Russian Books, Maps and Photographs
Catalogue Information: 260 lots | 181 with images
Date: 2007
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: Alexander II , Tsar . , [A collection of 29 statutes] . St Petersburg, 19 February [3 March] 1861
folio (333 x 219mm.), modern boards, light spotting
Lot 2: [Courtois, Alfred de] , Organisation sociale de la Russie: la noblesse, la bourgeoisie, le peuple. Paris: Ed. Dentu, Librairie Centrale, 1864
8vo (220 x 130mm.), half-title, contemporary crushed green morocco with Russian imperial arms gilt on upper cover, gilt crown on lower cover, green watered silk endpapers, gilt edges, extremities very slightly rubbed
Lot 3: Mendeleev, Dimitri Ivanovich. , A soprotivlenii zhidkostei i o vozdukhoplavanii... pervyi vyipusk' [On the resistance of liquid and aeronautics... first part]. St Petersburg: Demakov, 1880
8vo (227 x 146mm.), 12 folding plates, contemporary green roan binding with gilt floral decoration on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, slipcase, original printed wrappers bound in, additional blank leaves bound at [...more]
Lot 4: Patkanyan, Rafael. , Istoriya Petra Velikago [History of Peter the Great]. St Petersburg, 1863
8vo (202 x 125mm.), frontispiece, text in Armenian, contemporary green-black velvet binding , metal gilt border on each cover, lettered in gilt on upper cover, upper joint broken
Lot 5: [Beketov, Platon P.] , Opisanie v litsakh torzhestva proiskhodishego v 1626 godu fevralya 5 pri brakosochetanii Gosudarya Tsarya Mikhaila Feodorovicha s Evdokieyu Luk'yanovnoyu iz roda Streshnevikh [Description of the Wedding of Great Prince Mikhail
folio (340 x 243mm.), large paper copy, 65 hand-coloured engraved illustrations (132 x 168mm.), nineteenth-century quarter red morocco, many leaves torn, some with repairs, spotting and staining, binding worn
