Duerer in Lithuania. A Rare Book dedicated to one of Europe´s most famous artists in history

Among antiquarian items concerning "things German" the most wanted and most precious collectibles are rare books and graphics from the German renaissance era of Albrecht Duerer. Many enthusiasts regard this era one of the most important of European culture
ever. Huge sums of money are paid. Duerer is a goldmine for fine arts and booksellers - and for private and public collectors who´re in need of cash. So they browse the attics to find an original Duerer if lucky. Even high class institutions like the
Jesuit University of San Francisco consigned their Duerer items - a collection of original graphics - to an auction house in a symbolic act of "burning the furniture to keep it warm", as an arts professor pointed out.

One of the most popular and often copied self-portrait paintings in the oeuvre of Albrecht Duerer is this one: the artist as a young man; presented in Nuremberg Duererhaus, where the city´s most famous son lived an worked.

A print of this famous portrait picture covers the copy of a book I recently bought together with a bunch of copies of Lithuanian books on arts and archaeology (I wrote about those items in this blog). The book is written in Lithuanian language and is a translation from the Russian. Titel of the book: Albrechtas Diureris. Author: Sergejus Lvovas. Translator: Marija Macijauskiene. Vilnius 1982 (first ed. in Russian 1977). Vaga publishers, Vilnius. 344 pages. Hardcover binding in a not fine but good condition, edges mildly damaged. cutting and pages mildly tanned, spine ok, no further damages. Former price printed on the back cover: 1 rb 70 kp.

The book is very rare and as far as I know not offered on the internet except for this copy; libraries in Vilnius and Klaipeda have copies of the book in stock. No further information on the author available. Who´s interested in purchasing the copy should contact me via email or twitter. Please apologize my flaw photography skills. Tx.

Having expended my secondhand and rare bookselling activities I´ve developed some good contacts to bookowners from Russia, Ucraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, some of them schollared, all of them "bookish" but willing to sell; if you mail me your special interests I´d start investigating.