Russian Illustrated
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Landscape folio (31.3 x 41 cm). Half-title, title, [4] pp., table of contents with 2 lithographs, 12 lithograph plates all signed in the plate. Original printed wrappers; inscriptions on the front cover, small repairs. Preserved in a modern black folding box. An excellent example.
£2,000 -
Folio (37 x 28.5 cm). Decorated half-title printed in red and gold, portrait frontispiece protected by tissue guard, title, V, [2] pp., 88 photographic plates with captions in Russian and French, some original printed tissue guards, [1], 85 pp. Original pictorial wrappers bound in later red cloth, patterned endpapers, flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt.
£2,000 -
Photographic album (16.4 x 13 cm). 48 vintage photographs inserted in cards, 8 of them with contemporary hand-colour, under some photographs titles written in pencil. Contemporary ormolu mounted binding, front cover with fine Russian malachite panel, back cover and spine in purple velvet, ormolu clip, gilt edges, watered silk endpapers; malachite panel with areas of loss, cracks repaired, spine a bit rubbed.
£3,750