![ST PETERSBURG -- PLUCHART, Alexandre (publisher). Souvenirs de Saint-Pétersbourg, collection de 38 lithographies représentant des sujets nationaux, des équipages de ville et de voyages. [Suveniry Sankt Peterburga.] St. Petersburg: Alexandre Pluchart, 1825. Oblong folio (255 x 348mm). 39 lithographs by various artists and lithographers, including A. Orlovskii, Aleksandrov, Swebach and Kollmann. (Front blank and last plate creased and torn, some mostly marginal spotting, three plates with tears in the margin not touching the image, 2 plates with touches of colour.) Original green half-roan and drab boards, round printed label on the upper side dated 1823 (spine and corners worn, soiling, lower board with some surface losses).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0427_000(st_petersburg_--_pluchart_alexandre_souvenirs_de_saint-petersbourg_col102524).jpg?w=1)
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ST PETERSBURG -- PLUCHART, Alexandre (publisher). Souvenirs de Saint-Pétersbourg, collection de 38 lithographies représentant des sujets nationaux, des équipages de ville et de voyages. [Suveniry Sankt Peterburga.] St. Petersburg: Alexandre Pluchart, 1825. Oblong folio (255 x 348mm). 39 lithographs by various artists and lithographers, including A. Orlovskii, Aleksandrov, Swebach and Kollmann. (Front blank and last plate creased and torn, some mostly marginal spotting, three plates with tears in the margin not touching the image, 2 plates with touches of colour.) Original green half-roan and drab boards, round printed label on the upper side dated 1823 (spine and corners worn, soiling, lower board with some surface losses).
IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING AND EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ADDITIONAL PLATE: the title and list of captions call for 38 plates, but this copy includes 39. Pluchart's celebrated suite of lithographs after Kolmann, Orlovskii, Aleksandrov, and others, showing scenes of daily life and modes of transport in St. Petersburg and vicinity. RARE: not in Colas or Lipperheide. Cf. Colas 2778 and 2779 for the 1823 and 1824 editions with respectively 25 and 35 plates.
IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING AND EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ADDITIONAL PLATE: the title and list of captions call for 38 plates, but this copy includes 39. Pluchart's celebrated suite of lithographs after Kolmann, Orlovskii, Aleksandrov, and others, showing scenes of daily life and modes of transport in St. Petersburg and vicinity. RARE: not in Colas or Lipperheide. Cf. Colas 2778 and 2779 for the 1823 and 1824 editions with respectively 25 and 35 plates.