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Les Mosqués de Samarcande. Fascicule I. St. Petersburg: Expédition pour la confection des papiers d'état, 1905. Text in French and Russian. Elephant 2° (758 x 548mm). 18 chromolithographic plates after A. Shchusev, P. Poryshkin and A. Minenko. (Title with tear and marginal soiling, a few marginal clean tears to plates.) Loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers (front and back cover detached, tears).
FIRST EDITION, large-paper issue with the plates not folded; a small issue with folded plates is more commonly found. Only one part was published.
Les Mosqués de Samarcande. Fascicule I. St. Petersburg: Expédition pour la confection des papiers d'état, 1905. Text in French and Russian. Elephant 2° (758 x 548mm). 18 chromolithographic plates after A. Shchusev, P. Poryshkin and A. Minenko. (Title with tear and marginal soiling, a few marginal clean tears to plates.) Loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers (front and back cover detached, tears).
FIRST EDITION, large-paper issue with the plates not folded; a small issue with folded plates is more commonly found. Only one part was published.