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Nikolai CHERNYSHEVZSKII

Works by N. Chernishevsky. Supplements and Notes on the Jervic Book of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY by Jong Stuart Mippa. Volume III [Together With] Ouerki Ia of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY (II Miaayu) Volume IV

CHERNYSHEVZSKII,Nikolai. Works by N. Chernishevsky. Supplements and additions to the first book of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY by Jong Stuart Mipp. Volume III [together with] Ouerki and the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY (II Miaayu) Volume IV. Elindina and Comtsany, Geneva. 1869; H.Georg, Genève & Bale 1870.

2 volumes bound in one, octavo, 19th century boards rebacked, pp.(2), x, (4), 9-276,(2)blank, (1`); (1),viii, (1), 478, (2)blank, 4 index, a few leaves foxed in the second volume, first volume with ownership inscription on the title in Yiddish, Russian text throughout.

Very rare volumes 3 and 4 [of 5] of the Collected Works of the Russian socialist reformer Nikolai Gavrilich Chernyshevzskii [1828-1889] – volume 3 is Additions and Remarks on the 1st Book of John Stuart Mill's Political Economy and volume 4 is Sketches from Political Economy (according to Mill). Both volumes were published in Geneva.

Karl Marx described Chernyshevsky as "the great Russian scholar and critic who has in a masterly way exposed the bankruptcy of bourgeois economics". In July, 1862, Chernyshevsky was arrested and imprisoned for criticizing the established order in Russia.

Price-£650

Nikolai CHERNYSHEVZSKII - Works by N. Chernishevsky. Supplements and Notes on the Jervic Book of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY by Jong Stuart Mippa. Volume III [Together With] Ouerki Ia of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY (II Miaayu) Volume IV

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