text: GRIBOEDOV, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1795-1829). Gore ot uma. [Woe from Wit.] St. Petersburg: Aleksandr Smirdin, 1854. 8° (165 x 110mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Nikolai Utkin. (Occasional light marginal soiling.) Contemporary Russian dark green half leather (extremities rubbed). Provenance: A. Mel'nikov (title signature) -- Russian Imperial Mission in Persia (stamp).