![ST PETERSBURG – BOGDANOV, Andrei Ivanovich (1692-1766) and RUBAN, Vasil’ii Grigor’evich (1742-1795). Istoricheskoe, geograficheskoe i topograficheskoe opisanie Sanktpeterburga. Izdanie Pervoe. [Historical, Geographical and Topographical Description of St Petersburg.] St Petersburg: at the press of the War College, 1779.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10457_0087_001(st_petersburg_bogdanov_andrei_ivanovich_and_ruban_vasilii_grigorevich011048).jpg?w=1)
![ST PETERSBURG – BOGDANOV, Andrei Ivanovich (1692-1766) and RUBAN, Vasil’ii Grigor’evich (1742-1795). Istoricheskoe, geograficheskoe i topograficheskoe opisanie Sanktpeterburga. Izdanie Pervoe. [Historical, Geographical and Topographical Description of St Petersburg.] St Petersburg: at the press of the War College, 1779.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10457_0087_000(st_petersburg_bogdanov_andrei_ivanovich_and_ruban_vasilii_grigorevich101819).jpg?w=1)
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ST PETERSBURG – BOGDANOV, Andrei Ivanovich (1692-1766) and RUBAN, Vasil’ii Grigor’evich (1742-1795). Istoricheskoe, geograficheskoe i topograficheskoe opisanie Sanktpeterburga. Izdanie Pervoe. [Historical, Geographical and Topographical Description of St Petersburg.] St Petersburg: at the press of the War College, 1779.
8° (195 x 131mm). 84 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, by Chelnakov, Kirtsanov and Rudakov. (Four plates bound out-of-sequence but complete with all plates; some small marginal repairs, some shoulder notes just shaved by the binder.) Contemporary Russian marbled calf, spine lettered and tooled in blind in compartments with raised bands, edges red, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, light flaking to spine panel, faint stain on the fore edge); custom-made brown cloth clamshell case. Provenance: ‘N. 6431’ (faded ink shelfmark on title).
FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ALL PLATES, OF THE FIRST FULL DESCRIPTION OF ST PETERSBURG IN RUSSIAN; a superb copy of a rare and important book, with wide margins and in its early Russian binding. It is particularly interesting for its account of the city’s early history, and for its descriptions and illustrations of buildings, including wooden architecture, that no longer exist today. RARE: ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction. Bitovt 1926 (‘bol’shoia redkost v polnom vide’); Giroud, St Petersburg. A Portrait of a Great City, p.9; MK Katalog 21, 23; Obol’ianinov 232; Ostroglazov 177 (‘so vsemi risunkami kniga schitaetsia redkuiu i tsenuiu’); Solov’ev Katalog 105, 401; Sopikov 7583; SK 617.
8° (195 x 131mm). 84 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, by Chelnakov, Kirtsanov and Rudakov. (Four plates bound out-of-sequence but complete with all plates; some small marginal repairs, some shoulder notes just shaved by the binder.) Contemporary Russian marbled calf, spine lettered and tooled in blind in compartments with raised bands, edges red, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, light flaking to spine panel, faint stain on the fore edge); custom-made brown cloth clamshell case. Provenance: ‘N. 6431’ (faded ink shelfmark on title).
FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ALL PLATES, OF THE FIRST FULL DESCRIPTION OF ST PETERSBURG IN RUSSIAN; a superb copy of a rare and important book, with wide margins and in its early Russian binding. It is particularly interesting for its account of the city’s early history, and for its descriptions and illustrations of buildings, including wooden architecture, that no longer exist today. RARE: ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction. Bitovt 1926 (‘bol’shoia redkost v polnom vide’); Giroud, St Petersburg. A Portrait of a Great City, p.9; MK Katalog 21, 23; Obol’ianinov 232; Ostroglazov 177 (‘so vsemi risunkami kniga schitaetsia redkuiu i tsenuiu’); Solov’ev Katalog 105, 401; Sopikov 7583; SK 617.
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