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DOSTOEVSKII -- SHAPIRO, Konstantin. Portretnaya Gallereya Russkikh Litteratorov, Uchenikh i Artistov. [Photographic Gallery of Russian Authors, Scientists and Artists.] St. Petersburg: Constantin Shapiro, 1880.
2° (520 x 345mm). 5 photographic portraits (c.170 x c.230mm), on lithographed mounts. (Photographs lightly faded, occasional light spotting; mounts with light soiling, small dampstain in bottom margin; edges of text leaves with light wear.) Original lithographed portfolio (light spotting, spine split, edges worn with small loss).
FIRST EDITION of the rare first fascicle in the series, comprising fine photographic portraits of Fyodor Dostoevskii, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, and Mikhail Saltikov.
2° (520 x 345mm). 5 photographic portraits (c.170 x c.230mm), on lithographed mounts. (Photographs lightly faded, occasional light spotting; mounts with light soiling, small dampstain in bottom margin; edges of text leaves with light wear.) Original lithographed portfolio (light spotting, spine split, edges worn with small loss).
FIRST EDITION of the rare first fascicle in the series, comprising fine photographic portraits of Fyodor Dostoevskii, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, and Mikhail Saltikov.
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