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KONDAKOV, Nikodim Pavlovich (1844-1925). Histoire et Monuments des Emaux Byzantins. [Istoriia i pamiatniki Vizantiiskoi emali.] Frankfurt: A. Osterrieth, 1892.
4° (359 x 274mm). Chromolithographic dedication with patterned silver foil background, portrait frontispiece, chromolithographic additional title, title printed in red within chromolithographic border, chromolithographic divisional titles, initials and tail-pieces, 31 chromolithographic plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Original morocco, sides and spine blocked and richly gilt, edges printed in various colours, original printed endpapers, with the silk place-mark [zakladka]; original brocade dust-jacket [parchovaia superoblozhka] (place-mark detached but present, dust-jacket lining with some wear, binding with light wear); original green textured paper-covered case lined with white silk and with red silk ribbon (case lacking spine, one edge with paper loss, some wear). Provenance: a European Royal Collection.
FIRST EDITION OF 'ONE OF THE MOST LUXURIOUS PUBLICATIONS OF THE 19TH CENTURY' (RGB). 'One of the greatest bibliographic rarities'; 'this book is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the Russian printing industry. It has no equals either in terms of workmanship or in terms of the funds involved (it cost 120,000 roubles in gold by the exchange rate for 1892' (Vengerov). After Zvenigorodskoi's death J.P. Morgan bought his spectacular collection, which is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Number 20 of 200 copies printed in French, from an edition of 600 only. Fekula 6705 ('magnificent'); Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka, Moscow, 2006, pp.200-1; Russkie Knizhnye Redkosti, I, p.69; Vengerov, Staraia Russkaia Kniga, 77.
4° (359 x 274mm). Chromolithographic dedication with patterned silver foil background, portrait frontispiece, chromolithographic additional title, title printed in red within chromolithographic border, chromolithographic divisional titles, initials and tail-pieces, 31 chromolithographic plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Original morocco, sides and spine blocked and richly gilt, edges printed in various colours, original printed endpapers, with the silk place-mark [zakladka]; original brocade dust-jacket [parchovaia superoblozhka] (place-mark detached but present, dust-jacket lining with some wear, binding with light wear); original green textured paper-covered case lined with white silk and with red silk ribbon (case lacking spine, one edge with paper loss, some wear). Provenance: a European Royal Collection.
FIRST EDITION OF 'ONE OF THE MOST LUXURIOUS PUBLICATIONS OF THE 19TH CENTURY' (RGB). 'One of the greatest bibliographic rarities'; 'this book is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the Russian printing industry. It has no equals either in terms of workmanship or in terms of the funds involved (it cost 120,000 roubles in gold by the exchange rate for 1892' (Vengerov). After Zvenigorodskoi's death J.P. Morgan bought his spectacular collection, which is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Number 20 of 200 copies printed in French, from an edition of 600 only. Fekula 6705 ('magnificent'); Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka, Moscow, 2006, pp.200-1; Russkie Knizhnye Redkosti, I, p.69; Vengerov, Staraia Russkaia Kniga, 77.
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