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DEMIDOV, Anatolii, Prince of San Donato (1813-1870). Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie. Paris: Ernest Bourdin and Co., 1840-1842, and Gihaut Brothers [1848].
6 volumes, comprising 4 text volumes, 4° (252 x 160mm) and 2 atlas volumes, 2° (518 x 346mm and 440 x 310mm). 39 plates on china in the text volumes including a frontispiece, two tables and one leaf of music, 95 hand-coloured lithographs including 4 large folding maps, and 100 lithographs in the atlases, most after Raffet. (A few text leaves browned, the atlas of views with some browning and spotting but not affecting the plates.) Contemporary leather, for the text, and original diapered cloth, for the atlases, the text vols with a wide blind-tooled border on the sides and gilt edges (text vols rebacked preserving the original spines, atlas volumes backed in leather in a matching style). Provenance: Grigorii Aleksandrovich Stroganov (1823-1878; bookplates; shelf-mark '3199') -- Sibirskii University Library (19th-century title stamps) -- A. ?Armoff (pencil signature in atlas volumes).
FIRST EDITIONS. THE STROGANOV COPY with both the natural history atlas, and the atlas of views and portraits. This work is seldom offered as a set, and includes some of the finest 19th-century illustrations relating to Southern Russia. Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich Stroganov secretly married Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna, eldest and favourite daughter of Nicholas I, after the death of her first husband Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg. Brunet II, 583; Ivask, vol. 1, p. 270. (6)
6 volumes, comprising 4 text volumes, 4° (252 x 160mm) and 2 atlas volumes, 2° (518 x 346mm and 440 x 310mm). 39 plates on china in the text volumes including a frontispiece, two tables and one leaf of music, 95 hand-coloured lithographs including 4 large folding maps, and 100 lithographs in the atlases, most after Raffet. (A few text leaves browned, the atlas of views with some browning and spotting but not affecting the plates.) Contemporary leather, for the text, and original diapered cloth, for the atlases, the text vols with a wide blind-tooled border on the sides and gilt edges (text vols rebacked preserving the original spines, atlas volumes backed in leather in a matching style). Provenance: Grigorii Aleksandrovich Stroganov (1823-1878; bookplates; shelf-mark '3199') -- Sibirskii University Library (19th-century title stamps) -- A. ?Armoff (pencil signature in atlas volumes).
FIRST EDITIONS. THE STROGANOV COPY with both the natural history atlas, and the atlas of views and portraits. This work is seldom offered as a set, and includes some of the finest 19th-century illustrations relating to Southern Russia. Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich Stroganov secretly married Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna, eldest and favourite daughter of Nicholas I, after the death of her first husband Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg. Brunet II, 583; Ivask, vol. 1, p. 270. (6)
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