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PAULY, Theodore de. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie. St. Petersburg: F. Bellizard, 1862. 5 parts in one volume, 2° (525 x 390mm). Printed prospectus laid-in. Chromolithographed map, lithographed plate of skulls, and 62 chromolithographed costume plates after Karpov, Huhn, Zakharov, and others, printed by Winckelmann, Lemercier, one letterpress table. (Some spotting.) Publisher's green leather, lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, front joint starting at the head, lower board scuffed). Provenance: 'E.V.' (armorial bookplate).
AN IMPORTANT WORK ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, INCLUDING FINE PORTRAITS OF THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL ASIA. Published to commemorate the thousand year jubilee of the Russian Empire since the founding of the Novgorod dynasty, Pauly's book is suitably magnificent in size and scope, with plates of a consistently high artistic and technical quality. The final section covers the peoples of Russian America. Colas 2292 ('this work is very rare, and one of the best'); Lipperheide Kaa 61; Rossica N-303; Sabin 59233.
AN IMPORTANT WORK ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, INCLUDING FINE PORTRAITS OF THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL ASIA. Published to commemorate the thousand year jubilee of the Russian Empire since the founding of the Novgorod dynasty, Pauly's book is suitably magnificent in size and scope, with plates of a consistently high artistic and technical quality. The final section covers the peoples of Russian America. Colas 2292 ('this work is very rare, and one of the best'); Lipperheide Kaa 61; Rossica N-303; Sabin 59233.