clergy at the Imperial Estate Oreanda in the Crimea. Persecuted and forced to emigrate after the Revolution, Leonid and his young family settled in Constantinople where he was a member of the Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1924, Maria Feodorovna - Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Empress Consort of Russia, spouse of Emperor Alexander III, and mother of Nicholas II - arranged for the Kolchev family to move to Denmark where - for the remainder of his life - Leonid Ivanovich was the head of the Orthodox Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Copenhagen. He wrote several… Read More

St. Petersburg: Tipo-litografiia I. Generalova, 1913. Softcover. Second edition; 5 1/2 x 8; pp. 34; beige wraps printed in black; light spots to wraps, else minor wear; illustrated with photographs; very good.Valaam Island is the biggest one of fifty, comprising the Valaam Archipelago in Russian Karelia. It is best known for its Valaam Monastery which was found sometime in the 10th century by a Greek monk, Sergius, and his Karelian companion, Herman and was intended as a northern outpost of the Eastern Orthodoxy against "the heathens." Valaam is also home to Resurrection Skete which according to legend was erected on the spot where Saint Andrei Pervozvanny had placed a stone cross. Addressing the desire of many Russian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land but unable financially to do so, Edicule Reproduced after the Holy Sepulchre was created in 1906. The book describes the history of the monastery and the edicule and the story of philanthropist I. Sibiriakov whose generous donation of 10… Read More