Бердзенишвили, Н., Джавахишвили, И., Джанашиа, С. История Грузии. С древнейших времен до начала XIX века. Часть 1 / под редакцией С. Джанашиа. Первое издание.
Тбилиси : Государственное издательство Грузинской ССР, 1946. [4], 460 с., 8 л. вклеек карт и таблиц.
Издательский твердый переплет. Обычный формат. Тираж 5 000 экз.
В предисловии сохранено упоминание Л. П. Берии (экземпляр избежал цензурной чистки после 1953 года).
Переплет - хороший: легкая потертость углов и краев. Блок - хороший: передний свободный лист форзаца почти полностью вырван; в остальном страницы чистые, все ценные раскладные карты и генеалогические таблицы полностью сохранены.
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Berdzenishvili, N., Javakhishvili, I., Janashia, S. History of Georgia. From ancient times to the beginning of the 19th century. Part 1 / edited by S. Janashia. First edition.
Tbilisi : State Publishing House of the Georgian SSR, 1946. [4], 460 pp., 8 leaves of folding maps and tables.
Original publisher's hardcover. Standard format. Print run of 5,000 copies.
The preface retains the uncensored mention of L. P. Beria (the copy escaped the post-1953 censorship purges).
Binding good: light rubbing to extremities. Text block good: front free endpaper is almost completely torn out; otherwise, pages are clean, and all folding maps and genealogical tables are fully preserved and intact.
A foundational historiographical work and a compelling artifact of Soviet political history. This 1946 first edition of the "History of Georgia," authored by the preeminent Georgian historians Nikoloz Berdzenishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili, and Simon Janashia, represents the first systematic, state-sanctioned synthesis of Georgian history from antiquity to the Russian annexation in the early nineteenth century. Published in a print run of 5,000 copies, the volume is heavily illustrated and features valuable folding inserts, including detailed historical maps of the Caucasus and a comprehensive genealogical table of the Bagrationi royal dynasty. Beyond its immense academic significance, this specific copy holds exceptional collector value due to its uncensored preface. The introduction explicitly praises Lavrentiy Beria for his initiative in organizing the center for Georgian historical studies. Following Beria's arrest and execution in 1953, Soviet censorship aggressively mandated the destruction or systematic defacement of any printed materials bearing his name. Finding a surviving first edition with the original preface entirely intact, without ink blots or excised pages, is increasingly rare. Despite the loss of the front free endpaper, the complete preservation of the main text and all fragile folding maps makes this an outstanding acquisition for collectors of Caucasian history, Soviet censorship, and rare Stalin-era academic publications.